The day I turned 14 I started working at McDonalds for $5.25 an hour. Amazing how much money I saved and blew on shit making so little just working saturday and sunday. Wasn't a great job, almost all people that work at McDonalds that are older then 16 are fucking nutcases. But that made it more fun.

Darkchylde

United States473 Posts

February 22 2011 03:32 GMT

#22

I worked at Sonic's (hamburger fast food joint). I worked there for a summer for minimum wage when I was 16 to pay for a computer that could play Diablo 2. Stupid best friend getting me into Diablo 2.

Joementum

787 Posts

February 22 2011 03:38 GMT

#23

$8.25 /hour at Blockbuster. I learned how shitty working 40 hours a week and not even breaking $500 every 2 weeks was

. Retail jobs just suck so much. It didn't help that I had a manager that worked us like slaves either. =/

Romantic

United States1844 Posts

February 22 2011 03:51 GMT

#24

When I was in elementary I ran a beverage business and traded Pokemon cards. I made $1,000 dollar in a few months and got lazy. Kept going with the card trading, but gave up on the drinks after summer.

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

February 22 2011 03:59 GMT

#25

I pumped gas, and I was damn good at it

The_LiNk

Canada863 Posts

February 22 2011 04:03 GMT

#26

My dentist hired me to learn and use an AutoCAD program called OrthoCAD to measure 3D models of Jaws for braces. Pay was damn good. I got paid per case and it was pretty damn easy. I easily pulled in $50 an hour. I went through the 200 odd cases so fast that I was soon let go after about a month of work.

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

February 22 2011 04:40 GMT

#27

I worked in a 'bargain' store. (Kind of like Dollar Tree or Poundland.) It made me hate (certain) people, but it was so grueling that I got used to hard work. I didn't even need to have the job since I was living at home, but I wanted some extra cash and work experience. I actually went to work for another branch of the company during Uni, but quit once I got my second comic shop job (which I stayed in for the rest of my two years at uni.)

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

February 22 2011 04:50 GMT

#28

On February 22 2011 09:47 Sigh wrote:

Show nested quote +

HAHA me too! I get paid 9.50$/hour. Pretty decent for easy work.

High-five! Where do you work?

My place is pretty busy on the days I'm on, but I usually work with the same kids, so it's really nice. I've heard some centers are terrible though.

jello_biafra

United Kingdom6638 Posts

February 22 2011 04:53 GMT

#29

I had a paper round when I was like 16. First actual job was working in a supermarket.

b3h47pte

United States1317 Posts

February 22 2011 04:55 GMT

#30

My first job was a Lifeguard at the New York Sports Club.
Pay went from $8.00 as starter to $8.50 after like 6 momnths and then got a pay raise to $8.80.
Twas good

arb

Noobville17921 Posts

February 22 2011 04:55 GMT

#31

3rd shift at wal mart

stocking
i actually enjoyed it

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

February 22 2011 04:59 GMT

#32

Reserach Intern at a Fortune 100 company.

How did my outlook change? It affirmed to me that I'm not cut out to be a top flight engineer.

nayumi

Australia6499 Posts

February 22 2011 07:34 GMT

#33

intern at Ersnt & Young, one of the accounting firms ...

im working full time there atm (at least for the next couple of months)

Souma

2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts

February 22 2011 07:38 GMT

#34

I was pretty lucky with my first part-time job.

Worked at Qualcomm Stadium (San Diego Chargers stadium) on event days. Made commission which averaged $250 an event. I worked once every two weeks, 10-12 hours an event, so $500 a month before taxes off two days.

Working there I learned (or rather, it reaffirmed a generalization for me) that drunk people are either really fun or really, really hard to deal with.

_romantic

United States455 Posts

February 22 2011 07:46 GMT

#35

On February 22 2011 16:34 nayumi wrote:
intern at Ersnt & Young, one of the accounting firms ...

im working full time there atm (at least for the next couple of months)

Audit or accounting? If it's audit, bro I feel for you

shindigs

United States4795 Posts

February 22 2011 07:48 GMT

#36

Working as a tutor at my university, where I basically lead extra discussion sessions for chemistry classes. Pay is good, but a lot of talking :<

crazeman

664 Posts

February 22 2011 08:03 GMT

#37

Doing construction back when I was a Junior in high school. I got like $60 cash a day + breakfast/lunch/dinner, which is ironically the most consistent and was the most money I've ever earned even after I graduated college (working at a non-paying internship atm lol)

It was hard work, and I basically put in at least 8-10 hours a day, 6-7 days a week. I think during those two months was the only time in my life where I didn't have access to a computer/tv/electronics and I didn't even miss it :o

Honestly it help me put things in perspective in terms of jobs. I hate hearing people bitch and moan about their jobs all the time when they're working a standard 9-5 job with great pay and they get to sit at their desk and browse the web for half the day when it can be MUCH worse. You can be stuck in a dead end job, working your ass off in the sun for 8 hours a day and be paid shit wages.

I mean it's ridiculous, my sister who makes $100k a year and just bitch and moan all day about how "little" she makes. I mean I understand people venting/complaining about their job once in a while but honestly people really shouldn't complain how "little" they make to people who are basically making 1/3rd of their wages and expect a pity party thrown for them. ("but my friends make more than me..." FML). I think the worst job she ever had was working at a school lab making $10-15 an hour, playing minesweeper for half the time.

SpoR

United States1542 Posts

February 22 2011 09:10 GMT

#38

I forget what it was to be perfectly honest. I had lots of oddjobs and contract things for companies and people. Like I stayed with my uncle for a few weeks and I was sweeping and cleaning up their shop for like 6.25$/hr in '99/'00 CA when I was 15/16. My first serious job though was a lane porter at my dad's bowling alley, I think the pay was the same.

ffswowsucks

Greece2297 Posts

February 22 2011 11:33 GMT

#39

On February 22 2011 08:11 ScrubS wrote:
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.

gouh gouh, my employee working part time per hour, gets 6/hour and is a saleswoman in my shop. I think getting 5e/h is good for being 17.

Ipp

United States456 Posts

February 22 2011 12:15 GMT

#40

I was a Baseball/Softball umpire at 15; quickly learned how much it sucks to get yelled at and how to stand up for myself. It's pretty amazing how worked up parents get over their kids sporting event.