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First job

Stilettoprefer

Stilettoprefer

Nov 26, 2010
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#1
It's time for me to grow up and get my first job! 17 years old and about to graduate high school, then go to Community College while still living at home!:D.

Applied to 4 places so far and gonna be contacting a manager tomorrow as a follow up on my application!

Next up after getting a job is getting my truck in street legal condition:D
 
#2
Stilettoprefer said:
It's time for me to grow up and get my first job! 17 years old and about to graduate high school, then go to Community College while still living at home!:D.

Applied to 4 places so far and gonna be contacting a manager tomorrow as a follow up on my application!

Next up after getting a job is getting my truck in street legal condition:D
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Better late than never :P

Good luck with the applications and college!
 
#7
I have had summer jobs with my uncle as a plumbing assistant since I was like 10, so i'm certainly not one of those lazy kids haha. (I dont even own any gaming systems or watch tv for more than an hour every day) But that job is at the coast, which is a 3 hour drive, so all year employment with that is impossible. And employment around here is pretty much impossible until you're 17.

Actually expecting a call from the manager at Old Spaghetti Factory soon:)
 
#9
Good luck, and congratulations! Had my first job at 14, worked at an amusement park in the foodservice section.

The only advice I can give you is to not bee too picky about what you take. Each job builds character and experience. Do your best, work hard, and don't ever think that any job is beneath you. Everyone started somewhere.
 
#10
BayStateBass said:
Good luck, and congratulations! Had my first job at 14, worked at an amusement park in the foodservice section.

The only advice I can give you is to not bee too picky about what you take. Each job builds character and experience. Do your best, work hard, and don't ever think that any job is beneath you. Everyone started somewhere.
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Haha did I mention that I applied as a busser at spaghetti factory?:P. I also applied at a local movie theatre that is hiring, and will be hearing back within a couple weeks when they go through the stack of applications. Next up for application if this spaghetti factory thing doesn't work out is subway.

Anyone know what the minimum age is to apply at guitarcenter?
 
#12
6jase5 said:
Wow, first job at 17? I don't get the "I have a car and cellphone but no job" teenager. I started at 13. Not meaning to be an arse, just shaking my head.
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I was thinking along a similar line, then thinking I'm maybe just older and out of touch.

Impossible to get a job at 13? Can kids not get paper routes anymore? What about washing dishes?

13 til 16 I had a paper route and picked berries during the summer months. At 16 I worked a supermarket for a while before falling out with the manager (who thought the job there was more important than school) then worked from 16-ish til 18 in an AV store. Spent a few months teaching & working with foreign students at 18 and then worked in a bar from 18ish til 22, was lucky enough to be awarded a scholarship for grad school work after that.

[/grumble, get off my lawn!]
 
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i_got_a_mohawk said:
I was thinking along a similar line, then thinking I'm maybe just older and out of touch.

Impossible to get a job at 13? Can kids not get paper routes anymore? What about washing dishes?

13 til 16 I had a paper route and picked berries during the summer months. At 16 I worked a supermarket for a while before falling out with the manager (who thought the job there was more important than school) then worked from 16-ish til 18 in an AV store. Spent a few months teaching & working with foreign students at 18 and then worked in a bar from 18ish til 22, was lucky enough to be awarded a scholarship for grad school work after that.

[/grumble, get off my lawn!]
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No paper routes around here, just people in cars that throw the paper, or shove it in a separate box next to the mailbox as they drive by.

And I'm pretty sure that until you're 15, you can't legally work anywhere.
 
#14
Good luck with getting one of the jobs.

Must admit im 20 now and haven't had a job yet, But at the same time haven't had a car or over the top **** just given to me. I mean the only reason i have my Warmoth bass and Ashdown Combo is because my dad died the night before i went off to uni, and built the bass in memory of him, and my marshall practice amp wasn't going to be enough having found some guys to jam with.

But as i have saved up money for finally finishing off driving lessons once this semester is nearly complete, i will most definately be getting a job either at where i go to university or back home, Pay for a car to go places under my own steam without relying on crap bus routes etc. And save up for a Head/Cab rig.

Have i been a spoilt unappreciative brat when i was younger because i didn't work, No, i appreciate what i had, and didn't go asking for mountains of stuff i didn't actually need and such.

Situations are just different, I was in a village in the middle of god knows where without a reliable bus service to count on for any jobs at the nearest town, and the taxi's were bloody expensive back home.

Would i be moaning if i was stuck with my fender my parents bought me for getting through a very **** secondary school final year and a rocky two years at college before going to university, long with my marshall practice amp. No i wouldn't because if that was the case my dad would still be here.

But right now i am getting annoyed at not having my own money and i'm going to be changing that once university work eases off.
 
#15
Jeez... Supermarkets? Amusement parks?! And I lol'd at paper routes... I would've killed for that in my teens. Grocery stores and other indoor work was usually taken up by the girls or by whoever knew the owners (good ole boy system...).

Where I lived you couldn't really work legally until about 17 or so, and even then you had to be extremely lucky to have a handy down car for transportation; there were no buses (except for school) or taxis around. Before going to college, I was working in the most country of Mississippi jobs: baling hay(everyone was too broke to afford proper equipment), car repair outside a relative or friends garage, farm building construction, cutting grass along highways, wiring and posting horse, hog, barbed wire fences, and countless other outdoor labor work all done in mid Mississippi summer, work in winter was hard to find; and I wasn't dirt poor by any means though, this was just to earn money. There was other work like folks paying to move, painting and drywall, insurance jobs needing more men mostly for stuff like demolition or removing debris caused by storm damage, etc., or work with ERDC if you got lucky. These I would have for saving money for things I needed or wanted (like bass gear!), but there wasn't much work elsewhere...

I didn't have my own cell phone or car until about 19 (old busted Chevy and prepaid cell phone cards FTW!!!), and I got my first real job shortly before 20, at Cowboy Maloney, lol... Since then I've been working at various internships and/or volunteer work, bars, or retail; I'm 23 now BTW... School was really my way into what I'm doing and where I'm living now (Jackson, MS). During my teens though, if you lived out in the country, you were $h!t outta luck...
 
#16
Things may be different, but when I was kid (25 years ago), you could legally work in Massachusetts at age 14 with a work permit signed by your parents and school principal. If your grades slipped or your parents felt you weren't keeping up with things at home, they could have it pulled.

The amusement park was a great job for a kid. I got to work with a lot of other kids, had fun, and learned a lot about things. It paid the princely sum of $3.65/hr., which I believe was minimum wage in 1987.

The down side was shoveling maggots out of the dumpsters on mondays when the park was closed.
 
#17
I got my first job at 17 working at a local pizza hut. It's certainly not a bad age to start work, especially if you had a lot going on at school like I did (marching band, track, and of course school.) Do paper routes exist anymore? All I ever see are vans zooming through neighborhoods at like 5am. That, or I just look at the news on this wonderful new invention called the internet.
 
#18
I worked at a warehouse sorting stuff when I was 16, and started teaching bass lessons at the local music store soon after that. I made $20/hr there and the store took care of booking and payments and everything. I worked about 6 hours a week and made more money than my pals who worked 15 hours. Do that.
 
#19
I've worked summers since I was 14 doing construction. Hauling lumber, pouring foundations, etc. I once spent two days hauling rocks from one pile to another to be used in a different location. I loved every second of it because while my lazy friends were playing CoD or whatever I was raking in the dough and earning an honest day's pay! Good for you for getting a job while in highschool. I ended up saving enough so that I don't have to work during my freshman year. Good luck OP. I'm struggling now trying to find a job myself :/
 
#20
I started working when I was 12 with a paper route. By 14 I was working every summer, and at 16 started working 30 hrs/ a week at a gas station. By 17 and pretty much ever since I've had two (and sometimes 3) jobs and did school as well for some of that. Did I mention I didn't have a girlfriend for most of my life? :op

Now at 35 I find myself voluntarily unemployed since last June when I returned to college for my BSN. I will be returning to work in June and it feels so WEIRD not to be working. For the first time in my life I do not have a job and feel really unproductive and like i'm missing something. It's weird.

Best of luck buddy, it sure is nice to have money, but don't make the same mistake most people do- working away their whole life for a few extra dollars. I spent way too much of my youth working 50-60 hrs/week and while the money is nice I would have been way nicer to spend my youth bangin chicks and playing more gigs. you're only young once.
 

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