Question about your first job

[Miss Chicken]

Do you remember how much you were paid?

My first job - excluding babysitting and occasionally doing the evening shift in the hospital canteen my mother ran - was as a fruit and veggie packer and I got $42 a week (for a 40 hour week). This was back in 1975 and I was 17. I had to give my mother $10 board and I remember that an LP record cost $4.99 at the time.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Dunkin Donuts clerk. $4.25 an hour.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I had a student job at the university. I was paid $5.15 an hour, the minimum wage at the time.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Very first job - Paper Route. I actually paid for the privilege to deliver papers and then to collect from subscribers to get my money back and profit.

My first real job with W2 forms, etc, was a local drug store/convenience store that was part of a chain that got bought out by Walgreens. I got 6.15/hr (state minimum wage) when I ran register/stocked shelves. When I was switched over to film (which was really cool, because I got to look at everybody's pictures), I got my bumped to an impressive 6.25

 

[Finn]

$4.15, I think, working at a summer camp when I was in high school.

 

[RoJoHen]

I was a bagger at a grocery store. I started at minimum wage, which was $6.35 at the time. This was in 2001 right after I turned 16.

 

[Subcommander R.]

$10/hr

I waved signs directing people to housing developments. It was a weekends-only gig, great for students. But my mom made me quit it when a guy got shot to death on the corner I worked the week before.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Not counting paying childhood jobs on a paper route, working at my Dad's print shop, and working at my school, my first "real" job started at $4.25 an hour (minimum wage in California in 1990) as a cart boy at Target when I was 16.

 

[STR]

$8-9 something an hour. I worked as a videographer for my local city. Not many hours though, but it filled my gas tank up.

 

[Lowdarzz]

I worked at a library re-shelving books for $6.10 per hour.

 

[think]

delivering the true grit newspaper job found in the back of a comic book ,, maybe it was my mad magazine ad section but their it was ,, get paid delivering news papers like "True Grit" although none of my googlings have turned up that paper anywhere, was it just a dream?

 

[WillsBabe]

I worked in Boots. I started as a Christmas temp while I was at school and then in turned into a regular Saturday job. I remember enjoying wearing the uniform, which was a blue pinafore dress with a flowering blouse underneath. I wore white tights (as was the fashion at the time) and a pair of snazzy blue shoes with a kitten heel and a zip. I remember being particularly fond of those shoes because I bought them myself. I earned about £11 a day. I defected to Woolworths not long after, where I got a pay rise to £13 per day. The staff discount was better too, and I seem to recall that the staff at Woolies didn't have such a high opinion of themselves as the ones in Boots!

 

[TerokNor]

First jobs without degree payed 8-9.50 Euro per hour (filing, mugging out/feeding horses, vacation-camps, taxes I had to pay of this I got back in the end of the year as those were student-jobs).

First job WITH degree paid 10 Euro per hour (40 hours/week, also weekend/ night and holidays, ... minus taxes and such stayed 6.25 Euro/hour, quite laughable!).

TerokNor

 

[Geck]

Public library, started in Sept 1999 at (I believe) $6.85/hr, which was the minimum wage at the time. Worked there all through high school, until summer 2003, and was up to about $8 by that time.

Minimum wage is up to $10.25 now I think...if only I had been a decade younger, I could have saved up a lot more over four years!

 

[RoJoHen]

Minimum wage is up to $10.25 now I think...if only I had been a decade younger, I could have saved up a lot more over four years!

Maybe. As minimum wage goes up, shit gets more expensive.

 

[Geck]

Maybe. As minimum wage goes up, shit gets more expensive.

True, but I didn't spend much as a teenager. Probably 95% of what I earned those years went into the bank until I went to university.

 

[RoJoHen]

I am terribly impulsive with my money. I see something shiny, and I buy it.

It's worse now that I'm older, because now I see something shiny, and I charge it to my credit card.

At least when I was younger my spending was limited to the amount of cash in my pocket.

 

[Pingfah]

Working in a rare record store on Saturdays, started when i was about 15 in 1992.

I got £5 an hour. By contrast the minimum wage for 16 year olds now, almost 20 years later, is £3.64 an hour. So I was doing pretty well for myself.

 

[Naira]

My first job is my current job. I part-time as an instructor at a Technological Institution and get paid ~13 euros per hour (I was getting paid ~10 euros per hour at the beginning).

 

[Mary Ann]

In the '85-'86 schoolyear I was 17 and got my first after-school job as a cashier at a drug store. I started at $3.15 (Cdn) and that was raised to $3.50 a few months later. Shortly before I turned 18 I lost that job. The store owner was notorious for firing kids just before they turned 18 so that he wouldn't have to pay them the adult minimum wage. Within a couple of months I'd found another after-school job that paid about $4.25.