What was your first job...

[Ed Goode]

Played my first paying gig at 12 years old, music was my sole and only source of income for the next 27 years. Got my first non-music job in 1992 ....

 

[Lammchop93]

15 years old. Jimmy's music center (guitar store), online sales, incharge of Ebay store.

 

[LongHairFreak]

Man, at 15yo I began throwing/stacking hay bales & cleaning horse and sheep barns; including shoveling/spreading... fertilizer(?) across fields.
I started at 50 cents a freakin' hour.

When I was 20yo, I was in a much cleaner place of employment --doing massage therapy.

 

[Stigs]

My first real employment was as a grocery store bagger at 16, worked for 2 weeks until I was promoted to a cashier.

Before that I spent the majority of all my summers doing work for my grandfather, although my grandmother was the one who payed me

 

[Hoover]

I taught guitar lessons when I was 16 & 17, but I only had 3 or 4 students so it was mostly to earn weed money.

First real (sic) job I had was when I was 18: I worked in a printing ink factory, scooping hellaciously caustic chemicals out of giant 50 gallon drums & mixing them together in weird industrial blending/rolling machines. Our claim to fame (sic, again) was that we made the yellow ink for bags of M&M's Peanut candy. I lasted exactly one week at that job.

 

[alembicguy]

16 Janitor for a large Iron Ore mine.

 

[Murder_Worship]

i have yet to get a job D:
i is 15

 

[Hoover]

Played my first paying gig at 12 years old

I don't count gigs because they were few & far between up until I was 19 or 20. But technically yeah, my first job was the gig my band got playing some spring festival block party at Temple Beth Shalom when I was 14.

 

[Stigs]

My first real employment was as a grocery store bagger at 16, worked for 2 weeks until I was promoted to a cashier.

Before that I spent the majority of all my summers doing work for my grandfather, although my grandmother was the one who payed me

Well that was odd... my post just doubled itself 40 minutes after my original, I have no idea why that happened

 

[Willy2911]

12 Farm boy

 

[Marcus Johnson]

Mowing lawns came first I guess, but I got into getting paid to play bass (with my Dad) shortly thereafter, and I'm still doing it 3000 years later. I guess I was about 12.

 

[JimB52]

Mowing lawns. about 12, I guess.
First paycheck job was Lifeguard. $8 / hour in 1975. Pretty sweet gig for a teenager.

 

[Lazylion]

At 15, I was a dishwasher in a hotel restaurant kitchen in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Spent 8 weeks getting prunefinger while a radio on a shelf right over my head played "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" by Paul McCartney about 10 times a day. To this day that song reminds me of washing dishes. I saved up my money, and when I got back home I bought a nice Yamaha 12-string guitar.

 

[dinghy]

Last summer when I was 15, I had a job testing software at my dad's work. Pretty easy job for $10 an hour. Sitting in an air conditioned office during the hottest month of the year...

 

[GeneralElectric]

Pot dealer. About 14.

First real job, Lumberjack at about 14 1/2

I'd like to add that I don't hold either of those positions anymore and both are very crappy jobs. Either pick a higher class drug or own a rain forest. My 2 cents.

 

[DigMe]

McDonald's. 16

bc

 

[Stumbo]

Had a bunch of jobs a a young age. At 7 years old I was helping my dad with plugged drains at a property he owned. At 12 I used to assemble the Sunday Los Angeles Time newspaper. Two other guys in the band worked there as well. We worked Sat. night from like 11pm to 3am. Made $55 a month. Spent it on improving my equipment. At 13 had a paper route. Started making some money in bands at 16. Worked as a part-time handyman for a number of years starting at 17.

 

[SpankyPants]

I worked in a warehouse for Goodwill. Loved the job, hated the trash I had to work with.