What was your first job?
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Babysitter at age 12 for several families in the neighborhood sometimes they would double and triple up (families putting their kids at one home with me) and I'd make 1.50 per hour as I charged 50 cents an hour.... I was busy most weekends and felt rich....
Then I volunteered as a Candy Striper at a nursing home and would run errands for the old folks and write letters for them, help them eat, just sit and talk to them and when I got old enough 15 or 16 I started working in the kitchen and washing dishes....
Then I volunteered as a Candy Striper at a nursing home and would run errands for the old folks and write letters for them, help them eat, just sit and talk to them and when I got old enough 15 or 16 I started working in the kitchen and washing dishes....
My first job was as an overhead crane operator at Swan Island Ship Yards, building ships in WWII. It gave quite a feeling of power for an 18 year old girl to handle such large portions of ships!! But after the war when I applied for more woman friendly jobs and was asked for my work experience, employers weren't impressed at all with hiring a crane operator for clerical work.
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Not exactly a true job, but I forgot that at 15 I did some volunteer work experience at
a vets. I absolutely loved it and so wanted to be a vet tech, but the number of jobs available
is very limited.
At one point the vet team let me help with the operations. There was one dog brought in
which had swallowed a ball! The vet asked me to swab away as he cut the stomach away to
remove the ball. I think he expected me to faint but it was fascinating, so when he had
finished stitching the stomach back up, he started rummaging around inside the dog showing
me bits. He pointed out the spleen and I thought oh that's weird it looked like a purple
aubergine! I discovered later the vets had a bet going to see which could get me to faint
first!
I so loved doing that job. One day a budgie was brought in needing its beak clipping.
It bit the vet and he let go of it, we all had to chase it around the room trying to
catch it.
Another time a snake was brought in with worms.
Then there was the hamster with herroids ouch!
a vets. I absolutely loved it and so wanted to be a vet tech, but the number of jobs available
is very limited.
At one point the vet team let me help with the operations. There was one dog brought in
which had swallowed a ball! The vet asked me to swab away as he cut the stomach away to
remove the ball. I think he expected me to faint but it was fascinating, so when he had
finished stitching the stomach back up, he started rummaging around inside the dog showing
me bits. He pointed out the spleen and I thought oh that's weird it looked like a purple
aubergine! I discovered later the vets had a bet going to see which could get me to faint
first!
I so loved doing that job. One day a budgie was brought in needing its beak clipping.
It bit the vet and he let go of it, we all had to chase it around the room trying to
catch it.
Another time a snake was brought in with worms.
Then there was the hamster with herroids ouch!
hmm well I did have to do some work experience... 1 or 2 weeks..but i dunno if that really counts as a job. no money for it.. oh it sucked so bad. I did that week in a italian ice cafe. They were just yelling at me, I was cleaning for hours. then they gossped all day about me.. never gain
and one day I did in a barber shop...guess what shoes dumb demi wore?? high heels XD XD XD I thought I was so dang smart but so so so stupid. When I left in the evenin my feet hurt soooo bad and then I got lost in the city and walked around with em heels and hurting feet for about an half hr until I found my mom to drive home loooooool.
never ever ever ever again.. Never gonna go back to work in a barber shop, nor ice cafes..nope nope nope
and one day I did in a barber shop...guess what shoes dumb demi wore?? high heels XD XD XD I thought I was so dang smart but so so so stupid. When I left in the evenin my feet hurt soooo bad and then I got lost in the city and walked around with em heels and hurting feet for about an half hr until I found my mom to drive home loooooool.
never ever ever ever again.. Never gonna go back to work in a barber shop, nor ice cafes..nope nope nope
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I did babysitting, all from watching one to five kids at one time. One of the ladies that had me watch her son said I was her favorite because not only did I fix him good food amd not just microwaveable dinners, but I had the ability to get them to clean their room, pick up their toys and help me clean the kitchen all without bribing them. It was a lot of fun 
yea I loved babysitting...until I had to read the same story 50+ times and I was close to falling asleep..just not the kids XD
I did babysitting, all from watching one to five kids at one time. One of the ladies that had me watch her son said I was her favorite because not only did I fix him good food amd not just microwaveable dinners, but I had the ability to get them to clean their room, pick up their toys and help me clean the kitchen all without bribing them. It was a lot of fun
Worked on and off with my father in Construction since I was 12...
My first official paycheck was from McDonalds... Had a blast there, I was working 60+ hours a week, and would bring home more than than any manager, including the GM: and I was just a crew member.... In december of 2012 they found out I had over 100 hours of over time in less than 2 months and gave me a week off mandatory, since their payroll was messed up because of me.... I took it as a badge of honor
They wanted to make me a GM, and I told them that would be awesome, and that I would need Wednesdays off for college.... Once they heard college they started promoting others above me... I was furious because I knew how to run the store better than most of our managers...
Then a kid (assistant manager) threw a punch at me when my back was turned because I told him to stop touching raw meat and then touching the fries... I told him if he threw one more punch I would lay his *** on the ground... He told the manager that I was threatening him and making a hostile environment, I had to write up a report and they ended up siding with him because the cameras didn't see it, even though I had witnesses.... I ended up quitting that job due to them passing me up and not doing anything about that incident...
They called me for 2 weeks after me quitting asking if I could come back in... Never went back
My first official paycheck was from McDonalds... Had a blast there, I was working 60+ hours a week, and would bring home more than than any manager, including the GM: and I was just a crew member.... In december of 2012 they found out I had over 100 hours of over time in less than 2 months and gave me a week off mandatory, since their payroll was messed up because of me.... I took it as a badge of honor
They wanted to make me a GM, and I told them that would be awesome, and that I would need Wednesdays off for college.... Once they heard college they started promoting others above me... I was furious because I knew how to run the store better than most of our managers...
Then a kid (assistant manager) threw a punch at me when my back was turned because I told him to stop touching raw meat and then touching the fries... I told him if he threw one more punch I would lay his *** on the ground... He told the manager that I was threatening him and making a hostile environment, I had to write up a report and they ended up siding with him because the cameras didn't see it, even though I had witnesses.... I ended up quitting that job due to them passing me up and not doing anything about that incident...
They called me for 2 weeks after me quitting asking if I could come back in... Never went back
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Door-to-door selling seeds for a microscope? (The lightbulb was extra, but I couldn't afford it. lol)
Babysitting for neighborhood kids? (An hourly job here and there.)
Babysitting my little brother? (Every day after school and all day in the summer.)
Waitress? (Only lasted two hours.)
Cleaning houses? (Feed me for a summer.)
Or my first fulltime job? In which case, I taught effective education for a drug rehab center, and counseled two nights a week and every Saturday morning.
Babysitting for neighborhood kids? (An hourly job here and there.)
Babysitting my little brother? (Every day after school and all day in the summer.)
Waitress? (Only lasted two hours.)
Cleaning houses? (Feed me for a summer.)
Or my first fulltime job? In which case, I taught effective education for a drug rehab center, and counseled two nights a week and every Saturday morning.
I said earlier that my first job was picking flowers.
Well, that was my first "regular" job. Prior to that, I had several odd jobs.
A friend and I shared in these jobs.
One, we drove go carts at a track when there were no customers.... We didn't get paid in money, but when people driving by saw us racing and sliding around the corners, it brought in business.
Two, we built large plastic models for a department store's display window. And for this, they would give both of us a free smaller model.
In the same store we 'shilled' for the sporting goods department by letting the salesman show customers that even kids like us could 'flik-cast' a weight into a bucket 20 feet away. We got a buck each time we played the game, and an extra dollar if he sold a rig because of our little demonstration.
I had a holly tree in my front yard, and the two of us would make Christmas wreaths, and sell them for 50 cents apiece at the local shopping center ('mall' to you kids).
We also climbed trees around the neighborhood to get mistletoe, and sold that at the shopping center, too.
Later on, I would finish nailing 8 nails in each of the wall studs carpenters would 'quick-nail' with two nails at the bottom and two at the bottom in houses being built in our neighborhood. (Ours was one of the first houses in the tract where I lived then. I think I got $10 per house, and I could do a house in two to three hours after school.
And, of course, I had the usual paper routes and I mowed several lawns in the neighborhood.
Well, that was my first "regular" job. Prior to that, I had several odd jobs.
A friend and I shared in these jobs.
One, we drove go carts at a track when there were no customers.... We didn't get paid in money, but when people driving by saw us racing and sliding around the corners, it brought in business.
Two, we built large plastic models for a department store's display window. And for this, they would give both of us a free smaller model.
In the same store we 'shilled' for the sporting goods department by letting the salesman show customers that even kids like us could 'flik-cast' a weight into a bucket 20 feet away. We got a buck each time we played the game, and an extra dollar if he sold a rig because of our little demonstration.
I had a holly tree in my front yard, and the two of us would make Christmas wreaths, and sell them for 50 cents apiece at the local shopping center ('mall' to you kids).
We also climbed trees around the neighborhood to get mistletoe, and sold that at the shopping center, too.
Later on, I would finish nailing 8 nails in each of the wall studs carpenters would 'quick-nail' with two nails at the bottom and two at the bottom in houses being built in our neighborhood. (Ours was one of the first houses in the tract where I lived then. I think I got $10 per house, and I could do a house in two to three hours after school.
And, of course, I had the usual paper routes and I mowed several lawns in the neighborhood.
I was the 'dog' for many years in the house-holds that I inherited in this fallen-world'...
later-on, my first Government-taxes paying job, was in a laundry-mat in Mass., often
we did some of the 'Kennedy's Laundrys' in some capacity...
after that, - you just really don't want to know- but, something really important I think
that many of you would like to know, is that, Jesus, our Saviour, rescued me/us, at just
the right time in our lives, 'Him and His timing', which we know in our Spirits, Hearts, Minds,
is all
that is REAL...
later-on, my first Government-taxes paying job, was in a laundry-mat in Mass., often
we did some of the 'Kennedy's Laundrys' in some capacity...
after that, - you just really don't want to know- but, something really important I think
that many of you would like to know, is that, Jesus, our Saviour, rescued me/us, at just
the right time in our lives, 'Him and His timing', which we know in our Spirits, Hearts, Minds,
is all
that is REAL...
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I remember this one boy I watched loved the movie "Ice Age" he wanted me to keep replaying it and he could say every line as the movie played.
I would routinely go with his mom on long trips because most often than not couldn't drive and she needed me to watch her son. I remember one time he climbed up on my lap in the waiting room and gave me a flower and said, "I love you!" Why do kids have to be so gosh darn adorable? Lol
I would routinely go with his mom on long trips because most often than not couldn't drive and she needed me to watch her son. I remember one time he climbed up on my lap in the waiting room and gave me a flower and said, "I love you!" Why do kids have to be so gosh darn adorable? Lol
My first job ever was in the meat department of a large grocery store. It was awful : p I remember always being confused about what it was I was supposed to do, there was so much going on and the two people I worked with were not good at giving instructions. I was always just pushed into some tasks with no explanation, like I was once told to grind the leftover hamburger, and that part was easy, just put it into the grinder and press the button. But I was never told how to actually do it, so like I didnt know that there were carts for the ground meat to fall into when it came out of the machine : p
I was already under alot of stress from this job, and it only took them one week to put me in the meat department, completely on my own, still no idea what I was supposed to do. I was way freaking nervous : p I actually walked all the way up to the front door of the building, shaking and everything, and before I opened the door I decided to just walk away and pretend I was never even hired there, haha.
It actually made me afraid to find another job though, like I thought that this was what work was going to be. That I was gonna be forced into tasks that I didnt know how to do, and that Id get into trouble for not knowing how to do them, haha. It was a learning experience though, through that I learned to ask for clearer instructions if I dont know how to do something, and to speak up if Im unsure of how to handle a situation.
Wish the people I worked with at that job knew how to train new employees, though. Especially young kids who have obviously never had a job before : p
I was already under alot of stress from this job, and it only took them one week to put me in the meat department, completely on my own, still no idea what I was supposed to do. I was way freaking nervous : p I actually walked all the way up to the front door of the building, shaking and everything, and before I opened the door I decided to just walk away and pretend I was never even hired there, haha.
It actually made me afraid to find another job though, like I thought that this was what work was going to be. That I was gonna be forced into tasks that I didnt know how to do, and that Id get into trouble for not knowing how to do them, haha. It was a learning experience though, through that I learned to ask for clearer instructions if I dont know how to do something, and to speak up if Im unsure of how to handle a situation.
Wish the people I worked with at that job knew how to train new employees, though. Especially young kids who have obviously never had a job before : p