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**KML9870** · 04:12 PM

Another thread made me wonder - what was everyone's very first job?

Mine was working for my uncle in a fresh/cooked seafood store when I was 14. A great experience...but very smelly!!

**Christopher** · 01-28-2007, 12:19 AM

First job was a paper route

I had it for about 4 years I think.

First "real" job was working for my Dad. He's the manager of the shipping department at his company, Dahl Brothers (theres a good chance you're using one of their products!

). My job was loading the skids with all the merchandise. Very physical work for a computer geek!

**DaveMo~** · 01-28-2007, 12:26 AM

Hmm, my first job was a paper route. I had two routes, morning papers, about 150 customers. I worked it about 4 years and used it to buy my first touring bicycle and my first dirt bike (motorcycle).

Dave

**dansgalaxy** · 01-28-2007, 08:16 AM

i have done car washing weekly but very cold and i stopped. yet to have a offical paid job.

dan

**Hollin** · 01-28-2007, 09:33 AM

I worked at Dairy Queen.

**stOx** · 01-28-2007, 10:00 AM

I worked in a London pub collecting glasses, Cleaning pipes and making ice when i was 13.

My first real job was as a chainman (engineers assistant) when i was 17 working on a tunneling project in London.

**ADAM Web Design** · 01-28-2007, 11:19 AM

Paper boy as well, for four years (wonder why everyone seems to have one for four years). Bought my bicycle with it, but not a dirt bike (only 20 customers).

My first "real" job...I'd have to go with what amounted to my only full-time, above-the-board job before I went into business for myself, and I was a Lockbox Associate for a company. If you don't know what that is...well, neither do I. Basically, all I know is that I was a large corporation's trained monkey, or so they thought, for three years. I got out, though.

**LadynRed** · 01-28-2007, 11:35 AM

My dad owned a hardware store, the only one in town. I worked in the store from the time I was about 7 until he sold the biz when I was 17. After that, I worked in a Zayre's Dept. store during my last 2 years in high school - hardware/housewares/automotive depts

. Before the hardware store, my dad had a garage, he was a super mechanic

**roy77** · 01-28-2007, 11:39 AM

my first job, well, i didnt have one yet

i am only 15 - i have nothin to worry about, yet maybe my sites will bring some income ?

**dougadam** · 01-28-2007, 09:49 PM

I was a trapper when I was a kid.

**dansgalaxy** · 01-29-2007, 11:24 AM

this thread gave me a idea.. im going to start a thread about peoples IDEAL job.

dan

**Giselle** · 01-29-2007, 12:28 PM

Actually when I think about my first paying jobs I started around 10 years old babysitting for the neighborhood children, after turning 16 I was hired to be a part time cashier at a grocery store but still did the babysitting jobs as well.

**angele803** · 01-29-2007, 03:20 PM

When I was 16, I got a job as a waitress...that only lasted about 2 weeks...it was horrible. I'm not cut out for waitressing! lol!
Later I got a job at a cloting store, that lasted a lot longer.

**InfTekHosting** · 01-29-2007, 05:52 PM

I worked for a medical answering service. It was awful. I answered one stupid call after another from people who wanted to talk with their doctor over stupid matters; chief among them was a cold.

Why would you call the doctor when you have a cold? Just take some NyQuil and shutup!

**Susanwang** · 01-30-2007, 03:03 AM

My first job is working as an executive assistant, while only for half a year, anyway, I have learned a lot from it.

**mastermemei** · 01-31-2007, 08:45 AM

My first job is working as a web designer trainee. It was cool working for an e-commerce site but there were lots of internal company problems so I had to took other option

**cloudybutnice** · 01-31-2007, 09:46 AM

My first job was my only job, civil servant. Started at 16 and took early retirement last year, some 35 years later!

**empressreborn** · 01-31-2007, 12:41 PM

I wasn't able to get a job until I was 17. (I had to help my single mother with my 2 younger sisters.) My first job was working in the Ladies Dept. of Sears (my mom was the Paint Dept. Mgr. there).

**cedced** · 01-31-2007, 12:51 PM

My first job was as waiter !

**millwalll** · 01-31-2007, 01:32 PM

hum my first job was working on a film in the art dept