max Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I had just turned 14 when I got my first job in 1988 at Isaly's. Pretty much just did grunt work. Dishes, mopping floors, bussing tables. Pay was min wage but I did get free milkshakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheezhed Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 It was still $3.35 in 1989. Ah yes........the year I graduated. I was still at my first "official" job then at the movie theater at local mall. We (my bud and I) had a nice little ticket resell scam going on...........cash money!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiegie Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I am now the third huddler to have gotten his first FICA-reduced paycheck from McDonald's at $3.35 an hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonkis Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 (edited) I was a tour guide in Frankenmuth, MI for 2 summers while in high school. 45 minute guided tour of a Bavarian themed tourist trap city in Saginaw County. I wore lederhosen and drove a bus or jeep/trailer. I loved that job. Edited June 19, 2006 by Gonkis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Aside from mowing lawns which I started doing around 9-10 years old (I think I had 3 lawns I was mowing), at 13 I was working Manuel labor for my family's construction company. My first job to alternate off and on a 120# jack hammer with Manuel. One of us would be on the hammer, the other picking up the chunks of concrete, and throwing them into the tractor bucket. I pretty much worked construction every summer with the exception of one from the time I was 13 until I graduated college. One summer I waited tables, and made a lot more than I did working for the family business, but dad sayed if I planned on going into the business, then I needed to be working for it during the summers. So I was basically the lowest payed employee out there, even when I was in my upper teens running rodbusting crews and wrecking crews. I also worked as a sacker at the local grocery store part time during the school year (excluding football season ofcourse). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeegiebo Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 at 13 I was working Manuel labor for my family's construction company. My first job to alternate off and on a 120# jack hammer with Manuel. NAMBLA? NTTAWWT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Cleaning floors at Wal-Mart. Fired within 3 days after nearly killing myself mixing bleach and ammonia. Really stripped off the old floor wax! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexgaddis Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 My first job was a janitor at this small guitar store by my house... ...so basically i came in at 6:00, took out the garbage, sat behind the counter playing guitar, then vaccumed the studios downstairs and left at 8:00... I was let go after two months... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyknocker Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I did the paper route thing when I was 5th and 6th grade, but before that as a 2nd and 3rd grader, I had a neighbor, family friend, who paid me .05 cents for every empty milk carton i could collect, you know the old cardboard type. So twice a week or so I would knock on all my neighbors doors to get thier empty milk cartons. He ran a small store at the nearby state park and used these for ice. No that Im that old or anything but I just dont remember having the bagged ice back then, maybe it was before plastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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