How many jobs......

United States
April 9, 2007 1:11pm CST
At what age did you get your first job? How many jobs have you had since then? My first job was babysitting when I was about 14 years old. I did it after school and on the weekends to earn some money. I've had several different jobs since then cause I was 14 many many years ago! LOL. Total I've had about 10 jobs in my life.
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@MakDomMom (1474)
• United States
9 Apr 07
I baby-sat off and on from as early as 9 years old for my cousin for an hour here and there. My first real job was working at a local veternarian as a "kennel worker" I was responsible for walking the dogs that were in for boarding or for proceedures, cleaning kennels and cages, feeding the cats and dogs. I started doing this when I was 15 years old. After I turned 16 I moved into the Pet Store business that was attached to the veternarians office. I stayed their through out high school (4 years). During my 2 years at college I worked at a reatil store in bookkeeping/customer service. Then I worked as a Sales Coodinator for a manufacturing company for 5 years. I then moved onto County Government working in the IT Department as Help Desk Specialist. Now for the last 7 1/2 months I have been running my own in-home daycare.
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@MakDomMom (1474)
• United States
22 May 07
Thank you for the best responce. It means a lot!
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• Malaysia
14 Apr 07
After finishing my secondary school,while waiting for the exam results, i worked at my aunt's bakery. Then at uni, during semester break, i took several jobs... as a clerk, working in factories.. and after finishing my degree, i landed this current job. So, total i've had 6 jobs..
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• Canada
11 Apr 07
that was my first job too. i was babysitting at the age 12 and also was doing a paper route just to earn extra cash. then i worked at a call centre but that is pretty much all. but im going to college in the fall so i have a lot of life left to work
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@juskoday (183)
• Philippines
9 Apr 07
My first 'job' was selling candy to my classmates in school. I think I started when I was about eight or nine. I'd buy really cheap candy overseas when we'd go on holidays, and when I came back home I'd sell them with nearly 100% markup. I also made and sold popsicles. It beat having to set up a lemonade stand.
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• United States
9 Apr 07
Well, I started working when I was 15 at a ice cream shop. I worked there until I was 17 and then started waitressing...I worked at 3 places as a waitress then I worked at a Rockaway Bedding!LOL! I stopped working there after just under a year b/c I can't stand seedy sales people and it was the most boring job I have ever had!LOL! After graduating high school is when I really got to play around with what I wanted to do with my life. I got my CNA certification and worked for a home health care agency. Then after 2 years of loving that I worked for a local hospital as a phlebotomist for 3 years while going to college for liberal arts. I am still at the same hospital and going to an excellent 4 year college and getting my BSN(science and nursing.) I have found my passion and am getting to go with it, thanking God all the way:) So I guess in total that would be 7 place in total!
• United States
9 Apr 07
My first job was babysitting also. I probably started when I was around 12 or 13. Since then, I've had around six different jobs total.
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• United States
7 Jul 07
Oh wow, what a question.. I started working when I was 13 ..working after school and in the summer to help the family pay bills. I had approxomately 10 jobs..I usually stick at a job till the job runs out..Like ceases to be;)+
@sophylline (1041)
• Philippines
7 Jul 07
I think my first "real" job was a crew at McDonald's. I was around 16 years old. It was also a summer job. I was very excited to have to work there. It was like a "grown up" work. I also met a lot of interesting people. I enjoyed so much the people that I worked with because we became friends and started going out a lot during breaks and free time. I don't really remember how many other jobs I had after that. I think I've had 4 or 6 jobs after that,including my practicum, or on the job training in a bank right before graduation.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
8 Jul 07
I got my first job at 19. It was to be a summer job for students from the city hall, but ended up being a full year thing when they asked me to stay at the end of the summer. After that I was teaching for 2 years but they got me a teaching position way too far from my home in a small village and my mom kep asking me to go back. So I ended up back on city hall and living close to mom.Then I came to canada and worked as a ward dclerk at a hospital - in the AIDS clinic - loved it too :)Since then I have been teaching in here. In between one thing and other I' ve had other small jobs but I don't even remember which ones LOL
@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
7 Jul 07
My first job was similar to yours. I worked at a daycare center when I was sixteen years old. I think that I took that job just because it was offered to me. I have had a lot of jobs. I have always taken work very seriously. I am always on time, dressed appropriately and ready to do my job. I think working on a job is a lot of fun.
• Hong Kong
8 Jul 07
My first job was when I was 15/16 and I was the private tutor who gave private lessons after school to kids to help with their English. I have been doing that for around 10 years too as I got different students and that doesn't really take too much of my time. But I didn't really enjoy it and that was mainly for the money to subsidize my school fees. A real job which I got for a Christmas holiday was a sales person selling chocolates in a convenience store. It was fun! I got to sell Kinders and I see people going to the chocolate section of the store, I had to persuade them to buy Kinders. It was a lovely and hard experience *laughs*.
• India
7 Jul 07
Only one job since finishing my studies some 15 years back.Its is government job, and i'm satisfied with it.
• United States
7 Jul 07
I also started babysitting as my first job, and I was probably 13 or 14 at the time. Since then, I have had 7 or 8 jobs that I can remember, including McDonalds, a bunch of secretarial type jobs, teaching college, and babysitting.
@Cassy1976 (796)
• Australia
7 Jul 07
I got my first real job when I was about 15 at a bakery around the corner from my house and I loved it!!! I did a traineeship there and got my qualifications in retail! Since then I have worked in a coffee shop, then in target, then in another coffee shop, then in a food mall, then in an ice cream shop, then as a cleaner, then at KFC, in a coffee shop again, then as a makeup sales person, then as a carer, customer service in a service station, in a takeaway food shop and now I am a support worker! SO I have had about 15 jobs Wow it seems like alot when i put it that way!
• United States
11 Jun 07
Humm...let me think. When I was 14 I babysat three of my cousins children (2,4, and 6) in her home all summer. She sold peaches during the summers and was gone from 5am until after the kids went to bed at night. Her husband was a Schawns guy and during the week lived in a city a couple hours away closer to the company. So I have the kids all day, every day except on Saturday evenings and Sundays. I had a blast and so did they kids. I also did it partially the next summer too. They're now nearly grown (one is with a baby of her own) and they still say I was the best babysitter they ever had. I also cleaned my aunt and uncles house once a week for a while but I can't remember exactly what age I started that. It didn't pay much but it gave me a little extra cash. When I was 15 I handed out coupons for Cost Cutters - a hair place in Wal-Mart for a few weeks. That was the most boring job ever. Then when I was 17 I got my first 'real' job (not that child care isn't - I just mean on a more permenant basis). I started at McDonalds and worked there for two years. For a time while I worked at McDonalds I also worked at a gymnastics center as an assistant teacher. And then after I stopped that I went to work for Kroger for about a month before I moved - quitting both Kroger and Wal-Mart. I then worked at Service Merchandise selling jewelry. Loved that job. Could have it's boring moments but by far it was my favorite thus far. I did that only about six months before they went out of business. Then after searching for another job for several months I went to and started working for Wal-Mart. It was suppose to be until I could find something better but it's been over seven years and I'm still there unfortunately. So it looks like seven jobs :)
@cynddvs (2948)
• United States
7 Jul 07
I got my first job when I was 16. I worked at a grocery store. I worked there for 4 years. I have had 5 jobs since then. So I have had a total of 6 jobs in my whole life. When I work for a company I tend to stay with them for a while as long as they treat me well. Although I have had a couple of jobs where I quit within a couple of months. But I had very good reasons for quiting.
@jade1986 (563)
• India
7 Jul 07
I have had only one permanent job in my life till now. I am 21 now and i got a job offer two months back from a very reputed MNC...Till ate this is my first job. I hope to get many more in my lifetime...You must have had courage to handle babies at 14..lol...take care.