Ok (looks around) looks like Im first.
I had a shaved head in high school and multiple piercings in the small mormon town I grew up in so finding a job was difficult for me. All of my brothers and sisters had to pay rent when they started working so I didnt have my first job until I was 18 years old. I begged this fat italian guy to let me work for him in the back doing dishes at a little place called the "all-you-can eat taco house" sure enough he hired me. aaahhhhhh the taco house. good memories!
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7/23/09 @ 11:58pm
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Location: Canada Baby!!!!
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worked inside starting at age 13, moved to delivery when i got my license, quit at 18 haha
lotsa good memories, but lotsa bullshit too.....it really is true, the less you make at a job, the harder you have to work :D Quote
7/24/09 @ 12:10am
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First official job at 15 was working in Grocery Store
Started with 1 section and bagging - was promoted to a assistant manager within 1 year
Nice topic Miss Brown Quote
worked inside starting at age 13, moved to delivery when i got my license, quit at 18 haha
lotsa good memories, but lotsa bullshit too.....it really is true, the less you make at a job, the harder you have to work :D
A wise man once said that you could always tell the difference between someone with a job and a career,,someone with career thinks there is never enough time in the day and someone with job thinks there is WAY too much time in the day!!
Btw...my first job was at an arcade and I ended up getting fired because I was giving away the prizes to the little kids for almost nothing..if they came to me and had 300 arcade points,,I would rather give them the beanie baby for 1000 points rather then 30 plastic spiders, 10 erasers, and 5 blow pops.
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My first job was in my school vacations in a pizza house. I was doing the drinks.
Hehe... It was called "Taormina". I remember that the owner gave the name of his hometown ti his restaurant. Quote
Wow fun times.. use to sign my friends out of classes just to hangout with them back then Hahaha. Quote
When I was 4 I wanted to go with my mum to her shop to put in order chewing gums in boxes (then it was only help4free ). When I was 10-16 I worked in her shop regularly. When I was 15 I wanted to find smth by my own but my biggest pain was that I could be legally "employed" after 16. Awww I suffered mentially... Soooo halfly legally I was doing: picking the fruits, cleaning flats, art painting clothes, painting walls in flats, painting shops (I am really handy woman), selling things on ebay, ahh list is really long. When I was 14 I wrote essay from computer science for my older sister - she got A+ so I earnt icecream
When I was 17 I have sold my first webpage - my pay was... awesome mickrophone which allowed me to earn money as a dancehall singer Wow when I write this I am laughing but it is alll true.
I think that starting earning oney early helps to change temper into adult one. Quote
When I was 4 I wanted to go with my mum to her shop to put in order chewing gums in boxes (then it was only help4free ). When I was 10-16 I worked in her shop regularly. When I was 15 I wanted to find smth by my own but my biggest pain was that I could be legally "employed" after 16. Awww I suffered mentially... Soooo halfly legally I was doing: picking the fruits, cleaning flats, art painting clothes, painting walls in flats, painting shops (I am really handy woman), selling things on ebay, ahh list is really long. When I was 14 I wrote essay from computer science for my older sister - she got A+ so I earnt icecream
When I was 17 I have sold my first webpage - my pay was... awesome mickrophone which allowed me to earn money as a dancehall singer Wow when I write this I am laughing but it is alll true.
I think that starting earning oney early helps to change temper into adult one.
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Loona I have to agree about starting to earn money at a young age helping to change ones attitude into that of an adult because it helps a child to understand the value of a Dollar alot better.
After I babysat and worked both Study halls for the school I had my own bank account at the time, by the end of the summer and it was time to go back to school I got my own school clothes for school and everything I needed for school, plus had money left over to do with what I wanted to, so I dyed my hair Blonde... which was the one thing I really wanted to do, then I went to the Blue Hill Fair in Blue Hill, Maine with my best friend at the time and I paid for everything for her and I. I loved it. I felt like I was Free. Quote
First official job at 15 was working in Grocery Store
Started with 1 section and bagging - was promoted to a assistant manager within 1 year
Nice topic Miss Brown
thanks! Really cool to hear all your stories. Thanks for replying. Quote
7/24/09 @ 3:46pm
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first jobs are fun, when you bring home the first paycheck for 50-100 bucks and think you could own the world. than i got a real job and decided what i wanted to earn the rest of my life.. lol.
than again, the more you make, the more you learn to work, at least i did... because it ment the more i wanted and the more i felt i needed and in turn the more i bought. its a visiuose cycle....
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7/24/09 @ 6:13pm
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Location: Indianapolis, In
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Pumping gas for oneself is not here in India yet where I'm and probably in most asian & Middle East countries(not sure about the rest of the world). Quote