Can you share your experience with your first job or internship? And if you want, can you also share how you improved your career later on?

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Sirenboobzilla · Accepted Answer

My first job was at Best Buy. I worked up in customer service and occasionally covered down in computers when they needed help. Mainly taught me how to be more responsible outside of school. And it did lead to my current job with a shipping company (not gonna post the name as our HR people are always on an annoying lookout). A customer one day overheard me talking about certain gadgets could help run their business, talking numbers and all, and this person happened to be a manager here and invited me to apply. Opened up a massive door for me which led me to study business administration. I may not intend to tale over this business, but I do intend to be more at the center of it within a few years, if I'm not running my own business by then first.

SecretsofKB · Accepted Answer

My first "real" job was as a CNA in my hometown's hospital. And it was good and bad all at the same time. It was good because it was in the field I wanted to go into and was great experience, but it was bad because I had got stuck with all thr shitty work (which honestly is still a plus because it made me really appreciate the job now).

My career now is as a nurse. So I took a lot of my experience from my first job and was able to apply it now and when I was first getting started and going through school.

BCRanger10 · Accepted Answer

I was in retail selling menswear. Every day was more or less the same. Clean the store, ship out catalog orders, work with customers, measure them for their alterations, and so forth. Some days were incredibly busy and others, not so much. After a couple of years doing that, I got a promotion to be on the management team.

I worked for the company on and off for four years and eventually got a job working in the warehouse doing inventory for a satellite TV provider. It paid better, taught me better skills, and was an overall better spot on my resume.

FunkyMonkee · Accepted Answer

My first job was as a dish washer in a restaurant. I lasted two days. They just wanted the dishes to get a quick wash-up, in and out in a few moments! I anted to see to it I did a good job so, I took longer to make SURE the dishes were clean and that held up the process!! Especially when the cook gave me these large 2 gallon white tubs that had spaghetti sauce in them!! They were IMPOSSIBLE to get all the red stuff from the inside and took FOREVER and STILL weren't clean, to my liking, nor theirs!!

OlderAndWiser · Answer

My very frst job was working as a kitchen worker at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1971. I was 16 yars old. I went to college and got a bachelor's degree, then later returned and attended law school, graduating with honors. I've come quite a distance from my beginnings.

exitseven · Answer

I worked in a place that made trophies. i ran errands, cleaned the display cases, did the shipping and there was a big air conditioner that the boss owned that I used to scrub down when I had nothing else to do. Once a bum puked in the freight elevator and i had to clean it up.

Pinay_ako · Answer

First internship was for tv, radio and newspaper firm. A far cry to my career now.

Redstang88 · Answer

Started working at a gas station when I was 15. Wasn’t at all related to what I do now, but got here through training and working hard

Andres77 · Answer

Broiling burgers in burger king. had nothing to do with any jobs thereafter except help me learn to avoid the boss at every opportunity

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