What was your first job when you were growing up?

hi vingyan06 well most farm kids learn to help out at an early age so I guess I was about seven when I learned to pick strawberries, and green beans, fresh peas, and heads of lettuce It all seemed more like fun to me as I was working alongside my mom and my grandpa.I was not paid except in fresh fruits and veggies. Then in my teens I helped my mom to harvest our apple crop and I did share in the proceeds from the sale of the fruit and felt very much the young adult with my own first earned money. I guess I was fifteen or so at the time.

my first job was a cashier crew at jollibee store. I was in college that time. Actually I did that job not because of extra income while studying but for some experience purposes and to get away from a boyfriend who was coming home for a vacation from USA and forcing me to marry him.hehehe. I was young and I don't want to get married until I didn't finish my college. But being a crew at jollibee I learned a lot. It was really difficult to work in a fastfood chain that a lot of customers are coming. My lips were always dried up because of talking to much, as expected of course coz i have to get their orders and suggest a product. i had no regrets anyway.

i was 15 when i started work. Everyone else in my class was 16 , but because of my birthday, I was always the youngest.i had the opportunity in my school to stay on and perhaps go on to art school, but i opted to go out to work because all my friends went to work and had money to spend on makeup and clothes. my first job was with a big retail company. i worked in the office with lots of older women. my first wage packet was the sum of three pounds 10 shillings. (which incidentally is a lot less than the lowest hourly rate in my country ) We are talking 1963, the year of the Beatles, swinging London etc., Although I had got o levels, a levels and royal society of arts exam passes plus high results in shorthand and typing, my job was making tea and filing. just a little bit disappointing when you are 15.

My first job was when i was still at school.Iwas cleaning a factory of an evening for two hours every day.Then when i left school i was working as a poultry processor.I then went on todo looking after the elderly when i was in my twenties and now i am a full time mum married with six children.

I remembered applying for a promoter job with Procter & Gamble while waiting for my ACCA Level 1 result. Got the job but not sure to promote what until the briefing session. It seems they launch the latest product at that time in 1988..you guess what is the product? It is the latest design of sanitary pad with 'wings' for better protection. I was designated at a Chinese area (Savemart) which at that time I can't speak a single word of 'Cantonese' (a Chinese dialect)as I came from outstation. Hahaha, so what I did was just memorised those important words and descriptions of the benefit of that particular design sanitary pad. You know what, ended up I am one of the highest sales volume in Klang Valley..after Sungei Wang Plaza. At that point of time I am 20 years old.

hi vingyan.. interesting topic that could catch my eyes nowadays... I started my first job at the age of 17, when I officially finished by high school exam, and in the run of waiting for my results. I have contemplated if I want to start work immediately, or should I go for a long long holiday. However I decided to start work on 1 Jan 1996, which is the beginning of the year, after resting at home for 2 months, after the exam. I started as a admin asst dealing with shares market working with the top remisiers. I have then learned my first ever share trading, and knows how the participation affect the market movements. Overall, my jobs aspect has been very interesting, and not many in my friends group actually have this kind of career path.. I am glad to where I am..

I was 20 or so when I first started working and that was as a secretary during my college break. I was visiting my parents on vacation and this job came up at a place that my dad knew and he asked me if I would be interested. I had nothing much to do and I thought it would be fun and took it up. It was good and it helped me get my major job after I graduated...at the same place but a different department with better prospects.

My first job was babysitting. I was either 11 or 12 years old, and I watched a baby and a little kid. I never liked babysitting, although I did it a lot to make money for some of the fun things that I wanted. I also had a paper route - for like a week. And when I got out of High School, I worked at McDonald's. I actually worked there for a few years while I went to college.

Hi vingyan06! I got my first job immediately after graduating from the university. Actually the job was offered to me even before graduation. It was indeed a blessing. I was so elated when I started with my job. I am still doing my first job until now. By the way, I am teaching in the same university where I graduated from.

Hi there vingyan06! I remember selling chocolates and cookies when I was in high school. My teachers have always mentioned that one day I will make a good businesswoman. Immediately after college, I was hired by the university where I graduated from. I started teaching then after a couple of years, started my business and added more businesses. Yes, I am an entrepreneur and a teacher at the same time. My teachers back in high school were right.

My first job was a cashier in a fastfood. I was 19 years old when I got my first job. Im working and studying at the same time due to financial problem. My desire for landing a job prompted me to look around and lucky found this food chain.

My first job was helping a friend of my dad. He was moonlighting, cleaning an office building at night. I earned enough for gas money and to take my girlfriend out on dates. I was sixteen. When I turned eighteen, my dad's friend turned the cleaning business over to me and I continued to work it for another year or two.

A part-time job I had,something like promote sales,four day and 120RMB,to be equivalent to around 20$.It's important and being pedagogical meaning for me,I have not earn by myself.And now memorize used the money to buy a gift for my parents was really good,definitely,Mom always laughed as saw the gift.

I wac doing a part-time this year, they find the work I did not imagine so easy .

I was 17 and a senior in High school. The job lasted four days before I decided to quit because I was afraid I wouldn't pay attention to my studies. Also I was a waitress and fellow waitresses were confusing and often told me I had to do it their way or I wasn't doing it right. Too much pressure for me, so I quit.

I was a lifeguard and taught swim lessons at the city pool. I was 15 when I started and stuck with that job for almost 6 years. They always paid above minimum wage and I got raises every year, so I figured why leave? I was a swimmer and always at the pool anyway. Most of the people I competed with worked there too. We all knew we would get hired, so it was just the natural progression.

Of course, I had babysitting jobs but my first real job was at McDonalds. I believe everyone has worked there atleast once in their lives. or atleast somewhere like it. McDonalds is some much more common because there are so many of them every where.

My first job I consider was an enumerator/interviewer in a national survey when I was 17 or 18 years old. It was a summer work program offered in my college. I can't remember the rate anymore but I was able to buy my first guitar and shoes for first day of class. It was only a two-week work. It was fun though. Then I had other part time jobs also while I was studying e.g. student assistant in the university and an enumerator again in a different national survey.

when I was a child I took upon my self to dress up and put real sellable product in my brief case and went form door to door at stores attempting to sell my product. I also sold candy in my school.

My first job after I finished high school was as a relieve teacher in primary school. I was taking a class for Math on my first day of work, and the children were all screaming for attention. I don't really have the patience, and when the kids started asking so many questions all at once, I kinda lost my cool. And believe it or not, I quit after my first day! Haha!