What was your very first job? / myLot

United States

December 17, 2025 2:42pm CST

I always say my very first job was as a counter person/cashier for a concession stand at a local swimming pool. My 9th grade History teacher owned the concession stand business at the Jewish Community Center here in Louisville and he asked me to work for him over the Summer. I was 15 years old. But then I sort of vaguely remember "babysitting" two girls ages probably 7 and 9 when I was 14 for the Summer between 8th and 9th grade I think. I would have been 14 I guess. I got paid for it so I guess it counts as a job. What was your very first job?

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (91907)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

13h

Before finishing university for a couple of summers I was a camp counselor in a Latvian camp in the Catskills of NY and one time a camp counselor at a Latvian camp in Canada,

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@DaddyEvil (163747)

• United States

14h

I was a janitor in the schools here when I was 13 years old and had that job until I was 18 and graduated from school.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (108198)

• United States

14h

I babysat when I was twelve, and got paid, of course, but my first consistent “real” job was working with the babies at a daycare when I was sixteen. I had just started college, and I’d work in the afternoons after going to classes all morning. It was a lot of work, and we definitely earned our money. I mean, you know babies can be gross, and then they go and do something that’s more disgusting than you ever thought!

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PLETHOS

@Plethos (13671)

• United States

14h

Mine was in high school for some sort of youth summer work program, cleaning the canals that lead into the salton sea of over growth. Lots of shoveling! I think I was 15.

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (208487)

• United States

I absolutely was ga ga over my first job when I was 14. I couldn't wait to start working at the library...and when I was promoted from a page to a front desk clerk, I was in heaven. I remember being able to grab what I wanted from the new books; and I read voraciously. I seriously considered making library work my career; but it didn't pay much at all. My starting pay at the library was $.70 per hour when the minimum wage was $1.25.

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@Nakitakona (58517)

• Philippines

14h

Well I got my first job as a helper in construction site handled by my brother-in-law who is the foreman.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14099)

• Ireland

@looeyville Gas jockey.