How old were you when you got your first job?

[Erzengel]

I must also say if you are in college and are in your junior year and depending on your profession, you should really take a look at getting an internship through your university. It really opens doors for you.

 

[Siby]

I think I was like 13 when I became a Paperboy. It was terrible back in those days trying to collect money from people, bagging the newspaper when it rained, falling off my bike because of the Sunday paper load. lol

 

[scifiwolf]

A few months before turning 16, I got a summer job working in an engineering firm.

 

[Drizzle]

19. Worked in a video store.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

14 , arranging and delivering newspapers.

 

[Teelie]

15, working at McDonald's.

 

[Kevin Smith]

19, cart pusher.

 

[bullets]

I was 16 and the job was... (wait for it)... working at the comic book shop across the street from my high school.

Krypton for the win

 

[NewYorkSpider]

15.

 

[SpideyForPrez]

10 - I was a gofer at a local shopping center for the Summer. I worked for the maintenance/custodial crew and did a lot of odd jobs like emptying and replacing garbage cans, picking up trash, returning shopping carts, switching light bulbs, running supplies to some of the stores, and other stuff like that. My dad got me the job so it may not count, but it was certainly a real job in terms of the work. I spent my first check in one day on Spider-Man comics and learned a valuable lesson that two weeks of work can be spent very, very quickly.

First job I got by myself was at 15 at an Athletic Club. I was just a basic assistant and mostly cleaned all the machines, classrooms, and equipment. Lots of sweat wiping. I also helped the personal trainers keep their appointments and manage info on their clients. It was an annoying job because they didn't give me enough to do and I would get criticized for cleaning things I wasn't assigned to or not looking busy enough.

 

[choskins]

First "job" was at my local comic store when i was 10 or 11. Bagged comics and got paid in comics.

First real job was at McDonalds when I was 14. Could only work part time in the summer because of my age and those pesky employment laws.

 

[YavinIV]

19. Had to bridge the time between school and university and worked in a sex shop for about four months. Interesting and great experience.

 

[Godzilla2000]

Well, if we're talking tax deductible employment I was eighteen and fresh out of High School when I attempted a job as a Nurse's Aid. That lasted only three months because tending to people who knew they were there to die or were so crippled by alzheimers was pretty depressing especially with the bed ridden patients.

But I did deliver papers for the local newspaper when I was eleven years old.

 

[Anita18]

I have Asian parents so anything that didn't use a college degree was beneath me.

22, cancer research lab. I'm still there, but only for another month while I job search like normal people.

IMO, the age when you first worked is a poor correlation of your work ethic. I don't know how to take a vacation and always have projects unrelated to my actual job.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

14. Riding my bike around neighborhoods putting pizza fliers on doors and mailboxes.

Then 16 pizza delivery driver.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

15, working weekends as a waitress at a restaurant.

Didn't last long though. The owner was a total creep. He was one of those smack you on the bum as you walk past types... plus he had me serving alcohol which was totally illegal, and kept putting me on the rota for weeknights and then calling me up to yell at me when I didn't come in, even though i'd told him since the very beginning I couldn't work weeknights because I was still at school and needed sleep. *****ebag.

Didn't get a job again until I was 17, almost 18.

Was sat in a pub we were starting to hang out at (cause we could get served), and the barman just came waltzing over and said 'right, which one of you girls wants a job?' My hand went up first, and it turned out to be an awesome job, waitressing at first, then barmaiding (which I even kept doing whenever I was home the whole time I was at uni) and later bar manager for a few months after I finished uni. That pub became my home, and I sort of became psynonemous with it

I miss it a lot now.

 

[Duran Man]

16.

 

[jonathancrane]

13, I was an administrative aide at an educational summer camp.

 

[Manic]

I have Asian parents so anything that didn't use a college degree was beneath me.

22, cancer research lab. I'm still there, but only for another month while I job search like normal people.

IMO, the age when you first worked is a poor correlation of your work ethic. I don't know how to take a vacation and always have projects unrelated to my actual job.

I have an Asian friend who wasn't allowed to get a job until after he finished college at the tender age of 23. He ended up being my subordinate at a retail store for two years before he quit (I tipped him off that he was about to get fired to being late too many times).

 

[Anita18]

I have an Asian friend who wasn't allowed to get a job until after he finished college at the tender age of 23. He ended up being my subordinate at a retail store for two years before he quit (I tipped him off that he was about to get fired to being late too many times).

Retail is the worst place for someone who's always late. I'm one of those people (though I have no problem staying waaaay late to make sure things are done right), but that's why I never considered working retail.

 

[kane9321]

17-blockbuster video

 

[lozzy.94]

I should of really gotten my Head out the Gutter while reading that title.

 

[dodong27]

I was 15. Summer job at the Library. =)

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I mowed peoples lawns around the neighborhood in my early teens.

My first "real job" was at 16, working at Funcoland, the precursor to Gamestop.

 

[warhorse78]

12. I worked at the riding stable I took lessons from. From grooming horses on show days (back then I got paid 40 bucks a head) to mucking stalls, tending to wounds, training the babies, excersing the boarders and leading trail rides. When I was 16, I got certified to train horses and teach riding lessons up to level 3 in both English and Western. I was already making 25 bucks an hour. Today, I own my own farm and net in about 260,000 annually now.