What was your very first job?

I did odd jobs when I was in junior high - concession stand at the baseball field (walking distance from home), Wednesday night child care at church (parents drove until I was old enough), babysitting.

My first job that wasn't seasonal was working the information desk at the mall. Great first job! Most nights were slow, so I could read or study. I was 15, and I had a license but not a car, so I drove one of my parent's cars or they dropped me off.

at a small clothing store at the mall in 1985.  the clothes were typical 80's style clothing but i hated that the store owners made us peddle super cheap looking plastic jewelry accessories to go with the clothes.  

My first job was at K-mart  - it would have been in 1970/1 for the long school holiday which was December and January.

My duties where in the Manchester department - folding and re-folding towels and bath mats, repacking sheets that customers had taken from packaging and generally keeping the department tidy. Heaven help if any asked me anything about the products as I certainly did not know much about the products in those days. 

I had to use public transport to get to the store. I enjoyed the time there but I was certainly glad to get back to school at the end of the holidays. 

My first 'real' job was at an insurance company in the city. I was not there long as I transferred to a major hospital and stayed with the hospital system for the following 15 years.

I started making money babysitting at 10, and that became a very steady thing for me for a long time. I had a few families where the days & hours each week were set and I'd fill in all around those set hours with other jobs. In my mid to late teens, I also helped with paper route with my brother, which was surprisingly lucrative as a side gig at the time. I only worked early Sunday mornings (so early!), and the people who only received the Sunday paper tended to tip really well. Used to drive my brother batty that I'd get a larger tip for delivering just the Sunday paper than he might receive from someone he delivered to 7 days a week.

I took a short-term job was a baseball card shop around the time of my high school graduation, and I basically worked there on a substitute basis. It was an easy extra job to fit in around the babysitting, which I continued with into my early 20s. I took a summer job at a local mini golf/bumper boat/batting cage type place around that same time as well. Again, flexible hours was the main draw, as well as being outside a lot.

I worked at an Eckerds Drugstore. I was brokenhearted, as we had just moved to a different state away from my first boyfriend. I would call him on the payphone outside the Eckerds. I guess I went in there enough to get change for the payphone and finally a girl who worked there asked if I wanted a job.

My first ‘job’ was at my parents business.  We owned a (seasonal - May thru Oct) campground.  My mother still worked her normal day job. My father still worked his 3rd shift job, so his days were spent doing the grounds work for the campground or sleeping. It was my job to watch the office, register the campers, answer the phone and take the reservations, and do some chores around the house, etc.  I was 6 when we bought it and started right off. The big joke those first few years was that I had to stand on a milk crate to see over the counter. 😄.

We sold it when I was 15.  But that was my summer for all those years.  It was work, and I was expected to work.  I/We could never do anything or all of us go somewhere together in the summer.  Someone had to always be there so it was 24/7 the entire season. But it also had a lot of great things about it.  We had friends who got seasonal sites there so there were a lot of friend evenings, BBQs, games, etc.  I became friends and got to hangout with a lot of kids.  Some from other states whose families would come every year for a week or two, some local and would come for various weekends (it was not in my school district so they were not school friends but summer friends), and some whose families had seasonal sites and were there most of the summer.  It was hard work and had many cons, but overall was a unique and great way to spend my summers.  I was always happy when we got to move back home/to our house in November, though, and it was just back to normal living. Hahaha.

The summer we sold it I started working for another campground and did that summers until my first full time job out of college . During the winter months through highschool I did a lot of babysitting but no scheduled job.

I did work study and then worked for the food service vendor during college and still did the campground gig during the summers.

After the first couple of years I was paid by my parents. I would save my money to go school clothes shopping or to buy my Skiing season pass.

My first job was working at an Arby's before college. I ended up back there after college when I couldn't find a job in my field. I was a unit trainer and it really prepared me for future jobs.
When I became manager of a major pharmacy I did hiring and whenever I had an application with fast food experience (for an extended timeframe) they went to the top of the pile. I was always commended by upper mgt for having really low turnover. Back then you had to be a good worker to work at them or you would be fired within a week. Now I swear they just need warm bodies.