CoachingWinsChampionships Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 So I am about to start looking around for my first real job (I've been helping my mom out significantly with her home based travel agency for the past several years though) and I'm having trouble deciding what I want do. Obviously at 17 I don't exactly have a college degree or many of the skills that employers want, but I don't particularly want to go the retail route or the Burger King route either. I'm hoping that hearing about everybody elses first job would give me some interesting ideas to consider. Any other advice (how to search, where to look... etc anything really) is appreciated as well. So what was everybody's first job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeTheFG Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 had an internship that my school gave me at a federal government agency Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pez Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Pizza Pizza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sk1nzHEAD Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 i was a backwaiter at a country club. it was really hard work but paid $13+ an hour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I was just in the same boat you're in, whenever you put an application in online, make sure you go in the store and ask if they got your application, if you look good, they'll hire you. It just happened to me, now I'm starting training to be a cashier at a grocery store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enter Apotheosis Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Assistant tennis pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I fried chicken for the Golden Skillet on Marlboro Pike in Forestville when it first opened. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVAbrendan Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Circuit City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skins4481 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Sales in the electronics dept.(Computers, Cameras, VCRs) at Sears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Williams Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 janitor @ AAA :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bschurm Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 If you are still in school, go get a restaurant job. (quick and easy cash every night if you are a busboy or a food runner). Most places won't let you serve tables 'til your 18. And for God's sake don't go to Chilis or Red Lobster. Find a decent casual fine dining type of retaurant. I know the busboys at my restaurant make between 50 -80 bucks a night during the week and can make up to a hundred at night on the weekends. I don't know what its like up there though. If you are out of school, go get a construction job for the summer and maybe it will convince you to get a college degree. I forgot to mention my first real job was in construction and I spent my twenties breaking my back as a roofer. Now in my late thirties I am finally finishing up my college degree. Don't take that route, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Sick Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I worked in a bank basement, shredding checks and other old bank documents. Got tired of being a smelly basement all summer, so I got a job as a grocery bagger. I would definitely go with bschurm's idea. Restaurants are easy money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I fried chicken for the Golden Skillet on Marlboro Pike in Forestville when it first opened.~Bang WTF?!?!?! NO WAY?!?! I go there every weekend, that place is the BEST! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark The Homer Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Lawn mowing. If you're in the suburbs, get a mower somewhere and print up some fliers. Start knocking on doors in an affluent neighborhood for a couple hours every evening for a week or two. You'll pick up 2-3 new customers every night. Start first week of April. You'll make over $20 an hour easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-O-G Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I'm bagging groceries and pushing carts in from the parking lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Camp counselor. Don't have to work till summer, get to work with cool people your age, hang with kids all day, watch the MILFS that come to pick them up and it usually pays well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsfan07 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 lifeguard in 9th grade and still am one. (as a senior) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coooleeey Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I worked at my church answering phones and other administrative crap. It was a sweet gig at 14 yrs old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stwasm Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 My first job was as an admissions attendant at what is now Six Flags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsfan44 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 My first "real" job was on a crab boat pulling crab pots on the Chesapeake Bay. I had to work 300 pots a day. I got paid a percentage of how many crabs we caught. Man, was that HARD work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidenreich Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 My first job was as a paper boy. If that doesnt count, then Roy Rogers!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockster21 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Baskin and Robbins - $4.25 an hour but all the ice cream you could eat, and tons of chances to meet hot chicks. Exchange ice cream for numbers - its GOLD, JERRY! GOLD! Assistant tennis pro. AKA ball *****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 First real job was teaching art in a psychiatric ward. This job has really helped me with many of the personalities here at ES. First job ever was as a usher at a movie theatre. Free Theatre. Free passes for my friends. Knowledge to prevent me from ever eating movie theatre popcorn again. Wasn't a bad first gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlinga Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I started babysitting when I was 12. At 16, I worked at Burger King. It was fun because my friend worked there too & we always worked the same shifts because we carpooled together. Other than that...it sucked! I still won't eat at BK. I waitressed at restaurants & bars while in college. THAT was good money & it was flexible to work around my school schedule. Good luck! Amy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EersSkins05 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Baskin and Robbins - $4.25 an hour but all the ice cream you could eat, and tons of chances to meet hot chicks. Exchange ice cream for numbers - its GOLD, JERRY! GOLD! My second job was working at a B & R in Surfside Beach, SC and it was awesome. The owner/manager was a friend of my older brother's, and I got paid well, made my own hours, and you are 100% correct about the girls. We also basically ate all meals for free b/c we'd just exchange ice cream with pizza hut employees or the sub shop next door. Combined with my first job as a cart attendent at a golf course in Myrtle Beach (which entailed nice tips and all the free golf I could play), I'm not entirely sure my quality of life has improved since those first two jobs 12 years ago... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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