Your first job?

**spyrde** · 09-26-2012

What was your first job like? You can talk about your first ''official'' workplace or a summerjob you did for a couple weeks, whatevs, just share it here!

Well I had a couple workplaces in middle school where I worked for a few weeks due to the fact that our school had this program where we get to see what real work in actual jobs were like, but my first real job was at a component and module factory. I worked there for two summers and the job was very very VERY dull and monotone, but everything was very professionally handled. Usually you hear that young summerworkers get shitty pay with no benefits and such, but over there we got bonuses, the paperwork was handled well, we got to go to meetings where every worker was being heard and we got free cake time to time lol. Overall it was a very positive experience for me and I'm sure that jobs that I'll probably apply to when I'm studying will be much worse.

**Kuro** · 09-26-2012

Very first job I had was delivering newspaper. I remember just chucking that paper not caring where it landed and some giant ass dog chased me luckily I was on my bike. This was back around my second year in middle school when I gave no shits.

**Thorzilla** · 09-26-2012

Laundry man at my uncle's laundry

**keefy** · 09-26-2012

Apprentice electrician
Involved alot of sweeping up, getting the lunches, making brews of tea.
All for £1.67 per hour. Below minimum wage but was tax free.

**Xelios** · 09-26-2012

Bagged grocery for 5 hours. Decided it sucked and left.

**Silver_Knight** · 09-26-2012

I worked at a umbrella factory and of course we specialized in making umbrellas, framing, and shipping them. I first started in the framing department and it was aggravating. I thought all the umbrellas were easy because i was doing them with ease. I soon found out that there are umbrellas that are really big and at work, the people, they called it the shoulder buster. When i finally started getting these i slowed down a lot. I had to use my both hands to pick it up but i had to use one hand to lift the umbrella up, which was my right hand. I soon figured out that my left hand was super weak opposed to my right hand due to my right hand being the one i use all the time.

Anyways, they moved to the shipping department which we cut the fabric and box it and someone shipped it out. I like this part better because i had someone to hang out with my age.That was my first job.

**piip4** · 09-26-2012

Rebuilding\Helping Japan after the tsunami last year. I didn't get paid for it but I consider it my first real job because everything prior to that was even less paid (as in no good-feeling even).

**uofmtiger** · 09-26-2012

My first job, outside of mowing grass, was with a disabled lady that put together circuits for a company. It was like putting together a puzzle and she would solder them together. The first job outside of someone's home was working at a crazy place in the mall called Spencer's Gifts.

**imINxile** · 09-26-2012

I also delivered newspapers for my first job. Over 200 houses actually. Had to get up at 3:30 in the am just to get it done and at school on time. Living in Wisconsin it kinda sucked ass. Try riding through a snowstorm on a bike with 50 lbs of papers wrapped around your chest. Not fun. But with a Walkman and a couple tokes made it tolerable.

**-Kwesnoth-** · 09-26-2012

I cut grass from dusk till dawn in my uncle's lawn maintenance business.

**btbam** · 09-26-2012

first job sacking groceries. it was easy plus i always helped people out to their car so i usually made bank on tips.

**AcesHigh291** · 09-26-2012

I'm still on my first job, I'm a cashier at the dying brand of K-Mart. Yeah, they still exist.

For the most part, it's pretty terrible. People are rude, managers have no clue what's going on, plus they try to rule with an iron first (at least at my store). Also, minimum wage is terrible.

**$Greatness$** · 09-26-2012

Fashion Bug for two years. My cousin said they needed someone to help with the stock. Little did she know I was helping some of my co-workers too! Man I miss being 17, haha.

**podsaurus** · 09-27-2012

First job was at an amusement park. I was stuck making food for people. You would think that people there would be in good moods right? Wrong. Many people were rude and obnoxious. I hated the the customers there and was so glad when the summer was over and the park closed for the winter.

I did work will some really funny and cool people which made things tolerable. Most of the managers liked me too so that was a good thing.

**newf_52** · 09-27-2012

At 17 I started at a rubber factory straight out of high school, still there... I'll be 30 next week.

**DarkVincent07** · 09-27-2012

My dads a mechanic and has his own business, my first job i got payed for unused to go and clean his shelves and sweep the floor and do odd bits and pieces for a half day, never very fun but I bought a game or two from it

My first actual job I was 16 and it was at Oporto (not a very known burger place outside of Australia) and yeah, worked out the back flipping burgers making food. Good stuff I worked there for 3 years and still eat the food fairy regularly

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**$Greatness$** · 09-27-2012

Originally Posted by newf_52

At 17 I started at a rubber factory straight out of high school, still there... I'll be 30 next week.

I would like to say... Thank you. Because without you, I would have a million kids.

**DreDayDetox** · 09-27-2012

Does co-op? Anyway, my very first job was when I was 17. We all had to do this mandatory co-op course where you do a few hundred hours before school is finished. I worked at Blockbuster Video, a few years before it went out of business, as we now know. It was a great job. The benefits were awesome. You get 10 free movies per week. I must have watched hundreds while I was there.

My boss was really cool too. I had fun there. About a few weeks in, he has to move to a new location and a replacement manager comes in. Worst fucking job ever. The new boss was a power-hungry cunt who took the role to her head a bit too much. There were actual employees that quit because of her and I couldn't quit because I would not get my credits to graduate from my last year of high school. So I had to endure a few months of bullshit.

This bitch didn't know what she was doing, but she was a real pro at giving orders and being a cunt all the time. People complained but she wasn't replaced. She got a few bad looks from the district managers, but that's about it. Nothing else. I literally had to rent movies more often to take my mind off the fact that the next day, I would have to come in and deal with her again.

But at the same time, because of this experience, I got into film. I wouldn't be here today if that wasn't a product of where I am now. And it turns out I'm not the only person to be into film because of working in a video store. Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino also worked in video stores before becoming film makers. So, despite the power-hungry bitch that was there, I owe it to working there for my current situation.

**THUGGEDOUT** · 09-27-2012

At 19, I worked at a family members kitchen & laundry appliance store, there I did a little bit of everything from ordering parts, learning how the machines worked to doing sales.