Working For Minimum Wage
February 4, 2012 by Kailani
Filed under daily life, random thoughts
The other morning, a bunch of my friends and I were talking about our first jobs.
One guy used to work at a service station (back when they provided service), one girl worked at McDonalds, and another girl in a popular retail store.
Me? I used to clean classrooms at my high school. Thinking back, I realized that it was a relatively easy job – cleaning the chalkboards, emptying the trash cans, sweeping, and clapping erasers for 5 different classrooms. On Fridays, I would also have to mop the floors. I hated Fridays.
I was fourteen when I first started and made $2.10 per hour. Back then, that was a lot of money and I thought I was rolling in the dough! Woo hoo!
Do you remember your first job?
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My first job was at a dry cleaners & I made $3.15 an hour. Minimum wage. I hated that job but it was money. I quickly moved on to Rite Aid, where I made $3.35 an hour…yea that’s right…I made it rain! LOL
That sounds like a pretty nice first job considering so many students used to do those tasks for free.
My first job was working in an accounting department with my mom. I had to pull the printer tabs off the paper. Do you remember when printers had spiral edges that pulled the paper through? I also got to stuff envelopes. I don’t remember what I got paid, but I do remember it was pretty good.
Technically it was probably babysitting… after that I had a paper route for about a year. That was a pretty fun job all things considered! Then my first real hourly job was working in a sausage stand. I think I made just under $5 an hour, which was the minimum wage at the time.
Well I’m only 25 so I definitely remember my first job. It was at family dollar and I was making 6.25 and hour. You’d have thought I was a millionaire! LOL
I just turned 22 and I’ve only been able to work once in my life for a short span of time (3 months) due to my illness, but it was working at a local outdoor/cafe concession building at the local state park.
Let me just say, I LOVED that job! The boss was a little flighty, but it was definitely my element
My first job was giving English language lessons for kids. The money was pretty good, but the job was very exhausting.