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by Zack on January 20th, 2008
15 years old working 7 days a week, 12 hour days. Getting paid less than $50 a week.
by Arisztid on January 27th, 2008
10-16: cleaning houses, yardwork and the like. I did it about 2 hours a day, not counting the bus to get to the jobs. I had a nice clientèle. I also sometimes helped my father in his business (he wrote and printed tutorial texts) at that age. I ran the shrink-wrapper starting at about 13 or so.
16: prep-cook, part time. I think that is the one that would count as an official job despite my earning some decent money cleaning houses and doing yardwork.
Oh, for the record, when I was doing that it was a different world. I do NOT suggest that 10 year olds do that today!
by Borderlinux on January 27th, 2008
13: paper route/ mowing lawns
15: 1st real "taxes withheld" job.
by Icebox April on January 27th, 2008
I had a serious babysitting gig with my cousin in 7th grade so...I guess I was 12 or 13. We babysat these twin infants everyday during the summer for $4 an hour. It was fairly intense money for being that young. Haha.
by AliCat ABBBBS is plus 1 hr GMT on January 27th, 2008
I was 13. I got a summer job working for a dry cleaner's taking clothes from custermers and making home deliveries. It was fulltime, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Hard work and very low pay, but it seemed like a fortune to me!
by Spunts.answered 67 questions in 1 hour. on January 20th, 2008
i worked for a salary at age 12 on the farm.
by BRB on April 20th, 2010
woah. makes me feel that I've started out old! haha
had no work experience before college :P
20 y.o. on the job training as web designer
21y.o. -non-official first work as graphic artist / merchandiser / store designer
22-current - official first work as fashion designer :P
by Takei-Shihan on March 12th, 2008
At age 13 I started to work at our local church as the assistant groundskeeper and the assistant janitor. I had to shovel snow in the winter, cut grass in the summer, rake leaves and help trim trees & shrubs in the autumn, and help arrange flowers in the spring ... and do a weekly sweep, mop, and take out trash. It paid a flat $125.00 per month.
I needed my own income at age 13 because that was when I got my first black belt and my parents thought that was the end and would not pay for any more of my martial arts lessons, so I had to work to be able to pay for my continued lessons.
by Nitroduck on March 12th, 2008
I, like you, was 16. I worked in the factory that makes Idahoan flaked mashed potatoes. I trimmed brown spots off of potatoes in 8 hour shifts.
It was quite boring, but it kickstarted my work career, and gave me some spending money.
by Miss Awesome on January 27th, 2008
22. Sad, I know, but I never had a real job until I graduated college, other than random babysitting jobs.
by American idle on January 20th, 2008
17, right out of high school. I worked in the printing department at the downtown YMCA, (making their daily paper), and also as their telephone opperator, (in the lobby.) Lots of fun!
by The Silent Rebel on June 1st, 2010
i was five
i killed flies for my grandpa 1 cent per fly
by POLICE...IN HOT PURSUIT on July 9th, 2009
14. I had to get a work permit as I was so young. I got a job working in a cafeteria.
by FreshApples on April 11th, 2009
8
by BigDaddyBS on July 14th, 2008
I was 11 years old. Learned to stock shelves at one of my father's stores. By 12, I was stocking another one by my self. Both were part time, but during the summer, I was working at the main store.
by Roselynn...unregistered text offender... on July 14th, 2008
14
Part time.
Day care.
by Doggie S on June 8th, 2008
It involved eating my pride because I had to deal with people I didn't know.
by MelindaWarren on March 12th, 2008
Movie theater when I was 19.
by redcatt63 is around here somewhere...... on March 12th, 2008
I worked part-time at a dinky little book store. I was 17 and in high school and they got away with not paying minimum wage.
by We miss our girl! on March 12th, 2008
When I was 15 I had a job as a waitress in a banquet hall. Most kids in the town I lived in worked there as a first job.
by Zack on March 12th, 2008
MickeyD's was my first real job besides that selling drug paraphernalia thing. No big deal now since its way in the past now.
by Galeanda on March 12th, 2008
Bookkeeping and making jewelry.
by Lady Lavender on March 12th, 2008
I was 18 and I got a job at McDonalds.
by debodun on March 12th, 2008
Where I live, you have to be at least 16 to work, even then you need "papers." My parents forced me to get a summer job as soon as I turned 16 even though they had to drive me to and from it. They said they didn't want be just laying around the house all summer. This was back in the late 1960's and the minimum wage was less than $2 an hour. I worked around at various department stores doing inventories.
by The Reverend Soleil on March 12th, 2008
Do paper routes count?
Otherwise, my first job was working at a Baskin Robbins at the age of 15 1/2.
Seven girls (mostly cheerleaders), one guy (me), free ice cream, and a chilly, erect nipple-inducing environment -- what more could a hormonal teenage boy ask for?
by Wickels on March 12th, 2008
14, waiting tables.
by Rude Bear Ready for Winter on March 12th, 2008
I was a dishwasher at a local hotel. everyone in my family worked there over the summer and after school.
by KayJ on March 12th, 2008
I was 15 and got a job as a waitress at the place where my mom was working. Little did I know then that my future mother in law was also working there!! It is a small world :)
by Nibble nibble bite nibble on March 12th, 2008
I was 13 and worked at a carnival. Ah, fun times. I rode all the rides for free. :D
by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on January 27th, 2008
16 I washed floors in a hospital kitchen after school
by Kitt-tastrophy on January 27th, 2008
14
by lazaruslong138 on January 27th, 2008
10-paper route and lawn mowing-12 in a restuarant and i am still cooking now---cool question--smile and enjoy the day
by Jerichoholic - MaryannO on January 27th, 2008
I was 15, and worked at Friendly's ice cream parlor scooping ice cream at the front counter.
by Starmaster on January 27th, 2008
14. It was a summer job that was part of a government program. I was assigned to a police department and spent most of the time washing cars, cleaning up the area and helping organize documents.
by Wickels on January 27th, 2008
14 waiting tables at a small little diner near my high school. It was full time for the three months I had it, then I quit to go back to school.
by Gabstar on January 20th, 2008
i was 14, working at a holiday program with a school! i knew the guy incharge, john law! as in the afl footy player!! anyway, good times!;) took 2, 5 day weeks every holiday and no pay for the fist 2 years
by Anonomous on January 20th, 2008
12, I worked for my mom and dad though. I was there for nearly 12 years. Good money but not worth working with all your family.
by Dee Dee just havin some fun on January 20th, 2008
15 I was an umpire
by BlueEyes0706 on January 20th, 2008
I was 16 and started working as a cashier for a Hallmark store.
by Yarnlady is happy every day on January 20th, 2008
Besides babysitting, I got my first real job a half century ago, when I was 15, at the snack bar in city park.
by shammers still slogging along on January 20th, 2008
Lied about my age at 14 and got a job in the snack bar in a market part time and summers. Loved having my own money with no one to tell me what to do with it. There was no work permit requirement then.
by I love my baby on January 20th, 2008
If I can't count my little pillow making short business <lol> then my first job was at age 15.
by unknown on January 20th, 2008
I was fourteen years old. I was a day-camp counselor.
by Nuttsky on January 20th, 2008
15, with a work permit. Before that, I babysat, but that's not a real job.
by AgnusDei on January 20th, 2008
When I was a little girl I helped my mother part time at her job, but my first real job was when I was 15.
by Little big mouth on January 20th, 2008
17
by Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony on January 20th, 2008
Fifteen
by Olero on January 20th, 2008
11 paper boy every friday at 5 pm
by Zubradevine has left the building on January 20th, 2008
I was 16, i had just finished school and moved away from home to the city and i had a waitressing job, it was great fun
by DRLAURAHATER on January 20th, 2008
I was 9 years old when I got my first parttime job. It was working parttime for my mother since she owned her own typing business. I helped with the filing, running the copier and the old memo machine.
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well, that's something!
by Gabstar on January 20th, 2008
isnt that against the law? lol
by Scooot on January 21st, 2008
Not if a person is getting paid "under the table".
by Zack on January 21st, 2008
ah i see
by Scooot on January 21st, 2008
Little did the f**ker know that I got even everyday I was there. It worked out in the end.
by Zack on January 21st, 2008
Im glad it all worked out
by Scooot on January 22nd, 2008
What kind of work were you doing?
by Symbeline on July 14th, 2008
I used to work in a"hole in the wall" music store. The owner was selling drug paraphernalia on the side. I used to steal money from that.
by Zack on July 14th, 2008
LOL! When I worked at the bar in my first job, I used to swipe canned drinks after the bar closed. XD
by Symbeline on July 14th, 2008