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Buzzetta

January 9, 2008, 05:47 PM

esheh195

January 9, 2008, 05:50 PM

My first...and sadly, my best to date, job was when I was 16 at Jim Hanley's Universe comic book store in Staten Island, right around the corner of my house.
http://www.comicscope.com/Companies'%20Logos,Banners,etc/Jim-Hanleys-Universe.jpg

It was really relaxed, you could play music, chat with people and read comics all day long.
They also had a policy that workers could *ahem* borrow new arrivals as well as the older, more pricey back issues from the basement to bring home and read. All you had to do to bring the books home was write down what you were leaving the store with and check it off when you returned. Um...we left that last part out.:D:o:p

In case anyone from JHU is reading this..I was just kidding about the last part. :rolleyes:

Not Right in the Head

January 9, 2008, 06:02 PM

pre-16: newspaper delivery
16 & 17: summer camp counselor
16: busboy at a Greek restaurant
16-19: drug store clerk
18-20: dormitory food service lackey
21-23: pizza deliverer (awesomest.job.evar)
22-24: Latin teacher
24-26: Web site designer/book proofreader
24-25: computer tech support supervisor
25-34: various techie jobs
34-present: SoLow junkie

Jose

January 9, 2008, 06:02 PM

My first job (I was 15) was dressing people like you see below, before they had their picture taken. It was a summer job. It was very hectic especially if there were large families (grandparents, couple of their kids+partners, screaming grandkids...)
It wasn't easy for the photographers either, they had to make sure everybody was smiling and looking into the camera. :D

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/9665/dsc7848eo3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

hatfull

January 9, 2008, 06:10 PM

I washed dishes in a pub.

EPbabe

January 9, 2008, 06:38 PM

McDonalds, Budapest, Western Railway Station. I was 16 (clumsy and shy, sorry). It was a crap job but I don't mind having it done cause now I can appreciate everything else. :rolleyes:

http://images.google.hu/url?q=http://www.budapesthotels.com/slides/32.jpg&usg=AFQjCNHEWCKw7oUQpzQndh1XPt08bTCImQ

Not Right in the Head

January 9, 2008, 06:39 PM

Skinner

January 9, 2008, 06:51 PM

16-17 I was a receptionist at an old folks home for the memory impaired.
Once, one of the old people snuck out without me knowing. She thought it was 1965 and she had to get the train home to see her family. When she was returned, and I discovered what happened I got so upset I started having a panic attack, hyperventilated, and almost had to be hospitalized.

I quit the next day.

EPbabe

January 9, 2008, 06:52 PM

http://images.google.hu/url?q=http://www.budapesthotels.com/slides/32.jpg&usg=AFQjCNHEWCKw7oUQpzQndh1XPt08bTCImQ

That's a McDonalds?!?

Yes, it is. :cool: Well, it used to be the restaurant of the railway station but it had been closed down for years when McDonalds bought it and restored it. Lovely, isn't it?

Buzzetta

January 9, 2008, 06:55 PM

That's a McDonalds?!?

Here on Long Island there is a McDonalds in New Hyde Park. We referred to it as McDonalds on the Green as it was built into a "historic landmark" house that dated back to the early 1800's. It is a beautiful house...when I get home I will try to find a picture of it online if you have not already by then.

esheh195

January 9, 2008, 07:05 PM

Here on Long Island there is a McDonalds in New Hyde Park. We referred to it as McDonalds on the Green as it was built into a "historic landmark" house that dated back to the early 1800's. It is a beautiful house...when I get home I will try to find a picture of it online if you have not already by then.

Of course, you said 'picture' so I took that as a personal challenge cuz I'm sick like that. haha :o:D
Here's all I could find:
There's the colonial McDonald's in New Hyde Park, NY (on Long Island). The landmark commission wouldn't let them tear down the historic mansion they purchased, so they restored the outside and converted the inside to a fast food restaurant

mozzette

January 9, 2008, 07:09 PM

Archaeologist. A digger upperer of old crap in other words.

EPbabe

January 9, 2008, 07:10 PM

Of course, you said 'picture' so I took that as a personal challenge cuz I'm sick like that. haha :o:D
Here's all I could find:
There's the colonial McDonald's in New Hyde Park, NY (on Long Island). The landmark commission wouldn't let them tear down the historic mansion they purchased, so they restored the outside and converted the inside to a fast food restaurant

It looks lovely. :) How come they allowed that the sign is not red?

Buzzetta

January 9, 2008, 07:11 PM

Archaeologist. A digger upperer of old crap in other words.

Ma'am you besmirch the occupation of one of the worlds greatst archaeologists and professors.... Dr. Jones.

mozzette

January 9, 2008, 07:18 PM

Buzzetta

January 9, 2008, 07:22 PM

Certainly then he was the most famous. AND he has a new movie that opens on May 22nd. . . . so there.

mell

January 9, 2008, 07:22 PM

My first paying job was scooping ice cream at Baskin Robbins. It sucked ASS!!!

When I was in college a year or two later my mom called me one night to ask me if I had ever worked with a guy named John Something-or-another. I said, "yes, he was the shift manager when I worked there. Why?" She told me that she had just seen him on the local news being dragged off by the police. Apparently he had hidden a camera in the employee bathroom to watch everyone change, etc! :eek: Thank god it was before the internet was big!

mozzette

January 9, 2008, 07:26 PM

He does? Must make a note of that.
Well I was on Time Team...so there.
Actually, fair point he is better than me, I don't own a whip.

esheh195

January 9, 2008, 07:32 PM

He was a shite Archaeologist was Mr J. He never recorded or took detailed (mind numbingly boring) plans of any of his finds. He would have been laughed out of my old office.
I wouldn't have minded him 'excavating' me though. :rolleyes:
Dx

Don't eff with Dr. Jones...he'll crack you with his whip. :D;)
then again...some people like that kind of thing:rolleyes::p

http://www.indianafreuler.com/whip1.gif

And if he was so bad...then had he get outta this mess? LOLZ
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i147/mudtrap2/video_indiana_jones.gif

Bassist-In-A-Tutu

January 9, 2008, 07:43 PM

Heh
12-14 Delivered newspapers
14 - 20 Custodial / Maintenance / Handyman of Church / Schools
14 - 16 Lifeguard
17 - 20 Retail / Training for Disney
19 - 19 Cook at McDonalds
20 - 23 Retail / Sold Shoes (Mad money was made)
23 - Present - Teaching

Point... I have held down many jobs doing various things.

Possible other point - youv'e lost many jobs! :D

Only teasing! Sorry :o

My first job was Directors Assistant for a B-rate movie company in Hong Kong - we made crap Ninja movies all summer, which was actually great fun!

mozzette

January 9, 2008, 07:45 PM

Yeah, he rules. He's just not very able with the academic side of it. :D
I was up working on Hadrian’s Wall and got out of a mess like that...the ball was a bit more sheep shaped though.

esheh195

January 9, 2008, 07:47 PM

My first job was Directors Assistant for a B-rate movie company in Hong Kong - we made crap Ninja movies all summer, which was actually great fun!

That sounds really cool :D

Speaking of Ninjas....you guys weren't working with this guy while overseas were you? Staten Island's own 'Ninja Cat Burglar' has looted close to 16 or so houses to date.
http://gothamist.com/2007/09/07/staten_island_n.php

Not Right in the Head

January 9, 2008, 07:49 PM

Speaking of Ninjas....you guys weren't working with this guy while overseas were you? Staten Island's own 'Ninja Cat Burglar' has looted close to 16 or so houses to date.
http://gothamist.com/2007/09/07/staten_island_n.php

Hah! When I saw that the other day, it reminded me of this Onion story (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ninja_parade_slips_through_town).

PregnantForTheLastTime

January 9, 2008, 07:50 PM

Don't eff with Dr. Jones...he'll crack you with his whip. :D;)
then again...some people like that kind of thing:rolleyes::p

http://www.indianafreuler.com/whip1.gif

And if he was so bad...then had he get outta this mess? LOLZ

'Round about these parts, we like to be whipped with a mike cord. Right, Corrissey?

mozzette

January 9, 2008, 07:57 PM

'Round about these parts, we like to be whipped with a mike cord. Right, Corrissey?

Oh thats a whole new fantasy! Moz as Indy. Thank you, you have made my night :D

esheh195

January 9, 2008, 08:06 PM

Yeah, he rules. He's just not very able with the academic side of it. :D
I was up working on Hadrian’s Wall and got out of a mess like that...the ball was a bit more sheep shaped though.
HAHAHA!
Point taken.
But watch out for them sheep though. Unless you're into....umm...nevermind, I won't go there today. :p;)

Hah! When I saw that the other day, it reminded me of this Onion story (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ninja_parade_slips_through_town).
HAHA! Can't watch it in office...but I LOLed at "where no ninja has been seen in 30yrs" :D

-----------------------
Meanwhile, back on the ranch, Buzzetta's timeline inspired me to make a list of my own misfortunes...um, I mean jobs. HAHA
I just remembered, my first job was actually mickey D's, not the comic shop...memory ain't what it used to be.

Winter '93- McDonald's burger slave
Spring '93 to Fall '94- Comic Book shop
Winter '95 to Fall '96- Pathmark supermarket cashier
Winter 1997- got paid to clean lot around supermarket at 6am
during freshman year of college
Spring 1997- Worked from some auditing company that travelled
to retail stores to count inventory
Spring '98 to Spring '00- Worked at a Weathervane (a wannabe Red
Lobster) as a waiter and then a cook
Fall 00-Winter '02- Technical Recruiter
Spring/Summer '02- Construction
Fall '02-Spring '03- Assistant Manager at a $tarbuck$
Spring '03-Fall '05- Customs and Border Protection Officer
Fall '05- present- Technical Recruiter
***wow, that is depressing HAHAHA...should I mention that I'm tkaing the fireman's physical exam this Summer, so add that to the list. LOLZ

Chartres

January 9, 2008, 09:01 PM

17 - writing numbers in an excel database:guitar:

nugz

January 9, 2008, 10:23 PM

Winter '95 to Fall '96- Pathmark supermarket cashier

no way dude! i was a Pathmark supermarket cashier too!! *high five* :guitar: I was also a produce clerk at that same Pathmark. i enjoyed doing that more cuz i could cut up the fruit and make fruit trays and basically do "food art."

my FIRST job however was "Foodtown" supermarket cashier.

i also worked some retail: Hot Topic, Strawbridges, FYE.

I did the waitressing thing for a while. I tried bartending, but i sucked at it.

suparni

January 9, 2008, 11:26 PM

First job was working at the florist after school. I clipped pollen from lilies, arranged the fridge so it looked full and pretty, emptied and changed water buckets, watered plants, swept the floor, and pruned the patio plants and kept the patio tidy.

mozmal

January 9, 2008, 11:48 PM

Window cleaner! I lasted a week.

esheh195

January 9, 2008, 11:55 PM

no way dude! i was a Pathmark supermarket cashier too!! *high five* :guitar:

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee102/mellyface_2007/icons/funny/BamFive.gif

JoyDiv007

January 10, 2008, 12:04 AM

My 1st job was Little Ceasars pizza. God I hated that place, only worked thier like 6 months.

meat_is_murder19

January 10, 2008, 12:47 AM

paper round i had to deliver in a really rough area i used to get my paper bag nicked everyday by the kids around thier thats how i got sacked:rolleyes:

nugz

January 10, 2008, 01:03 AM

oh yeah! how could i forget. i was also a Rite Aid pharmacy technician for a summer when I was 19. nowadays i dont think i could be trusted doing that job, but i was still innocent when I was 19. i was like "hmm, someone needs 20 oxycontins, hmm, wonder what these do....la la la la la....."

you could say I "didnt even know what drugs were...."

Not Right in the Head

January 10, 2008, 01:04 AM

you could say I "didnt even know what drugs were...."

Could we still say that now? ;)

nugz

January 10, 2008, 01:07 AM

Could we still say that now? ;)

haha, like i said, i could NOT be trust behind the counter of a pharmacy anymore...:o. I'd be like "yay its christmas, weeeee!"

p.s. omfg you changed your avatar AGAIN!!!!

Corrissey

January 10, 2008, 01:31 AM

'Round about these parts, we like to be whipped with a mike cord. Right, Corrissey?

yes yes oooohhhh yes

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc64/swpagnani/Morrissey%20Pics/morrissey139.jpg

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc64/swpagnani/Morrissey%20Pics/morrissey140.jpg

Not Right in the Head

January 10, 2008, 01:34 AM

p.s. omfg you changed your avatar AGAIN!!!!

It's only the 15th or so time in the last couple of days. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds!

Corrissey

January 10, 2008, 01:39 AM

It's only the 15th or so time in the last couple of days. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds!

'Change is the only constant' :D

9 x Fined

January 10, 2008, 01:45 AM

Kitchenhand babay!

Corrissey

January 10, 2008, 01:54 AM

My first job was babysitting at 12 for the same family (2 kids) for 3 years.

After that, I got a 'real' job at Country Donuts... "Co Do" (c'oh d'oh)

In looking for an image, I see they now have a website. Even a link to 'tell us your favorite Country Donuts story'. Should I write in and tell them how I used to eat the jelly right out of the buckets and the toppings right out of the drawers?! :D hey, some nights were slow...

The same 2 guys are running the place. I bet they still have the same old manual cash register too. It's how I learned to make 'change' :rolleyes: I had to wear brown polyester pants, a white shirt, and a white and yellow checkered smock. That's hawt!

Not Right in the Head

January 10, 2008, 01:57 AM

Should I write in and tell them how I used to eat the jelly right out of the buckets and the toppings right out of the drawers?! :D hey, some nights were slow...

Oooh! We gonna hijack this to make it a food-service-horror-story thread? Count me in!

PregnantForTheLastTime

January 10, 2008, 02:28 AM

Oooh! We gonna hijack this to make it a food-service-horror-story thread? Count me in!

Shit. I was trying to find the "clean food" quote from Fight Club, but I cannot.

Never mind.

-Signed, former foodservice worker

Buzzetta

January 10, 2008, 02:29 AM

Possible other point - youv'e lost many jobs! :D

Only teasing! Sorry :o

My first job was Directors Assistant for a B-rate movie company in Hong Kong - we made crap Ninja movies all summer, which was actually great fun!

LOL - No it sort of went like this... "you want to go to college... you pay for college."

Codreanu

January 10, 2008, 02:52 AM

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/2379/mcdonaldswu6.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's_(Will_Rogers_Turnpike)

EDIT: okay, so I did have a job. I was young and it was temporary.

troubleluvsme

January 10, 2008, 03:26 AM

Snack bar girl at the local ice rink when I was 14....a few years ago ;)

Not Right in the Head

January 10, 2008, 04:08 AM

Shit. I was trying to find the "clean food" quote from Fight Club, but I cannot.

You mean this one? (I don't actually remember anything about Fight Club, so I'm just cheating by looking it up on IMDB)

Narrator: He was *the* guerilla terrorist in the food service industry.
[the Narrator looks at Tyler, who's urinating in a pot]
Tyler Durden: Do not watch. I cannot go when you watch.
Narrator: Apart from seasoning the lobster bisque, he farted on the meringue, sneezed on braised endive, and as for the cream of mushroom soup, well...
Tyler Durden: [snickers] Go ahead. Tell 'em.
Narrator: ...you get the idea.

PregnantForTheLastTime

January 10, 2008, 04:35 AM

You mean this one? (I don't actually remember anything about Fight Club, so I'm just cheating by looking it up on IMDB)

Narrator: He was *the* guerilla terrorist in the food service industry.
[the Narrator looks at Tyler, who's urinating in a pot]
Tyler Durden: Do not watch. I cannot go when you watch.
Narrator: Apart from seasoning the lobster bisque, he farted on the meringue, sneezed on braised endive, and as for the cream of mushroom soup, well...
Tyler Durden: [snickers] Go ahead. Tell 'em.
Narrator: ...you get the idea.

No, Tyler and Marla are in a restaurant, and she orders the soup. Tyler looks at the waiter, who has a fresh cut on his face (indicating he is a Fight Club member) and grabs the waiter's elbow, specifying "Clean food." The waiter then says, "Then I suggest you don't order the soup."

I'm not really here...

Not Right in the Head

January 10, 2008, 04:38 AM

No, Tyler and Marla are in a restaurant, and she orders the soup. Tyler looks at the waiter, who has a fresh cut on his face (indicating he is a Fight Club member) and grabs the waiter's elbow, specifying "Clean food." The waiter then says, "Then I suggest you don't order the soup."

So this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/quotes), then:
Narrator: Clean food, please.
Waiter: In that case, sir, may I advise against the lady eating clam chowder?
Narrator: No clam chowder, thank you.

Still don't remember that scene.

PregnantForTheLastTime

January 10, 2008, 04:49 AM

So this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/quotes), then:
Narrator: Clean food, please.
Waiter: In that case, sir, may I advise against the lady eating clam chowder?
Narrator: No clam chowder, thank you.

Still don't remember that scene.

Yep, that's it! I looked there and didn't see it.

Not Right in the Head

January 10, 2008, 04:51 AM

Yep, that's it! I looked there and didn't see it.

That's because you don't have the Super IMDB Quote-Finding Fu like I do.

M-in-Oz

January 10, 2008, 05:44 AM

My first job was working with my best friend, we packed chocolates & chips into boxes that sat on the receptionists desks at offices. It was cool, we got to eat what we wanted & listen to the cure all day.

nogodsnomasters85

January 10, 2008, 05:56 AM

When I was 17 I worked for a summer helping the groundskeepers at a monastary. I'm an atheist but it looks good on a resume. After that, when I was 18 I was a cashier at local Stop & Shop, did that for almost two years, then meat clerk in butcher shop, now seafood clerk mostly. I've been at this store a little over four years.

Busy Clippers

January 10, 2008, 02:08 PM

I've been working since I was a little kid - neighbors would pay me to climb their mango and avocado trees to get the fruit, and I'd house/petsit. I was doing office work for my dad when I was 13, and then was a candystriper at a hospital when I was 14, then I was a theater usher when I was 16. I'm ready to retire now. :rolleyes:

mar2d2

January 10, 2008, 04:11 PM

the only "job" i've ever had was as an au pair in Ireland for 3 months, but i didn't really saw it as a job, more like a "i'll hang out with your kid and love him, you'll support my diet coke habit"

esheh195

January 10, 2008, 04:14 PM

the only "job" i've ever had was as an au pair in Ireland for 3 months, but i didn't really saw it as a job, more like a "i'll hang out with your kid and love him, you'll support my diet coke habit"

my subconscious made me leave out the work 'diet'...I was thinking "Damn...that's a pretty good paying au pair job" :o:D

William4

January 10, 2008, 06:54 PM

paperboy!
yeah!

Buzzetta

August 1, 2008, 07:04 AM

Anyone else?

Renia

August 1, 2008, 07:10 AM

babysitter, haha. I babysit my little nephew/godson/whateverthehellyouwannacallthelittlekid.
:]
I dunno what I'm gonna do. I really don't want to waitress, as that's the job my mom has had...pretty much all her life. it's what she's doing right now.
I do plan on getting a work permit once school starts though. I don't like asking my dad for money. :[ but, I dunno what exactly I'm gonna apply for.

Poppy Full

August 1, 2008, 03:59 PM

I still work at my first job, so that's a good sign :p Proud position of shopgirl in a teeny-tiny grocery shop that no-one ever shops in.
Good pay, and I can spend the whole time listening to music and sketching.
I have to jack it in in a few months though, because of my exams :tears::tears::tears:

MsChievous

August 1, 2008, 04:08 PM

I worked at Wendys. I even got to wear the silly outfit on weekends.

http://graphics.fansonly.com/schools/wtam/graphics/auto/BuckysKidsClubWendysAd.jpg

oye terence

August 1, 2008, 04:25 PM

well ,i grew up working for my family but when i got my drivers license i went and got my first "real" job,delivering pizza for a local pizza place in my 1982 VW Rabbit,car was great,i made good money,alot of tips and "traded up" and bought a 1986 VW scirocco .that car may still be my favorite car i have ever owned.
i made alot of money the three nights i worked,only friday,saturday and sunday night,i was the one with the cash around my friends.:)
it made for some fun stories too.

Zelda Zonk

August 2, 2008, 12:24 PM

My first job was Saturday girl in a florists shop.
£15 a day.
It was good but dirty.
My boss used to say if he won the lottery he would buy me a car.
I got dismissed.
3 weeks later he won the lottery.

sweet and tender hooligan

August 2, 2008, 01:13 PM

IDon'tOweYouAnything23

August 2, 2008, 06:23 PM

My first job was the only job i have ever had.
I worked in Throntans, it was a cafe/shop. I had to wrap thing, ice stuff- which iw as terrible at. I also had to make drinks, wask dishes and clean toilets. i left after two months becuase i hated it and i can't find a job now:(.

Well your one up on me! I've never had a job! iv'e been trying for a year AND only had 2 interviews! no one wants me; i'm quite unemployable, my cv must scream out 'moron' I think :tears: