what was your first job?

[HavasuHank]

although i had a paper route when i was a little kid, and mowed lawns in my early teens, my first actual job wasn't until i was about 16-17 years old.

my first job was at prado tiro shooting range. i can remember back sitting in that trap house loading the pigeons onto the arm. if you didn't get the pigeon on the arm fast enough, then you would get smacked by the arm and it hurt like a son of a bitch. i had a couple of whacks from that thing.

i had a little radio to listen to some tunes and when the ata tournaments were there, i would have a little tv in the traphouse. seemed like non-stop work

what was your first job?

 

[stokerwhore]

lied about my age at 15 to work at Der wiener schnizel(sp?) earned my first custom board(5'11" Timpone -winged, swallow tail, thruster) and some school clothes. lotsa funny stories from that job but nothing i would put up on the net,lol.

 

[RitcheyRch]

Cook at Mikes Pizza in the San Fernando Valley

 

[Mike.A]

My dad owned a roofing business, I got the pleasure of doing hot tar roofs at the age of 10 :grumble: Sort of makes you appreciate any other job after that.

 

[oldschool]

I worked at Gemco when I was 16. Spent every dime on parts for my 70 Mustang and cheap beer.

 

[Mondorally]

At 14 I was a bus boy then waiter at The Sugar Shack on Main St. in HB.

 

[Crazyhippy]

Worked at a Skating rink... there were days i was in skates 15hrs straight between hockey practice, work, and coaching mites hockey...

 

[rivergames]

I built skateboards and sold them to all my classmates in elementry school. I would buy in bulk all the cheap trucks, bearings and wheels I needed from ebay and then make my custom boards. I still have a couple of the boards and I know people who still cruise them around to this day

 

[ROC]

Busboy at Reubens Plankhouse on Beach and Garfield, Huntington Beach

Fun job :thumbsup

 

[HavasuHank]

At 14 I was a bus boy then waiter at The Sugar Shack on Main St. in HB.

i haven't been to the sugar shack in years. good eats right after a surf.:thumbsup

 

[OCMerrill]

Mowed lawns and had a paper route - 12-16

Sold parts at Lebard and Underwood Honda in LaHabra. 1st real job. 16-18

 

[wolfie]

I cleaned hulls down at the marina where my dad had his boat.

I also worked at Larry's Pizza in Fullerton and then at a gas station.

 

[WATERDOG]

Chevron gas station. Way back then, all stations where full service, and had mechanics on duty.

 

[Big Warlock]

16 and worked at a yogurt shop on Balboa Island where my folks had a summer home. Skated to work. Was the only guy with about 5 high school girls. Good times!!

 

[Abc123]

Del Taco. Got hired on my 16th b-day.

 

[Skyskier]

Worked at a Skating rink... there were days i was in skates 15hrs straight between hockey practice, work, and coaching mites hockey...

Iceland skatrink in Paramount Ca. ?

 

[Yellowboat]

I worked for a tropical fish breeder at 13.

 

[Tom Brown]

Worked at a Skating rink... there were days i was in skates 15hrs straight between hockey practice, work, and coaching mites hockey...

This post should get a 5 minute misconduct penalty.

 

[YoPengo]

I spent summers unloading rail cars (by hand) in Norwalk for Scott Paper. Then Woolco ~ Sporting Good Dept in Tucson, AZ.

 

[OnlyMoney]

Tanning/bathing suit shop in Temecula at 17.

 

[mjc]

Kitchen help at Riverside community hospital. worked up to assistant head cook while in college

 

[Cole Trickle]

Started doing office work and filing for my dad at about 13.

First real taxed job was a dishwasher at souplantation when I was 16.

 

[lebel409]

My first job was shoveling stalls at a friend of my dads horse ranch...then I worked at instant burger for 6 months...then I worked at a feed store for 5 years. During the first year it occurred to me that working at a feed store was fine then, but in a few years would really suck. So I went to the local JC...

 

[Bobby V]

Doorman at U.A. Cinemas in Cerritos Mall.

 

[Devilman]

As a helper, running service calls for an A/C company....

 

[Nord]

I started a lawn mowing biz when I was about 12-13 years old. My parents bought me a lawnmower for Christmas and with big smiles said...."this is going to help you buy your first car" I look back now and realized how my clients got a smoking deal back then lol...........

 

[Miss Perfect]

I was the blue light special girl at kmart when i was 16...no kidding, I was the one that had to get on the microphone and say "attention kmart shoppers" :loser:

 

[hawkes24]

Doorman at U.A. Cinemas in Cerritos Mall.

isnt that job reserved for the handicapped?? j/k

i was a deck hand on lake mead cruises...the paddle wheel boat

 

[Skee]

Broasted Chicken Shack in Covina,Ca...started the day I turned 16, did it about 4 months, left to deliver pizza at Red Devil Pizza,also in Covina,became a cook,did it for about a year..then got into the Auto Repair biz and been at it ever since!

 

[Wheeler]

Ralph's Automotive Prairie and Century, deep in the heart of Inglewatts! I was in 7th grade, while you guys were playing sports or with your self I was at work! :moon:

 

[Skee]

Doorman at U.A. Cinemas in Cerritos Mall.

was that you in Fast Times at Ridgemont High???? :rotflmao:

 

[Lue]

I was the blue light special girl at kmart when i was 16

:skull

I delivered newspapers really early on. First real was at a local McDonalds.

 

[Wmc]

Budget VW in Monrovia...15yo $80.00 a week in 1985

 

[djhartley2003]

Mom and dad had a welding and tube bending shop in La Habra. I learned to weld at 13 and started working there during the summer. When I turned 16 I started working every day after school.

 

[Mrssquirtnmyload]

I always wanted to be a lifeguard so I got my LSI and CPR training when I was 15 years old. I worked at a neighborhood community pool then started teaching swim lessons when I was 16. Great job! I worked there for 3 summers and then moved onto working at the YMCA.

 

[BarryMac]

I sponged off my parents, got money from them, used their cars, their house, drank their booze, ate their food, damn life was simple back then...

 

[richp5]

Just turned 16 and was an usher at a movie theater that became x-rated two weeks after I was hired. Initiation was to check something in the front of the screen only to be harassed by the patients from the neighboring VA hospital. The movie that played there for the three months of my employment was called "Please don't eat my mother" about some kind of person eating plant.

 

[RitcheyRch]

When did you start with mowing lawns?? Sorry, couldnt resist.

:skull

I delivered newspapers really early on. First real was at a local McDonalds.

 

[H20MOFO]

When I was 14-15 we lived in a condo off the side of hole #7 at a golf course. I got a job at the clubhouse picking up range balls, filling golf cart batteries ect. One day the pro calls me up and says come on up to work...and bring your motorcycle helmet. I think wtf....o.k. So I go up, there having a tourney, and they're almost aut of range balls. Yep, you guessed it , a-hole sends me out on the driving range while peeps are knockin balls. I swear them fockers were aiming at me.lol It's kinda funny, but to this day that pro hates me ....but thats another story.

 

[desertbird]

Been lucky. Never flipped a burger. 1st job was 15 @ the local bicycle shop doing derailers, trueing rims, general repair stuff...

Contiued on to auto repair, then aircraft, now I am an engineer. Whooda thunkit.

 

[Havaduner]

First real job after the paper route thing was running a machine, making mil spec zip lock bags. Remember one time, the DEA showed up, some local drug dealer got a hold of a bunch of small baggies with our co. name on them, and got busted with a load of cocaine in the bags. DEA showed up, went through our customer list to see who we were selling to.

 

[gigamurph]

Ranch/Farmhand on Chuckawalla Farms just north of Desert Center.

Would get up @ 3AM to pick off the coyotes that would venture in to harrass the livestock. Once a week would "hand-buck" 3-wire bails of hay onto a flatbed and stack 'em 15 high. Also was responsible for walking, groomin', and feedin' the horses as well as repairin', cleanin', and sprayin' the corrals to keep the fly population to a minimum. Would also help in the fields if needed. Pick squash, melons, water the orchard, etc., etc.

Was 14YO and even though it was tough-as-hell work, I missed those days and my abilities to perform 'em. Got payed big money ($2/hr) + all the gas I wanted and a kick-a$$ "steak-fry" once or twice a month.

My boss was one of the best men I've ever had the honor of workin' for and I truly miss 'im. How many bosses can you say that about today? RIP Robert "Andy" Anderson.

 

[SuperDave013]

Skate Guard at Ice Capades Chalet in Topanga Plaza when I was 16.

Skate Guard at May's Ice Rink in Anderson, In @ 16. And yes, it was an out door rink. Skated my CCM super tacks until there was not enough blade left to sharpen.

 

[Tom Brown]

When I was a kid, I wanted Super Tacks. My family couldn't afford them so I had to use some ancient skates the neighbor gave us with loose rivets on one blade. I put a lot of miles on those skates. I even sharpened them myself by hand with a file a couple of times.

Needless to say, I stopped skating when I was about 12 and didn't skate again until the age of roughly 25. Not having skates, I picked up a pair of used Super Tacks. Holy shit... I barely hit the boards with those sum-bitches on my gams.

These days I skate a lot. I'm actually pretty good. The community rink is a short block from my house. I go down there on the nice evenings and play scrimmage hockey with the 10 year old native kids in the neighborhood. Those little bastards chop me down with their sticks like a sequoia tree. Even with a decent set of pads, I end up pretty bruised up.

When I go in the corner with 15, 10 year olds all yelling "I've got it!" and they cut my feet out from under me, I always enjoy how soft they are to land on, compared to the ice surface. The little shits bounce up like bad cheques and keep going.

About 10 years ago, my Mom was going through the skate drawer under the stairs. My Dad made a huge drawer out of sheet metal with a steel frame with wheels that we kept our skates in. Seeing those shitty old skates all rusted beyond usability was amazing. I should have kept them to throw in the face of anyone who ever suggests I'm a silver spooner.

 

[OutCole'd]

I built Hang Gliders for Delta Wing Kites & Gliders. I started in the sail shop making the sails then worked my way up to cables, tubing, rigging, shipping & receiving, sales, working with the ultra lights, chasing the test pilots, doing some test piloting myself, etc, Very cool job when you were young.

They say you work for love or money, well there it was definatley love. Lots of great memories working there.

 

[Mandelon]

Pup N Taco!

On Rosemead Blvd, in Pasadena. Good times. We used to trade food with the neighboring businesses. Burritos for beer from the Trader Joe's next door and tacos for 31 flavors ice cream. Snowball fights in the parking lot with the crushed ice....

Here's my hat:

Here's a pic of the shop....but about 20 years before I worked there....(wow, the internet is amazing)

 

[Skyskier]

I built Hang Gliders for Delta Wing Kites & Gliders. I started in the sail shop making the sails then worked my way up to cables, tubing, rigging, shipping & receiving, sales, working with the ultra lights, chasing the test pilots, doing some test piloting myself, etc, Very cool job when you were young.

They say you work for love or money, well there it was definatley love. Lots of great memories working there.

ya ever run across a guy name Mike Harker ? probably woulda been in the mid '60's (when he was active in the industry )

 

[OutCole'd]

ya ever run across a guy name Mike Harker ? probably woulda been in the mid '60's (when he was active in the industry )

Can't say that I have, I was there from 1981-1985

 

[BoatCop]

I hawked Racing Forms at Hollywood Park @ 13. I wonder how long a blond haired surfer kid riding a sting ray would last, going down Prarie Avenue at Century today?

16 & 17, I worked at Chicken Lickin' on Century and Hawthorne Blvd, until we opened a store over in Torrance. We used a band saw to part a whole chicken into breasts, wings, thighs, legs and back. We used to have contests to see who could cut a whole case of 12 birds the fastest. I was only a fraction of a second slower than the owner, and have the scars on my knuckles to prove it.

 

[Wheeler]

I built Hang Gliders for Delta Wing Kites & Gliders. I started in the sail shop making the sails then worked my way up to cables, tubing, rigging, shipping & receiving, sales, working with the ultra lights, chasing the test pilots, doing some test piloting myself, etc, Very cool job when you were young.

They say you work for love or money, well there it was definatley love. Lots of great memories working there.

Bill Bennet eh? I hung out with the Wills crew, Chris Wills is now a surgeon and still flying. :thumbsup