Your First Job

[Apache Warrior]

This might be interesting.


My first job was working for my uncle in tobacco. Cropping, stringing, unstringing and hauling the finished product to the warehouses for the auctions. After that any job was easy. This was in the old days when you walked behind sleds while cropping and tobacco was cooked in stick barns. It has all changed now. Now you get to ride a harvester when cropping tobacco. Kids now days have it much easier.
Apache

[Rand{CLR}]

That is a long time ago. My county is now expending effort to track down the few remaining tobacco curing barns to preserve them as historic resources. And we had a LOT of those things at one point.

My first job came very late because I hate working. Summer with my dad doing property maintenance on a large apartment complex. He's now high in management, overseeing a bunch of properties and their upkeep, so I guess that track could pay off for some. The next one was cooler: desk assistant at my dorm.

-Rand

[Apache Warrior]

There are very few stick barns left because farmers went to bulk barns. They hold more tobacco, are cheaper to operate and they actually produce better cured tobacco. Since stick barns are not being used they are rotting away. Down here you have to look to find any that are still standing.
Apache

[ryanbatc]

Mine at 16 (yeah late but my first official job where taxes were taken out of my check) was working for Cub Foods, a major grocery store in the midwest, working cashier it was alright....

Cub Foods: SUPERVALU

[Duke{CLR}]

I used to mow lawns and shovel driveways when I was younger but my first official job was as a dishwasher in a restaurant at the age of 15.

[scooter]

I figured apache would of said something around the lines of scoopin dino poop up off the road.

Mine was cashier/bagger/stocking shelvs at albertsons when they were still around here.

[Apache Warrior]

At 12 my father volunteered me to mow a friends lawn. I ended up mowing 14 yards a week excluding my fathers.
Apache

[Pumpkin_Jack]

I worked shoveling cow crap for two years under the table.(14-16)
I was working two jobs one plowing on the farms, and the other the dreaded roofing work. I had to carry the bundles up the ladders and clean up behind the roofers. Job sucked working in the hottest heat making 9$ an hr. Well i quit that job a week ago when football started.

[Skud]

First real job was in a paper mill, sophmore year in high school. Worked nights after school and summers...trimmed paper, collated, moved stock, and threw pallets out the back when I needed relief.

[Apache Warrior]

I worked shoveling cow crap for two years under the table.(14-16)
I was working two jobs one plowing on the farms, and the other the dreaded roofing work. I had to carry the bundles up the ladders and clean up behind the roofers. Job sucked working in the hottest heat making 9$ an hr. Well i quit that job a week ago when football started.

I have done roofing too. I think it is probably the worst job you can do in the summer heat. I had a brother in law who was a roofer and I used to help him out when he was short handed.
Apache

[Sirex]

Mine was nothing like those, I was a Barman lol
In a local night club, once a week from 8pm till 4am

Was enjoyable, but I'm to socialite for working behind a night clubs bar, its hi, order, pass, gone.

I quite often ended up in a talking trap 2-3 times a night with some of the locals.

Good thing about it, free cola all night XD

[juneau]

Worked at a sports store when i was 16-18. Hated every moment of it.

http://www.jdsports.co.uk/

[BlackArrow]

I also did the cutting grass and shoveling snow work when I was young, but my first paycheck job was at 13 as a Caddy at the local golf course. Nothing like hauling two golf bags (and these guys had every club know to man and an extra pair of shoes in their bags, etc) 18 sometimes 36 holes on a 95 degree summer day to start your work life.

some of you may know the course since it's the one that Tony Soprano played on a few times in the show.

My first job with working papers at 16 was selling curtains at Sears Now THAT was a horrible job.

[LadyBug]

My first job was one my dad make me take, working in tobacco with my uncle. I had fun most days because it was with others in my family and friends, but it was hot, messy and hard work. The next job I took myself, working in the local mall at the bookstore...loved it!

[Apache Warrior]

I would get fired if I worked at a book store. I would spend all of my time reading the merchandise.
Apache