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What was your first job? How did it change your view of the world? If you haven't worked yet, what do you expect your job to be? What do you hope for it to be?
Mine was at a telemarketing firm for the Republican National Committee's 2006 campaign. We were paid 12$/hr to mass-dial self-identified conservatives. The conditions were alright, and the people we talked to were, for the most part, ok. However, there were always rude people on the other end of the line, and around five or so calls out of every hundred would be to people from the more extreme end of the political spectrum. Those calls were always fun, because you knew that if you just sat through their rant about how Democrats would lead the country to immorality/socialism/fiery pits of Hell, then you could get them to donate, and that would put you one donation closer to winning the weekly prize (usually baseball or NBA tickets).
Near the end of the term, we switched to fundraising for the National Right to Life, whose script included graphic descriptions of cutterage and dilation and used the phrase "our organization only promotes lawful methods to stop these horrific acts of infant murder."
Yeah, but it was 12 an hour, so it was pretty good.
 
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Currently having my first job, been working in a supermarket for 1 year now. I get paid super crappy (5euro/hr, 7$/hr) but hey, im 17 years old so icant get much better lol.
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Dishwashing. Don't know the pay, but learned to appreciate honest work.
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Worked at a post office downtown in a shoppers drugmart. It sucked to say the least. More complicated than you would think and the pay was barely above minimum wage. I got fired after a few months for telling my white trash drug addicted co worker to fuck off after having her boss me around like she was the manager. Th eonly thing that job taught me was it could be a lot worse than the place I'm working at now.
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Canada8028 Posts
McDonald's!
Working there really helps you empathize with other fast food employees since working there kinda sucks. It was hot as hell during the summer, and the lines never seem to get smaller during peak times. I try to be less of a dick to them whenever I go now.
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I'm an Instructor at Kumon. My first job.
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Working in the hay fields. Below minimum wage. No taxes though, it was all shady, so probably a but higher than minimum wage. Still my only job since no one wants me for anything else; degrees and good grades are worthless.
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cheese factory..... didnt eat cheese for a veeeeery long time. (also got an aversion to cheese ingame!)
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On February 22 2011 08:28 Pyrrhuloxia wrote:
Working in the hay fields. Below minimum wage. No taxes though, it was all shady, so probably a but higher than minimum wage. Still my only job since no one wants me for anything else; degrees and good grades are worthless.
I did the same thing picking corn for a local farmer when I was like 12. Made 5 dollars an hour which turns out to be a lot of money for a 12 year old even though I only worked 2 or 3 hours a day.
My first legit job was for min wage (like 6 bucks I think at the time) as a cook and bar back at a bowling alley. It's sad to think I made more per hour after taxes when I was 12 then when I was 18... There was certainly a lot more hours to be had as a cook though.
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Worked at bestbuy for a year. started at $8.50, ended at $10.50 after 11months. sold geeksquad services and service plans to a ton of people. people i worked with were "ok", had 2 good managers, 1 shit manager. 1 lazy ass co-worker who talked all day about how much he "knew". good experience to lead me into a sales career.
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I worked in a department store (Argos) Christmas holiday worker.. I took the order tickets got the item from the warehouse, brought it to the collect desk.. go me!
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@OP:
What are/were your political leanings? Did you believe in what you were doing at the time? You may have talked to my grandparents or other relatives lol...
The first time I was on a payroll and payed taxes was when I worked at the tutoring center at my college. I learned that teaching is the best way to learn, but it takes a lot of patience. I can still do calc/pre-calc/general chem 7 years later.
My first full-time experience: I spent a summer working construction in the cascade mountains in WA. Hated it. I learned what a "run-out-the-clock" scenario was when not referring to sports. I also learned about unions and how hard it is to find people that want to work...
My first 'real' job after graduating was working for a specialty gas fill plant in SoCal. I was a GC chemist, my duties were about half blue collar (wore a uniform and steel toes, used wrenches and pallet jacks etc) and about half white collar (used spreadsheet and database programs to calculate and document results). I learned that I actually do like using my hands to work, but I also need the problem solving/analytical element as well. I also learned a lot about how industry works, from using oracle to business relationships to management styles etc.
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I was a bagger boy at a local grocery store. Was decent for being 15 years old since I got minimum wage+some tips when I'd carry old peoples' stuff to their car.
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Worked as a stock guy / general store clerk for a small cornershop during a summer earning a mean £5 per hour (less than min wage  ), wasn't bad as I had a huge amount of control over my working hours.
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Movie theater for 1 day; then I broke my leg playing basketball for my high school the next day. It was fun, and I wish I would've been able to do it for longer.
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Dishawasher right now, 8$ an hour minimum wage. It sucks, im 16 been here a year
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On February 22 2011 08:28 Blisse wrote:
I'm an Instructor at Kumon. My first job.
HAHA me too! I get paid 9.50$/hour. Pretty decent for easy work.
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My first job was at the age of 14 working as an actor for the Haunted houses near my parents house. The pay was decent, but since I was considered a child actor the houses were allowed to work me hours that typically they couldn't make kids work. This meant some 8:00 pm -> 2:00 am shifts on weekends sometimes which sucked. Scaring people at that age was really, really fun though. Definitely worth it.
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On February 22 2011 08:22 Spazer wrote:
McDonald's!
Working there really helps you empathize with other fast food employees since working there kinda sucks. It was hot as hell during the summer, and the lines never seem to get smaller during peak times. I try to be less of a dick to them whenever I go now.
I work at Mcdonalds, I kind of like it. Work is good, manual labour is better, manual labour in close proximity to people you have a laugh with is great. Shame about the pay, the hats, and the generally awful way managers treat employees (cutting your hours to save labour costs when you have rent to pay, putting you on unpaid 'permanent breaks' until they need you to save on labour costs, getting you to stay until 1am then come back again at 7am, taking out their bad moods on employees, etc).
My first job was on tills at IKEA. Helped me grow into an even more calm, patient person than I already was. When you've got literally a hundred people queuing for your till alone you soon realise there's nothing for it other than just dealing with it and not getting stressed. Also the breaks helped me learn to appreciate the little things; my ipod with funny radio podcasts, a crunchie bar, a coffee and a view from the top floor crew restaurant were all I needed to be happy all day.
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My first job was working at the music library at my university for like $7 an hour or something ridiculously low like that. Now I work as a paramedic for more than double that.
For the next four years I'll be in massive debt and hopefully after that I'll be a doctor :-D making a lot more to climb back out of the hole.
BTW, maybe I'm overly anal but it just kept on bothering me, it's "dilation and curettage" in that order, not "cutterage and dilation". Just thought you should know.
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