What age did you get your first job? What was your first job?
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ANSWERS: 27
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11 years old. It was a paper route.
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11 years old... Stocking shelves in my father's grocery with others. By 12, I was stocking shelves in another of his stores on my own. (Sometimes I wish the supermarkets had stayed away from our town!)
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My first paid job was working for a local accountant during tax season when I was 13. I helped him keep all his paperwork in order (client's invoices and bills, etc) while he worked on doing taxes for people. It was fun :)
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I think I was 10 and I had a paper route delivering the LA Times.
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about 11 a paper route
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15, being a ''mini waitress'' in a Jamaican bar. So I was allowed to work in a bar, but not allowed to drink lol. Waitressing stuck until now, but that place really wasn't ''waitressing'' so to speak. I was more like the ''wipe the asses of everyone after they're done'' girl.
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Outside of cuttin' grass for alla neighbors in the summer's heat & humidity of NE Pennsylvania since age 10, I 1st started paying into the (US) Social Security system w/ my parent's consent (insistance?) in 1968 at 13 years of age. BTW: Its helped me to become a humble pillar of my community! ;-)
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when I was 13 I got a Saturday job, cleaning the chalets at the local holiday park. I worked from 8am - 4.30 and got paid £11.50 for the whole day.
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I was 18 years old.
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15yrs old as a farm hand.
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15 - I worked in a fruit and veg shop on Saturdays
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15 as a cashier at a grocery store.
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I started babysitting at age 12.
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14 - I trimmed Christmas trees in the summer on a Christmas tree farm. I was given a machete and told how to use tree sap on open wound in order to slow down the bleeding until help arrived. It was a long summer.
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I started working when I was 9 delivering newspapers, putting trash cans out for older, widowed or single woman on trash day, shopping for them and I was the neighborhood babysitter. After I babysat for one family for about 4 years they freaked out when they realized I was only 13! I was mature for my age! That happens if you are one of eight children and learn to take care of everyone else!
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11. Throwing newspapers.
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babysitting at age 12
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10 - babysitting and newspaper delivery alternate 15 - restaurant hostess (first W-2)
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Cleaning out horse and cow barns...But an actual full time job....Fry cook at Tastee Freeze.
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working in a pizza place. Sucked bigtime.
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Farming and I am still doing it part-time. I am a full time student and I am seeking a part time job of sales assident so hopefully that will be my second job as a teenager.
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Working in Kroger stocking frozen food during 3rd shift. I later moonlighted as a ninja for hire.
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Other than chores at home: At 11 I started working for my father at one of his grocery stores as a stock clerk. The next year, I was stocking the smallest store myself. A year or so later, I was helping in the produce department, and another year, the meat department. By 16, I was running the meat department, filling the case on Saturdays and delivering meat and fruit baskets, as well as stocking. The next year (summer) I ran one of the meat departments, and ran one for an out-of-town store. We also made a little spending cash by cleaning some of the apartments my father owned, and moving furniture in and out.
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Sold cards door-to-door when I was about 9. First real job was when I was a teenager working in a park doing maintenance. Much of the time was spent stabbing paper with a stick that had a nail taped to the end of it.
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Washing dishes for the restaurant in a hotel. £3 per hour, and you'd be working your ass off for 7 hours straight till past midnight at the age 13. Horrible, horrible job!
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Coat Check Girl at a Restaurant!
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I was like a little entrepreneur! At 6 I had half the neighborhood paying me to cut there grass. I would also walk the streets and pick up cans, and go through trash piles and get out any scrap metal. I had a allowance but I had to earn that by cutting my mom and dads grass. 2 acres with a push mower! I did that till I was 13 and most the kids in the neighborhood had to cut their parents yards.
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