What was your first real job ?

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

Gas Station attendant 1976 (fired)
Bag Boy 1977 (fired)
USAF 78-82 (honorable discharge...barely)
Machinist 82-84 (quit)
Bartender 83-93 (quit, closed, fired, fired, fired, closed, fired, quit)
Printer 90-94 (fired, quit)
I.T. 92-present.

Good times

[Makara]

Worked at a copy shop in the summers from 13-15
Graphic Designer in summers from 15-19
Intern for film computer animation company at 20
After graduating in 99 I have animation seen in:
Red Planet, Get Over It, Megiddo, Ocean's 11, 13 Ghosts, & Time Machine

[Jim Peffers]

I worked in the Low-Temperature Lab at OSU. My job consisted of operating and maintaining the helium cryostat (produced liquid helium).

[Performin Norman]

Started working at my father's restaurant when I was 13 and learned how to work my butt off at an early age.

[VIPERESS]

13-16 Pumped gas at my uncle's station, did oil changes.
17-19 Cashier at local supermarket (hated it!!)
19-22 ......hmmm...seems to slip my mind
22- present-Registered Nurse

[BWoodbury]

Worked in a magazine and paperback warehouse for $2.00 an hour. Did that for several years. Decided that manual labor and I did not get along. I swore I would never do it for money again. So far, so good.

[RECOIL]

I worked at a Roses Department Store (Sight & Sound Department) for minimum wage back in 1986 (16 years old).

Steve

[2tall]

-McDonalds, 2 years (16-18), never promoted past entry level
-Factory worker, 2 months, fired
-Tech support for Michigan State 1.5 yrs
-Database guy for 3M in St. Paul, MN
-Programmer during college
-TA/instructor
-Lead app eng, let go because I was too expensive
-Project Manager, promoted from software developer 1 month after starting. So far so good.

[OntarioJeff]

Setting pins at a bowling ally for about .40 / game, made enough money to buy hamburger & fries on my bikeride home at 1:00 am.
"the good old days"

[Serious Eric]

13-14 : Mechanic's apprentice/slave/butt-boy @ 'Jesse James Smith Automotive'. $1/hr (promoted)
15-16 : Mechanic/grease monkey ... no longer butt-boy. 1.25/hr (quit)
17-19 : House mover and mechanic for 'Austin House Moving and Wrecking'. Moved houses, not furniture. $4/hr. (caught hair on fire, knocked unconscious, knocked unconscious, electrocuted, shot at, house dropped on me, college lookin good, quit)
20-24 : Mechanic @ 'Ed's Auto Body' during undergrad. $7/hr (quit)
25-28 : Grad research assistant Civil Eng dept. $800/mo. Miscellaneous civil eng consulting work. Nuke plants, highway bridges, high-rises etc $30/hr.


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[RobHook]

I was hired by an Army Research Center as a network administrator the day after I was old enough to work (16). Before that I had done some computer consulting but nothing worth mentioning. Now I own a software development firm and an advertising firm (just started).

Hey Eric, did you work for THE Jesse James? The one who's been in Hot Rod TV so much recently with his motorcycles?

--Rob

[Serious Eric]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by RobHook:

Hey Eric, did you work for THE Jesse James? The one who's been in Hot Rod TV so much recently with his motorcycles?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

No, different generation. Mine was older than that guy.

[Vipermann1]

I worked at Best Buy for $7.35/hour as a computer sales/tech (1 1/2 years)
Then worked for Elek-Tek (computer retailor) .. $8/hour (8 months)
Then for US Robotics as phone support/network engineer .. $50K year (1 1/2 years)
Then Culligan (water company) as WAN Engineer ... $80K year ( 8 months)
Fox Studios (Century City) ... $80 per hour. (YES!) (7 months)
Currently at M-Wired.COM at ($45 per hour). (1 1/2 years)

And looking for a new job as a Senior Network Engineer (Cisco LAN or WAN) or Technical Project manager (anywhere in Los Angeles or surrounding area.) ... so e-mail me if your hiring!

[SteveBCloud9]

Frank's nursery & crafts, $ 3.35 per hour.

[Vreracing]

I got a job in the afternoon in a Barbeque restaurant. The original one Demeris in Houston is still open on Shepard near West Alabama. I got $1.00 an hour. Being the competitive individual I am the manager was going to buy a Potato peeling machine. I out peeled it. Big mistake.

My move was to go to a Pizza Place. Panjo's for all you old Houston people. I only got $1.65 an hour in 1975. You California people just had it too good. I had a '67 Ford XL which used quite a bit of gas so I needed the job.

My last minimum wage job of course was being a Medical Resident in Houston. Even though we were paid about $25K a year, it still translated to less than minimum wage. They started making us keep track of our hours worked, but they stopped when people were turning in time sheets of 120 plus hours a week. (They were real)