What was your first job?

@xelissa (776)
New Zealand
February 3, 2007 2:13am CST
What age were you? What type of job did you do? What was your approximate salary? Did you enjoy it? How did you geel when you go your first pay? I remember when I was 15, I got a job as helping out in a cafe, only about 60 dollars a week. It was okay, but I loved meeting and chatting to new people, and I felt great for my first pay, I felt like I was responsible for my own self now. What about you?
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17 responses
@naadia (828)
• India
12 Feb 07
well i am at 18 and am a student.so answering to this discussion is not possible.then you wonder why i posted s response here.i checked your profile and i found this only i can answer.thank you!
@xelissa (776)
• New Zealand
12 Feb 07
Thanks for your response anyway =)
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@Krisnik (84)
• United States
12 Feb 07
my first job was at victoria's secret. i got the job right on the spot. it was kind of funny..i turned in a resume and then the next thing you know she asks me if i have a business suit and if i could come back in 3 hrs. lol it was fun in the beginning. i got paid $7.25 which was more than minimum wage which was $6.75 at that time. i eventually left like 3-4 months later.
@xelissa (776)
• New Zealand
12 Feb 07
Our minimum wages are about 9-11 dollars. What kind of job was it? My husband didn't get a business suit and I don't think he will soon, and he's only 22. Gee you must've looked professional in a business suit!
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• United States
12 Feb 07
yeah victoria secrets very strict with their clothes.. we gotta wear black and white..not even grey.. that was stressfull, but it was also good cuz then i had a reason to buy new clothes haha!
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@Idlewild (6090)
• United States
7 Feb 07
Right after high school (at 16) I was a busboy at a local restaurant. I was too slow and got fired after two weeks, but they had an opening as dishwasher/food prep guy, so I started doing that the week after being fired. I got promoted to cook about 8 months after that.
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@xelissa (776)
• New Zealand
7 Feb 07
Sorry about getting fired, it must suck :p, but congratz about the promotion ^^
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• Philippines
7 Feb 07
Me too, after I graduated high school, I tried to find a part time job at a No. 1 Leading food chain, which I got hired after two consecutive interview. It was kinda fun for earning small amount of money, and yes it was twice the fun out of it. Meeting new friends and a lot if nice and irate customers.
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@cashnono (1135)
• Hong Kong
7 Feb 07
Before I started at university,I took my first job as a waitress in a nice restaurant.At the night before my first day.I was too excited to go to sleep and as a result,I got up late in the morning.I threw on my clothes and rushed over to the restaurant. In a great hurry,I didn't hear clearly the head waiter's instruction that we should go into the kitchen through one door and out from the other.So when I took two plates of eggs and bacon and an orange juice out to the restaurant,I went straight towards the wrong door and collided with another waiter coming in! Worst of all was that I wore a pair of smart shoes but with high heels! A few hours later I was in agony yet had no time to change them. By the time we finished serving dinner at about 10:30 I was completely exhausted. Nevertheless, I learnt something through my experience.
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@xelissa (776)
• New Zealand
7 Feb 07
Ahh, what an experience, I share your pain with the high heels, they hurt! I remember that everyone at the cafe had a waitress badge and were female, and at the time I was tom-boyish so I had short hair and had this waiter's badge but I didn't realise it until a man asked me if my boobs were real, it was so funny I still look back at it and laugh with my friends :D
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• United States
3 Feb 07
my first job was a summer job. i was a file clerk for a local trucking company. it paid min. wage of course so my pay for part time was about $100 a week. it felt great having money to spend on what I wanted..and not what i was supposed to spend it on! lol
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• Thailand
7 Feb 07
HI xelissa My first job is temporary work support to my teacher, that time i was 16-17 years old. I love that job too much. What i have to do all are documentary work. Until now. I working for documentation system. Enjoy and good paid salary enough for me. ^_^
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@xelissa (776)
• New Zealand
7 Feb 07
Thats nice, good thing you have fun, lots of people are doing it for the money, nice to see some people who are passionate =)
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@greenmango (1019)
• Philippines
18 Feb 07
i had my first job at a fastfood joint.
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@kool78 (490)
• India
13 Feb 07
i was of the age 17. I worked as a hitachi personal communicator. I hated each movement of it. i just worked for 15days and then i quit. Definanetly i would like the pay part of it, who wont? Xelissa you were lucky to earn that amount of money! We in india arent paid that much! I hated my job because i could bare inefficiency there. And the attitude people had for there work there.
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@raijin (10345)
• Philippines
22 Feb 07
I worked first on a fasfood chain here in my country, that was when I was 18 y/o then. I enjoyed working on it and I also enjoyed my earnings, because I'm not being forced by my parents to give or share something for our house bills. I was then a service crew and a kitchen crew at the same time, and it's we try to enjoy whenver payday come!;) We sometimes go out and try to celebrate to one of our co-workers' place, we are always welcome at his place. Yes, I also learned to communicate and mingle with different type sof people!;)
@priya123s (320)
• India
2 Apr 07
my forst ob was online data entry job.
• United States
26 Feb 07
My first job was working as a mailroom/fileroom clerk. I was 17 and I worked for an auto insurance company. I don't remember what I made but it was probably min wage. I liked it because it allowed me to buy things I wanted and no one could say anything about it because it was my money.
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@Neo_Knights (1882)
• Indonesia
25 Mar 07
My first job was as a marketing officer in a forex trading company. Actually I never wanted to be a marketing, but they fooled me.. they said that I will be an Account Officer but in the first day they said that I had to have a customer to be an Account Officer... Darn ! But I just kept going and try it, and now i like doing marketing job..
• Canada
13 Feb 07
my first job i guess was baby sitting. i started babysitting when i was 11, always hated it though. i'm not really good with other peopel's kids. i never know what to say or do with them to entertian them.
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• India
2 Apr 07
I was a receptionist.That was my first job. It paid me very badly. But I wanted to work hence I took that. When I was 21 It ook that job. But i was in that only for a couple of months. They paid me only 60$ per month. Thats why I quit
• Canada
11 Mar 07
I was 14 yrs old worked it 4 summers in a row, deckhand on a commercial fishing boat off the West Coast of Vancouver Island. We were paid a percentage of the catch and loved it was one of the best jobs there till the goverment messed it up made more in 3 wks than some people made in a year. It gave me freedom to travel and party as a teenager.
• Philippines
14 Mar 07
My first job experience was as a Service Crew in Fast Food Chain... I was 17 that time, i graduated in highschool and i needed a lil bit more support for me to get into College that's why i took that job before!
• United States
25 Mar 07
Mine was I worked as a sales representative who re-sells ibm computers, didn't really enjoy working there because its an hour bus ride from my home, no professional growth and way too much politics. but its worth the work experience to get a better job.