Your first job?

[Mandelon]

What was your first job?

Beyond a couple newspaper routes, my first real place of employ was at Pup n Taco on Rosemead Blvd in Pasadena. Cooked burgers, made tacos and burritos.

The owner used to sit down the block in his car and spy on us with binoculars! LOL

 

[Phebus]

Colonel Sanders, until it got in the way of my surfing.

 

[BajaWarrior]

Birthday is June 15, last day of school the year I turned 16.

Dad took me to the DMV after noon to get my license, got it, already had a car ('66 Malibu station wagon) and had looked in the newspaper want ads for a job, interviewed with Point Loma Seafoods (San Diego) later that day and got the job on the spot. Summer work only.

Washed dishes at Torrey Pines Convalescent Hospial for a couple of years after that.

 

[Singleton]

Worked at a small family owned pizza shop.

 

[Paul65k]

• First Paper route at 8 (with a local throw away paper)
• Got a real route with the Daily Paper at 10 (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Moved up to the "Big Paper" at 11 (San Jose Mercury/News)
• Lied about my age and got a job at Der Weinerschnitzel at 13
• KFC at 15 (Chicken cook when we still had to carry pots of boiling oil around)
• Worked in a circus .....yes I said CIRCUS at 16 (put up nets, spotted for trapeeze, etc)....summer gig
• Moved to Jack-in-the-Box after summer - Still 16
• Landed a job as a Bag Boy at Albertson's at 17 with union wages:thumbsup
• Moved up to Checker/Clerk before I was 18 (I was popular on Friday nights with my friends):champagne:
• Assistant Manager before my 19th Birthday (Bought a Porsche Carrera Targa for my 19th B-Day)
• Decided unions SUCKED:grumble: and turned ambitious people into zombies that hated "The Man" by 20.....and went back to school!

The rest as they say is "History"........just retired at 53:thumbsup

 

[fat rat]

Always looked for a way to make a buck, including collecting bottles along side the road as a kid. Then worked at the family biz til about 17. Working for family is not easy. First pay roll job was with Autther Treachers.

 

[Jefftowz]

I was 16, Maxine's pet store in Northridge cleaner dog cages, shitty job working for nice people..

 

[fmo24]

Worked in a jewelry store cleaning. Keeping glass counters clean, vacumning. Learned to do engraving. Beat the hell out of working fast food like a lot of my friends did.

 

[foxfam312]

The Buck Board Steak house restaurant on Hamner in Norco, washing dishes.

 

[Stainless]

Great story Paul65K. My first job was a bus boy at a resort in Fla.

 

[Boozer]

My fist job was working for the largest concessionaire at the Pomona Fairplex. It was quite possibly the greatest job on the planet. When you're at the Fairplex food is 4 times as expensive as it should be and working for the concessions I had access to as much free food as I wanted. I used to barter food for just about anything I wanted.

 

[J.T.]

Slinging pizzas at Pizza hut at 14. Rode a bicycle to work and school everyday.

Worked as a laborer for various construction companies during summers

 

[ChumpChange]

Pep Boys slingin car parts!

 

[lebel409]

16-shovelling horseshit
17-worked at a feed store
19-went back to school...still at the feed store
21-7-11
23-college bookstore
24-graduate assistant
26 drove a forklift
27-technician at local college
50 retired! Now I work on my own crap!

 

[Hardly Satisfied]

Worked at a Waterbed store

 

[OutCole'd]

I built Hang Gliders for Bill Bennett at Delta Wing Kites and Gliders, had more fun at that job than any other I've done.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

ditch digger for a plumber age 13

 

[lantz]

grew up on a citrus ranch digging ditches and driving tractors, so got a job at a nursery because I could drive the loader and the dumps

 

[69GS]

Lifeguard, International Hotel, Las Vegas,NV

 

[Pat_Murphy]

McKenzies water ski for Mac McKenzie himself...raised by the like of Morgan Odell, the Burnett Boys, the Anderson's, Chumo and Kompaniez...no wonder I'm so fucked up.

 

[dribble]

At age 17, I rode a bicycle five miles one way to work in a car wash wiping down cars after school from 4PM to 6PM and all day Saturday and Sunday for $1.65 per hour. My first paycheck was $60.00. Before that I had never had that much money at one time.

 

[Luvnlife]

Started in construction at 13, been in it since.

 

[RitcheyRch]

Pizza cook at Mikes Pizza in the SFV.

 

[SuperJet]

Got a job building hot rods at 16.year an half ago I got all pissy and quit. Went to work for a major player in studio rental equipment fabrication. That one didn't work out( boss didn't keep his word) so I went back to building hot rods.


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[BigQ]

Paper route at 13, I believe, with San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Worked this just past 15 to get my first car, (72 Bronco 351 Windsor )

While I was doing the paper route one of my customers, a special request customer to always set the paper in a certain location offered me a job at a company he just started. I was to young at the time so he could not hire me. Tole me to call in a year.

Got my license the day i turned 16 and found a job making cold calls for LA Times. I sucked bad at this (always hated those calls) so i got let go first day.

Within a week I found a job as a bus boy on a corner restaurant (man my manager was a hot older Greek lady:drool) Anyway, worked my ass of there for 6 months.

Remembered about the customer on my paper route and went back to say hi. He got me an interview (his daughter was the manager) got hired there at 17, he was a pioneer in Arthroscopic tool design and I made the tools for surgery.

Met my wife here at 18 :champagne:

From there different jobs in that field and eventually College for electronics then computer networking... done, well still 20 years till retirement.

 

[rrrr]

I built Hang Gliders for Bill Bennett at Delta Wing Kites and Gliders, had more fun at that job than any other I've done.

That's old school stuff...I worked at Electra Flyer.

 

[UltraLucky]

What was your first job?

Beyond a couple newspaper routes, my first real place of employ was at Pup n Taco on Rosemead Blvd in Pasadena. Cooked burgers, made tacos and burritos.

The owner used to sit down the block in his car and spy on us with binoculars! LOL

First Job at 16 was at Trader Joes on Rosemead across from Fowlers before it burned down.

 

[Nordie]

13-15 pushed lawnmower and weedwacker around neighborhood, I had 4 accounts
17 a cell phone booth, lasted 6 months, it got old, but man did I get chicks
18 started working for century steel in the rebar fab shop @ 19 they put me in the field, union ironworker ever since, at my current pace I can retire at 47-48

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[H20-ski]

Started in construction at 13, been in it since.

My first job was in construction. Did roofing then drywall.
Worked for someone else not myself.

Somehow I ended up in the automotive business.

 

[HOOTER SLED-]

What was your first job?

Beyond a couple newspaper routes, my first real place of employ was at Pup n Taco on Rosemead Blvd in Pasadena. Cooked burgers, made tacos and burritos.

The owner used to sit down the block in his car and spy on us with binoculars! LOL

DAyum.... Pup n Taco.... LOL.... Some old skool shit. Brings back memories. That's like the old skool Del Taco back in the day.


First job........... Started working at Parks & Rec when I was like 15. Worked there even part time after I got a full time job. For over 10 years. It was a fun job. Did a lot of different things. :thumbsup

 

[rivrrts429]

At 14 I got a job at a commercial tree nursery digging up mature trees and loading them for delivery.

At 16 a family friend threw me on a backhoe installing utilities, septic systems and permanent foundations for modular homes.

At 19 went to work for the rental company that supplied us with our Backhoes.

Been with the rental company for the past 13 years.

Still do the septic, utility install on weekends to make a few thousand here and there.

 

[boatnam2]

Loading catering trucks from 2am to 6am when i was 14 or so before school,Cash money.... First paycheck was slinging KFC chicken at 17, fucking,frying and getting high what working is all about at 17.

 

[Rvrluvr]

bag boy at vons in claremont. Dad was a fireman and got me the job. I was only 14. Got fired two months later for being too immature

 

[ChumpChange]

bag boy at vons in claremont. Dad was a fireman and got me the job. I was only 14. Got fired two months later for being too immature

My second job was Ralph's in Claremont which is now Sprouts. I shop at that Vons.

 

[shintoooo]

Boardwalk Fries at Northridge Mall when I was 16. Cutting potatoes and making sandwiches.

 

[DaveC]

I worked for both SF Giants and SF 49ers. My dad worked there and got me a job

I watched alot of football games for free

 

[djunkie]

Selling Christmas trees on my families lots.

 

[Cole Trickle]

14.5 dish washer at soup plantation

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[Paul65k]

I worked for both SF Giants and SF 49ers. My dad worked there and got me a job

I watched alot of football games for free

You got paid for that??

That's awesome!!!!:bowdown:

 

[DaytonaBabe]

Here's the rundown of my "kid" jobs... man, those were the days.... At 16 I got a job at TCBY, slangin' yogurt... lol. Senior year in high school, I walked into the trailer at a construction site where they were building a Macaroni Grill and talked my way into a waitress job - good money for a high school kid. In college, I was an RA on an all-boys floor of the freshman dorm for a few years... then I got a job as a concierge at the Hyatt in downtown SD (best job ever for a college kid!!)

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[HOOTER SLED-]

Boardwalk Fries at Northridge Mall when I was 16. Cutting potatoes and making sandwiches.

No filafel or shish-ka-bobs?

 

[HOOTER SLED-]

Here's the rundown of my "kid" jobs... man, those were the days.... At 16 I got a job at TCBY, slangin' yogurt... lol. Senior year in high school, I walked into the trailer at a construction site where they were building a Macaroni Grill and talked my way into a waitress job - good money for a high school kid. In college, I was an RA on an all-boys floor of the freshman dorm for a few years... then I got a job as a concierge at the Hyatt in downtown SD (best job ever for a college kid!!)

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No HOOTERS experience? :boobeyes:

 

[plaster dave]

I started plastering around 10 just kind of being there and throwing trash away. Then at 12 I was working every weekend and summers. It really sucked when all my friends were going to the beach or swimming but I did buy my first car in cash at 16.

 

[Willie B]

...First job... working at a Signal gas station for $1.10 an hour... ...Being an early mover and shaker I soon moved to a Chevron station for $1.25 an hour... ...The stories I could tell out of that place...

 

[HOOTER SLED-]

...First job... working at a Signal gas station for $1.10 an hour... ...Being an early mover and shaker I soon moved to a Chevron station for $1.25 an hour... ...The stories I could tell out of that place...

Dayummm, that must have been along time ago. SHould have tried the pay at the Post Office back then. Working for the Pony Express may have been better. :rotflmao::rotflmao:

 

[CampbellCarl]

Washing dishes (pearl diving) at a family buffet at 14
Pumping gas, lube bay Chevron at 15 (couldn't drive 'em in or out yet)
Dairy processing plant at 16 then drove the tank truck to/from Corona
Back to Chevron
Lot lizzard/bar boy Dal Rae Restaurant in college
Retail retail retail now retail construction

CC

 

[Vmjtc3]

No filafel or shish-ka-bobs?

Its falafel and shawarma

 

[Vmjtc3]

Counselor at a camp near Wrightwood:thumbsup

 

[Buoy]

Bus boy/Dishwasher at Denny's at 16. During the summer I would work the graveyard shift (11-7:00 am) It was a blast when the place got packed at 2:30 in the morning with everyone drunk coming from the bar.

Not to mention, at one point or another I was fooling around with every hot waitress under 25 yrs. The stock room and the walk-in freezer were good places

 

[shippingguy]

First job 1996 at 19 when I got drafted and signed with the KC Royals. Best job I have had. Those were the fun easy days!!!