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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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 Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 10:45:27 AM
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What was your first job? I was a paper delivery girl. I delivered papers from third grade to ninth grade. On Sundays, I would stay at one location in town, and often, after church, someone would come by and bring me a hamburger. Fond memories.
Please, share yours.
Marly |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 11:41:49 AM
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Other than baby sitting my first job was in a Pizza Restaurant. Then my jr year of HS I started a cleaning business that bought me a car and gave me all the spending money I needed my first year of college. I lived in a pretty affluent area and was making about $15 and hour on many of my jobs!
Farmgirl Sister #17
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 11:53:33 AM
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My first job other than baby-sitting was as a tutor for a neighbor boy - that was 5th grade I think. My first "real" job was as a page at the library - perfect for a bookworm
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" |
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 2:21:28 PM
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My first job was at the VFW kitchen. I was 13. I came on to work as a dishwasher for $3.00/hr. I wound up doing all the dishes, waiting tables and watchin the stove for the cook when she needed a potty break. After the kitchen closed I would babysit till the wee hours of the morning for a couple that came in to eat. I only worked weekends and made about $100. For three nights at the kitchen, my wages were $36 and $20 from one night of babysitting. I busted my tookas for the rest of that moolah.
Melanie
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. Helen Keller "http://wheelsarealwaysturning.blogspot.com/ ~shop~ http://www.brokenin.ecrater.com/ |
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FarmGirl~K
True Blue Farmgirl
512 Posts
Kelly
TX
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 2:35:51 PM
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My first job was at the mall. I went to 2 hours of training at McD's & then while walking through the mall was approached by a man for a job. I quit McD's that same day & started at an ice cream shop. I scooped hard ice cream, made shakes, floats, & sundaes. So Really this was my first job. It's also the place my DH first laid eyes on me. I had a lot of fun working there.
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow." ~Benjamin Franklin~
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napafarmhouse1885
True Blue Farmgirl
208 Posts
diane
napa
ca
USA
208 Posts |
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chickabella
True Blue Farmgirl
177 Posts
D. A.
Austin... ish,
Texas
177 Posts |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 6:42:25 PM
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My first paying job (that I didn't report to the IRS) was parking cars for my great grandmother during the horse racing season in her lot--all the neighbors did it--a $1.00 a car, and I got .50 per car. So, good deal for a 10 year old, and it spurned my need for cash!
My first paying job after that was on summer as a sales associate for the Mole Hole, a high end gift shop downtown Cincinnati. I think they originate in Michigan...Lots of fun!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2881 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
2881 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 6:51:09 PM
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| OK I cannot believe I did this, but I stacked bottles at the local pony keg for $1 a day..until the middle of my sophmore yr in HS. I had to go up there twice a day, & divide bottles according to company(pepsi, coke, 7Up etc) & put into crates & stack in the back.. Man, I cannot believe I did that for so long(probably 3 yrs!!) Well then I figured out that I could teach 3 guitar lessons at $2.50 each & make more in 1 1/2 hrs than I did all week at the pony keg. Thus began my long career at teaching flute & guitar. |
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Buffalomary
True Blue Farmgirl
199 Posts
Mary
Caldwell
ID
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 7:20:48 PM
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My very first job would be working in the orchards, sorting cherries as they sped by on the conveyor belt. I would go to sleep still sorting those cherries!! It was all I could see for 2 weeks after I left that job! 
Buffalomary
You can take the farmer's daughter off the farm but you can't take the farm out of the farmer's daughter!!
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kissmekate
True Blue Farmgirl
890 Posts
Kate
Delano
Minnesota
890 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 7:56:08 PM
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My first job was working at Mickey D's in the Spring when I turned 16. Later that fall, I also worked for my Grandpa at the Renaissance Festival, selling his rocks and woodworking.
I worked at Mickey D's all through high school and LOVED every second of it. My son works at the one in town here, and he has a blast.
Needless, to say though, I don't care for "Donalds" much.
Don't miss out on a blessing, just because it isn't packaged the way you expected. ~MaryJo Copeland |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 10:04:31 PM
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Mary:
Too funny about seeing cherries for two weeks after you left that job. I'm going to giggle all night now.
Thanks for all the postings of different first time jobs. Very interesting.
Marly |
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farmgirlof4
Farmgirl in Training
37 Posts
Angela
Canyon Country
California
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2008 : 1:00:37 PM
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My first job was in warwickshire England in a place called Hinckley. I worked at a Fish and Chip shop they were so good, I was only 13. I would bike there and back four days a week after school. I made good money but the down fall was the grease from the residue that came out of the fryer. My mother would make me strip off before coming into the house, we still laugh about that now....and long for fish and chips english style in good old lard!!!
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
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lacisne88
True Blue Farmgirl
1181 Posts
Chelsey
Lake Stevens
Washington
USA
1181 Posts |
Posted - Jul 29 2008 : 1:33:33 PM
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Babysitting was my first job growing up but my first real "paycheck" job was at Bed Bath and Beyond as a sales assosiate
Chelsey
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jul 29 2008 : 7:57:42 PM
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Besides babysitting my first job was just before I turned 14...I worked at City hall in the printing dept..in the basement printing up things like agendas and police dept tickets, reports and addressing (with an addressograph machine) the bills they sent out for water and garbage, and all sorts of stuff like that...I worked there over 2 years and made $1.65 an hour (this was before computers and when I thought the money was great!!!) I left to work as a car hop at A&W where I could see more kids my own age!!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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