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What was your first job /biz/?

>> No.941362
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>>941359

the managers were such massive cockblocks it's ridiculous.

>> No.941521

>>941362
why would you be getting girls while working security?

>> No.941522

I helped someone bringing around newspapers for one day.

I put it on my resume.

>> No.941524

>>941359
Sucking dicks

Made a 6 figure salary in first year

>> No.941528

>>941359
Selling marked up drinks at construction sites.

Can't imagine how I ended up trading in financial markets.

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>>941359
private classes

>> No.941540
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i got to yell at mexicans so it was aight

>> No.941554

>>941359

My first job was actually the best job I ever had.

Lifeguard at a pool. Chilled in the sun for $9/hr

>> No.941582

>>941359
>worked at a movie theater
>payed with cash
>high scale restaurant next door owned by the same guy
>free really good food
>fired randomly one day
>turns out everyone was fired
>owner committed suicide that night by burning them both to the ground while he was still inside

>> No.941590

>>941582
No way this is real
Link to the story? He ded so it's no biggie

>> No.941594

>>941359
GameStop. After working there for a year, I got a raise from $7.25 to $7.32. Found a new job shortly after.

>> No.941597

>>941359
Pump jockey at a full service gas station...also they sold food like restaurant so also had to cook sometimes..

>> No.941601

Associate at a Boutique investment bank in Toronto.

>> No.941611

I sold those damn knives for a summer. Hated every moment of it. The only positive that came from it was me realizing how little I wanted to be a salesperson

>> No.941618

First real job: picker at grocery warehouse. It sucked and the foreman were slave drivers.

Before that I did my own little small town lawn mowing business. Started maybe when I was 12. It was pretty dope. After a couple seasons I would pull 600 a month cash, all summer long. That's alot of scratch for a 14 year old kid ( 1990s dollars mind you).

I spent most of it on guns

>should have bought netflix

>> No.941651

>>941597
Nice, nothing like the greasy half-retard pumping gas then cooking my food without washing their hands between.

>> No.941671

>>941521
because you are in contact with people and unless you are absolutely repulsive some people will stick? have you ever left your room?

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>>941359
Got my first job at five guys in high school

>mfw vegetarian because of super Buddhist parents

I didn't eat any free burgers working there, got the fries tho. I regret it fam fuck being vegetarian

>> No.941813

worked at a paintball place

>> No.941820

>>941813
noice

>> No.941823

>>941820
Definitely different. Had to referee the games, got some pretty decent bruises a number of times

>> No.941827

Veterinary assistant. Fucking HATED that job. $7 an hour, spent 8 hours cleaning vomit, shit, blood, random body parts (I shit you not) off of the floors and walls. Hands never had any skin on them because the constant contact with industrial grade disinfectant dissolved all of it.

>lol we have no gloves. not allowed to bring your own

No smoke breaks allowed. 45 minute drive each way. All of my superiors were massive stick-up-their-ass douchebags. The only dude on par with me responsibility wise had zero sense of humor, not allowed to listen to music.

It was eight to ten hours of mind numbing boredom. Ever have those days at work the time crawls excruciatingly slow? It was like that every. single. day.

The worst part was, because it was my first job, I assumed all entry level jobs were that bad. So when I finally quit, I didn't want to look for more work because I did not want to go through that again.

>> No.941941

>>941827

Sounds like there is a good story or two there, I know it's not /b/ but you should green text a couple horror stories if you feel like it.

>> No.941949

>>941359
Finance/Econ/Accounting tutor at my university. I lucked out because they only cared about my grades and not my lack of experience.

>> No.941990

I helped my boss stock wine for supermarkets.
She worked for the distribution company that would send Kroger it's wine.

Pretty ez job for $10, plus we ended up "breaking" more bottles than hit the floor.

My boss' position was eliminated, so I got laid off.

>> No.942017

>>941594
>raise

That was a minimum wage increase

>> No.942038

>>941582
I'm gonna need the link on that story OP. Was he cheated on or divorced? Or were his businesses doing that shitty?

>> No.942065

>>941359
Worked in a small flooring & blinds store

Was just the boss, sometimes his wife and me

Worked full time doing everything from admin/reception duties, retail/sales duties to a personal assistant for the boss

Was a pretty great tbh, regret giving it up so soon to go to Uni because I could have deferred for another year

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>>941941
>about a month after I had taken the job so I was used to the flow of how everything went
>anon, go up to the kennel and let out the dogs
>go up and start letting the dogs out to run around
>one of them was an irish wolfhound (gigantic fucker. Pic related) with irritable bowel syndrome
>Literal inches of shit in his pen
>DoIReallyNeedThisJob.tiff
>45 minutes later, shit is cleaned
>Intercom: "Anon, come down to surgery, we have an issue here"
>For the love of fuck what now
>get down to surgery
>theres a bloated fucking corpse on the floor
>dont know why it was there, how it got in, or what the fuck they were trying to do, but it ruptured
>Viscera all over the floor
>anon, clean this up. I am going to lunch

There's more stories. Many, many more. But I have to get ready for work. I'll post some more if anyone is interested when I get back.

>> No.942200

>>941359
Folding towels at a yoga studio when I was 12

>> No.942253

>>941359
sandwich maker at a sub shop

>> No.942255

>>941359
Outbound call center. It was awful.

>> No.942258

>>941823
Hey, I did the same as you!

Fucking loved paintball and got paid under the table, so an absolute ideal job for a high-schooler.

I still ref at some scenario events if possible for the fun of it, and play for free.

Good refs are very important to facilitate a good time for newer or first-time players. Fucking love seeing folks get into it.

>> No.942344

>>941651
I take no offense in this statement I actually thought the same thing then.....but it as muh juuub

>> No.942359
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Got a job on my second day of being 16, didn't get it on the first because I was getting my license. Good place to work and dank food, but I consider my first real job my being a teller at my colleges credit union.

>> No.942374

>>941359

I worked at Hollister.

Kinda liked it, easy work, tons of girls, and half the time when I worked folding in dressing rooms, girls would change in front of me.

All in all hours were shit, pay was bad but dam was like a free strip show daily.

>> No.942533

high school intern at an architect's office

protip: being an architect sucks

>> No.942714

I was a vet tech. I handled the kennel mostly and had to clean up shit and piss and take animals out so they could use the bathroom. The worst part was assisting in euthanizations, because I was the one who had to take the body and put it in the freezer, which was the same fridge we put out food in. If the dog was too big, I had to make it fit, usually by means of cracking the spine or breaking bones. It was awful.

>> No.942715

Sales Associate in Mobile Audio and Digital Imaging, at Future Shop.

Loved it.

>> No.942756

Electrician, as good as it sounds, it was fucking awfull. 12h/day, shitty wage, boss was the biggest fucking jew.
And the best of all, it was at my father/uncle company.

>> No.942817

>>942756
>father/uncle
Uhhhhh

>> No.942888

>>942817
He probably meant they co-own the business, not that his father is also his uncle.

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>>942255
I'm inbound , less painful and will power sucking than outbound i guess. also , i still work there and i'm not american. but i know ur feelz

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>>942533
you what now?

>> No.943277

>>942888
He worked for his Frunkle ?

>> No.943296

Taco Bell.

It was pretty alright, somehow ended up as the dominant worker (maybe by actually showing up).

Got to the point where I would show up at 5am, clock in, set up, and go to sleep until 6:45. Quit when it started to cut into my actual career.

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>>943296
forgot pic related

>> No.943596

>>941359

Nice pic from a classic album OP

>> No.943614

My first job started as a summer job, I had just turn 14, then it went on as an after school job. I was just a cook/assistant at a small diner. Owned by a really nice guy. His kids had dropped out of school and worked there too. All in all it was pretty fun, and the boss and I would listen to opera while we cooked.

He had a hot son, and a kinda cute daughter. Didn't bone either. Maybe because I'm a tard, maybe because we ended up being good friends.

3 years later, the place went under. Thanks Ob- wait, I'm not even from 'murica.

I had started at the equivalent of $8 an hour. Ended up with $11. Maybe THAT was why the business went bankrupt? Looking back, the guy wasn't great with his money.

I used to hang out with them every now and then, saw them descent into poorfagness. The kids never went back to school or got another job either, the dad kinda died inside (never met their mother. Suspect she left or died or something). Ended with me just distancing myself from them because they were rather aggressive and they were turning into bitter assholes. They ended up asking me for money, not in a nice "Anon, we're friends who need money, we'll give it back" but rather "You have a job. We need your money". And I was like "Nigga, you wot?" I didn't get a job to help lazy assholes, I needed my money.

The sad part is that my second job was as a receptionist in a trade union. Shittiest job I ever had. Worked 6 hours after school (I went to school both morning and afternoon). For the equivalent of $9 an hour, not that bad, and unlike the diner I had weekends off, but I didn't even reach the summer with that job. People were assholes, slave drivers. They screamed at me constantly, everyone pretty much vented their frustrations on the ugly receptionst.

At least both jobs paid under the table.

>> No.943621

Youth hockey referee.
Made $24 a game and smoked weed with the Zamboni driver in between games.

>> No.944242

>>941359

> Worked at a McDs in the Pacific Northwest back in the 90s
> Ken Griffey Jr always coming thru drive thru
> smoked pot in drive thru tunnel all the time
> whole grill crew dropping acid all the time
> a manager there gets fired for reading gay bestiality porn aloud at counter
> one time I dropped 5 bags of shake and soft serve by accident and they exploded all over the walk-in.
> hot girls from my HS getting drunkn in back
> stealing all the monopoly pieces from the expensive boxes

I could go on and on, those were a great 9 months at 5.05$/hr and wild shit went down in suburbia.

>> No.944245

>>944242
Dropping acid and grilling at mcds? That would be SO FUCKING INTENSE. Weird waves of guilt as you consider how the livestock spent its days and if other cows miss it.

>> No.944297

>>944242
lol I worked in a chip shop for my first job and I dropped Es a few times while working there.. Until I got fired.

Which was probably because I took loads of codeine a lot and kept nodding out in the room where all the sacks of potatoes are kept

>> No.944317

>>941359

Warehouse worker for a furniture store. Was there for six months, loading furniture into people's vehicles, cleaning the showroom floor, dealing with customers.

>> No.944484

>>941359


Areopostale

Hated every minute of it, co-workers always walked around in booty shorts, too beta to do anything but take a photographic memory shot and day dream all day while folding clothes in the backroom.

Also, did you know more Mexicans wear that brand than any other race? Amazing.

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>>941359
Shit was not cash.
But cash was fucking shit. That's why I quit

>> No.944673

Math tutor at an undisclosed franchise tutoring company.

I basically taught elementary school brats how to multiply and divide, although there were a few older students who I'd help with algebra or even pre-calc.

Shit was alright.

>> No.944676

first job was as a paperboy when I was 13/14... one day on the round a local business owner asked if he could pay me to drop of fliers at the same time, I decided to offer the same to a few other local businesses so doubled my income for each paper round for not much effort

was quite an easy job as there were a bunch of new housing estates nearby and new developments in the UK are built with small front gardens, small houses cramped onto plots right next to each other - just ditched the cart thing I pulled around at the end of each close and walked across the front gardens with my bag dropping papers and fliers through all the letter boxes...

one house has a really aggressive and annoying little dog - used to jump up and snatch the paper from the other side of the door - I used to fuck about with it by moving the paper back and forth until half of it was torn to shreds by the dog

overall wasn't a bad job, no annoying boss, paid a fixed rate for a set quantity of papers on a set round + whatever I could make on the side from the fliers so it was down to me how fast/hard I worked

>> No.945900

>>941359
Cashier at Walmart.

First job out of college was as a software engineer in TX making 6 figs.

>> No.945916

>machine shop lab tester
>starting pay 9.50/hour
>slowly raised to 12.50/hour as I took on more responsibilities.
>quit to work at the power company for $30/hour

>> No.946276

Vending attendant in Chicago. Got the job 2 weeks after graduating high school through a family friend. $13/hr and as many hours as I'd like up to about 70/week. Time and a half after 45 hours, double time after 60. Perfect job as I took a gap year after high school.

Interestingly enough, about 3 weeks before I was set to start my college courses, my company lost the contract and I was laid off.

>> No.947632

bump

>> No.947679

pest control. very interesting desu

>> No.947686

looking for very generous person to loan me $40 until next friday. started first job and have no money for gas/food until that date. will pay back via paypal. wicked_rob_10@hotmail.com

>> first job is ups and i started monday

>> No.947730

a seasonal temp at a photography studio for $8/hr fulltime.
Bunch of old women and dorks.
Stain on my eyes and literally a road to nowhere.

>> No.947741

>>942076

ew

>> No.947747

Fuck this. What do you guys do NOW?
>21 yo college dropout looking to get his life started again

>> No.947848

IT-clerk in energy-consulting company

>> No.947944

Groundskeeper at a zoo, $8/hr. I don't have to deal with bodily fluids of any kind because housekeeping has a full-time staff that deal with human waste and zookeepers (both staff and interns with zoology/biology degrees) deal with animal waste. It's just pulling trash-liners before they get too full and using shitty grabbing sticks to pick up tiny shit like paper bits and other stuff.

The good news is there's a lot of places to hide and the autumn and winter months are great if you don't mind working four days a week instead of five. Also, besides pointing out where smoking sections/bathrooms are, you don't have to deal with visitors even though you're right out in the open with em.

The bad news is that I still do have a lot of ground to cover, whether it's busy or not, because you don't want to be caught sitting by management, or worse, a higher-up roaming around who will send a "concerned e-mail" to management. That means you're going through the motions a lot, so even when you pace yourself to walk at the speed of a 100 year-old woman, you'll still be walking like twelve to sixteen miles on any given day. That makes it difficult to exercise even on off-days because your feet may be shot from the last five days of walking a combined 70-80 miles.

I'm currently working on my illustration skills to develop a strong art portfolio in the hopes I can make a living off that instead.

>> No.948271

High school, part time shit? Waiter at a Shoney's franchise.

Real job? Explosive ordnance disposal technician with the USAF.

Yes, life got real good, real quick after high school.

>> No.948278

>>942017
>$7.25 to $7.32
>Minimum wage increase
>Minimum wage still $7.25

Son, really? It's a shitty raise and anon was right to get a new job, but Christ on his Cross, don't be stupid.

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>careers
>jobs
Why don't you guys just live with your parents until one of your business ventures takes off?

>> No.948370

Cashier at a waterpark. Pay was shit, but I got enough work over the summer to not work during the school year in high school. Looking back I should have been a lifeguard since the girls there were much more attractive and they got as much overtime as they wanted. I was just too self conscious of not being built at the time, which is stupid in hindsight since 20% of the lifeguards were overweight.

>> No.948411

>>948346
Parents got divorced, dad has been unemployed for 7 years and now Home Depot for the last two (he was a defense attorney for 15 years before this), mom can barely keep the house up with the useless little brother living off her at 22.

Parents can fail, anon.

>> No.948515

Avionics Technician, it was ok.

>> No.949182

>>949103
Busboy at a restaurant when I was 16

I caused me to develop social anxiety

>> No.949198

Two separate summers, mail delivery and construction worker

Mail delivery is actually pretty chill, even though getting up at 5AM every morning was kinda meh

>> No.949212

>>948411
I see this as a good general indicator of the economy. Wealth is getting deeply entrenched. People from successful families are succeeding through nepotism/social capital, and those that aren't supported pretty much can't participate in the economy other than working and paying rent. Notice how the word merit was not present

>> No.949348

Delivery Driver in DTLA for a cafe, so much money in tips alone from yuppie fucks and it's 24/7 so I had shit graveyard hours but lots of tips and crazy stories. Also got to smoke the ganja with soulja boy in his penthouse; he's a stupid nigger btw.

>> No.949596

>>941359
did some secretarial tasks in high school, but my first proper job was a part-time mcdonalds "hospitality specialist" in high school

in short, my job was to work the cashier, serve food, and hit on women i worked with.

first job relevant to my career was a university computational research assistant.

>> No.949610

>>941359

Delivering newspapers when I was 13

>> No.949623

I've never had a real before job (but I'm working on it) and I'm 29. Just did various little things or things for a parent business and once volunteered but I do have a degree if that even matters anymore.
Makes me feel like such a loser though

>> No.949666

>>948278
>>942017
It was probably less than inflation so it was a pay cut

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Hardee's... but before they had decent burgers. My employment was during the monstar burger days

>> No.949907

barbecue restaurant, specializing in cleaning barbecue sauce off of garbage can cabinets

>> No.950100

>>942076
that was good man, bless you

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>>949212
>mfw this anon is right

>> No.950509

>>941359
It's not a job, it's a status, I'm and always was the owner.

On the other hand, if you need to have a job, you are the loser.

>> No.950586

Suckin dicks for a dollar

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>>942756
I know that feeling. It's shit work with shit pay and topped off with shit co-workers pushing all of the worst things on to you. 10-12 hour work days filled with fun and excitement.