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The_Return
05-14-2006, 05:08 PM
Well, I just started my first real job today, a "Sales Associate" at a local Convenience Store/Gas Station. Amazingly enough, it's more than minimum wage! Not much more...but still:)
What did everyone else do as their first taste of the workforce?
noctuary
05-14-2006, 05:11 PM
I was a fry cook at a Captain D's (a fast-food seafood place, for those who don't know.) A wretched job that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
pinkfloyd45769
05-14-2006, 06:43 PM
Telemaketer, i wonder if i ever called any of you??!!
ItsAlive75
05-14-2006, 06:53 PM
Cashier at Brookfield Zoo... it was actually a fun job. Got to go eat by the monkeys every day, sometimes they'd circle jerk... sometimes they wouldn't. It was like a beat-off roulette every day. Whaaaat a summer.
Miss Olivia
05-14-2006, 07:06 PM
My first job was at a Wendy's burger joint. I started off as fry girl... I always went home feeling like a french fry...
Ick.
pinkfloyd45769
05-14-2006, 07:08 PM
Originally posted by ItsAlive75
Cashier at Brookfield Zoo... it was actually a fun job. Got to go eat by the monkeys every day, sometimes they'd circle jerk... sometimes they wouldn't. It was like a beat-off roulette every day. Whaaaat a summer. HaHa!! I was going to buy a spider monkey today and my mom warned me that they like to do that. :D
ItsAlive75
05-14-2006, 07:18 PM
Originally posted by pinkfloyd45769
HaHa!! I was going to buy a spider monkey today and my mom warned me that they like to do that. :D
You were gonna get a spider monkey? You better keep that monkey somewhere safe when you have that baby... somethin' tells me there'd be a battle for dominance... with hilaaaaarious results.:D
pinkfloyd45769
05-14-2006, 07:19 PM
Originally posted by ItsAlive75
You were gonna get a spider monkey? You better keep that monkey somewhere safe when you have that baby... somethin' tells me there'd be a battle for dominance... with hilaaaaarious results.:D I was until my mom said he might squirt me. :p
Despare
05-14-2006, 07:50 PM
Webmaster for a CD import store. Found out that no matter what it paid I couldn't deal with computer work. 8 hours a day doing computer work and/or playing GTA (the first one) while waiting for something to do. Quit and got a more active job, no use not being happy just to make some dough right? I did double the guy's business though, he didn't even accept credit card orders on-line it was all phone and mail. Ahhhh... the good ole' days.
The STE
05-14-2006, 08:17 PM
I've never held a regular job
filmmaker2
05-14-2006, 10:04 PM
Uh, making sandwiches in a deli.
mothermold
05-14-2006, 10:08 PM
Construction Laborer
_____V_____
05-14-2006, 10:46 PM
Copywriter with NSD...didnt pay that much but I loved the job...then moved on to be a cashier for second shift...
horror_fan_Nick
05-14-2006, 10:57 PM
My first job was a blowjob :p
On a more serious note...can't work till October. :)
Spallalala
05-15-2006, 12:15 AM
My first job was a market research job...Great pay shit areas to work on haha. I ended up telling the boss I would leave ( because he threatened me with a law suit over something I had said when a client was around..either way...He was a dickhead and heard things wrong)...but yeah. Did that for just under a year.
My second job was the same shit. Much nicer place tho. Just ended up walking out on that one haha. Shit jobs were given to me while I was there..Actually cheebs and I both got up and left haha. We just said fuck it and walked out.
Well there you go.. Thats my job history haha.
On a more serious note...can't work till October.
That must have been some blowjob haha. What happened ...did she bite it off or something. :P
AUSTIN316426808
05-15-2006, 12:27 AM
Towel/water/ball/uniform boy for the Saints.
I don't know if you can really call it a job since I didn't get paid, but that was the last thing I was worried about with an oppurtunity/expierence like that.
cheebacheeba
05-15-2006, 04:49 AM
Worked at "The icecream factory", a shop that sold icecream, icecream cakes, and shakes.
I mixed icecream (unflavoured unfrozen icecream STINKS by the way), cleaned out fridges/freezers, and wrote stuff on cakes.
Originally posted by ItsAlive75
Cashier at Brookfield Zoo... it was actually a fun job. Got to go eat by the monkeys every day, sometimes they'd circle jerk... sometimes they wouldn't. It was like a beat-off roulette every day. Whaaaat a summer.
OH - I remember you - Brookfield, whoo what a place. . .
my first real job, other than my many circus and zoo gigs, was in an autoparts warehouse - we'd ship out orders to local auto parts and mechanics. i loved my job, it was like grocery shopping with an enormous cart and i could wear my walkman (back when there were walkmen) and not talk to anyone all day. i loved my job so much i would forget to take breaks and piss off all the older 'union' guys who didn't want me to go so far beyond my quota. . . then, despite being the most productive shipper in the warehouse, i was let go.
Abominus
05-15-2006, 05:11 AM
Lifeguard, stupid kisd seem to like to drown.
SKOOFx
05-15-2006, 05:40 AM
I was a sound engineer at a public radio station.
I used to fuck my ex gf in the sound proof control room.
Ahh i almost forgot about that..lol
cue the violins...
memoriesssss
ahh ahh memoriessss
Originally posted by SKOOFx
I used to fuck my ex gf in the sound proof control room.
That was so no one could hear her . . . YAWN
(just kidding - :D )
Believe it or not, my first job was a beer-boy in a liquor store. We would stock the coolers with beer and carry out cases for customers.
Stocking the coolers in the back room....away from the boss....if ya get my drift...was a fun time.
http://www.emerchandise.com/images/p/SMP/pdSTSMP0004.jpg
At seventeen....it was the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
1beastieibe
05-15-2006, 08:18 AM
Very first and shortest job was working as a Busser at a Buffett, until my supervisor went mad when his 15 year old girlfriend broke up with him and he started throwing trash cans around and hit me.
kpropain
05-15-2006, 11:01 AM
My grandfather owned a painting business when I was a kid, so I started painting houses at the age of 10 during the summers during the week, what fun I tell ya, nah actually it wasn't too bad a job for being a kid, and making about 250 to 300 a week, was pretty cool...
lovecraft
05-15-2006, 12:20 PM
I stuffed Sunday newspapers early Saturday morning.
It was horrible.
It took hours to get the ink off my hands.
stubbornforgey
05-15-2006, 01:04 PM
CA Masons shoes.
We made army and biker boots..
I lied on my application and said i could
use an industrial machine..
When my application was approved ..i had a week to learn how to use one of them fuckers .
Lasted there for 4 years ..became team leader ..then the competiton offered me
a better pay rate so i left to work for adamson and robertson ..who made ladies
designer shoes and army/biker boots.
chainleen
05-15-2006, 01:59 PM
My first job was waiting tables at a resturaunt my parents owned at the time. It blew, there are no labor laws when your parents were involved. I don't think I ever saw a paycheck from my dad and the tips sucked.
The_Return
06-19-2006, 06:16 AM
Just an update:
Im loving this job. I mostly work out at the gas bar, and with gas prices the way they are hardly anyone wants to pay an extra 5 cents per litre for me to pump their gas. So basically, I sit in my little booth with the radio blaring, occasionally getting up to fill a car. Easiest job EVER.
The Flayed One
06-19-2006, 07:04 AM
I was a text-fitter for a book bindery. Basically, people measured the spine of a book, put the title on a slip of paper & handed it to me. I entered it into a computer, decided what size the text should be, hyphenated where need be & spell checked. If the title wouldn't fit on horizontal, I put it on vertical. Dear god, was it boring.
horrorobsessed
06-19-2006, 07:07 AM
i'm too young to get a job yet. just need a couple of months. damn the child labor laws!
anyway, the closest i've come to a real job is mowing grass. yuck.
orangestar
06-19-2006, 08:40 AM
Bussing tables at a buffet. I also filled the salad bar, did some cashiering and what-not. Pretty boring over all, so I only did it for 6 months.
AmericanManiac
06-19-2006, 06:27 PM
Busboy/Dish washer at a food place, needless to say it was only 4 months before I got mart.
friday13thfan
02-05-2010, 09:19 PM
Amusement Merchandising Employee at Dutch Wonderland (local amusement Park) I ran the games and gift shop/stands. Yes holy old thread Batman but I went thread digging and this seemed interesting
Elvis_Christ
02-05-2010, 09:58 PM
My first job was packing books n' shit. My first full time job was working in a bakery which totally sucked because of the 3am starts.
Disease
02-05-2010, 10:08 PM
My first real fulltime job was planting grape vines on vineyards in rural N,S,W. Long days and hard work, but good money for a 17 year old. I also got to travel and stay in hotels paid for by work ect.
fortunato
02-05-2010, 10:43 PM
My first job was at an old Dairy Queen. Creepiest job I've ever had.
Freak
02-06-2010, 12:13 AM
Delivering newspapers.Crappy hours and pay but got some very big tips around Christmas time.
novakru
02-06-2010, 05:31 AM
Amusement Merchandising Employee at Dutch Wonderland (local amusement Park) I ran the games and gift shop/stands. Yes holy old thread Batman but I went thread digging and this seemed interesting
I used to take my girls there when they were younger and when we lived in PA.
What a great place to have a first job!
On our way home we would always stop to buy fresh food from the fabulous amish roadside stands...yum:cool:
The_Return
02-06-2010, 07:08 AM
Good Lord, this thread is ancient...what prompted this bump? Heh.
For the record, I ended up working at that place my first post for over 3 years. Worked other jobs too, but always stayed there part-time as back up. Didn't quit until I moved away last summer.
ferretchucker
02-06-2010, 08:37 AM
I've helped out my self employed dad on occassions but my first real job starts soon...Bed making at a nearby holiday resort. Still, I'm hoping to transfer to catering or the sports desk.
friday13thfan
02-06-2010, 11:24 AM
Good Lord, this thread is ancient...what prompted this bump? Heh.
Boredom and I went digging for threads that had potential and could still be posted in that have been lost. I breathed new life into an interesting topic.
To Novakru: How long ago was that?
novakru
02-06-2010, 01:08 PM
5 ...6 years ago I guess.
friday13thfan
02-06-2010, 02:21 PM
ahh ok. I only worked there from April of 2007 to December of 2008
Disease
02-06-2010, 10:12 PM
Delivering newspapers.Crappy hours and pay but got some very big tips around Christmas time.
I was a paper boy for a couple of years, when I was 13-14, damn those freezing early mornings before school.
Doc Faustus
02-08-2010, 08:46 AM
Did some drywall for a day was 16, got fired, bought some Bob Dylan cds and Tekken 3.
ferretchucker
02-08-2010, 08:50 AM
Did some drywall for a day was 16, got fired, bought some Bob Dylan cds and Tekken 3.
You got fired after one day?!?!
What the fuck did you do, dude?
Doc Faustus
02-08-2010, 09:33 AM
You got fired after one day?!?!
What the fuck did you do, dude?
The job. In a truly sucky fashion.
ferretchucker
02-08-2010, 09:41 AM
The job. In a truly sucky fashion.
I wouldn't expect any less from a writer...:rolleyes:
Doc Faustus
02-08-2010, 09:44 AM
Yeah, I hate to admit it, but I suck in real work situations. I was the worst cashier ever.
novakru
02-10-2010, 06:24 AM
Christ, I need a job:(
Something that a brain dead monkey could do and get paid too much and has hours like ,"whenever you feel like it" and "when you have the time- come on in"
I have been talking to some managers that would love to have me start TODAY but the hours are IMPOSSIBLE...I have kisd and no babysitting and daycare is too fucking much to pay for right now...arg
HARDPLACE-NOVA-ROCK
Anyway
vent over
My first job was an activist for clean water in the Chesapeake river.
oh wait, no....my first job was a babysitter...I forgot about that
Doc Faustus
02-10-2010, 07:57 AM
Nunchaku are not a good investment in your future. All the nunchaku technician jobs are filled by meathead townie assholes who spend their welfare checks at GNC.
Roderick Usher
02-10-2010, 11:49 AM
I've been a cabdriver, a theme park costumed character, a bartender, a waiter and musician (and lately actor & writer) but my first job beyond mowing lawns or babysitting was anwering phones and handling light secerterial duties in a property management office.
Filing made me mental. Horrible tedium. Haven't even considered an office job since.
Doc Faustus
02-10-2010, 12:02 PM
Who were you at what theme park?
Roderick Usher
02-10-2010, 01:08 PM
Who were you at what theme park?
I was Shrek at Universal Studios Hollywood and put on a 15 minute show 8 times a day. Brutal
The year before that I was a Globotek scientist handing out game cards and teaching kids how to play a scavenger hunt game in a SMALL SOLDIERS tie-in.
Elvis_Christ
02-10-2010, 01:13 PM
I was Shrek at Universal Studios Hollywood and put on a 15 minute show 8 times a day. Brutal
Did you get kicked in the nuts lots? :D
novakru
02-10-2010, 01:38 PM
I was Shrek at Universal Studios Hollywood
OMG
I will never look at you the same way:D
My son would worship you though, Shrek is the epitome of God to him these days
Roderick Usher
02-10-2010, 10:06 PM
Did you get kicked in the nuts lots? :D
As Shrek I was in a show, so I was on stage and none too close to the public, but I once worked for a video store handing out flyers dressed as a pink gorilla and a couple of kids kicked me in the ass. I laughed it off until one of them kicked me in the nuts.
I beat the shit out of him annd was promptly fired. Totally worth it.