First job

What was the first job you ever had? Just curious.

Delivering newspapers, when I was 12-13.

Working at a Tim Hortons donut shop. I was not quite 13.

Worked on a deli counter in a supermarket from ages of 16-20 years. Was also trained on checkouts, bakery (slicing bread), grocery (stacking shelves), warehouse and back door (bring in deliveries)

Farm hand on a small cattle farm. I worked there 3 summers in a row as a young teen.

McDonalds cashier @ 17 yo

I moved lawns in my neighborhood for 6 or 7 years until I went to college. I should have stuck with it instead of mindlessly staring at a textbook and getting drunk half the time.

Second place is Santa Claus Is Coming to Town by Springsteen.

Retail at the local mall.

Pizza cook at a Mom and Pop pizzeria at age 16.

Is it bad that I can't remember my first job? I've had so many!

I was doing odd jobs for a music correspondence course writer at his house in the hills overlooking Burbank Calif. Cabt even remember his name. That didnt last long. It was when I was in junior college aroung 17~18.

Then I decided to yake a data entry course while going to school. That opened up many good jobs that paid my way through college To become a computer engineer not just a data entry person.

Coaching children's gymnastics

My first REAL career job after getting my degree was a computer firmware design engineer programming military communications systems back in the late 1970's. That was a great career

An office junior/gopher.

I was a waitress in a retirement home

Working at a movie theater

Does forced child labor count? 3 years old, with a wire brush in my hand, getting rust off of Model A parts. Paying job, paper route at 12.

Bookkeeper. I was taking bookkeeping in high school at the time.

Cashier at a self-serve gas station, started at 15 when I was in grade 11 and kept the job all through high school.

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Taco Bell. Had to go across town to get a piece of paper that I guess was a Worker's Permit because I was under 18 at the time. Washed dishes, mopped, took out the trash, swept the dinning room, prepared some food. Stuff like that.

Started mowing yards and raking leaves at age 9. Babysitting at age 11. First real job where I had to report income was selling magazines over the phone at age 16.

Helping out at my aunt’s beauty salon.

Lifeguard!