Your First Job ( Archived) (32)

Apr 10, 2011 4:43 PM CST Your First Job
How old were you and what did you do?

I was 11yrs old and had a paper route. thumbs up
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Apr 10, 2011 4:44 PM CST Your First Job
venusenvy
venusenvyvenusenvyCalgary, Alberta Canada27 Threads 20,003 Posts
My first job was at 14 (before that was just babysitting) I worked in a European Bakery. I had that job all the way through high school...I loved it yay
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Apr 10, 2011 4:46 PM CST Your First Job
70Libra
70Libra70LibraCounty, Waterford Ireland43 Threads 6,782 Posts
DjWabbet: How old were you and what did you do?

I was 11yrs old and had a paper route.

15... peeling carrots in a hotel kitchen laugh
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Apr 10, 2011 4:46 PM CST Your First Job
EagleWoman
EagleWomanEagleWomanMalaga, Andalusia Spain22 Threads 4,719 Posts
I was 14 and worked behind huge vegetable/fruit market stool at weekends and almost every day during school hols. Was really well paid for only morning work.
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Apr 10, 2011 4:47 PM CST Your First Job
devon80
devon80devon80mytown, Kentucky USA705 Posts
DjWabbet: How old were you and what did you do?

I was 11yrs old and had a paper route.



16 years old and I worked part time as a waitress at the Huddle House Resturant!
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Apr 10, 2011 4:48 PM CST Your First Job
I was 14 and worked at my school as extra janitorial help.
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Apr 10, 2011 4:48 PM CST Your First Job
Dreamyone
DreamyoneDreamyoneRaleigh, North Carolina USA4 Threads 1 Polls 913 Posts
15 and in a tobacco field that summer and thankfully a convenience store when school started back
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Apr 10, 2011 4:52 PM CST Your First Job
Godsgift
GodsgiftGodsgiftEnnis, Clare Ireland251 Threads 13 Polls 10,040 Posts
15 in a cooperage pressure testing, painting the ends and loading empty casks (barrels) onto trucks or into stock piles. Heavy work when you're only wee. Happy days!grin
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Apr 10, 2011 4:52 PM CST Your First Job
Wineman42
Wineman42Wineman42Bath, Ontario Canada11 Threads 563 Posts
I started on the farm at 9 at 50 cents an hour
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Apr 10, 2011 4:55 PM CST Your First Job
time4fun4u
time4fun4utime4fun4uAlicante, Valencia Spain18 Threads 1 Polls 10,066 Posts
DjWabbet: You must of had a healthy set of lungs on ya...
laugh No,just a healthy.........blushing tongue
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Apr 10, 2011 4:55 PM CST Your First Job
DjWabbet: You must of had a healthy set of lungs on ya...
Or good water pressure? cheers
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Apr 10, 2011 4:57 PM CST Your First Job
Boban1
Boban1Boban1bigplace, Central Serbia Serbia144 Threads 5 Polls 18,789 Posts
42- Ice-cream truck driver grin
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Apr 10, 2011 4:58 PM CST Your First Job
venusenvy
venusenvyvenusenvyCalgary, Alberta Canada27 Threads 20,003 Posts
DjWabbet: You must of had a healthy set of lungs on ya...


Thats what I was thinking...Ballon animals grin
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Apr 10, 2011 4:58 PM CST Your First Job
SummerUK
SummerUKSummerUKWashington UK, Tyne and Wear, England UK24 Threads 8,842 Posts
16 in a hairdressing salon run by 2 pervy Italians with wandering hands very mad
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Apr 10, 2011 4:59 PM CST Your First Job
labrat
labratlabratEast London, Eastern Cape South Africa29 Threads 692 Posts
At 5 i was babysitting my kid bro 4 one day..neva got paid so im suing the folks
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Apr 10, 2011 5:03 PM CST Your First Job
labrat: At 5 i was babysitting my kid bro 4 one day..neva got paid so im suing the folks
I would have offered to be your lawyer at 6 years old.. I probably didnt know how to spell Lawyer back then blushing
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Apr 10, 2011 5:05 PM CST Your First Job
YesWho
YesWhoYesWhoWoodbury, New Jersey USA2 Threads 2,322 Posts
I was 12 I started my own paper route. I went door to door getting customers. I started with 8, then a friend stopped delivering papers and added 35 or so more to my route. I was 18 when I got my next job.
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Apr 10, 2011 5:06 PM CST Your First Job
labrat
labratlabratEast London, Eastern Cape South Africa29 Threads 692 Posts
DjWabbet: I would have offered to be your lawyer at 6 years old.. I probably didnt know how to spell Lawyer back then
rolling on the floor laughing
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Apr 10, 2011 5:07 PM CST Your First Job
karenmarie
karenmariekarenmariewexford, Wexford Ireland1 Threads 441 Posts
strawberry pickin,ate most of em,got abt a quid,hahadancing
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Apr 10, 2011 5:39 PM CST Your First Job
daisy333
daisy333daisy333Sydney, New South Wales Australia28 Threads 7 Polls 514 Posts
DjWabbet: How old were you and what did you do?

I was 11yrs old and had a paper route.


My aunt used to own a fashion business and I worked at her head office when I was 14. I answered the front desk phones and made a general nuicanse of myself. Good times.
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