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What was your first job?
Adam and I saw something about this on the Today Show this morning and then I just saw it on ML, so I figured I'd post it.
My first job was working at the santa booth at the mall. I didn't have to dress like an elf or anything, just had to wear khakis and a white shirt. Basically, I helped keep the kids in the line and took pictures and printed them out for the parents. I was 15 at the time.
What was yours??
Re: What was your first job?
Hmm...good post Stu! I actually have two "first" jobs. Besides the occasional babysitting gig in junior high and high school, I didn't work until the summer that I was about to start university. It was that summer that my mom didn't give me an option - she told me I had to go out and earn some spending money since I was going to be moving away from home. I went out and dropped resumes everywhere, and didn't hear anything back for weeks, and then I ended up getting calls from two different places within 15 minutes of each other, both saying that I was hired. So I worked at both!
One was at a fine dining seafood restaurant, working as a hostess. The job was evenings only, 2 or 3 nights a week. I hated it because my bosses were BSC, but I made decent money because as a hostess I was given a portion of the tips that the waiters earned...and people would routinely leave $40 or $50 tips on their meals, so it added up.
The other job was scooping ice cream, and I LOVED it. My bosses at that job were awesome, there were about 4 or 5 of us who worked there, we were all the same age and we NEVER saw our bosses. We all had a key to the place and would open it up in the morning, close it down at night...they did a good job hiring people who were really trustworthy so they didn't have to hang over us constantly...they didn't even do up the schedules, we talked it over amongst ourselves and decided when we wanted to work. (1 person during the day, two at night and on weekends, 3 on Sundays which was always the busiest day). I ate soooooo much ice cream that summer, but managed to come out with a huge right bicep from scooping it all. It was probably the best job I've ever had, haha!
I actually had 2, 1st Jobs. In germany on the military base they have a program for kids that are of working age called summer hire. Since we couldn't just go out on the economy and work. They had office jobs for those who knew how to type. I worked as an inventory specialist that checked in stuff on the computer that the men would take out to the field for training. This job I hated but made 10 bucks an hour.
On the weekends I was a bagger at the commissary (grocery store) I made a hundred dollars a day with this job. It was a lot of fun and great money at 16/17 years old.
Jehawley, my second job was working at an ice cream place, too! It was a Mom & Pop restaurant/Tastee Freeze kind of place, so sometimes I'd have to work the ice cream counter, pick-up window, AND wait tables. I sucked at it.
The ice cream part was by far the best part of the job. I was a terrible waitress, but, then, I was 17. I sometimes wonder if I'd be better at it now, but I also hope that I don't have to find out.
I wonder if I can even remember all the jobs I've had...
1. Ice Cream scooper
2. Hostess at fine dining restaurant
3. Bank teller - this was an awesome summer job for an 18 year old! Great pay and it was pretty interesting
4. Call center selling insurance - miserable miserable miserable. I cried every day and my mom finally let me quit when I started throwing up at work every day due to stress. I only lasted about a month. Thankfully it was just a summer job so I didn't really need it.
5. Juice Master at a juice/smoothie store in the mall - I had the best bosses (a lesbian couple) and worked with really awesome girls. That was a fun job, especially since we were allowed to make our own drinks and snacks, and it was all just fruit and veggies, so nice and healthy.
6. Retail: Ardene - do you guys know this store? It's terribly junky stuff, aimed at pre-teens. I only worked there for about a month because my boss was selling drugs to junior high school kids out of the back room, and she also encouraged everyone to shoplift like crazy. I worked with a bunch of crackheads and they really scared me. I left this job to go work two doors down at the Gap.
7. Gap - I had a love/hate relationship with this place. I hated having to greet people and follow them around the store when they clearly didn't want any assistance (we were forced to do this and would get written up if we didn't) but I LOVED the discounts. I got some crazy deals on clothes when I worked there, and basically spent my entire paycheque at the store.
8. Laser Hair Removal Clinic - my favourite job. I got trained as a laser tech and worked here for 4 years. I really really loved it, and I was really good at it. I only left to go back to school to become a teacher.
9. Bartender - I did this towards the end of my career at the laser clinic/beginning of my Ed degree. Quit because I just didn't have the time for it, but HELL I made a lot of money bartending. More than I make teaching, that's for sure.
10. Daycare - worked p/t throughout my Ed degree at a high-end daycare. I also babysat for some of the families that I got to know through the centre.
11. Kindergarten teacher - lucky enough to get a contract straight out of school, this was the job that I loved the most. My true calling.
12. Unemployed/supply teacher - this is what I'll be doing this year! Providing I actually get any sub days!
I think that's all of them!
Here are mine: 1. Santa Booth
2. KB Toys
3. Party City
4. Petco
5. Petco (again)
6. Receptionist at an insurance company,
7. Customer Service Rep/Company's B!tch at Airtran (HATE, HATE, HATED that job)
8. Receptionist for a government contracting company
9. Got promoted to "proposals administrator" at same company (if you could even call it a promotion... they wanted me to do WAAAY more work for the same wage... I had to fight just to get a dollar raise and they weren't happy about it. Cheap bastards)
10. Administrative Specialist II (my current job)
My first job was working for Geoffrey Beene (clothing store for men and women) I was 15.
Here is my list
1. Geoffrey Beene
2. Maidenform
3. The Cosmetics Company Store (we sold Estee Lauder and Clinique)
4. Delta Power (accountant) intern first and then hired FT after college.
5. LeCroy Corp (accountant) where I am now
I worked retail at a woman's clothing store from the time I was 18 until February of this year...I was 3 months short of 5 years working there. I had a love/hate relationship there- I hated rude people and following them around but I had the best boss and some pretty good co workers.
I taught physics lab for 3 semesters during grad school and also tutored physics for a semester. The pay for lab was pretty good, not so good for tutoring but I had fun with it!
Now I am studying for my license so I can get a grown up job!
Hmm. ALL of my jobs:
1. Office aide at a Girl Scout camp
2. Ice cream girl/waitress
3. Weedeater/general outdoor landscaping/data entry at the family biz (a cemetery)
4. Central office manager at a Boy Scout camp (three summers)
5. Teaching assistant in the English department
6. Library aide in technical services
7. Peer tutor (for like a month)
8. Graduate assistant to the cataloging professor in library school
9. Library assistant in reference
10. Public services/interlibrary loan librarian (current)
Hey girls! This was my second job too! I worked at a place very similar to what Kelly described. Worked there for 3 years through high school, then even worked on my breaks during my freshman year of college. Loved it!
I have had so many jobs I won't list them all:
1) Dishwasher @ Iowa River Dining Company
2) Waitress @ the Dairy Bar
3) Detassled corn - yes, I was born & raised in Iowa!
4) Detassling Crew Supervisor summer after H.S. graduation - me and my best friend did this and had a blast! This was way better than actually doing the detassling.
5-10) Waitressed at a bunch of different places through college and into my first few years out of college, including Applebee's & Joe's Crab Shack.
11) Walgreen's - Management Program - 1st job after college
12) Marketing for a small accounting firm-PT while working at Walgreen's
13) Barret Partners - Engineering head hunter
14) Fort Dearborn Company - HR Representative
15) Fahey Medical Group - worked PT as receptionist 4 nights/week while at Fort Dearborn
16) Group O - HR Management (my current job)
Holy crap I've worked a lot of places!!
In alabama I worked in a cotton mill (hated this job!!!)
Chamber of commerce and convention bureau in monterey
Candy Store attendant Making caramel apples, cotton candy, caramel corn on cannery row, monterey
Chocolate Factory in Monterey
Front Desk Hotel
Manager of a Candle store this was fun
Hostess then Server at TGI Fridays
Bartender British Pub
Manager of Call Center for an explicit hardcore company UGH
Exec Assistant for online travel company
My first job was a basketball scorekeeper/gym attendent, and I was 15. Then:
Cashier at a grocery store at 16 (where I first met Adam)
After school counselor/summer camp counselor at the Y which I did for about 4 years
I was a Resident Advisor at my college for a year
Server/bartender for 5 years at various restaurants. Bartending was bar far one of my favorite jobs. I would do it again in a heartbeat. Waiting tables, not so much, but bartending...ok!
Pharmacy tech at CVS
Nursing Assistant
Nurse!
You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through.
If you were in my shoes, you'd fall the first step."
I didn't work all through highschool cause I was always super busy and my mom didn't want my school work to suffer. She wasn't even happy with me working the first holiday season after graduation. ( So I haven't had too many but):
1 - Restoration Hardware - Brand Rep (their fancy way of saying sales asso) and then Lead Cashier
2 - J.Crew - worked there for just over 6 years (just quit right before the wedding) - everything from client specialist, lead cashier, key holder, associate manager, stock supervisor, rollout team. I stayed on there even through school and my first foodservice job to keep my discount and have the extra cash. Now I still get the discount cause DH works for them.
3 - Hilton Hotels - Pastry Cook
4 - Sodexo - Baker (current)
5 - Gopher for the family biz - MY WHOLE LIFE!!! HAHA
EDIT: I totally forgot! I worked for NCA (National Cheerleaders Association) for 3 years after HS as a camp instructor. I sure do miss it. So technically... THAT would be my first job.
Umm...I think we need to discuss this one a little more in depth