Your first job?

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  1. thomaswildchild

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    Yeah I worked there too. I didn't even apply! My neighbor was the manager and asked me one day when I was getting food if I needed a job. I said yes, they gave me that dumbass hat and I started the next day. Man was that place a shit hole. It did however pay for my car, I saved and was able to buy it with cold hard cash!

    I guess it was cool too because my boss made me close at nights so I would do my homework in the lobby after it closed. That soon graduated to me bringing my guitar to work and playing it for a few hours every night! And getting paid to do so!

    I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THAT INDUSTRY THOUGH! I did my time lol
     
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    I was a full time street racer.....made a lot of $$$ and also worked at super shops performance center in downey ca. Great times.....
     
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    I spent so much money at that place.......
     
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    moka Moka Was Here!

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    my first job was working for the high school volleyball coach as an assistant when i was a freshman in high school.

    during college i worked as a cashier at the college cafeteria, min wage, and being able to drink/eat what i wanted, access to the storage / fridges. it was very intense during lunch / dinner time though as it would get very busy with very long lines. they were also very strict on the end of shift balance, but i was always close to even with a couple cents on the pos/neg.

    One day the end of day balance turned out to be negative $30 some odd dollars. They investigated into it and after reviewing all the cashiers receipts that worked that day ( i was working lunch shift) they found out that the girl that was working during the dinner/night shift accidentally misplaced the money into her pocket! how stupid can you be to do such a thing and think you can get away with it...


    i then got another job at the same college working at the Art building a couple semesters before graduating, i was a lab tech for their largest computer lab with top of the line macs. i was also responsible for all the computers and hardware available in every class room in the building and had the responsibility of maintaing them. i liked this job a lot, laid back most of the time and had access and resources to hardware that i could never dream of owning + my boss whom i have to talk to before and after finishing a task was a cool guy which made the job that much better.
     
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    Paper route, 8th-9th grade. '78-'79 Tribune Hacienda Heights. 7th Ave and Orange Grove were on my route! 52 customers at max. Bought a lot of BMX parts at Hacienda Bikes- it was "The Path" of BMX at the time. Good Times!!!
     
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    rob240z Glub Glub Glub

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    1994 - stock clerk at Navy Exchange in Key West my junior year in high school. 17 years old. Talk about a boring job - the Navy Exchange in KW is probably the slowest store in MWR's chain of stores. Of course, I worked with a bunch of old Filipinas that knew my mom so if I slacked off at work my mom already knew about it when I got home.
     
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    bvader Long Live The Gorn!

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    3rd that

    1st job the HB Independent..you had to beg for money

    2nd job stepped up to the big time McDonalds $2.85/hr...Had to go through A WEEK of training...won employee of the month after I set a record for cooking more regular burgers in an hour than ever before (12 on the turn)...My Raise...10 cents and hour.

    3rd Job..reached the big time...Union Job, grocery checker $4.00/hr

    Made it through college (BSEE)

    Worked my Arse of in every job as a Software Engineer, I always like writing software its like solving puzzle and creating things out of thin air.

    20 years later I run a software group responsible for $50+ Million Dollars in Revenue and I hear I am about to get more.

    Its not always about just getting the job done...its HOW you get the job done.

    Good Luck...Word Hard ... and Leave every Job a Little Smarter than when you started.
     
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    mpmffitz Farm Freerider

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    First job Stockton Record. Paper carrier from a bmx for 6 years never missed a door, and even got a window..
     
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    My first paid job was at my dad's restaurant and I 'assisted' the dishwasher. I needed to stand on a plastic 5 gallon bucket to be able to reach the pots and pans. I was 10 years old and worked in the summertime making about a buck or 2 an hour. A couple years later my dad sent me out to the front and I worked as a bus-boy, again, during the summer and on weekends. I earned tips from the waitresses and got a few bucks per hour for my wages. I always had money in my piggy bank.
     
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    My first job was at thrifty in the ice cream dept in beverly hills. some days it would be so busy that at the end of the day i would have all this dried up ice cream runnin down my arm and have to deal with all these snotty ass rich people who thought there $hit dont stink! dont remember how many times I wanted to beat the crap out some of those $&# people! well actually my very first paying job. parents would pay me to pick up dog poo. I got a .01 a pile!
     
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    Mowing lawns... aka walking meditation. Nothing to do but think...and walk. In hindsight I should have never gone to college. I would have a serious business by now instead of being unemployed with student debt. Hindsight is 2020...
     
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    My 1st job was chasing steer twice a week for ropers.
     
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    i first job was a bike paperboy in Pasadena, 1954 tru 1956, second job was parking cars at the Thacther Medical building on Green st. the Dr's had great cars:bang:
     
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    Selling doughnuts door-to-door at age 10. In New Mexico they were branded "Spudnuts". Sell a bag of 6 for 35 cents and make a profit of 7 cents. Sell all 12 bags and take home 84 cents.

    Learned? Perserverance and customer relations.
     
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    tink bell the food fairy

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    haircut store in aliso (yes it's still in business). i had a shaved head w/bangs & customers would walk in & say, 'don't give me that cut' or 'i don't want whoever did her hair!' ;) all in good fun. lots of cool regulars. i still get my hair done there.
     
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    GeorgiaOfTheJungle THE Penultimate Mtb'er

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    First job was assistant trainer (working student) and groom for horse shows. Paid well during show season, but not every day. So, I worked at a video store (back when they had VCRs and back rooms). Knotts in the "entertainment"-I was an usher and a clown, yeah, clown...intern at KIIS (though had never listened to the station, until I had to at work)....bowling alley, but didn't bowl...gas station cashier.....Moved onto Thrifty, worked in the pharmacy.... All that taught me how important a little schooling is, cause I sure as hell didn't have the talent to get much without it.
     
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    At 13 I had a paper route for the Alhambra Post Advocate. Good money for a 13 yr old. Also mowed lots of lawns
    At 16 I worked at Gene Cooks Steak House in Temple City. Hey, I made $1.35 hr. ($.10 over MW) I'd arrived.
    Had a paper routes for the LA Hearald Examiner and later for the Temple City Times.
    I was a route manager for the TC Times
    Worked as bus boy in Sunny Italy in Arcadia
    LA County Lifeguard at Arcadia Park Pool. I did this for 6 summers, taught swimming and watched the girls. Started at $3.27 hr. This was the big time.
    Spent one summer at Belvedere Pool in East LA. that was tough.
    While in college I delivered beer kegs to people with home dispensers. Twice delivered kegs to the Swallows Nest Nudist Camp in Alpine.
    Lasted one weekend at a halfway house for troubled teenagers in Chula Vista. That evening the kids took over the place and locked the staff in the staff room. Fortunately, I'd already left, but I quit anyway.

    I own my own business now, but I've learned something at every job I've ever had.
     
  18. coolbreeze

    coolbreeze Looking for the gun show?

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    I didn't have a wicked jump shot, so I had to sling crack rock. I was 7 years old. j/k, I was actually selling strawberry/chocolate Nestle Quik (I guess it's crack rock for 7 year olds) at my elementary school Mon-Thurs since we were only given chocolate milk on Fridays. 5 cents a spoon. The Principal caught on after a few weeks and shut me down. Damn kids don't know how to keep it on the DL.

    BTW, congrats on the new yob! Now go get another one.
     
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    zioncoming79 Old Man Dead

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    My first job was also at a Dairy Queen. I worked at the one in the Puente Hills Mall. Starting wage was $3.75/HR (or something close to that). The cool thing was the store was also an Orange Julius, so we would trade food with the rest of the shops all day long.
     
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    Good ol' Manny at Hacienda Bikes.
     

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