What was your First Job?
#111
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Orchard Park, NY (near Buffalo, which is near Niagara Falls)
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My first job was working in a local greenhouse. Watering plants, and transplanting seedlings. If I was *very* lucky I would get to help make the Easter corsages.
Gee... I can't even remember the last time I saw anyone wearing a corsage on Easter. Guess they are no longer in vogue around here. Pity...
Gee... I can't even remember the last time I saw anyone wearing a corsage on Easter. Guess they are no longer in vogue around here. Pity...
#112
Rhonda, I think that you are my sister, Your story is exactly the same as mine, I can change tires, oil and many other things BUT DON'T. At the same time my Uncle got ill and gave my parents his garbage route so I was also a garbage girl. We were a family of 6 girls (no Boys). It was very helpful to grow up with a Automoble knowledge.
#113
Originally Posted by cherrio
I was a shampoo girl while going thru cosmetology school. worked at a chain salon (REGIS) for about a year before a higher paying job came along. never looked back.
#115
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Portland, OR via Hawaii
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Originally Posted by np3
My mom was a phone operator and she got me a job with AT&T as a long distance operator. I was 18 at the time. Did it while I was in college. That was back in the days when you had a big board in front of you and you had these cords to pick up calls when the lights appeared. One cord to answer and one to dial out. Totally cool!!
#116
Originally Posted by annyroony2
I worked part time at our local bank in my senior year of high school. Enjoyed it most of the time.
#119
Never did babysitting. My first job was a TEMP (that turned permanent) at a Dog Grooming Shop. I was 14 yrs old and entered the clients index card info into the computer database (it was dot promt) and answer phones after school and Saturdays. After a few months when I had entered all 1,000+ records in the computer, it "blew up" and then I had to stay on to start client folders like they have a dental offices with the color tabs.
Three years later, I was hiring, training, grooming, ordering supplies, and filling in for the boss. The summer after high school I even competed in a national dog grooming competition and won 2nd place in my division. I continued to groom a couple days a week for the next 8 years.
Three years later, I was hiring, training, grooming, ordering supplies, and filling in for the boss. The summer after high school I even competed in a national dog grooming competition and won 2nd place in my division. I continued to groom a couple days a week for the next 8 years.
#120
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Silver Springs, NV
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My granparents owned a restaurant and on week ends I would wash dished (by hand) all day for .50 then go to candy store and by sibling treats. I was 9 years old. By 14 I could work as a waitress (for family) by then my aunt owned the restaurant. I got $1.00 an hour... Worked 7 days a week. (after school) and week-ends. I think back and could never imagine my children working that young, even at 14 not every day. How times have changed. When I was 10 the neighbor hired me to baby sit a new born.... so unreal now to think of a 10 year old baby sitting a new baby. Have a good day.
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