What/where was your first job?

[SATundra]

Where was it? Do you remember how much per hour you made? How long did you work there?

For me:
Dairy Queen (1975) (statewide chain of burger joints)
$1.15 an hour I think.
stayed there 6 months
then went to work at a "flying club" pumping gas into private planes

[freddie]

Pizza Delivery $4.35 an hour - 1992

[ausk9-0]

Newspaper boy. I had 3 routes which netted me about $350/month net all tax exempt because I was under 15.

[RitcheyRch]

Local pizza place called Mikes Pizza. I worked there for a few years since was close to home and they let me work the hours I wanted

[gasman30]

Entrepreneur at age 11 - 3 paper routes (1 am & 2 pm); seasonal lawn mowing, leaf raking, snow shovelling, and grocery delivery... no rest for the wicked ;-)

First "real" job was house keeping (janitor) in a hospital at age 15. Learned a lot about life as I cleaned delivery rooms, operating rooms, and the morgue...

[TundraDave2001]

I was a cook at Bonanza Steak house..age 15 1977/78 ? i think i was bringing home $2.35 a hour or something like that...

[Possum]

Other than mowing lawns and selling seeds door to door as a young whipper snapper. My first 'official' paycheck was when I was 11 years old selling popcorn and peanuts at the Astrodome. Then they fired me because of Child Labor Laws...

Wish like hell the government would step in now and say, "Hey bud, you are too damn old to be working in this hell hole."

Again, no such luck....

[delrmx01]

Ahhhh--I was 15 working for a detail shop in Federal Way,WA. I made $6.00 per car and $12.00 for the big trucks--it was under the table so I kept every penny of it.

[Kat]

Babysitting. But then my first 'official' paycheck was working the concession stand at the City of Houston Zoo.

I too got busted for Child Labor Laws at 14 years old.

[Red Hornet]

Texas State Fair
Fair Park
Dallas, Texas

~1952 ....

Tying the string with the little gold safety pin on Chameleons necks for the Fair goers. The idea was you pinned the poor little lizard on your shirt/ blouse, and he/she would change color to match your garment. No PETA back then. Don't recall the pay scale, maybe 25-cents per dozen ... 25-cents would buy you a 12 oz. RC Cola, a big 3-Musketeers candy bar, and a Camel bicycle tube patch kit, and you got 2-cents back on the bottle, good for two Double-Bubble gums.

Cheers to all Texans, then or now,
-RH

[Jack Burton]

Deli Boy at the age of 16 for $1.70 an hour in 1975.

Man, I still hate salami..!!! JB

[peid]

My family owned a bowling alley and I pretty much ran the entire show by the time I was 12 (1989).

I scheduled leagues, had all scores/averages/handicaps etc entered into computer, collected dues, fixed machines, cleaned, ran cash register.

It was all fun being 12 serving beer, and eventually having a *few* parties late late at night by the time I was 14-16.

Pretty good job, like I said family owned so I took home everything. Made like $5.00/Hr or something like that.

Worked enough and saved enough to pay for my entire college without loans.

[Brian M]

Worked on the beach starting when I was 12 years old. Did everything from taking money for parking, to directing traffic to setting up beach umbrellas.

And my wife wonders why I hate the beach now.

[Wiley]

US Navy '68-'72 E2@220/mo.

Room & Board, cigarettes at 25 cents a pack, beer at the Enlisted club for 25 or 50 cents (can't remember which (wonder why)).

First duty station was the Amphibious Base at Little Creek, VA. (Just north of Va. Beach).

[Eddie]

First "official" job was at an uncle's animal clinic. I answered phones,cashiered,cleaned poo,cleaned pee,did lab tests with poo and pee (no wonder I didn't want to be a veterinarian ),and aided with surgeries. He paid me around $4 and hour.