First Jobs

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Just curious as to how everyone started there working career.

My first and current job is working with my dad at his deck building company. Its hard work but its keeps me busy and it pays pretty good. He pays me $10 an hour and I usually spend 20-30 hours on each deck through a course of about three weeks. This year I've made about $2300 of which I only spent $50 for GT4 and $75 on ex-girlfriend. I'm saving the rest for a car.
 
My first job was as an office Junior working for a small Telecoms company that specialised in mobile phones, I ended up progresing in that company quite fast. I started on £140 per-week and within my first year I was on £230, after 2 1/2 years working there the company wen't into liquidation, I lost my job on a Friday, and started a new job in the same market the Monday after and recieved my redundency pay.

Currently I have 3 jobs, one is part time, one is my own work and one is doing bits of accounting though thats not got moving much yet because the companies product hasn't been launched yet.

I spend about £1300 per-month before I can put any money away or spend it on me or her, that includes the mortgage and all my utilities and other bills.
 
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I haven't bought a video game since GT4 in May and I'm single so no girlfriend to keep happy. I cant really think of any other things I spend money on.
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....food? You're never out with your friends and decide to stop at a burger joint for some food? Or movies? ANything fun at all, or do you just sit at home and play GT4 all day?
 
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....food? You're never out with your friends and decide to stop at a burger joint for some food? Or movies? ANything fun at all, or do you just sit at home and play GT4 all day?
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I dont really play PS2 that much anymore. I just hang out with my friends in my neighborhood. Or I'm online chattin wit them or browsin GTP.

Edit: That and I play my guitar alot.
 
I'm only 15 so its just a part time job and I'm still in school. Thing is I'm homeschooled so I dont really have a use for a cell phone till I get a car and a drivers liscence, then I plan on just goin places just to get away from my house.
 
Fair enough, I never spent much money when I was 15, I never had a job when I was 15 either :lol:.
 
Erm.. Dunno if this counts but my work experience was at McDonalds of all places... (Stupid BAR didn't accept me with 2 days before the start!! So I was left with that)

Its lasted 1 day before I decided to quit because it sucked... Total ass.
 
Bee
Erm.. Dunno if this counts but my work experience was at McDonalds of all places... (Stupid BAR didn't accept me with 2 days before the start!! So I was left with that)

Its lasted 1 day before I decided to quit because it sucked... Total ass.
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BAR factory... as in British Assault Rifle factory? Coolio.

I worked at Wendy's for 2 months, quit after I got tired of not knowing what anyone was saying.

I then worked at Subway for a year and 5 months, and I'll work there over X-Mas break. I love it there, my Subway is never busy, too bad the Subway I'll be working at around Christmas is ultra busy cuz it's in a Wal-Mart... :indiff:

Currently, I work for CITES Classroom Technologies with my university. Very easy job. 👍 20 hours a week, $8/hr. :D
 
My first job was a 3 week summer job at the city cemetery, in July. Did some maintenance stuff, and mainly mowed lawn. Made around 800€, which was pretty nice 'cause I really don't have any real expenses.
 
I painted a doctor's office for the grand sum of $5 an hour. I was 15.
I think I made about $250 for that job.

When I was sixteen. The first "real" job (taxes paid on it) was working at an ice skating rink when I was 16.
 
I worked at an car customization shop doing odds and ends. Mostly sweeping the floor, putting boxes on the shelf, stuff like that. I made 6.50 an hour, but I was around some cool cars, in fact that is where I got my Eclipse from.
 
Sweeping at a furniture factory... Booooring as hell, but the money was good (at the time ;) )
 
I had my first job at 17. I was a computer technician for the high school district.
 
My first "real" job (as opposed to a paper round*) was working in a frozen food supermarket called Iceland. I progressed gradually through the ranks, from shelf-stacker, all the way to the dizzy heights of 'Cold Room Supervisor' (I got a big thick coat for that :D ) In the interim, I worked on the till... an experience that to this day I think was hugely valuable.... not least because I learned to distinguish between 12x4 and 24x2 packs of Kit Kats (that oddly enough were differently priced, despite each containing 48 sticks of Kit Kat each....:odd: ) Also, I worked with a girl called Fiona, who I'd later meet at a rock festival and chat for a bit, reminiscing about our days as Iceland employees... she was like a cross between Kylie Minogue and Sheryl Crow, gorgeous yet nobody's fool... years then passed, and I chanced upon her again, on New Year's Eve, 2002... we arranged to meet on New Year's Day for a drink, and she was about to give me her number and I said "Wait, I'll go get a pen and be back in a second"... but on my way to get a pen, I got dragged away by a couple of mates, and after a while, she was gone... and I never saw her again... :(

* 418 houses, 1 pence a paper (£4.18 for 4 hours work... :sick: )
 
Touring Mars
My first "real" job (as opposed to a paper round*) was working in a frozen food supermarket called Iceland. I progressed gradually through the ranks, from shelf-stacker, all the way to the dizzy heights of 'Cold Room Supervisor' (I got a big thick coat for that :D ) In the interim, I worked on the till... an experience that to this day I think was hugely valuable.... not least because I learned to distinguish between 12x4 and 24x2 packs of Kit Kats (that oddly enough were differently priced, despite each containing 48 sticks of Kit Kat each....:odd: ) Also, I worked with a girl called Fiona, who I'd later meet at a rock festival and chat for a bit, reminiscing about our days as Iceland employees... she was like a cross between Kylie Minogue and Sheryl Crow, gorgeous yet nobody's fool... years then passed, and I chanced upon her again, on New Year's Eve, 2002... we arranged to meet on New Year's Day for a drink, and she was about to give me her number and I said "Wait, I'll go get a pen and be back in a second"... but on my way to get a pen, I got dragged away by a couple of mates, and after a while, she was gone... and I never saw her again... :(

* 418 houses, 1 pence a paper (£4.18 for 4 hours work... :sick: )
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You seriously need a kick in the face over the Fiona story... That is just not right. Mates will wait - she won't....
 
Touring Mars
I chanced upon her again, on New Year's Eve, 2002... we arranged to meet on New Year's Day for a drink, and she was about to give me her number and I said "Wait, I'll go get a pen and be back in a second"... but on my way to get a pen, I got dragged away by a couple of mates, and after a while, she was gone... and I never saw her again... :(
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:lol: That's hilarious (in a good way).

I've never had a job, but yesterday I sold a guitar for $175. Probably the most cash I've ever had at one time.
 
ceiling_fan
:lol: That's hilarious (in a good way).
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It's not hilarious - It's a bloody catastrophe.... I'd beat myself up with a shovel over throwing away a cross between Crow and Kylie...
 
Flerbizky
It's not hilarious - It's a bloody catastrophe.... I'd beat myself up with a shovel over throwing away a cross between Crow and Kylie...
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You mean Crowley??
(you're quite right though.... :( )
 
Touring Mars
You mean Crowley??
(you're quite right though.... :( )
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I know.. That's why I said so..... I've had one episode like that, And I really don't want to bring it up.....
 
Other than various paper routes (less then 5 cents/paper X 80-90 houses + rain = :guilty: ).
Then I worked at the Dairy Queen for about 3 months, and got fired as a direct result of a lack of training (shoddy management).
That was about a year and a half ago, and I started at a gas station/convenience store in September for $8.00/hour. It's all self serve (good) but it's the second busiest station on Vancouver Island (fairly constant customers).
 
Last year I tutored kids in math for $15/hour. This August, I decided to take a job at the Tutoring Center, and I quit in October for various reasons. Now I’m back to tutoring math for $15/hour, and it’s actually enjoyable and a lot less of a hassle.
 
I'm working in a delicatessen at Coles, my local supermarket. I hate it with all my being but I'm too lazy to seriously look for another job (Outside of just yelling at my friends to get my a job where they work) but it's just to save for my car, and I've done that so I blow it on anything I want.
 
I worked as a trench plumber making about 14$ an hour, 60 hours a week. driving a huge cube van around the city hooking up pipes and waterline in very cold weather. :nervous:
 
My first job was as a general labourer at a fruit & veg farm. It was mainly serving customers in the farm shop, but there was also some farming to do - planting and harvesting, driving tractors, that sort of thing. It was a 60-hour week, £3.50/hr for the first 35hrs, then £4.90 thereafter.
 

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