What was your first job?

We all started somewhere... but where? Fastfood? Retail? Test Subject? I am very curious OT. (the more specific, the better)

I was the fry guy at Arby's

I started as a Waiter at Ihop when I was 17 years old in 11th grade. Stay at Ihop for 1 in a half year and quite when I graduated from high school.

Procrastinating.

First part time jobs were working as a TA for calculus in college, and working as a research assistant for a professor in college. First full time job was working as a research assistant for professors after graduating.

@Legend002: not including the very short lived paper route when i was 12... bag boy/cart fetcher at king soopers.

Technically this, but my first true "payroll" job was a gas jockey.

Cashiering. I learned very quickly that people are horrible and they want to both assume you have all the power to do things within the establishment and that you are a lowly pathetic minimum wage employee at the same time.

Isn't this question one of the password reset questions on most bank accounts?

McDonald's at 17, stayed there for a year before I moved on.

In high school I got job working for Vector Marketing, who sells the Cutco knives. It's a was a scam company though, or on the cusp of being one. It's basically an MLM, but I exploited the shit out of it to actually turn a profit. They still pay you for making visits so I just made as many visits as I could despite not selling much they still had to pay me for them so I actually walked away ahead, which isn't typical with MLM scams.

First REAL job I had was working for Jack In the Box, easy job (which boggles my mind how people working fast food **** it up so much). Gave me some walking around money during college. And it was fun. Worked mostly the graveyard shift. My favorite repeat clients were the strippers from down the street that would flash me and flirt with me for some extra free food, or the stoners that lived in the parking lot at night getting high and going through the drive through, because they always tipped with weed. And I never had a manager to give me grief because he never showed up to work, and they never fired him for it, though that made more work for me, but also gave me more overtime.

Programming team leader of a small-ish (about 20 people) team at the age of 16. Ended up quitting because the boss was trying to scam me with the "you're not 18 yet, so I can't really pay you what your qualifications require me to" crap.

Helping my mom now lawns for extra cash. But my first non family job was a busboy at like 16/17. I did that for about 2 years or so at min wage. Then my friend asked if I wanted join him working for his uncle doing asbestos abatement. Going from 5.40 an hour to 14 made me ignore any health risks at the time lol. I did that for several years while going to college. Then I got job as quality inspector at steel heat treat place. Did that for a few years then I got job at a data center. That didn't py crap so I went back to quality in steel mill type environment again .

ahaha, maybe he will steal our cash, with this sinister plan

Never worked a single day in my life.

I am not a dog.I will not bow down to anyone.

@ShepardCommandr: lol?

1. Paper boy (14 years old)
2. Picking strawberries at a farm (16 years old)
3. Employee at a hardware store (19 years old)
4. Freelance illustrator for several jobs (19 years old)
5. Designer at an advertising agency (20 years old)
6. Designer at an internet agency (28 years old)
7. Art director at that internet agency (30 years old)

1. Reseach subject
2. House cleaner
3. Supermarket cashier
4. Indie Developer / Project Manager

I became a lifeguard at 14.. It was a decently fun summer experience. Paid like crap but at that age I didn't care.

Internship in a law firm.

I was a bus boy/dishwasher for all of a week at a buffet restaurant when I was 16. SUCKED. My next job was as a cashier/drive-thru window at a fast food establishment.

I'm not smart enough to do that. =P

I had a lawn mowing business at 16.

did it feel good

Butcher.

it was being in the army that was my first job

checker at a grocery store. it was eh. i was forced to join the united food and commercial workers union which was pointless for a 16 year old with no fucking intention of making that my career.

Auntie Anne's Pretzels

My first "formal" job was working for a tree trimming service at 15. Hardest job I ever had, but it paid well: $250 bucks for a day's work. But man alive was it earned. Amazing money to have at that age.

Started working at 13 doing yardwork (weed whipping, cutting down/trimming trees, mowing lawns) as I grew up on a 3 acre protea farm.

At Best Buy.

Same. Started working when I was 13.

Local Pizza Place

My very first job was working at Radio Shack. I would not recommend working at that place to anyone. Since they are small stores, a lot of the times they have you working all alone, and they EXPECT you to do EVERYTHING: They expect you to ring up the customer, force them to buy things they don't need. Attempt to sell a phone to every customer that walks through the door, unload and stock up the shipments, reorganize the products.... The list goes on... And when you're running late with stocking up the shelves then you get in trouble. I couldn't deal with the stress of that place so I now work elsewhere.

I was a cashier at a grocery store from 14-17. Then I was a Gamestop manager from 18-22.

I was working as a network engineer in a private company..

Technically a store clerk for my grandparents greenhouse/flowershop (but I never really considered it a job). First actual "job" was a warehouse clerk for a grain/animal feed store.

Translator.....still a translator ......shall be an engineer ......but don't mind being a translator.

take a part time job in an exhibition.low pay,but real pay.(150 rmb/day about $24/day).no fun,I just take a shot and get some money!LOL

did they give you free pizza

I WILL NOT SUCCUMB TO THE PATRIARCHY.

For what?

stacking dishes.

did it for two weeks.

fucking nightmare.

flight attendant at age 22 .... spend my first salary eating at an indian coffeeshop ... lol

Five years at a burger joint known as G. D. Ritzy's cooking fries.

like many others the technical first would be "paper route" however my first paid job in the sense you mean (I think) was a kind of do all in a grocery store (originaly ment to take care of bottles, but became a general storage worker, to recive foodstuffs for the store, and placing them in the storage, aswell as checking prices and best before dates on the foods on the shelves. Ironically the thing I did the least of what was I was hired for.

I was 13 standing in front of a butcher shop handing out flyers.