What was your first job?

[Snickerzz]

I helped my mom clean a beauty salon, made me 10$ a week :D

[Volbet]

A payed internship as a part of my education as a computer engineer. Made about 30$ an hour.

[Chevaishr]

worked at a parts place / store got $100.00 a week 

[Snickerzz]

worked at a parts place / store got $100.00 a week

dang, how old were you?

[ixi_your_face]

Restaurant, Kitchen porter, got £4.50 an hour. Did 25 hours a week.

[MrJakePrince]

Restaurant, Kitchen porter, got £4.50 an hour. Did 25 hours a week.

Exact same job, just a tad less pay, still doing it now, hard job but worth the money

[ixi_your_face]

Exact same job, just a tad less pay, still doing it now, hard job but worth the money

 

I really enjoyed it, got to go into the back, stick on a few tunes, and work away

[KaareKanin]

I trained as a machinist apprentice in addition to school during my high school years. Made about 1100 - 1200$/week

[felixbearpig]

i was a helicopter mechanic.   $300 a week

[TechTheWorld]

I cut grass 10$ an hour. Never took me longer than an hour:(

[James_McKeane]

Wal-Mart Unloader :D !!!

[James_McKeane]

i was a helicopter mechanic.   $300 a week

Can you expand on this a bit?  A year after taking a cheap sheet metal cert course i got a job working on ch-53e's making $650/wk (only lasted two months though. don't ask)

[MzCatieB]

teaching in a college... it was games design, programming and documentation

[Matsy]

I've never had a job.

Sigh, the joys of not being able to get a job.

[joelthezombie15]

Did yard work for my uncle and im sending applications now so wish me luck. :D

[JordanMac]

worked as an unpaid intern at a companies doing internal IT repairs, first paid jobs were a student enroller (£8.50 ph) and an ironmongery engineer where I got paid cash in hand for getting called in for larger jobs.

[felixbearpig]

Can you expand on this a bit?  A year after taking a cheap sheet metal cert course i got a job working on ch-53e's making $650/wk (only lasted two months though. don't ask)

well i was a military crewchief on a ch-53e and we dont get paid that much

[ericlee30]

My first job ever was working on a farm, I Went and gathered hay bales, and loaded them in a semi truck. I got $0.10 a bale that I loaded on to the truck. In a single day, I made about $75 a day. I did about 740 bales a day, 6 days a week . I was 11 when I got that job.

[mybeat]

I've worked as a helping hand in a construction site, made around 200$ a month, bought my p4 mobo with that money.

[Chevaishr]

dang, how old were you?

i was 15 ... i was also entitled to bonuses if i help out with offloading containers whenever they came one week i got $133.00 (note i did not get US i am converting my currency to US so in my currency i would usually get 600 dollars per week and sometimes get 800 with bonuses added on. my currency is TT )

[LDX]

I had the luck to work as a programmer's assistant during the 80's 

just small codes for reports on RPG III Language on a IBM S/38 Mainframe

when i was really young (16,17 years old) while having almost none education for that... 

Everything I learned on the field. 

[Chevaishr]

dang, how old were you

another thing that parts place was a car parts place and the store (located in the same place ) was a variety store that sold lots of miscellaneous stuff 

[ChrisG619]

In an antiques shop, photographing all the various bits and then helping set up an evay account. Good bit of fun, and got £10 an hour. It was an after school job though, only 1 hour a day.

[Broseephus]

Started at 16 stringing tennis rackets for a local tennis shop.

[Vic9mm]

Diesel Mechanic $400/week

 

Lead Diesel Mechanic $550/week

 

Supervisor of 3rd shift Shop $800-900$/week (me currently)