What I meant to type first is this: What kind of jobs did you get when you first started working, household chores notwithstanding? I'm sure some of you have interesting stories to tell. Here're the big questions, though: How much did you get paid? How'd you get the job? If you got paid over 8 bucks an hour, was it just luck or can you give me advice on getting a job with halfway decent pay with no more than a high-school diploma? How'd you quit/get fired?
I worked in a College dorm Cafeteria. Started a year ago in August.
I got it because I signed up for it when the housing application decisions came out. Said I wanted to do it, and I got it.
I got paid 8.35 USD an hour, 9.10 on weekends. Got a 10 cent raise for the second semester. And the reason why is that they have zero benefits. No free or cheaper food, nothing. And you had to be a student at college, not some random person off the street.
I quit, or more like didn't renew my contract, because I don't have time for it next year.
Funny story: People asking if there is meat in the hamburger soup (or meat in the vegetarian soup), whenever we have pot stickers, the line is some 30 people long just for that, I made people more ice cream when I was assigned as a sandwich maker than assigned to make ice cream, people getting locked out at the evening shifts cause the doors auto lock after 7:30 (and then everyone would sit around for 10 minutes wondering where they are), etc.
However, unofficial job (no taxes) was being an AP Chem tutor for $20 an hour while being in AP Chem. It wasn't too difficult IMO, simply help them with homework. And more recently, basically personal tutor for someone for $10 an hour. But I worked like an hour or two a day, every day. So it adds up very quickly.