How old were you when you got your first job?

March 17, 2007 12:49pm CST
i've yet to get a real job, and i'm just wonder how old people were when they got their first one?
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14 responses
@horsesrule (1957)
• United States
17 Mar 07
I began babysitting when I was 13 or so. I started working in a plumbing store as a cashier when I was 15 years old. That was exciting! I made $1.75 an hour and thought that I was rich!
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@rosking (39)
• Australia
24 Mar 07
I was 14 when I got my first job. It was in a hotel working behind the bar and helping out in the kitchen.
@nairjula (453)
• India
19 Mar 07
I was 25 when I got my first job. The next day of finishing my studies, I was into job. I thought was really lucky to have a job by that ages especially in a country like India where joblessness is severe.
@rubix18 (24)
19 Mar 07
As for my real or should I say my full-time job, I started when I was 20.It's after graduation..
@rubix18 (24)
19 Mar 07
I got my first job when I was 18. I was a private tutor and it's a part-time job because I'm still studying that time.I had fun while earning money for allowance...
18 Mar 07
i was 15 and it was a YTS as a dress maker i hated it
@ahalapia (942)
• United States
17 Mar 07
I started working when I was 14 years old, and before that I volunteered at several different places just to get experience in different fields.
• China
17 Mar 07
i was 23 years old when i got my first job.i graduated from college,i studied hotel management,so i worked in a hotel.
• United States
17 Mar 07
I didn't have a "real' job (meaning W-2's, taxes taken out, etc)until I was 18. My parents wanted me to concentrate on my studies in high school. I did things like yard work and babysitting to earn a little money starting when I was 14 or so, but not very often. We travelled overseas in the summers, so I didn't work on those vacations either growing up.
• Italy
17 Mar 07
I got my first job when I was 30. You know, here in Italy we begin very late, because of our universities that are very full and very difficult to attend.
@ragemdw (78)
• United States
17 Mar 07
The summer going into ninth grade I got a job. So I guess I was 14. I worked for Allstate as a telemarketer. I tried to get people to do an insurance quote by calling them. I did not know how to talk to people and I was really bad. I had awful people skills at that point and could do so much better know. It was still horrible. Thank God it was only a few nights a week.
@David_B (89)
17 Mar 07
I got my first job when I was 16. Delivering newspapers from 3.00 - 5.00 during the night. Not very pleasant but it was a job and I was happy with it.
@Matadoor (47)
• Sweden
17 Mar 07
I 've got my first job when i was 24
@Dave3820 (25)
• Canada
17 Mar 07
I got my first job near the end of my last year in high school. I was working in a grocery store. I was working there a lot at first but eventually then had me working there only on saturdays. I worked there every saturday for 4 years and I didn't like working there anymore so I left and got a job at Zellers but only worked there for a year because I that's when I went back to college but I haven't been working for over a year now.