My first paid job was a swimming instructor when I was 15. Then I was a piano teacher when I was 18. Then I worked at the GAP for 7 years. Then I became a teacher.
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My current profession, teacher, is my first real "grown up" job. But I hear people switch professions all the time...I wonder if I will?
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My first job was an English, Math, Korean, French tutor. Next real job was an SAT instructor. Next job health educator. Was on my way to being an attorney before I got married and pregnant.
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Kmart associate, I loved it!
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I worked for my parents from as young as I can remember -- even in elementary school. In junior high I transcribed movies and tv shows for them because they taught esl. But my first real paid job was as a telemarketer in high school!
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scooping ice cream in my uncles fast food place. not only would I come home sticky, but I smelled like fried food.
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I worked for my parents' business but did not get paid so my first paid job was in the dining hall office in uni. I ordered the food for the dining hall in my dorm.
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I tutored Hebrew. Then I worked at concessions for a minor league baseball team during high school. Summer jobs in college were a theater camp counselor and medical records at an OB's office. Oh, and I worked at a chocolate shop for a little while.
My first grown up job was admissions at a nursing home. But that wasn't in my field. My first job in my field was case manager and activities director for adults with mental illnesses. Now I'm a SAHM
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my first job was in high school, as an office assistant to my grandparents, who had a church and preschool/nursery school.
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I used to compete in piano competitions and got to keep my winnings. Then I started delivering one of the local weekly papers every Wednesday... then I started delivering the other one as well. I eventually started serving as a substitute carrier for the Washington Post on random routes, until I was able to pick up my local route in 9th grade.
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Like Mrs.Bee, my first job was telemarketing in high school. All of my friends worked there, so it was a pretty sweet gig back then!
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I babysat for the neighbor during the summers, then got a job at a daycare in high school. I also cleaned my mom's office once a week.
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i worked at old navy during my freshman year of college. my dad told me not to get a job, and to concentrate on school... but because he said not to, i had to do it. i quit 2 weeks later. haha
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I worked as a volunteer at the local library when I was 12. I volunteered there for a few years. My first paid job was at Sonic Drive In when I was 15.
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I worked at a movie theater every summer between ages 15-19. I still can't eat popcorn butter from a theater, yuck!
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I bused tables at a brunch restaurant on the weekends when I was 15.
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I was a lifeguard/water safety instructor. Loved that job!
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I always wanted to try waitressing...I wonder if I'd be good at it!
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My first job was dog walker/poop scooper at a doggie kennel. I learned something about dog kennels then - the nice dogs get a lot of attention, the jerk dogs don't.
My second job that lasted through College until I started working in my profession was lifeguarding. MAN I loved that gig. In the winter, I worked at Walmart as a cashier or at the school business office - when I got to college. -
My first job was at Sears at the children's department. I applied because it was the only place in the mall that would hire you with punk rock green hair. I worked there until I graduated high school. I ate a Cinnabon every single day. Those were the days where I could!
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I did tech support (laptop repair, software help) at a local university starting at age 15. It was fun!
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My first “real” job (not counting babysitting/petsitting and other under the table type gigs), was working at a pizza parlor. I made pizza and sandwiches and things like that, ran the cash register, took orders, coordinated deliveries, etc. I started when I was 15, and by the time I was 18 I managed the place on weekends and did payroll for the company.
I also taught private violin lessons from ages 15-17.
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my parents own a restaurant so I had no choice but to waitress starting at age 12.
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My first paid job was playing "Chuckie" from the Rugrats at a theme park. It involved getting my picture taken with kids, walking around doing meet and greets, etc. My first adult job was as a paralegal for a law firm. I now actually use my BA and do marketing for law firms (but only for 16 more days - then I will be a SAHM!)
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@looch: Me too! I used to have such a great tan
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My first paid job was as a private tutor in high school and also as a checker at a local Kumon tutoring center.
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I was a secretary for a family owned business that my aunt and uncle owned I started at 15. I worked there for 7 years! It wasn't bad and they paid well. Plus it was family, so I could choose to work any hours I wanted to between school.
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My first job was working in a printing factory full time for summer.
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Ice cream scooper / busperson in a restaurant at age 15!
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Cashier at a local grocery store when I was 15. I got the crappiest shifts, but I had a crush on the produce guy so it was worth it!
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My first job at 14 was working at the local Dairy Queen (such a small town USA sounging job) and then once I turned 16 I was a lifeguard & taught swimming lessons in the summer. DQ was the best though, my best friend's parents owned it, so we all worked there together!
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First money making job was babysitting. First official job with a W2 was waiting tables.
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I worked as an office cleaner for a bit when I was 14, later on I did some volunteer work at my sisters' school, then I was a kitchenhand and waitress for a bit, and right before I started university I worked as an assistant in the supermarket deli for a few months.
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I worked at Burger King for my first job, it was the only thing within walking distance from my house. A year later, while still in HS, I got my first paid political position. Guess it stuck, still in and out of politics til this day.
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I worked at Safeway for 1 month, then went to work at Old Navy for 2 years. I became a SAHM for 3 years then went to work at Eddie Bauer, then back to being a SAHM for a year. During my divorce I went to work as a part-time merchandiser and inventory clerk. Shortly after that I started working in insurance which is where I'm at now.
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I was a chart/records girl at my friend's dad's doctor's office.
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Training a pony/running pony rides when I was 13. Then picking strawberries for the same people (all seasonally until I went to college). Then shoveling shingles/cleaning for a guy who fixed up houses at 14/15. Then working at the library from 16 - 21. Data entry/bill-folding at 20. Army from 21-24 (medically retired.) Now at a library again.
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I biked down the street to a Continental restaurant and applied to be a busperson. I got the job and worked there for a couple of years. After that, I worked at an Italian restaurant next door for a couple more years.
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I did a lot of babysitting, even more than the average teenage girl I think including nannying for a couple families in the summers. My first job with a W2 was as a bank teller. I started in April of my senior year in HS and worked there all through college. It was the best place to work, with the best boss and coworkers until it went from a small family owned bank to a huge, corporate bank. Hated working there after that and couldn't wait to quit.
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My first "jobs" were nannying for neighbors and baking and selling bread, but my first real job was an internship as an editorial assistant at a magazine when I was 15. Since then I worked at Taco Bell, as an Au Pair, a kindergarten teacher, an ESL teacher, and a grant writer.
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