What was you 1st job and how much were you paid?

1986 for me

1978 or very close to that for me.

Mid 70's for my babysitting job, I started with MCI in 1985. I had several jobs in between though.

I'm also one of those strange people who's never been fired. I was laid off at MCI (which was great because I got 3 months severance pay and got a job within a couple of days that didn't start for a month) and I've unfortunately been there when 3 different companies have closed down.

I was "fired" from a waitressing job because supposedly I had served someone who was underage but after an hour or so of finding out what happened several people backed up my story that I had carded and served the guy, then the girl came in when I was in the kitchen and started drinking the beer - just so happened the owner walked by right after the underage chick sat down. They called me asking me to come back but the fact that they didn't believe ME pissed me off so I told them to screw themselves

First job - paper boy
First "real" job - Telemarketing at age 16. $7.00 + commission.

I have some crazy stories from that telemarketing job. This was before *69 & caller ID. I was really good at the job and got lots of sales. I was always very polite as well. If someone didn't want to talk I was Ok with that, would say sorry to bug ya, and move on.

BUT if they were rude to me on the phone I would hold on to the lead with all there info (name/address/phone number). Then at home me and my friends would crank call them.

And we were BAD.... My girlfriend at the time was the best

1. She called a completely random number once, pretended to be a 4 yr home alone scared cause of parental neglect and then gave this random person the home address of one of my "telemarketing leads" so they can send the police over to check on the baby.

2. She called one of my leads once and talked to the Guys wife. "Hello is this Mrs. SoandSo? , Yes it is. Ok, my name is Jasmin and I just wanted to let you know I've been having a secret affiar with your husband, and now I'm pregannt and I thought you should know"

I feel guilty now about it....but at the time it was hilarious.

I get telemarketing calls non stop now....I think I cursed myself for life, lol.

IBM was my first job, i'm not kiding.
my second job was making donuts though

Grocery store stock boy - $6.25/hr

I just thought I'd quote that.

I made $6 an hour doing farmwork. (circa early 1980's)
That was good coin per hour back then, but the work was hard.

way to move on up

I read a book on guys like Lamis. It's called DSM IV.

My first job was mowing lawns for neighbours.. Since then:

Resume writing
Computer store (3 times)
Painted houses
Liquor Store (nights/stocking)
Wrote for AllMusic.com
Venture Capital firm
Raised VC money (3 times)
Bunch of websites and whatnot

If you weren't so "American first" and more "human" people would get along with you better Colin. Just my 2 cents.

My only "real" job was cleaning cars and narrow spaces in an office (where only kids could reach) for about $10/hr.

I was 14 or 15 years old. Made some good money back then

It was a video store helping ppl select movies. I forget how much the pay was, but you can imagine it was low.

My first job was as a Dance Camp Instructor at my Dance studio. I was 14 and made $240 a week for 40 working hours...plus extra studio time.

My next job was selling shoes... no wonder Al Bundy had such an attitude that was the worst job ever! $6.85/hr plus commissions but I had to deal with feet which is definitely NOT my fetish.