Do you remember what was your first job? and when was it?
let me kick it off my first job was at chuck e cheese I used to get bullied to do the dishes by this guy named eric he worked there before me but he knew the manager well lol that was in 2008
BK 1998 best days of my life I used to make triple whoppers and take them home with me every night
1996
Filling up water jugs and taking out trash for 12 tennis courts at tennis club before school in the mornings.
2006 Tim Hortons right by my highschool now there is a good spot to eat in the same plaza called Centrale Burgham I wonder if that exists in the states?
it has the worst drive through in th world 3 cars crashed trying to go though while I was working there and till this day they wont make it wider lol
I dont think so I just checked it seems like a french franchise and we have the same problem here with some drive throughs
I worked in the clubhouse at a local golf course, in the kitchen, primarily, and bussing tables.
Unlike working at most restaurants, we were allowed to eat anything that we wanted; all we had to do was let the boss know. They figured that we’d be eating whatever we wanted anyway, and this way we weren’t sneaking around and not doing our jobs. And whenever they had a private party, we got the same meal as the guests. When things were slow the chef would cook us burgers or whatever.
Golfers who shoot a good round are great tippers, by the way.
Thats so lucky unlike me I was only entitled to employees discount which was nothing useful so lots of sneaking around was going on hahaha
Delivering newspapers, back when they were relevant.
I worked in a laboratory basement, I guess something like an Igor type of creature.
watering greens from 4 - 8:00 am then playing as many holes as possible for free the rest of the day. that was awesome also truck loading at a warehouse. that sucked balls.
McDonalds on my local high street. I started out on the fries counter, salting them fries and filling up boxes. I was the best fries boy in the whole McDonalds south london! After a yr or so on fries, I graduated to tills… damn i was fast at tills ‘hello can i help, hello, hello’ waiving and screaming at people… we used to get rewards for taking in the most money each day…who could serve people the fastest etc! I used to get the rewards all the time.
I used to give away free food to my pals when they came in. The ordered a cheese burger and I throw in 1/4 pounder, fries and a milkshake. I was well known around my ends for being the best McD’s boy in town.
I never got to go on the burger station though.
It was a decent little weekend job and i ate a lot of food!! It was enough money to pay for my drink and drug habit at the age of 16.
hustling kids in poker or chess .
Valeted/worked security at a casino in college. Made bank with the former and became cool with the performers in the latter. side story from security - post montley crew show Tommy Lee had a bunch of groupies rounded into his room (im guessing +30 girls). I was working the door for him that night and his mates asked if i wanted to party with them which i politely declined. Looking back i could have had my first harem & std experience rolled in one.
I delivered newspapers for a while, which wasn’t bad in the summer/fall. Sucked in the winter. Then worked at a full service car wash for a bit. That job really sucked. Probably the most fun job I had growing up was working at a bar by my lake house, which I did for 2 summers in college.
you should have stuck with it. after fries comes the grill. a year or two you would have made assistant manager, and that’s where the big bucks start rolling in.
1996 or 97. First full time summer job was a construction laborer for a really sketchy outfit.I had a foreman who had recently gotten out of prison and who could not drive who we called Dank Frank. The guy used to put 16 sugars in his Sunoco 20 oz. coffee, I kid you not. We used to have to drive DF everywhere and he would basically just tell us to drive faster, even if we were jammed up in traffic. He’d always forget all kinds of protection for us, so you would be belt sanding the paint off old porch eves without eye protection, or tearing up a roof without knee pads or gloves (unless you brought your own). It was really pretty sh!tty. The only good times were when I would be sent to a site with the college kids and we’d just go to their house for an hour or two and drink keg beer and then show up at the site late, but still before DF. Dude was so burnt he had no idea. I was the last laborer standing at that job, as the college kids went back to school earlier and one other kid got a sweet job at a carpet installation company (hah!). I currently have a mug from that construction company on my desk to remind me what that was like.
That was actually not the worst job I ever had though. I once sold speakers out of the back of a van. We’d be speeding down the highway in a van and would roll down the windows to people and yell “want to buy some speakers??” Yeah, those guys didn’t have the best sales technique. I worked there for two days before I found something else and I got paid for those two days in speakers.
kfc and a japanese fastfood at the same time. needed the money in hs cuz my mom lost her job. as soon as she got another job. i quit that shit so fast. lol.
First thing I got paid for by someone other than a family member or neighbor: I caddied at Town and Country Club in St. Paul. I was 12 or so and it was a 30 minute bike ride at 5:45 in the morning, but I lasted a good week and a half before I was told I didn’t need to come back.
First job where I made over $100: My mom managed a retail store that was getting a redesign. The same carpenter had been hired to do about 10 other stores in the area. I helped him at my mom’s store and he hired me to help at multiple other stores. I was a gopher, did some sanding and stuff. Made over $1000 as a 13 or 14 year old. No way that was legal.
First job that led to me filing a tax return: I worked for an auto salvage yard, pulling parts off cars before they went to the crusher. 16 years old in the late 90’s and making $12.50 an hour. I’d go every day after school and get 3 or 4 hours in, plus I worked Saturday’s 9-3. Ended up bringing home $250 per week in high school, which would be like making $800K per year now, based strictly on how much disposable income I had relative to my peers. I also plowed snow for them in the winter, as the owner ran a fleet of plow trucks. $18/hr cash. A 16 year old with a 4 month old drivers license driving a 1980’s International plow truck that weighed close to 30K pounds, at night, in heavy snow, after being at school all day seems like a great idea to me. I made so much money and only hit like 5 light posts in the mall parking lot. Good times.
In high school I played piano for an African Methodist Episcopal church and drums for a Baptist church. Yes, like you see in the movies…lots of clapping, stomping, Amen’s, hallelujah’s, etc. Gospel music is the ish. My piano teacher (who was African-American) played at various churches (and he also attended one of them) and at one point he had more services than he could handle, so he passed some off to me and then word also got around that I played the drums. Each service paid $100 for roughly an hour, once per week. Miss those days…there was always food after the service and I’d pig out…wasn’t my religion (I’m Catholic) but they were always very welcoming.