Your first Job...

[JiggaJigga]

Hey guys,

I'm 15 and im getting my very first job in about a week. I'm going to work at McDonalds as a cook for $8.00 an hour. I'm a little nervous and i hope i don't mess up too many burgers, lol.

Anyways, im pretty intrested in jobs and the like since im getting one, so i would like to know what the first paying job you got is, How old you were and your pay.

If there is any private information you would rather not share then you wont be forced to.

[jammie_d]

I was a washer-upper at a gastropub. Basically, it was good for money, free food and easy work. Nothing more. I think I got £4.50ish for wages, and the tips ontop (I once got a crazy £32 tips for one shift!)

I'm sure you will do fine. McDolalds will probably be fairly easy work.

Oh yeah, Good luck in advanced ;)

[PointlesS]

I was a paper boy from like when I was 8 till I was 15...the job kinda ran in the family

[Squishy]

1st job was washing dishes at a restaurant when I was 13. I made, IIRC, $1.75 an hour. Of course that was 1985.

Now I'm 34 and make much more that 100K posting on Quake Wars forums. :p

Life is pretty good, I must say.

[bfdhud]

My first job was as a telemarketer for 4.00 an hour

[JiggaJigga]

I was a washer-upper at a gastropub. Basically, it was good for money, free food and easy work. Nothing more. I think I got £4.50ish for wages, and the tips ontop (I once got a crazy £32 tips for one shift!)

I'm sure you will do fine. McDolalds will probably be fairly easy work.

Oh yeah, Good luck in advanced ;)


Thanks man. I hope i will. Im doing alot of re-search and stuff to land the job.

[vieja]

IT guy in small IT company lol

[=[ETw]=Dodgysod]

well my 1st payed job was paper round but i dont count that , when i was 16 i sold balloons on a street corner. but now i am a very good engineer with good money. we all start of at the bottom of the ladder, better to be doing a lame job than having no job. dont let crap jobs get ya down you want better work for it :).


forgot the balloon jobs wages. so have edited
was £60 a week basic + 30 pence per balloon sold - balloons lost £1 each which on a windy day could be alot, wasnt worth working somedays in truth but i sure as hell wasnt gonna claim benefits

[Javert]

Landed a clerical office job with my mom's friend. Was paid $10/hr after graduating high school. Got $12/hr raise in one year. The company even gave me a retirement plan. 0_o

[Ed_122586]

Worked as a bagger in a grocery store when I was 17. Made about $6.25 an hour. Only lasted 4 months because I didn't feel like balancing school and work.

[JiggaJigga]

This is some interesting stuff guys. Keep it comming. How old are you guys, seems the minimum wage has gone up since the stone age.

[Apc]

Chuck e Cheese's was my first job when i was 17 doing basically everything that is done there... man i miss that place.


and yes, i was the mouse in the suit.

[mf-]

First job was when i was 14 3/4.. exact minimum age in Australia to have a job. Was working at a small petrol station, was great. The managers were all surfeys, the boss never came in and got paid $6.90au/hr. Read porno mags and stole food with the managers, best job i've ever had.

Now i'm 17 and work at toys'r'us.

[david]

my first was a lifeguard at 15, and i made a little over 7.00 an hour. when i was 16 i worked as a cashier at comp usa and made 7.00 an hour there as well. those were my first jobs! now im 19 and just focusing on college, and working summer jobs. but another full-time job will be in my future shortly along with college :( i will be busy

[JiggaJigga]

my first was a lifeguard at 15, and i made a little over 7.00 an hour. when i was 16 i worked as a cashier at comp usa and made 7.00 an hour there as well. those were my first jobs! now im 19 and just focusing on college, and working summer jobs. but another full-time job will be in my future shortly along with college :( i will be busy


Nice, i hope the best for you in and after college. This is some pretty cool stuff guys. Keep it comming!!

[Afterglow]

Started off when I was 15 as a kitchen hand at Pizza Hut for a lowly $6.50 an hr.

Now work as a supervisor at a nursery and earn 23 an hr. (age 20)

[Ace101]

little league baseball umpire. About $30 per game. But currently i don't have a job. I literally make more money by asking my parents for money...Ik ik it's sad.

[urwathrtz]

Summer camp counselor.

[Nail]

brass monkey at rifle range, 1962, $5/day and all the ammo I could shoot. First job as "adult", parts clerk at a British Leyland Dealer, 1966, $200/mo

[Apc]

no one has beaten my first job yet.

[Kareem]

I was 16 when I finally got my first job. I was a telemarketer and made $8.50/hr

[InsideTheAsylum]

brass monkey at rifle range, 1962, $5/day and all the ammo I could shoot. First job as "adult", parts clerk at a British Leyland Dealer, 1966, $200/mo

Holy jesus, you're ANCIENT.

:p

But yeah, paper boy for me. I also mowed a ton of lawns (and still do, occasionally)

[Infiltrator]

Working in a cybercafe, 4 years ago. I don't do anything atm. I guess I stocked up enough money in that cyber ;)

[mf-]

no one has beaten my first job yet.
The cheese factory mascot?

[urwathrtz]

little league baseball umpire. About $30 per game. But currently i don't have a job. I literally make more money by asking my parents for money...Ik ik it's sad.

Did that for a while too. I only got $10. I also umpired Girls softball. You better get the call right thoes crazy broads would kill you. Never again.

[Krollspell]

I used to be a "cleaning student".. (Cleaning at my school.) Got about 15$ / hour.

Now I have no job
:rolleyes:

[SecuR(ai)m]

first job was at burger king as a cook.
Sounds easy yes, sometimes you barely have to do anything but at rush-hours it's insane with lots of orders and most of the time the other cooks take their break during that period..so you have to do it alone..fast... Even if you are new :/
Messed up some burgers: Not enough cheese, wrong sauces, burned beef etc..
The job needs lots of practice. Once you get going it gets really boring pretty fast due to the monotonous nature of the job. The same stuff over and over and over...again.
by the way the working hours were horrible. Working the whole weekend from 6 to 11 and later was not an option since I needed the time in the evening for other week-end-activities.
So.. I quit after 2 weeks and I don't regret it really.

[Stektr33]

1st job was a temp job as a machine operator at a high volume plant that built air bag inflators. $7.00/hr. This was in '97 and I was 17.

I came back the following year as a full time employee at $8.00/hr and got promoted to lead after 3 months and made $12.00/hr.

[2112(AWG)]

Well my very first job back in the day was 3 hours at Burger King. I remember sitting there on my first day and having to watch video tapes that featured the Fonz and he kept saying over and over how cool it was to work at Burger King. I walked out after three hours of it. I then worked a steak house and made more money lol. Man that was a long long time ago. Good luck in your future JiggaJigga.

[JiggaJigga]

Thanks 2112. My interview is today by the way at 7:00. Any last minute tips on some trick questions?

[CodE-E]

I was always too lazy to do summer jobs when I was younger. I guess that was a mistake, as I was often quite bored during the summer breaks.

I've only earned money a few times, by selling EverQuest ($1000, $1150, $50 USD) and World of Warcraft accounts (500 Euros). I sold my first EverQuest account when I was 16, I think. People paid a lot for accounts back then because EverQuest was a hard, boring game, and the cash I got from that was real nice. I used to play for fun on an account for a year or two, and then sell them when I got burned out and wanted a break. The last account I sold was a World of Warcraft account which I played on for nearly 2 years. If you think about it, the $/hour sucked, but I played to have fun. ;)

I'm 23 now, finished university last year, and my first real job is starting in less than a month. I'll be working as a Java trainee programmer for the company that's mainly known for making the yellow pages in Austria. For the first few months I'll be doing a Java programming certification program as well as getting to know all the people and procedures in the development team, during which I'll get 1800 Euros a month, pre tax, roughly 1200 post tax (~40 hours per week). I'm very excited... :)

[jammie_d]

Thanks 2112. My interview is today by the way at 7:00. Any last minute tips on some trick questions?

Ooo! Tell us how it goes :P

[=MAD=Hammer]

My very first job was working at my Aunts interior decorating shop. Worked 16 hour days and got paid lunch. Of course that was my choice since I was 13 and the alternative was going to day care. Day care at 13? Hell no. :P

[JiggaJigga]

Ooo! Tell us how it goes :P

I will. Right now it's 3:00 so there's 4 hrs to go. My friends say it's an easy interview so im trying not to worry but it's hard since it's my first job interview.

[Trystan]

first job was working in staples

[=[ETw]= MARLOS]

I'm still @ my 1st job, twenty years this september as a rotary letterpress technician.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BljR1PYu9Q

[JiggaJigga]

YEAH BOYYYY I GOT THE JOB BABY!!


I knew i could do it. Thanks for all the luck you guys gave me im sure it helped me be a little more confident in some way. Well im off into the work force. This thread can be closed now unless you guys want to keep it open.

Anyways thanks guys, Cya'll on the Battlefield:D

[SecuR(ai)m]

1st job was a temp job as a machine operator at a high volume plant that built air bag inflators. $7.00/hr. This was in '97 and I was 17.

I came back the following year as a full time employee at $8.00/hr and got promoted to lead after 3 months and made $12.00/hr.

sounds like the American dream came true :D

btw: congrats, don't mess it up with the job and don't eat too much nuggets here and then during your work :)
In my case they were just in front of my face and I couldn't resist the smell.
One guy even managed to become obese within three months by doing so (in addition to the free lunch during the break).
Consider this a warning :)

[JiggaJigga]

Lol ill try to hold back from those nuggets......

[StoopidMonkey]

My first job was McDonalds..:) I wont say how much I was making because it was pretty sad and along time ago. McDonalds taught me to hate McDonalds food so it was a bonus. Now I landscape and some time Firefight if the forest starts burning down and I can get away from my site. With the pine beetle killing all our trees I might just start firefighting all summer.

[jammie_d]

YEAH BOYYYY I GOT THE JOB BABY!!


I knew i could do it. Thanks for all the luck you guys gave me im sure it helped me be a little more confident in some way. Well im off into the work force. This thread can be closed now unless you guys want to keep it open.

Anyways thanks guys, Cya'll on the Battlefield:D

Awesome mate. Well done.
Always good to have a positive start to life in employment.

[JiggaJigga]

Awesome mate. Well done.
Always good to have a positive start to life in employment.

Thanks man. Now the only thing i worried about is rush hour. In the morning it has to be very fast because there are ALOT of people and they want their food. lol, fatty burgers FTW.

[Eonfge]

I'm 15 and I work in the egg industry, i get payed 4.50 (euro) p. hour. i know its not that much, but the minimum salary is only 2.35, so im very happy, im a wealthy man here.

[engrpiman]

I barcode stuff in a warehouse at $8/h during the summer and while I at school I work in a lab making iron nano-clusters for $8/h.

oh how life is strange..

[Serious(AWG)]

first job was detassling corn ...yeah... they were kidding when they said there is more than corn in Indiana! got paid $3.75 an hour to do this when i was 14. i worked 2 days at that.
when i was 16 i worked at Mcdonalds, only reason i stayed there was because of this german chick that worked there. she was so fine, I touched that Hiiiney.(bad adam sandler reference) call it a perk of the job, quit after she did....lol

[Pseudo]

I worked at McDonalds for 5.25 and hour.. Fun job to be honest.

[jammie_d]

Thanks man. Now the only thing i worried about is rush hour. In the morning it has to be very fast because there are ALOT of people and they want their food. lol, fatty burgers FTW.

Just out of interest, when will your first shift be?

[Sin]

i worked with a temping agency for a bit. First job was lifting beds for a morning and got paid like £30 which was sucky, cos yeah heavy lifting.

Luckily within a month or so i moved to an admin job at a small TV company doing IT/graphics stuff for em. Paid £8.50 an hour (bour 17bux) which was jaw droppingly awesome for a 17year old.

[Morx]

my first real job was as a ballroom dance teatcher when i was 16.
i got $17/hour , however it was only a job that i did when it was needed so i didn't work 9-5 everyweek but the times i worked that was my salary.

[Stylsy]

Got my first job at 16 working weekends in WH Smith, I cant remember the pay exactly, but it wasnt much over minimum wage.

Four years on, still working in retail, now as a Store Manager, desperatley trying to get out!

Congrats on the job btw!

[Sublim3]

First job was at a auto body shop called "Custom Ridez" at 15yrs old. Worked there for 3yrs, started as the 'bitch boy' basically cleaning the bondo dust and washing out the paint booth at $9hr, then worked up to entry level fender repair and paint prep. Then started to do full paint jobs and taping flames. Then before i left i was doing custom fiber glass and carbon fiber moldings for guage pods and body kit mods @ $20hr.

Was a nice experience and fun some times, might consider going back to that if my graphic design career turns sour XD

[CRIMSONGHOST]

I worked at a SUBWAY and I still do since it pays me well :) "eat fresh"

[bouncer123]

washing machines since im 11 years old..80$ a day..not bad

[Dazzamac]

Fitting PVC windows at 16 for £15 a day cash in hand. :D Worked on me aul fella's farm for free though since I was old enough to be useful.

[Finko]

Summer job working at an amusement park called Dorney Park. I was in charge of telling people not to sit on the skeeball machines. If I was lucky, I got to work in the change booth with the airconditioner. That was 18-19 years ago. Think I was making about $4.50 an hour.

[k0z4k]

I'm 16 and I'm cleaner in one company(very lol xD). I'm cleaning desks,tiping the rubbish and other in this type. It takes me around 30 min. but I'm cleaning every days (without weekends). My salary is 300 PLN (around 80 EURO) per month.