Readers share their first jobs 54 Articles

by R.L. Calixto

This article is about "first jobs". Do you remember yours? Did you get fired? I'll admit it if you admit it. You probably did. Ok, I did. But not because I wasn't doing my job. My very first job was as an usher at the...read more

by Dan Weaver

"Here, Take this over to Dillingham's Book Bindery," said the man at the State Employment Office in Bangor, Maine, as he handed me a job referral. I walked down Harlow Street to Franklin where the bindery was located. M...read more

by Shannon Nies

Love in the Workplace The summer before starting 7th grade, I made up my mind that I needed a job. What I would do with that money was unimportant. What mattered was that I make money money that didn't come solely fr...read more

by Deanne Phillips

"This is Judy." The voice-over commentator began. The camera picks up a petite, dark haired young girl closing a classroom door as she enters into the school hallway. The voice-over continues. "Judy is leaving class...read more

by Detail Guy

My very first job was as a paperboy. One day back in the 1980's I called the San Francisco Examiner and asked to speak to someone about a paperboy position. I was re-directed to a young lady who said she would come to my h...read more

by Ruth Woodhouse

I had two jobs that I consider firsts. One was a casual job I did working in a supermarket (grocery store) in the lead-up to Christmas of 1975. The other was my first full-time job, which was in a school office. I worked...read more

by Jan Sterrett

The first thing I ever did that earned me extra cash was babysitting. I don't regard this as my first actual job, as it was almost too much fun to be considered work. I got to play games or read stories to the kids. After ...read more

by Jane Maxwell

My first job was at a burger joint that we'll just say used to advertise "over a billion hamburgers sold!" I worked there for approximately 3 days. It seems the grill boys were fond of pinching the backside of all the 'fr...read more

by Shawna Blake

There was this 'Youth Center' in my neighborhood where we would spend nearly every sunny summer day at. It was a few blocks from where we lived, and it was not a place that you were required to attend, you could just sort ...read more

by Morgan Drake Eckstein

Quite honestly, I don't ever remember not working. It is hard to believe, but is true. My first job was a gopher (or gofer if you prefer that spelling) on a construction site. It all came about because my father was rai...read more

by Olivia Monica

I rode my bicycle all day long every Saturday. I signed up to deliver the Liberty Vindicator a small town newspaper, chock full of real news. My dad was the circulation manager, so each of my brothers as well as mys...read more

by Nicki Marks

The summer that I turned fifteen, I took my first job as a part time employee at Domino's pizza. I was given a uniform and assigned to work the cash register, answer phones, and prep the food for the next day's use. All in...read more

by Mary Tyrer

Readers share their first jobs: Of course, I did the babysitting thing when I was a preteen, and at fourteen, I stuffed newspapers, but they were typical jobs that many preteens do when they are young. My first real ...read more

by Josh Hilp

I got my first job at the age of 16, and it was pretty odd. I realize that most people who get a job at 16 are going to have a weird experience, but my first job was as a bowling alley mechanic. This after having no mechan...read more

by Ethel Smith

My tale relates to a temporary job. Although my first proper job was as a remittance clerk at the local branch of a nationwide bank, I decided to relate a particular incidence from my temporary work. I thought of writing a...read more

by Chris Sura

"And I get paid too!" That is how I sum up my first punch-the-time-clock job at the King's Table Restaurant. I was fourteen: scrawny, small and naive. The King's Table was a fascinating first step into adult that I still r...read more

by Ann Miller

The day after I sat my final O level exam, I came home at lunchtime and my mother told me she had found me a position as an orderly in a cottage hospital an hour away from home. I was sixteen. My mother had been a nu...read more

by Nirav Patel

"The GUI seems to be having problems, try power-cycling the box, and if it doesn't work we may have to check the CMOS." Was one of the first things I heard at my very first corporate job working as an Intern for a wireles...read more

by A. Joerger

My first job didn't last too terribly long. I made the mistake of making my first job retail. All my friends has jobs, and they were going to concerts and theme parks and having so much fun. I wanted to be part of that ...read more

by Ingrid Du Plessis

I promised myself that I would be the best. That is, shoe sales lady. The year? 1982. South Africa, a little town on the West Rand. It was simple - I had to work, yet convinced myself that I wanted to work and necess...read more