First job you ever had?

[Narz]

Dishwasher @ Friendly's restaurant (hamburgers & ice cream type higher-end sitdown fast-food place, kind of like AppleBee's)

 

[Zelig]

I assume you weren't the one volunteering to be researched on for money?

I've done this, sometimes it's pretty cool.

I signed up for a study on spatial memory where they had me run around some custom Half Life 2 mazes while strapped into an MRI machine. Got $50 plus some MRI photos of my brain.

 

[downtown]

I made over $2,000 participating in medical research studies in college. I'd do it again too!

 

[GenMarshall]

I hardly remember my first paying job...

 

[warpus]

I should have probably taken on a job while I was in highschool.. but I never did so my first job ever was an internship at university.

Having thought about it though, I did volunteer once to help clean up an area around a church. Well.. "volunteer".. We got paid decently for it, considering we were kids. It took a couple hours, and I think it technically might qualify as my first job. Depends on how loosely you define "job" and "had"

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I assume you weren't the one volunteering to be researched on for money?

Not that kind of lab. I wouldn't do that kind of work, prefer to set up collaborations instead. Cell culture for life.

 

[Kennigit]

I had an internship

 

[Zelig]

I had an internship

This could mean literally anything.

 

[Kennigit]

Yea, I am just posting for the post count

 

[Quintillus]

I didn't have a job in high school, in part because I lived in suburbia and didn't have car, and thus couldn't get many places. So I didn't have much spending money then. But I had Civ, so I was happy.

I got a job as a grader in my second semester of college. It didn't pay much, but kept my basic skills sharp. Over the years, I'd grade for several different math and CS courses.

 

[Josu]

My first job was a creppy website in HTML (not even ASP, PHP or JSP).
I made a proposal with several designs, colours, photos etc and they choose the ugliest one.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I got a job at McDonalds starting in the summer between my sophomore and junior years in high school, and worked there until I went to college. It was honestly alright. The employees in general at McDonalds were way nicer and more interesting than the people at my current job, which is overrun by greedy cynics and the sort of rumour-mongering meanness that makes job morale low. It's totally soured me on office work. I made some good friends at McDonalds who went to other local high schools.

 

[Leifmk]

Not counting helping out on the family farm: Summer jobs doing unskilled grunt labour at a local aquaculture facility, starting when I was 14 or 15. Dirty and hard work but had a decent amount of fun at it.

 

[JollyRoger]

Stunt double for the Young Republicans Club when morality was required.

 

[Tigranes]

I was 3 months shy of 15 and got a job selling pastries at nearby hospital. It was a small business run by two guys who somehow obtained the permission to operate a business near ER department . No hourly wage, I was getting 5% of every item I was selling. All was going good until local thugs came and ate 10 items without paying.

 

[Lohrenswald]

You do live in Armenia, right Tigranes? Was this before or after the soviet union was dissolved?

 

[Tahuti]

It's not something I'd mention with pride, but my first job was selling subscriptions door-to-door.

 

[Whomp]

Busboy at Ponderosa steakhouse at $2.50/hr. Massive suck. Job opened at the grocery store two months later as bag boy at $3.60/hr. Big improvement.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Busboy at Ponderosa steakhouse at $2.50/hr. Massive suck. Job opened at the grocery store two months later as bag boy at $3.60/hr. Big improvement.

I hope you're really, really old and there's decades of inflation between those jobs and now.
I got paid 10 mark per hour (~5€ ) in 1997.

 

[thecrazyscot]

Making smoothies at Robeks smoothie shop. I was quickly assigned to be cashier for the simple fact that I was the only one to speak fluent English.