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When you first got a job, how did you go into it? Were you nervous, or excited?

Did you go into it because maybe you were pressured to by either your family or other circumstances? Or was it a decision that you took upon yourself to really be your emancipation for your coming years?

Did you regret perhaps starting so early, or was it the right time?

Was it what you expected, or far worse?

Some of you may have had to take their first job while still studying during the school year; was the pressure too much for you, or were you able to handle it fairly?
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100 hour weeks (I worked every single day for two months at one point) working on an online platform that turned out to be a disaster
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Construction job. I crashed a forklift and ran like hell home.
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mcdonalds senior year. only job i applied to and just cause a friend that worked there told me to. was nervous at the interview but got the job. nervous to start work but that's every job till you been there a few days then things are fine. probably still the easiest job i had but at the time hated it.

picking strawberries at like 14

I don't remember why I took on it and it sucked but I dealt with it suprisingly better than I do any job today

Cartwheel_Kick posted...

picking strawberries at like 14

I don't remember why I took on it and it sucked but I dealt with it suprisingly better than I do any job today

How much was the pay for that?
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Worked "Hospitality Staff" for an outdoor amphitheatre.

Pretty sweet gig.

Show up, get the concession and theatre ready, hop into the golf cart with my buddy to direct traffic in the parking lot until the show starts. Clean up after the catering, eat the leftovers.

Intermission, run the popcorn machine. Leave with my buddy after intermission to "check the parking lot" (One of the actresses had a stalker so we had to wander around and act like we knew what we were doing). That essentially turned into us doing stupid shit with our golf cart and eating nachos.

End of play, clean the theatre, go home.

Really the worst part of it is that the songs to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Into the Woods, and one other musical I forget the name of are burned into my fucking soul.
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Got a job as a flow team dude over at Target right after graduatin' high school. Never been innerested in college'n just wanted ta get ta work ASAP. Figured that kinda job was a good enough start. Stayed there for about two years. For the most part I liked it; job was easy'n early int he mornin', plus it was part-time so I only had ta work every other day or so. Was also only a twenty-five minute walk from my house

But when yer good at a job like that, all ya get is bein' responsible for pickin' up the slack'a everyone else who sucks at it. Didn't like the new managers we were gettin', everyone only stayed the minimum hours'n dragged ass when they were there'n I'd picked up a second job so I didn't have the time ta stay there for near-full-time hours like I had been doin' so I ended up leavin'

Mako_Sharknado posted...

Never been innerested in college'n

Gee, never would have guessed.
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Worked as an assistant to this lady who made gluten free and vegan sweets. Was very nervous my first day as I did not know what to expect. That lead to working in a chocolate factory which was an amazing experience.
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My first ever job was as a soccer referee for a youth league. On my second ever game my entire team of coworkers quit (just never showed up) and leave me to do a 3 person job. Setting up and taking down the nets was the biggest bitch. And I pretty much had to run the entire distance of the field every time to have the proper vantage for calls. And I didn't get a single break for 8 straight hours of games.

Mind you, I never got the contact info for my manager from my first shift so I had no means of letting him know I was down 2 other refs so I basically did the job every weekend on my own for the entire season. Come the final game, he shows up and was like, "wait, you did this all on your own?"

Promoted me on the spot.

Was switched to managing 3 simultaneous fields and was in charge of hiring my own referees. But as a high school student, I didn't really have the network to hire anyone other than high school friends. They weren't the most reliable. Turns out it was much more of a hassle dealing with them than just doing the work on my own. Eventually it just wasn't worth it and I quit.

Not bad for 15 at the time. Pay was good, but the hours were limited to just weekends.
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FlashOfLight posted...

When you first got a job, how did you go into it? Were you nervous, or excited?

Sister's bf moved to our city and was looking for work, a new store opened up and he got a job there. They needed temporary labourers so I joined on and eventually stayed on as permanent staff for about 4-5 months (and joined them a year later, alternating between full-time and part-time as my occupation with university permitted). I was both nervous and excited. We worked 8-9hrs a day, 6 days a week for about 2-3 months until the store opened.

Did you go into it because maybe you were pressured to by either your family or other circumstances? Or was it a decision that you took upon yourself to really be your emancipation for your coming years?

Nah, I just felt like I should start working because it would be a valuable life experience and cultivate an important ethic.

Did you regret perhaps starting so early, or was it the right time?

I was 16 --- I feel that's a good time.

Was it what you expected, or far worse?

It was a bit hectic and scary at the beginning. Lots of uncouth tradies that were kind of dicks to newbies, but also lots of good fellas. When the store opened and I was on as a full-time storeman doing furniture removal and driving the forklift, it was good so long as management wasn't trying to tell us how to do things and it was just the boys having bantz and working hard.

Some of you may have had to take their first job while still studying during the school year; was the pressure too much for you, or were you able to handle it fairly?

I think I started working on the penultimate or final week of the school term for that year, so I just stopped going on days I had work. When I went back to school next year I didn't work until near the end of the year when I did the same thing.
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Shit
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dragnmaninferno posted...

Worked as an assistant to this lady who made gluten free and vegan sweets. Was very nervous my first day as I did not know what to expect. That lead to working in a chocolate factory which was an amazing experience.

Aw I wanna work there.
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FlashOfLight posted...

Cartwheel_Kick posted...

picking strawberries at like 14

I don't remember why I took on it and it sucked but I dealt with it suprisingly better than I do any job today

How much was the pay for that?

shit. a few bux per crate which took around an hour to collect unless you were one of those illegal mexicans whose lives depended on it