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Papa John’s delivery guy 🍕
I used to ride my bike to Subway when I was 15.
It was the only place that would hire at 15 around me.
Plumbers assistant. They used to drop me off at the crack of dawn with a shovel and pick, have me dig out a main water line, and then come back 4 hours later to replace the pipe. One of the most satisfying jobs I’ve ever had.
Really? I would have said sounds like hell 😂
Humping shingles for my dads roofing company at age 14
My own business at 9 y.o., picking up fruit from citrus trees, mowing yards, and weeding.
First real job was at a movie theater in high school at 16, worked with my girlfriend. We had fun. 😁
Hanging pizza coupons on doors through neighborhoods that pizza Movers delivered to in Fredrick MD.. was paid cash and pizza cause I was too employ in 8th grade.
A&W Root Beer. They were the only place that would hire kids under 16 that I could find in my city.
Lawn service at 10yrs old.
Bought all my own equipment by 12yrs.
Made $11k cash in 4 months when I was 13yrs old.
Got a job at a gourmet grocery store when I was 15 years old. Made $5 per hour to start and had to pay taxes.
Kept the lawn service going as my real source of income till I was 18yrs old.
I’m not sure what to class as my first job. I used to sort and roll change for a percentage. I was a babysitter, even worked at the daycare in a church nursery. That was all before what I typically consider my first real job, which was working at a McAlister’s Deli when I was 16. It was a deeply unhinged experience.
Car washing the autos home, giving massages to my mom 🤣, cutting yards around my suburbs…trading my baseball cards…all I could do.
Great question!
So many amazing memories and satisfaction comes to mind.
Bought Jolly Ranchers at the gas station by the buss stop for .15cents, would sell them at school for $25cents, if that counts…
Otherwise McDonalds when I was 16
grocery bagger at 15 for $5.15/hr
Cut grass for the neighbors at 14, but first taxable income was McDonalds. Learned a lot.
My first non-farm job was working summers at my grandparents campground, first tax slave job was McDonald’s in high school
Off the books - shoveling snow
On the books - Dairy Queen 🍦
Mowed lawns in the neighborhood from about age 12, then worked at Wendy's for $4.25 (which was min wage) when I could legally work as an employee.
Don't regret any of that. Have done many different things since.
Worked at an assisted living home in their kitchen. The old folks would place their order ahead of time and then we would have to remember all of their names and find them in the dining room among 100 people.
As someone who sucks at names this was hard. The best part was when they would argue "I didn't order this", "yes you did frank"
KFC cook by day, NYC yellow cab by night
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Oh waouh.
Officially, my first taxable income was at 13, summer job in the fields picking melons. Physical as hell, and in the summer sun all day with no cover.
Went back into that company for the next 4 summers, I did anything to not go in the fields ever again, so I became good at doing stuff at the triage factory. Was as physical as the fields, but at least under the factory roof, not in the sun.
On the side in between summers, at high school, same age, i'd sell soda cans at recess. Started out with 5 bucks, ended up being able to buy my first computer end of year. Worked really well :D
night shifts in a closed institution, scary as f, one suicide, and the brother of my friend was atmitted. stopped working there that day