Your first job, what and what pay?

[ripley16]

My first job, when I was in the 10th grade, was as a dishwasher for a small diner near my home. I worked weekends and holidays. I also worked monday after school when the diner was closed and I would mop the floor and clean the butcher block. I made $1 per hour, cash, off the books. It took a few months but I was able to save enough for my first pistol, a beautiful Colt Woodsman Match Target for $75. Crappy job, but a great gun.

[ponycarman]

My first real job was when I was 15 I think. I was home schooled so I could work somewhat more than other teens. I worked for a small company called fastlane graphics. I think there was about 3-4 employees total including me and the owner. We made signs and graphics for just about anything. Signs, banners, vans, realestate signs, magnet signs, 18 wheeler trucks and trailers, and every now and then we did a race car. I think it was the best job I could have started out with. Pretty much made stickers all day and put them on. I got payed minimum wage which was 5.25 at the time I think.

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[QuercusMax]

In my first real job (i.e. with W-2 wages) I worked for the USDA as a GS-5 surveyor and materials inspector on flood control construction projects during summers in college. A few highlights:

* I got to drive around in an old olive-drab full-size Ford with "US Government - For Official Use Only" emblems on the doors. It was amazing how many people thought it was a cop car and suddenly slammed on their brakes, especially Canadians. I also eventually did determine the maximum velocity of that car.

* As a teenager, it was cool having the grizzled old construction foremen suck up to me because the tests I ran on their concrete mixes might cause them a lot of extra work and $$$ if things didn't turn out right. I have never worked with sailors, but it would be hard to imagine they are any better at colorful language than construction bosses!

* The main highlight: I often had to perform "slump tests" on concrete mixtures before they were poured, to test the amount of water in the mixture (which varied). To do the test I would take a bucket of wet concrete from each incoming truck, take out some for testing, and discard the rest. One day the incoming concrete was running fairly stiff (dry), so I started dumping each bucket on top of the previous one, which soon formed a neat column several feet tall. By luck, the next truck contained a much wetter mixture. When I dumped that bucket load on top of the previous ones, instead of adding to the stiff column, it slumped into a shape like a Hershey's Kiss. I will leave it to your imagination as to what the resulting 4-foot tall concrete result looked like, but the whole thing soon hardened into an obscene monument for all to see. They eventually had to knock it down with a front-end loader.

[jlottmc]

Wow, my first real job aside from keeping the ole' man from killing us all was to run his business (machine shop, construction and other odd jobs like gun smithing). First one the IRS knows about was Wendy's and I did about everything they could do, all for minimum wage of $5 per hour (remember this was in 95).

[MLESa7990]

Delivery driver for local Pizza restaurant during high school from 2004-2006

Made $6 an hour plus tips...which would equal out to anywhere between $10-$15 an hour.

[Rodenmg]

Cleaning my room. 25 cents a week.

[Frankhenrylee]

Ahh, the good ole days. My first job was at Little Ceasers Pizza, early 90's, I think $4.25 an hour. I rode my bike to work in the rain, sleet and snow, and it was uphill both ways. Couldn't even afford a tire, the bike just had one, so I had to ride a wheelie all the way there, while beating down packs of angry dogs with a stick I had to steal from a neighbor cause we couldn't even afford sticks.

[JFootin]

Ahh, the good ole days. My first job was at Little Ceasers Pizza, early 90's, I think $4.25 an hour. I rode my bike to work in the rain, sleet and snow, and it was uphill both ways. Couldn't even afford a tire, the bike just had one, so I had to ride a wheelie all the way there, while beating down packs of angry dogs with a stick I had to steal from a neighbor cause we couldn't even afford sticks.

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[melissa5]

My first job was in high school and was helping my Mom clean our church. I don't remember what the pay was.

My first job after high school was as a cashier in a discount store. I think minimum wage was around $3.25 -3.75 then.

I can't count the number of jobs I've had over the years, but I can can count the jobs I've really enjoyed on one hand.

[OldLincoln]

My first Social Security paying job was pumping gas for .25 per hour. Of course that included checking water and oil, inspecting fan belts, checking tire pressure, washing windshields, collecting money and returning change, and a very "happy to see you" attitude filled with sirs and mams. It was a full time summer job and I was 12 years old. I was very proud of that job and worked as hard as I could.

[Bawanna]

Other than substituting on a paper route my first job was at a gas station. Pumping gas, fixing tires, oil changes, cleaning the place up.
Did that thru High School. Started @ 1.65 cents an hour. After 3 years he liked me so well I got a raise to 1.90. All shortages in the till were taken out of my check since the owner and his kid didn't make mistakes. Didn't know it was against the law to do that at the time.

After that I tried making it as a Gigilo, didn't pan out so got into building fence as a part time fill in. Didn't miss hardly a day for 13 years.

I see my brother Old Lincoln was in the same trade. We also did the full serve thing. I actually enjoyed that part of it. The boss treating me like Cinderella, not so much.

[Dirt doc]

My first job was working on my Uncle's farm. I was driving a tractor long before I had a drivers permit. I don't remember the complete pay scale but I got a penny a bale when mowing hay and 75 cents/hour walking beans. My first full time job was a gunners mate on a tin can. First job out of college was a sales Agronmist at a local elavator.

[Cokeman]

In my first real job (i.e. with W-2 wages) I worked for the USDA as a GS-5 surveyor and materials inspector on flood control construction projects during summers in college. A few highlights:

* I got to drive around in an old olive-drab full-size Ford with "US Government - For Official Use Only" emblems on the doors. It was amazing how many people thought it was a cop car and suddenly slammed on their brakes, especially Canadians. I also eventually did determine the maximum velocity of that car.

* As a teenager, it was cool having the grizzled old construction foremen suck up to me because the tests I ran on their concrete mixes might cause them a lot of extra work and $$$ if things didn't turn out right. I have never worked with sailors, but it would be hard to imagine they are any better at colorful language than construction bosses!

* The main highlight: I often had to perform "slump tests" on concrete mixtures before they were poured, to test the amount of water in the mixture (which varied). To do the test I would take a bucket of wet concrete from each incoming truck, take out some for testing, and discard the rest. One day the incoming concrete was running fairly stiff (dry), so I started dumping each bucket on top of the previous one, which soon formed a neat column several feet tall. By luck, the next truck contained a much wetter mixture. When I dumped that bucket load on top of the previous ones, instead of adding to the stiff column, it slumped into a shape like a Hershey's Kiss. I will leave it to your imagination as to what the resulting 4-foot tall concrete result looked like, but the whole thing soon hardened into an obscene monument for all to see. They eventually had to knock it down with a front-end loader.

Awesome!

[JohnR]

After graduating from college with a Master's degree in '89, my dad told me if I got offered $8 an hour to be an intern architect I was lucky. There was a recession going on, but I asked for and got offered $10 an hour. Unfortunately the guy who offered it stopped paying it due to personal (marriage) problems so I quit.