Monday, November 29, 2010

First Jobs

My old jobs. 1. selling seeds door to door to earn an air rifle. What was your first job
Saturday at 2:14pm · ·
    • Deborah Orlowski Babysitting. My mother thought the woman was nuts because I was 11 and was sitting a 2 yr old and a few month old. Woman must have been right since they were always ok.
      Saturday at 3:39pm ·
    • Kristen Graf Storey ditto Debo--although I learned that watching kids was not my thing
      Saturday at 4:27pm ·
  • Robert Pasick in my day boys did not baby sit
    Saturday at 4:30pm ·
  • Deborah Orlowski yeah, you got to cut lawns. i was jealous. be with gardening stuff and run a machine and earn more money. and the grass didn't talk back!
    Saturday at 4:55pm ·
  • Kelly Parkinson Peer counseling.
    Saturday at 6:21pm ·
  • Thomas A. Collet Worked at the end of a conveyor belt breaking the injection molding grates off detergent bottles, four weeks of total misery to earn money for a motorcycle. Not worth it.
    Saturday at 6:53pm ·
  • Miche Suboski Other than babysitting from a young age, planting strawberry plants from the back of a flatbed trailer.
    Saturday at 8:15pm ·
  • Donna Roth like all old females, babysitting. then working in my father's store (ugh), then the laundry of a hospital, then camp counselor, then college bookstore. then i got real.
    Saturday at 8:27pm ·
  • Sharlene Cece Besides babysitting, which included a little summer day camp for neighbor kids (my best friend thought that up), I think it was answering the phone @ Adam's Rib on 10 and Greenfield (small cheese pizza = $1., $1.40 with pepperoni. Why do I rmember that?
    Saturday at 9:22pm ·
  • Robin Martin American Family Life Assurance Company...aka AFLAC now!! (Yes, I'm older than the DUCK!)
    Saturday at 9:41pm ·
  • Swanna Saltiel
    I first remember pulling weeds with my father. He made it seem like a great thing, and I still love pulling weeds! I got a job in a clothing store. I loved it except when my friends known to shoplift came to peruse the goods. I was a to...See More
    Saturday at 9:45pm ·
  • Robin Martin Of course, if we're talking jobs we did as a kid...my job was to feed, water and groom about 20 or so Pekingese dogs. I was around 7. LOVED IT and still do!! : )
    Saturday at 9:58pm ·
  • Lindsay Morrison Caddying, then selling newspapers from midnight till sunrise on east St. Catherine St.
    Saturday at 11:08pm ·
  • Merrill Crockett babysitting, waitressing, sales"girl" at Filenes in Boston when I was 16 and staying home to get my drivers license
    Yesterday at 8:17am ·
  • Judith Banker Babysitting, then serving burgers & fries at Henry's Hamburgers, a McDonald's competitor in the early 70's.
    Yesterday at 8:41am ·
  • Paul Tinkerhess Picketing for civil rights. I was in a stroller. First paying job, selling seeds door-to-door!
    23 hours ago ·
  • Joellyn Ross ‎"Professional" gift wrapper at J.C. Penney.
    20 hours ago ·
  • Joan Kanavich babysitting infants/toddlers at 11 years old because i had a sister 11 years younger than me. and when i was 8 or so, the neighborhood teenage boys babysat for us. my brother and i liked them better than the girls or the adults!
    19 hours ago ·
  • Lisa Klopfer as a kid I earned a some seasonal money as a goat-watcher. no, really, I did.
    18 hours ago ·
  • Paul Tinkerhess Our mom paid us a nickel to darn a sock.
    17 hours ago ·
  • Janice Nicholls Schultz I worked at Tiny Tim's slot car track on Woodward Avenue selling the time on the tracks so kids and their dads could race their cars.
    14 hours ago ·
  • Margaret Dawson Pekarek My first job, other than baby-sitting, was as an aide in a nursing home. Quick trip from reasonably homogeneous and protected social circle to the real issues of life and death, disability and decline, aging and dignity, the persistence of the personality, compassion.
    12 hours ago ·
  • Pamela Holland-Mills I sliced chip chop ham at Lawsons.
    11 hours ago ·
  • Jennifer Trausch Kangas My sisters and I (8, 6 & 5) assembled the latches for Ford glove compartments - in batches of 100 - in front of the TV after school while we watched I Love Lucy. I think we earned 10 cents per piece from the guy who then supplied to Ford.
    11 hours ago ·
  • Dale Petty Paul, is that a service that your store offers? I have a pile of holey socks!

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