Following on from PeterS's paperboy thread, this thread lets us all know how we made our money as a kid/teen. For me it was a paperrun between ages 10-13 and 15-16. Then also at 16 I cooked sausages on a barbeque every saterday morning and gave them free to customers at the place that employed me. At 17 I would chalk car tires (ducks from abuse) at the local mall and then ring the tow truck if they were there for too long. Now im 18 and am a burger flipper at McDonalds What did you do in your younger years???
10-12, Bag boy at supermarket. 12-14, Sales/stocking at snowboard/bike store. 14-15, Tommy's Neighbourhood pub (dishes, busing, hosting) 16-19, Landscaping in the summer, Ski Instructor in the winter. 19 now and still landscaping, going to university this fall.
11-12 Paper route - man was that gay. Getting up at like 6:30am.... 11- now Lawn mowing/yardwork/painting/whateverelse
I was 6. Store opened at 7. Produce was by back door before 7. First thing was to rinse earth off a few things, while cwts. of potatoes, rice, beans were lifted by whichever uncle into store. This was back when rice and beans straight from the barrel were in favor, y'see... So, I not only learned a bit about produce throughout the early years, but had the best collection of chiquita banana NFL team stickers in '71 - but, by that time, I'd been hanging out in the meat department a while, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
14-18 - Procrastinator 16-18 - Computer Analyst fixing Windows 3.11 and 95 issues. 18-19 - Helping install flooring with my Father
0-10 --no job 11-13-- no job 14-- some dumb job I ended getting after I tagged along with one of my friends to a golf course. Basicly I would sit at hole 9 and ask them if they wanted my to wipe their golf clubs off, 90% of them said no. Some of them quite rudley. I never showed up to that job again after the 2nd day. 14 + 3 days and on---no job, i just lift weights and do sprint workouts all the time.
11-13: Bartender at a small ski lodge. I didn't like drinking the stuff, but it was fun to pour. Only did it during ski season. I made tips only 14-15: Grocery bagger at the base commissary...still my highest paying job per hour (about $35-45/hour, all cash). Fired because I called the manager a "fat thieving b****" for stealing tips...darn. 15-16: Manager of a nuclear powerplant spare parts company warehouse. This was only for a summer to fill-in for a guy who had a heart attack. It wasn't nearly as cool as it sounds. FYI, did you ever wonder what they used to clean all the condenser tubes and much of the small diameter piping in a nuke plant? Sponge balls. Coated in some funky high tech abrasive, but basically just sponge balls. 17-18: Worked as a server in a small restaurant on a military base. My boss had a serious Napoleon complex...little man always had to yelling at someone.
first job when i was 13 was chasing cows on bikes, like 15 gazillion of them in the aussie outback. from there i had probably a dozen outbackish jobs like sheep sheary dude, muleser, painter, builder, concreter... loads of stuff. by the time i was 14 i was a kangaroo shooter, spending 8-12 hours a night driving around the outback collecting meat/skins. 15 i moved to 'the big smoke' and got a job in a video store. haven't done anything useful for humanity since.
At age 10, I started hanging out at a music store up the street from my house. Evelyn (the manager) could not get rid of me, so she let me come in after school and be her 'clean-up the store' boy. After a year there, Evelyn realized that I wanted to sell. She started teaching me the nuts and bolts of Yamaha pianos and organs. She said that if I listened to her for a year, I could wait on customers. After a year, I had her pitch down stone cold. At 12, I was selling pianos. Customers could not believe who they were listening to and giving $5-8K to for a major purchase! I worked at this store for four years until I moved to Reno. I went there every day after school and worked every weekend that I could remember. From 12-14, I had a key to the store. I opened up on the weekends and usually locked things up at night. I helped run the music school scheduling, did the bank deposits, rented instruments and sold all of the instruments (Full line shop with pianos, organs, guitars, banjo's and accessories). From 12-14, I did all of this for five dollars a week. My biggest regret in life was not staying in touch with Evelyn after I moved. I loved that lady and she set me on a great path in life like nobody ever did. As she put it, I was her 'Little Shlt'!
13-14: Dug fence post holes and cleared brush for $4/Hr. So much fun, I now do it for free whenever I get the chance. 15-16: Dug fence post holes and cleared brush for $5/Hr. (I got a raise cause I got old enough to use a chain saw.) 17-18: I was Chuck E. Cheese. $5.35/Hr. I still have nightmares.
12-14 Worked at campground cleaning and raking campsites. 2.55/hr 15-16 Parents signed off on age to work at McDonald's..when I wasn't serving customers, I was out picking used rubbers out of the bushes lining the parkinglot. 3.55/hr 17-18 Park Ranger at a state Park...great job except for having the clean outhouses behind tourists who didn't want their butts to touch the seat...hence, losts of aerial drops that missed their targets. Major benefit was patrolling the camps at 6:30am while the female european tourists took their topless spongebaths. $6.25/hr
At 14 cleaning toilets in a Machine shop. 30 years later still there but as the President. Have never worked anywhere else. Very boring going into the same building for 30 years straight.
8-18 cutting/triming trees, fixing machinery, mowing, mowing, and more mowing, picking apples, making apple cider, bailing hay, digging post holes, etc... Learned a lot about being self sufficient and getting things done on time.
Aged 7, my 1st job was as Michael Jackson's friend! We used to sit around and sing the Club song for West Ham Football Club.....I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles. No pay until I offered to write about my career in the National Enquirer, then it paid millions!
16-18 Land developer 18-19 Luxury home broker 19-20 Cigar magnate 21-22 Female hygiene consultant 22-23 Airplane broker 16-23 Graphic designer and web sigh designer 22-22 Bouncer at parties for hire 23 charity enhancement coordinator. I know it's a lot, but it has afforded me the opportunity to have some great cars and houses.
(1) 15-16: Landscaping and house painting. (2) 16: McDonald's for two weeks; that sucked. (3) 16-19 (summer job when back from college): Refueled and cleaned aircraft at my local airport. Ironically enough, I'm flying an Apache into the very same airport this summer (29 Jul-1 Aug 05) for an airshow. Dane
11 or so: Homemade miniature golf course Same age: Sold lemonade and used toys 16: Tropical fish store (a nightmare) 18: Hardees (also a nightmare) 18: Korvettes 18: Heckscher State Park (running a concession stand)
Sam, Ref Hardees: I hear ya.' McDonald's was no big treat. I only lasted two weeks. Ref Korvettes: What the heck is "Korvettes?" Ref the concession stand: What were you selling? Was it legal? See below.... Image Unavailable, Please Login
Amazing...and all this before age 24!!! A guy with a resume this impressive should have his own scam named after him by 30!!!!!!!!!!!!