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Just things I wonder about ... and some people are nice enough to answer. You are welcome to answer, too ... just click on "Comments" and off you go! IF you don't want to be Anonymous, use the Name/URL option and just put in your name ... no URL required .... Starting Jan 28th, 2009, I am using questions from "Table Topics: Right or Wrong?"
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My first job was working at my dad's office. It was boring. My first non-family job was working at a diamond shamrock gas station as the grounds keeper. So just imagine Grounds Keeper Willy from the Simpson's, and you pretty much ahve it down pat. That was also a bad job.
Other than babysitting, my first real job was McDonald's. I lasted less than 2 weeks. I think I made around 3.50 per hour and I was stuck in the kitchen washing all of those nasty, greasy pans. GAG! If you ever see what goes on in the McD's kitchen, you may change your mind about eating there.
After that I went to work at Target. Much better :)
Working for Tarrant County Junior College (1985) in the Career Placement office making minimum wage. We were paid every 2 weeks, I worked 4 hours 5 days a week. I loved it......Wish I could figure out how to make the $'s I make now, but work only 20 hours (actually only 40 would be nice compared to my usual 48 to 52) a week......
Does babysitting count? That was my first...think I got 25cents an hour...if after midnight went up to 50cents---oh, and I could only sit for my parents friends! In High School I worked as a salesgirl at a small dress shop in town...I got a discount---but all the clothes were for "the oldies but goodies"
I lived in the country. So my first job as a kid was working on a bird farm. My niece and I use to have egg fights. It was great. From there I went to work for a tool making company. Then at 19 went to beauty school 1978. Been on my feet ever since.
My first job was at age 16. I began working summers at the BX in Munich. I was in the boys' department...I can size up an 8 year old in nothing flat! I bought summer and school clothes, a 10 speed bike, and financed several ski trips as well as a trip to London. I made $1.75/hour. My first raise was the second summer to $1.85. I also got a 15% discount! My second job, in college, was at Sears, again selling boys' clothes. I know I worked there long enough to get 3 raises before I quit. I then worked at the lab. I was a lab secretary and drew blood. I started there for $2.50 and hour. I even got bonuses! I worked there until I graduated from college. Good starter jobs, but I grew to hate Sears...can hardly go there now.
I coal-oiled mesquite trees to kill them. This was in 1970 in W. Texas (near Mineral Wells), and I carried a 5 gal can of coal oil and a big brush around pastures. I would get under a mesquite tree (BIG THORNS!!!) and brush coal oil around the base of the tree and the lower trunk, then move to the next one. Made $4/hr - lots of fun in the Texas summer. That summer I also worked at a skeet/trap range working the clay pigeon thrower. No pay, but all the clays I could shoot.
My next job was at a Sears catalogue store where they also sold tires. I was a tire buster - takinh old tires off and putting new tires on (balancing them, etc.). I also did some shock replacements. I made minimum wage
My first job was at the Whitehall Inn in Camden, Maine as a dishwasher and bellhop. I made under minimum wage at the time, $1.50/hour. I later learned to be a helper to the pastry chef, a prep person and did some cooking.
MY very first non-baby-sitting non-family job was Detassling Corn for Pioneer Corn ... I think the pay was $4.50/hr with time and a half for over-time and double-time on Sundays ... it was a very physical job with great pay! I did it for several summers ...
Detassling season was a very limited time ... like a 4-6 week window, if I remember correctly!
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