You remember your first job?

[coldblue1955]

After highschool many teens start looking for jobs. What was yours?

 

[the-short-one]

I was 13. Bus girl at a restaurant.

 

[Kakdiesel]

my first job was while in high scool. car hop for a hot dog stand called Stewarts hot dogs.

ran out to cars, took their order, put the tray on their windows and shit.

good dough though.

 

[Cutiebaby]

13 years old uncertified nurses assistant...15 years old as a hostess for a resteraunt

 

[sawastea]

I was a tennis instructor making $50/hr at the Biltmore Tennis Courts in Coral Gables, FL.

Big pimpin' spending cheese. I was also teaching catillian at the Riviera Country Club

 

[coldblue1955]

13 years old uncertified nurses assistant...15 years old as a hostess for a resteraunt

sounded like a fine job!

 

[WarriorPL]

Doorman at an apartment building looking onto central park. Mad good money... $14 an hour... worked 48 hours almost every week (8 hours OT = $21/hour). I was pulling in nearly $600 a week... not bad for an 18 y/o. Made like 6,000 that summer

 

[javaguru]

General farm laborer....mostly bailing hay and all that entails...

$2.00 an hour...under the table; By the time I was a senior I was making $2.75 an hour....watch out matttheskywalker, I'm on your heels...

 

[coldblue1955]

Doorman at an apartment building looking onto central park. Mad good money... $14 an hour... worked 48 hours almost every week (8 hours OT = $21/hour). I was pulling in nearly $600 a week... not bad for an 18 y/o. Made like 6,000 that summer

what the hell happened??

 

[the-short-one]

General farm laborer....mostly bailing hay and all that entails...

$2.00 an hour...under the table; By the time I was a senior I was making $2.75 an hour....watch out matttheskywalker, I'm on your heels...

my boyfriend did the same thing for the same wage! bailing hay is a tough, tough job.

 

[WarriorPL]

what the hell happened??

College. I can't work a normal 40 hour shift... and that's all they were willing to give me. Hell if I could work part time there I'd definately still be working there.

 

[javaguru]

my boyfriend did the same thing for the same wage! bailing hay is a tough, tough job.

That was 1986-1990 dollars so it was like $37.50 by today's standards...

 

[fogg88]

my first job was while in high scool. car hop for a hot dog stand called Stewarts hot dogs.

ran out to cars, took their order, put the tray on their windows and shit.

Did you wear roller-skates?

 

[Kakdiesel]

Did you wear roller-skates?

lol no but i did wear an orange apron

 

[redguru]

I worked at a municipal swimming pool.

 

[wootoom]

workin on the rigs

 

[coldblue1955]

I was working at mcdonalds.

 

[fogg88]

lol no but i did wear an orange apron

you could have snuck into Home Depot on your lunch break and gaffled some stuff.

 

[velvett]

I taught figure skating at an outdoor ice rink in NYC.

 

[starfish]

My first job was in high school......I worked in a tanning salon.

 

[nycgirl]

I taught figure skating at an outdoor ice rink in NYC.

Wollman Rink??

 

[velvett]

Wollman Rink??

Nice rink but no, Rivergate 34th and 1st.

If I can remember back that far I think it was being renovated when I started teaching.

I think there's a Wollman in Brooklyn now too.