How old were you when you got your first job?

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rachel776 · Accepted Answer

i've been playing violin since age 4 and first got dosh at age 7 but i played in professional orchestras and joined the union when i was 12 so that's when it counts. i think at that time it was around 200-something per 2½ hour session and there are a lot of ways that can go way up, whether you're recording or not, whether you're playing for movies & TV, how big the orchestra is, all sorts. My agent keeps track of all that to the penny. Surprisingly, one of the factors is  not  whether you're actually playing, so i can (and have done) literally sit there and do nothing for the whole time and still get paid the full amount

Damaged00 · Accepted Answer

My first official job was when I was 15. But before that I had little odd jobs like delivering newspapers and babysitting.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Answer

I was 18, I believe. Just a shitty gas station cashier job

FunkyMonkee · Answer

From what I recall, my first job was selling grandma's Christmas and Easter candy so, I guess I was between 11 and 13. A few years later, I was cutting grass for a few of the neighbors.
My first job out of the house (in someone else's company) was putting labels on make-up bottles at my grandfather's girlfriend's daughter's store, Foxy Poxy. We (my brother & I) were only needed for 2 days.
Next was a job through Manpower working at a dept. store downtown collecting packages at various dept.'s and taking them to the shipping dept.. I did that for at least a month. It was only supposed to be 2 weeks but they held me over for 2 more. It was the first job I got after high school.

exitseven · Answer

I was mowing my neighbors lawn when I was 12 years old. He was a rich guy that owned the local Ford dealership. He had a big yard, several acres and it would take several days to get it mowed.
I got my first full time job after I graduated from high school at 17.

SeriouslyNotSerious · Answer

I've been on media industry since 15, got to writing/tech, then now back again to the same industry. 💗

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I was 16 and it was the summer before I left for college. I got a job at a Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Breanna_nonbinary · Answer

16. I was a lifeguard. Also nice AI generated profile pic. 👍

Simslover92 · Answer

A job at the university would be 20 but a real job would be 21.

AmazonChick171 · Answer

13 when I was pet sitting a neighbors dogs.

jamesgoldman · Answer

Formally 16 but informally like 12/13 but my own business matters I was 8

genericname85 · Answer

i guess technically 14? the typical local paper boy thing.

nawtee_me · Answer

I was 17 when I first got a real job but at 10 years old I was stacking hay bales every other weekend in the summer for 10 cents a bale.

Iron_Man · Answer

14 but they found out I was too young to work

molonski2 · Answer

Officially 16 years old at the tennis club , unofficially at age 13 as a golf caddy.

luvstoned4him · Answer

Not an official job but when I started working to make cash for school, I was 15

CubaPirate · Answer

13 working on the market on Saturday selling fruit and veg

Nikki1989 · Answer

14 part-time. 16 full-time.

Benjiman19 · Answer

I was 18. Fresh out of highschool. I went into landscaping for my first job.

Rodburner23 · Answer

I was 13 when I got my first outside the family job I am in rural Oklahoma and I started mowing and raking hay for a man

PeachyPie93 · Answer

19.. working at the dollar store.

Kaneki05 · Answer

Never have and hopefully never will.

RebelinSteel · Answer

I was 16

Anonymous · Answer

I was 19 at the time working at Disneyland busing tables

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

I was like age 15-16

bowenw · Answer

About 10 delivering magazines.

Redstang88 · Answer

First real job was at 15

smahala1991 · Answer

18, preschool assistant teacher

KpopMusicFan · Answer

18 years old. I was a shampoo girl in a salon.

jennyPuss · Answer

Does selling girl scout cookies count?

lightbulb27 · Answer

Paying work in warly teens. I loved it.

legalboxers · Answer

16. A job which I hated and was tormented

ChicoFromThe305 · Answer

Official job was when I was 19

LEGENDARY4200 · Answer

Like 11/12

rapfan107 · Answer

16 back in high school during the weekend

mandyfire98 · Answer

I was 16

WhitneySnow · Answer

Eighteen

jazzy34 · Answer

16 years old.

SweetJoyGirl · Answer

I was 16.

Dongie · Answer

Officially when I turned 16.

Maxnanet · Answer

14! Cutting Grass and stuff ! :p

missindiana93 · Answer

I believe 20.

Staximus · Answer

14 I think

Amur8711 · Answer

16, never not been employed since.

DishLady · Answer

17. . .

elaphe · Answer

I was 17.

zombiewoof · Answer

Fifteen

eagle1951 · Answer

i was 16

Coden7 · Answer

I was 15

scott04sa22 · Answer

15..

MrGSpotHer · Answer

Really young lol

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