What was your first job?

My first job is my current job as an employee assigned in operations dept of an insurance company. I started working here barely 2 months after graduation and been here for 16 years.

So what was your first job? Did you like it?

That sounds like a very good job, Tinkerbell! And to be there that long... you're probably irreplaceable to them.

My first job was at an arcade at a mall. I used to go there after my community college classes and play the star wars x-wing fighter game and I always had top score. I could make one quarter last 4 hours! So one day I asked the manager if they were hiring and he'd seen me there almost everyday already so he was like, sure! So i worked there part time and I hooked up my friends with free games lol. It was ok. Kind of boring, but ok.. After awhile you kind of get sick of playing all those games for free. That's why I never really got into video games after that. I never owned an x-box or playstation or anything except my pc. I played a few games on that but got bored of them quickly..

First job was in the kitchen of a nursing home. I was 16 it was summer and the kitchen had no air condtioning. It was horrible but I enjoyed getting to know all the residents and missed them when I quit at the end of summer to go back to school.

I grew up in a small poor village in Philippines. After I graduated from college I went to Manila with only 100 pesos in my pocket...I wanted to have a life different than the one I have experienced,young and determined
After 2 days...I was running out of money and food I applied to work as a sidewalk vendor selling mobile phone cases and accessories (the owner gave me free lunch and 80 pesos a day)The place was at the corner of Spaña avenue and Morayta Street. It was fun one of the best times in my life...running,hiding from the authorities (MMDA)

Wow! What a thrilling first job and you are so brave to come to the big city with just 100 pesos on your pocket. You are probably street smart now. We could learn life's best lessons from working on the streets. Hard earned money is really sweet. I remember selling chocolates and my mother's ice candies in the classroom while I was in high school. It was fun!

My first job at 18 was working in the pension and wages department for an
agricultural merchants. One day a week I also helped in the accounts department.
I was the office junior.

I liked it, the other staff were great. The boss was great, everyone seemed so
genuine, real honest people.



Then at 21 the company decided to contract the above work out.
So I was moved to the fertiliser department.
This involved invoicing companies and farmers for chemical fertiliser sold to them and also
arranging for the importation of this fertiliser from abroad. Plus keep stock of all
the warehouses we had around the country.

I hated this the people were awful and the women were so *****y to each other.

My first job? Causing my beloved Mother to shout......



MEDS!

MEDS!

GIMMIE MEDS NOW!


​..........sigh.........

When I was 19, working as a nurses aide in a nursing home.

House cleaning at age 11. Could have bought a car by now if I hadn't spent all my money on guns.

Washing pots and pans at 17 years of age (1972) in a fancy restaurant. Stayed 4 months then joined the Air Force.

Delivering newspapers at 103 houses at age 14 on my bicycle in rain and snow...the morning and afternoon newspapers. Now every time it rains, l feel so very thankful to be inside, warm and dry. Sometimes we take our many blessings for granted.

At 17 years old, my first job was at Marshalls Department Store and that's where I met my wife for the first time! That was her first job too.

That is incredible Tink..I wonder what the statistics are for people who stay with the same company they started right out of high school.

You and your beautiful wife are HS SWEETHEARTS!!!! No wonder your both so freaking adorable...

Amazing...congratulations to you both

I worked with my dad most summers from 16 until I finished college. Also around that age I would occasionally walk around the beach with my friend and sell cold soda, ice cream, etc.

My first real job was as a car valet at a Miami Beach hotel / restaurant. It was such a busy place that there was a team of us, about 5 to 8 of us on most nights. I was 19. My then GF's dad got me the job. Great pay, $100 a night, cash, in the late 70's. More on holiday's and busy weekends.

I was 21 when I finished college and started working. It is difficult to find work in my country's economy but it was God who led me to the job in a company that has just opened a branch in my city. They needed many people and I needed a job so badly because I am the breadwinner and the breadeaters are depending on me. Lol!

Delivering newspapers.