What was your first job, and did you learn anything from it?

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  Posted by Yogurt Lover Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:01pm PDT

  My very first "paying job" was at Aeropostal. I wanted to have a job so badly and went and applied for it against my father's wishes. After all, I had school and sports that were more important at the time.

  What that job did was give me my own money. I became a pot head at 16 and school and sports fell to the way-side.

  How about that?

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  Posted by yaya Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:05pm PDT

  My first 'job' was when I was 15 and I tried working at Jack in the Box. I say tried because I ended up lasting for all of ten minutes, I ended up screaming at the lady that was training me (cursing at her and everything, she was SUPER RUDE the entire time) and I ended up quitting on the spot. Never again have I applied for a job at a fast food joint. Screw that! And now thanks to my degree I will never need to!

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  Posted by yaya Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:06pm PDT

  Yogurt Lover: lmao that's hilarious!

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  Posted by CiaoBella Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:22pm PDT

  I had a waitressing job. It was a small mexican place in a very upscale part of the city. Rich ladies would come in and sit 10 to a table and run me around, then leave gobs coins to pay for their white wine and margaritas. It was hellacious!

  I am shy to begin with anyway and It was my first job anywhere so it wasnt a very good time to put it lightly. I had to deal with the rich snots who came in for happy our, the entitled men who would stare me up and down and turn me into an object instead of a human being.

  Finally after being insulted one too many times I quit. Luckily I didnt leave any friends behind, the girls there were older and snide, and they smoked crack!

  If I learned anything from it, people who give you a hard time fall into two categories...1. Those that want you to LEARN and are really just trying to help( IE the managers) 2. Those that want to tear someone down, like a rat clawing up a flooding board, because they are drowing in their own misery and loathsomeness.( ie the crackhead girl)

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  Posted by GirlyGirl© Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:44pm PDT

  I started working at 11, I milked cows and cleaned stalls, and weaned the calves. It paid very well, and I stayed there for years. By the time I was 18, I had enough socked away to pay for 2 1/2 years of college. Waitressed in law school and bartended. Now I am an entertainment lawyer, so I've been working almost all of my life. I work like a dog still, my Papa instilled such a work ethic into me that it's hard for me to take a sick day. But I do!

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  Posted by preston Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:25pm PDT

  My first real job was working at a small family own grocery store. I walked to work each which sucked on the rainy days. I did alittle bit of everything there from bagging groceries, sweeping and mopping the floor, putting up stock to cleaning the meat room. I would say the biggest thing I learned was that sometimes you may like what you do but you need to do it until something better comes along.

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  Posted by spotty Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:38pm PDT

  My first job was at a children's clothing store. I learned so much from my boss at 13 that I still tie a bow just like she taught me and I never judge a book by its cover, just like she taught me. Good Post!

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  Posted by Heidi Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:38pm PDT

  GirlyGirl, your story is awesome, and I admire you deeply for working so hard for your goals.

  CiaoBella, How true that most people who hate on random others are just being eaten up by how pathetic their own lives are and need something or someone to take it out on.

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  Posted by Heidi Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:41pm PDT

  BTW, my first job was doing hair and it taught me... well, everything I know about doing hair LOL. School only teaches you how to pass your state board exam; everything else you learn by doing. Helps, too, if you have someone to mentor you through those first terrifying months(thanks, Wendy).

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  Posted by Robyn Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:07pm PDT

  my very fist PAYING JOB was at a college child development center.... i learned that this field i want to learn is a lot more work... but i got an aa in it.

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