Originally Posted By RAM1984 The first job where I received a check week after week and became eligible for unemployment was in 1991. I was 47. I started substitute teaching. Before that I was a full time mom. For pocket change I took in other people's kids, organized the insurance files for a bank and was a census taker.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper McDonald's. 16 years old. I think I made $3.15 an hour. I lasted a total of 15 days (5 weekends). They gave me a brutal schedule (close one night, open the next morning) and I just got beat up.
Originally Posted By avromark Independent Grocers, 14 -> $6.45 (student minimum) 3 days a week after school from 3 to close. My parents took half of it in "room/board".
Originally Posted By avromark Yep, my dad has this thing with kids working, I kept 2 jobs throughout my bachelors (1 on campus, 1 off)
Originally Posted By avromark Oh but my sister they've been paying her rent and living fees for 3 years... I wonder if she'll ever complete highschool. Back on topic In college I did retail sales, athletics centre and tech support.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I can see taking my child's money to help with transportation costs while taking them to/from work or maybe asking them to pay for more of their clothing or extra costs. I wouldn't spend their money on anything else. I'd put it in a savings account for them to use later.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Well, it sounds like maybe you're the more mature child so maybe their plan worked after all!
Originally Posted By ReadingMom Aside from babysitting, my first "real" job was at Marriott's Great America. I was a "food hostess" which meant that I worked in a restaurant. There were no "hostessing" duties. Lots of hamburger making, washing dishes and scrubbing floors and cashiering! But it did pay me $3.10 per hour!
Originally Posted By RAM1984 >>They charged you room and board when you were 14?<< I was a bit taken aback reading this too. I made my kids give me half of everything they made at high school jobs but they got it all when they graduated or turned 18.
Originally Posted By markedward My first work for pay was clamming. I'd go out in the summer, spend the morning crouching in maybe waist high water, digging them out of the mud. It didn't pay for college or anything, but it was kind of fun, in a digging through mud kind of way.
Originally Posted By debtee I started babysitting when I was 11 but my first real job was at 14 and 9 months I worked at KFC as a cashier and stayed there all through my high school years right up untill I completed my HSC in year 12! They offered me a management position on leaving school but I was outta there! lol
Originally Posted By goodgirl My parents owned strawberry fields so I picked strawberries. I was also allowed to pick them and sell them. My dad built me a really cool stand that I would set up at the end of the driveway. My first "real" job was doing typing, filing and mail in an insurance copmany. It was between my junior and senior year in high school. Summers after that I became a "Kelley Girl." I liked this because I got to work in a variety of offices with a variety of people. At a young age I got to see office dynamics and learned about the kind of people I wanted to be around.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan my first paying job would have to have been while i was in high school. my counseler and her husband owned a tea shop and put on little skits for kids. so one april they had me do a easter bunny skit. i was probably fifteen or sixteen. Kinda my first paid acting job to.
Originally Posted By MissCandice I did some baby-sitting, but my 1st job was at Wendy's when I was in high school, making 3.35 an hour. I was 135 pounds when I started and more than that when I left, that's for sure. Darn those frosty/fries combos!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Other than things like babysitting and random other stuff like that, my first real job was as a summer camp counselor when I was 16. The week started at 10:00 Sunday morning, and ended around 8:00 Friday night, with an hour off each day, and one long night off (from 5:30 until midnight, but we had to be back at camp by 11:00). For that ammount of time, I was paid $140. That's not terrible for a first summer job, but we were working literally all day. We had very little free time, and the biggest break we had was while we were sleeping, but the kids could still wake us up if they wanted to. Now, all things considered, they did give us a place to stay and food, but if I had been at home not doing anything, my parents would have done the same (and the food wasn't that great...at least we could tell what day of the week it was by the meals). And this isn't $140 in decades ago dollars, it's in a couple years ago dollars. But there's something that's making me want to go back again for this summer. I'm crazy.
Originally Posted By Kala I had a summer job babysitting when I was 12. I made .75/hr for one child. double for 2. My first tax paying job I worked in a dental office for OJT (on-the-job training.) for a school program and for the summer when I was 16. It paid a whopping minimum wage of $2.65/hr I was so psyched when I got my first check! I wanted to work forever! Just goes to show, be careful for what you wish for. Well, I'm off to by a lottery ticket.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I worked at Wendy's, and I was 16. I had to pay for my car and gas and Drill uniform. I think I was paid $4.15 and it had just gone up from $3.65.
