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Your First Real Paying job

Goodie2shoes — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:37:00 GMT

Watching Fashion's night in, Courtney just asked the question What was your first real paying job ? My first real paying job was at age 15 I worked in the gift wrap department for Famous Barr which is now Macy's. Anyone else want to tell us your first real paying job and age ?

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Queen of shop — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:41:32 GMT

@Goodie2shoes 16 in my Uncles restaurant. Cashier/waitress. Fun times. Only for the summer.

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Zaimee — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:46:22 GMT

@Goodie2shoes @My first job was at 15 too. ( lied about my age for working papers!). I traveled by bus and subway to work in Manhattan at Alexander's Dept. Store 59th and Lexington (across from Bloomingdales) Started in the housecoat ! department but then moved to new candy kiosk selling Barton's candy. Great high school job and the perks were delicious! I made $1.50 an hour. I think the subway token was 10 or 15 cents.

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spiderw — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:59:40 GMT

My uncle worked at the Post Office. During the holiday rush help was needed and my uncle asked if I was interested. I loved working for the two weeks I was hired and loved getting a pay check! That was a long time ago but I still recall the positive experience.

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NEvans2 — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 03:21:04 GMT

I got my first paying job the summer I was 12. I baby-sat for a young couple that lived two doors down from me. They had two little boys. They went out almost every Saturday. They were always home by midnight and the dad would walk me home. I did that until I turned 16 and started working at the local amusement park in the summer. That was the summer of 1971 and I got paid 1.25 an hour. I was a waitress and we didn't make as much as the kids who worked the rides, games and concessions. I think they made 2.00 an hour. The biggest tip I ever got in the two years I worked there was $10.00 from a table of nuns. The babysitting paid better, but by then couple had moved.

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kristina1 — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 03:51:40 GMT

My first real job was when I was 16. I worked at Karmelkorn at the mall (of course)! The same owner had Tiffany's bakery next door and sometimes we would get to work there also.

It was a lot of fun

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Linmo — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 04:16:58 GMT

I was a babysitter for many years, but my first job at a place where you get a paystub was at Grant's department store in RIdgefield, CT as a Santa's elf over the holiday season.

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decaf — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 04:46:40 GMT

I washed dogs in my neigborhood from ages 12- 15 on the weekends and in the summer. When I was about 15(?) I got my first real P/T job a cashier at a store called Floyd Bennett Stores. It was similar to a K Mart. Back then you actually had to read the price tags (no sku #'s or scanning) and had to make the correct change for each transaction, this was before credit cards.

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redhead handbag queen — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 06:17:21 GMT

I was 18 and worked a bakery inside a grocery store. Four in the morning, (UGH) and I couldn't eat a donut, bismark or danish for at least 20 years! lol

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CalminHeart — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 10:21:12 GMT

My first job was bussing tables at a restaurant at 15.

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amyb — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 10:25:01 GMT

12..Our family's printing shop...just one week a summer...the week before the shop shut down for week of 4th of July, their one vacation every year. We all came in to help with hand collating, stapling machine, (all automated now) wrapping packages.

After that, first steady paying job...a live, open-air, summer theater...usherette, box office, sometimes wardrobe when needed. Funnest job ever...many great summer memories there, from about age 16-21.

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godi — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 10:25:58 GMT

I was 16 and worked at a department store called Kaufmanns which is now Macy's here.

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tampalady — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 10:43:56 GMT

My first real job with pay check was at 18 telephone operator for Bell Telephone Co. in Miami, Fl. I started babysitting for children in neighborhood when I was 12.

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Harpa — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 11:41:27 GMT

At 13, I waitressed in my uncle's restaurant. Since then, I hardly remember a time when I did not earn my own $$.

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SoCal Bred — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:00:42 GMT

At age 16, I started working during the summer at a Plumbing company next door to where we lived doing invoice filing (clerical). The owner had asked me to stay on and work an hour or so after school, had to obtain a work permit, continued to work there after I graduated for 13 years doing A/R, quit once, was gone for 7 years, the owner pursuaded me to come back which I did, worked an additional 11 years, then left for good for a bigger and better more prosperous position elsewhere.

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Boehm Collector — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:02:20 GMT

Got my first paying job at 16. I worked in our local hospital's gift shop.

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violann — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:09:21 GMT

My first "real" job cost me a year of college.

I'd just graduated from HS, and a dear relative was a manager in a local business office (national coverage) and thought I'd like a job for "good money" and something "to keep me busy".

Nightmare. The office was a nasty, dirty place, unpleasant people, hard work, and compulsory overtime.

On the last day I was there, they told me I hadn't been "pleasant", and I'm quite sure that was true. The actual tasks of the job were easy to accomplish and I was able to work faster than some of the old timers, and I assume there was jealousy.

The only reason I'd taken the assignment was to please MY relative, and I wound up feeling like such a failure that I felt as though I'd NEVER be able to do college level work, and after attending 2 days of classes, Idropped out.

As it turned out, THAT proved to be an excellent life lesson, but from then on, I applied on my own for jobs that I CHOSE for myself.

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gidgetgh — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:11:26 GMT

Switchboard operator at an answering service, back in 1973. Think Lily Tomlin with the big board and all the cords. That was me!

I loved that job. I was 17 and we had teens working and older women and we all got along great. It taught me great phone etiquette and how to quickly and efficiently take messages. Great skills. I worked there my senior year of high school and then for 2 summers during college.

We answered for doctors, real estate companies and agents, insurance companies, other offices, private homes, etc.

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ninjawife — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:12:59 GMT

I started babysitting and delivering newspapers at age 12. At 14 I started teaching dance lessons in exchange for my dance lesson tutition. The first job I had where I got a paycheck was at 16. I worked as a dietary aide in a nursing home.

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SeaMaiden — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:16:12 GMT

In 11th grade about 15 years old, I took a job as a maid in a small motel.. I took the bus to and from. Did not last too long. HARD WORK! Always have had a soft place in my heart for maids.... underpaid for truly grueling work.