During high school and in college, what types of jobs did you work?

[mandyfire98]

Did you enjoy the job? Which was your favorite job?

[Lliam]

My first job was working on weekends at my uncle's gas station in jr. high. Those were the days of full service, so I pumped gas, washed windows, checked fluids and tire pressure, and charged the customers. I learned the way to make change. I also learned how to do oil changes, lube jobs and other things.

Later in jr. high, I got a job in a private concession inside a grocery store. We made doughnuts, hamburgers and fries, and sold deli salads.

My first job in high school was at a small place called Pup and Taco, which was similar to Taco Bell. They sold hot dogs, chili dogs, crispy tacos, tostadas, burritos and sodas. I worked the front window and drive through, made and bagged the orders, and took payment.

Later in high school, I got at job stocking shelves in a large department store for federal employees called Fedco. I was really efficient. I also spent a lot of time in the warehouse (s) and did some warehouse work. And I got to drive those kind of electric carts that you stand up and lean back on. Sorta like this
https://www.grainger.com/product/35LR60?gucid=N%3AN%3APS%3APaid%3AGGL%3ACSM-2295%3A4P7A1P%3A20501231&gclsrc=ds&gclsrc=ds
I had a great time racing around in those when I was caught up on work. I could even smoke weed while driving around in remote parts of the warehouse. LOL
The job paid well. I also had to get bonded, which paid off with later jobs.
I also met a girlfriend there.

[exitseven]

did the Pup and Taco place make tacos out of dogs. ?

[Lliam]

@exitseven. No. The Mexican stuff used seasoned ground beef.
One of the perks there was free food. I'd make myself burritos with taco meat and the chili for the hot dogs. I liked those a lot.

[SnowedIn]

In high school I worked at our school's snack bar. It paid really well. It also taught me who were genuine friends and humans and who looked down on me because I worked. Learned lessons about work and customer service and life that I use today. I'm a better person, husband, and father because of my boss, Fran.

During the summers I worked at a convenience store and deli n my hometown. Loved that job. My boss worked me hard but taught me so much.

In college I worked catering. I learned a lot but that sucked. Wasn't that catering sucked -- I like that job, actually -- my boss was HORRIBLE and the jobs were terrible.

Favorite job? The high school snack bar.

[mandyfire98]

I think even good or fun jobs can definitely be ruined by bad associates or bosses.

[bubblegunnn]

When i was in middle school til high school i was an operator to my sist computer rental business.. but i dont want to get paid cuz i enjoy to play and being operator as well lmao..

When i was in college, i was oversea n far from home.. for a semester i worked at a cafe inside my university, its under my faculty label and its actually part of my study either as i took culinary art study.. and beside of we got grade from that, we also got paid..
Still in college, i already finished my study but still waiting few months to graduate, so my professor asked me to be her assistant while she was teach and do practice to college students under my year, and also doing her research as well..
Still in college but working out of university, i was working as culinary extracurricular teacher on a middle-high boarding school students twice a week..

[Aerissa_Jade]

On the family farm, bailing hay, tilling/plowing fields with tractors, using the forklift to do warehouse work in the warehouse.

Planting and harvest season mostly, in-between did other odds and ends. Worked the family booth at the county and state fairs.

Technically I did this in Junior High as well, as town is kind of far and hard to work at the usual places teens would work.

But you can't beat driving tractors, farm equipment and forklifts around as a teenager... kind of fun.

[oceanAndSeas]

That’s really cool 😍😍

[AviatorTom]

I didn't work in high school.

In the summer between high school and college, I worked on a truck with several other guys my wage... we painted street light poles... it was fun, and great to get out in the summer sun.

Early in college, I ran my own paid-under-the-table one-man house-painting company. The homeowner bought the paint and material, and I did the painting, providing my own ladders and brushes. I also did some indoor electrical work. I bought the material, the homeowner reimbursed me and paid me for my time. It was good to be independent and make a little money on the side.

After my second year in college, I worked alternate class semesters as a co-op/intern with a local electric utility company. It was fun, pay was good, and I learned a lot that helped me in my later engineering career.

[NewYorkCity]

My very first job was a garbage-man, my second job was a car mechanic, now I'm working as a medical office manager/medical medical. All my life changes revolved around my salary and me realizing every single time that I am unable to live a comfortable life, due to not having enough money. Comfortable and cause apartment in a safe area, technology like best TV, computer and cars are becoming more and more expensive. So, the only way to get those things is to get jobs that pay a Whole lot more money. Being poor is a mental state that can be broken and changed, but being broke on the other hand, is a physical condition that takes some serious mental and physical commitment to get yourself out of.

[Sirenboobzilla]

Parents wouldn't let me work during highschool. They said it would distract from studying and what not. I did KINDA part time as a tutor for AP English and Biology in my senior year. Moment I graduated though I went to work at Best Buy for a year till I started working for my current company.

[DenizLikesTennis]

My very first job in high school was at 16 when I was doing a newspaper route. I'd say that I was an ambitious, diligent and considerate young guy who was taking care of himself well while working out.

So I thought to share a little since you asked hahaha

[PositiveFlight]

While I was in college, I wanted to be a fighter pilot ultimately. So I was in the USAF ROTC and engineering program. I ended up working in IT during that time and then got stuck doing digital forensics and legal work which then became my career so I never left until now lol 😂

[ArtemisSilver]

I didn't have the good fortune to attend post-secondary, which was a shame, due to lack of funding and a messed up family life.

I worked various food industry jobs until I graduated, after which I did all kinds of jobs to find out what I liked to do, I've been a mechanics assistant, a bouncer and a security guard, a tech support guy, and I've worked in sales.

I'd say sales was probably the best of all of them because you can apply it to just about anything and there are good books on the subject.

Ironically though, while I was in my early 20s I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder about the classism in Canadian education and took money to write people's papers and undermine the system that I felt had slighted me hehe.

If I were to do it again I would work PT as a freelance coder and make money while in school that way, although the stability of having a safe place to go after school and a hot meal wasn't bad by any means.

[Agape93]

Briefly waitresses, sprayed shit out of wharf bathrooms, painted churches and houses, pressure washing. Favorite was pressure washing. Didn't often deal with bad work conditions, shitty people and I didn't have to hound clients for owed money Iike I did with a few of the churches

[exitseven]

One summer I had a job building swimming pools. I got to take the company truck home with me at night. We really had a lot of fun but it was really hard work too. I also worked for a place that made trophies. I had to deliver stuff all over the city. It was not a bad job

[bowenw]

Newspaper delivery, department store clerk, hardware store clerk, security guard, and at a meat packing house. None were great jobs, but my favorite was at the department store as I got to know a lot of the other employees very well.

[mandyfire98]

Wow you worked a lot of places.

[bowenw]

The department store job was where I worked most in high school, then the security guard job after I graduated and took some time off school. The packing house job was in summers during college. It was a high-paying as it was a union job. I earned more there than I did when I started my career job after college.

[mandyfire98]

Were the conditions rough in the packing house?

[bowenw]

I never had anything to do with slaughtering, nor did I want to. Most of the jobs there are tedious and boring, but not difficult. I had one job running a wiener making machine for the summer. I mastered it in about one shift. After that it was basically standing there for 8 hours watching it work and stopping it if anything went wrong. I'm not sure how some guys dealt with doing that kind of job for decades. You are welcome to PM me if you wish.

[Wish4UrB00ty]

In highschool I worked as a janitor at a camp and in collage I worked as an assistant cook at the cafeteria.

[mandyfire98]

Ooh a chef, look at you.
Was the camp a summer camp?

[Wish4UrB00ty]

Well they ran camp in both summer and winter and then rented out spaces in the off seasons for conferences.

[mandyfire98]

Any hockey mask wearing incidents?

[Wish4UrB00ty]

😂😂 well there was a lot of pond hockey and during Halloween a few of my friends did brake out a mask or two to get freaky. But most of the time no.

[Anonymous]

In high school during the summer i worked at a local amusement park. And after i graduated while going to college I flipped burgers for BK.

Did I enjoy them? Well I was still a punk kid so...🤣. In high school I don't think I had a good enough understanding job responsibility lol. And BK, well it's fast food. They employ Kids and burnouts. So naturally half the people they employ are irresponsible and the other half are just negative. But It allowed me to pay for school, it bought me my first "real" car, and it gave me some working experience and taught me what I DON'T want to do in life.🤣 So in that aspect it was a positive.

[NathanDavis]

I would not call them jobs or work, but I did a few things to get money, lol...

did homework, tutoring, wrote papers for others... poker, garage band singer, amateur sports player... sold drawings, poems, one song... lmfao

on the more serious side, I did work as help through the many businesses in the family, office stuff, accounting, construction/contractor, transportation and moving business and a couple other that were more tricky

[Sour-rose]

Customer service. No, fuk them jobs.

1st one- bowler service, clean up after dumb adults and kids and break my nails carrying bowling balls for $7.25 and no raise.

2nd one- usher at the movies. Clean up and give tickets and be the gate keeper to mofos with tickets or not. Had a funny story of a dickhead snapping at me because I wouldn't let him by to wash his hat... said he was the owner. He was not.

[Charlesbrandonf]

Dishwashing for 7$/hour in Santa Clara. I guess I learned more about life in part time life than in schools. School and degrees taught me how to serve a company. Working in restaurants taught me how to run a company/business.


I want to be an employer not an employee.

[TCredo]

I did all sorts of jobs. My favorite was working on my own with a buddy. We would cut lawns, weed garden beds, wash cars and shovel driveways when it snowed. We did that for a few years and had about 20 customers around our neighborhood. Was good money for our age and we could set our own hours. Was a pretty good deal :)

[Coden7]

I was a customer service phone rep for a little bit, then worked in Quality Assurance up until recently.

[mandyfire98]

I've heard call center work can be brutal.

[Coden7]

Yeah. It wasn’t so bad once I moved to the Quality end. But the regular CS work was pretty degrading

[mandyfire98]

I wouldn't be able to deal with it. I'd have a breakdown.

[melanieeeB]

Man I had a few, I worked in the cinema, I worked as a saleswoman, I worked as a waitress in a beergarten, I worked as a service person in a wellness salt thing... uhm what else🤔

[melanieeeB]

I enjoyed all of them, besides cinema cause they were so understaffed and the cinema was new, so I worked min. 10h/day but my fav was being a saleawoman at lush... i don't like lush but I had a lot of fun there

[BlueScorpio]

My parents thankfully didn't force or require me to work during my teen years. They let me focus on just school until graduation. 19 was when I got my first job and officially started working.

[Still-alive]

College i worked retail at a party supply store. Then once i was out of gen ed and more into my major i quit work and did that full time.

[Still-alive]

Oh high school i did papa johns as a sophomore. I only worked in the building, i wasn’t allowed to deliver pizzas.

I also delivered medicine for a local pharmacy in my senior year

[mandyfire98]

Did you have costumes at the party store? Like party city?

[Still-alive]

Yes lol. Those were the busiest events of the year

[mandyfire98]

I'd just want to dress up all day

[MendaciousMarxist]

I worked with my dad's friend who was a mechanic during my first year of high school, then as a waitress. During college, I was busy studying to become a teacher but I hung out with many real estate agents (my dad was one).