First Job Interview!

[PixelVandalism]

I'm going for my first job interview on Saturday morning at Hungry Jacks (fast food chain).
What was your first job?

[Djuzuh]

collecting tobacco leaves.

Worst.Job.Ever.Period.

[PixelVandalism]

collecting tobacco leaves.

Worst.Job.Ever.Period.

What was so bad about it? XD

[alaricljs]

Burger King... first summer out of HS and I managed to get a total of ~130 hrs on the clock in 3 months.  Don't know why they bothered hiring me.

[Djuzuh]

What was so bad about it? XD

****ty pay, ****ty hours (6 to 10~11 every morning), you get completely soaked from the morning dew, and when you come home, all your arms, hairs and legs are black from the tar of the tobacco leaves (and it's very hard to get off again, expecially if you have some hairs).

Oh, and it's a repetitive, stressing manual job. And you sit on really ****ty chairs without being able to move.

And once you go for one way of the tobacco field. You see nothing but green all around you, you don't even see the sun, just the jungle of tobbacco. And then 45mn afterwards, at the last 2 meters of the row, you get to see the end of the tunnel.

[PixelVandalism]

Burger King... first summer out of HS and I managed to get a total of ~130 hrs on the clock in 3 months.  Don't know why they bothered hiring me.

If I get the job I won't be getting any more work that that. I doubt I would be able to fit it in with school.
BK and HJ's are almost the same restaurant, if you can even call them that.

****ty pay, ****ty hours (6 to 10~11 every morning), you get completely soaked from the morning dew, and when you come home, all your arms, hairs and legs are black from the tar of the tobacco leaves (and it's very hard to get off again, expecially if you have some hairs).

Oh, and it's a repetitive, stressing manual job. And you sit on really ****ty chairs without being able to move.

And once you go for one way of the tobacco field. You see nothing but green all around you, you don't even see the sun, just the jungle of tobbacco. And then 45mn afterwards, at the last 2 meters of the row, you get to see the end of the tunnel.

Sounds "fun". :sad:

[keyboardlover]

Good luck!

My first job was as a "food runner" at a busy restaurant. It sucked way hard. Runners pretty much get yelled at by everybody; the cooks, the waiters and the other staff. They get blamed for everything.

[Malphas]

"Technician" in an event/marquee crew. Sounds fancier than it really was, just hauling gear in and out of trucks, setting up tents, stages, electrical cables, etc.

[fohat.digs]

Stock boy at a small town full service pharmacy (the 1950s-60s kind with a lunch counter). I mostly carried boxes and put stuff on shelves.

Occasionally I would operate the cash register or cook a hamburger.

I worked maybe 10-15 hours per week, and I think I got minimum wage which was about $1.10 at the time, 1969.

My "real" job in high school was mowing yards and raking leaves for about a dozen houses in the neighborhood. At around $3-5 each, that was much better money.

[Daniel Beaver]

My first "real" job was at McDonalds, doing all those wonderful fast food things. It was, if nothing else, a great motivator to do well in college. Every 18 year old should work a ****ty job

Manual agricultural jobs definitely rank way up there on the list of "worst jobs" - I worked over the summer as an aide to a field researcher for the USDA, and did the whole "bend over in the sun all day planting and harvesting". Collecting tobacco leaves sounds a lot worse.

[snoopy]

job interview? In germany we call it "Vorstellungsgespräch" :-) funny word, isn't it?

[Djuzuh]

Was ist denn komisch an diesen word? Ich finde es ganz normal.

[The_Beast]

I was a technical drafter my junior year of HS, what it boiled down to was counting linear feet of gasket needed to seal windows. I'm still working there in the summers while I got to college


I also got to count fasteners, screws and other small things while the engineers did important stuff. But I did get to work 50 hour weeks in the summer with overtime

[kaiserreich]

Roulette Dealer, for four months while waiting for college admission.

Good times.

[thegunner100]

Im working my first real job at a dunkin donuts 3 minutes away from my house. I managed to get the job easily because I've been the manager's customer for about 5 years I've been working for 9 days straight, and today is my first day off. My legs and feet felt like they were going to fall off after I finished my shift yesterday xD.

[mbc]

distributing newspaper, at the age of 12

[Internetlad]

I think I was 15 and I applied for A&W (Canada) which is a fast food restaurant/sit down place kind of like a slightly fancier mcdonalds.

First job interview, it's all downhill from there, kids.

[Lethal Squirrel]

First and current job. Clerk at a local grocery store. I'm basically the store *****.
Get carts, fill milk, bag groceries, stock shelves, mop the floors, unjam the bottle return machines, help people find things, walk old ladies groceries out to their cars, I could go on and on xD

[hazeluff]

Washing cars for "work experience", I ended up watching the beijing olympics more than washing cars...

Next proper job was summer internship office job at AXA insurance.

[weenis]

distributing newspaper, at the age of 12

This.

[keyboardlover]

This.

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[thegunner100]

Please see the forum rules.

Nice catch there.

[davkol]

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[Internetlad]

Please see the forum rules.

I agree

[fohat.digs]

Addendum -

My "worst" early job was loading tires.

Hot Atlanta summer, non-air-conditioned warehouse, dark and dirty, loading tires into railroad cars (which are all metal, of course, in the same sun).

The first ones were not so bad, but we had to stack them to the ceiling. I was taller than all my co-workers, so I was the one who had to toss all the highest ones.

After that, "steel-belted radial" was not an entirely positive phrase for me.

[Internetlad]

Gas station pumping gas and telling people to put out the cigs.

I thought that was an urban legend? That the cherry on a cig didn't burn hot enough to ignite the liquid gas nor fumes?

I don't smoke anymore anyways, so it's a non issue.

[sth]

"Technician" in an event/marquee crew. Sounds fancier than it really was, just hauling gear in and out of trucks, setting up tents, stages, electrical cables, etc.

Same here plus skippy racing and eating bad vendor food for 2 days straight.

[FoxWolf1]

Data entry for a sketchy local furniture store. Mind-numbingly boring, with neither human interaction nor exercise for relief. Fortunately, I got fired pretty quickly, so I managed to make it out with my sanity intact.

Well, mainly, anyway.

[ChaoticKinesis]

Not sure if it counts as a "real job" but I was a math tutor in HS. After that it was Starbucks.

[Internetlad]

Data entry for a sketchy local furniture store. Mind-numbingly boring, with neither human interaction nor exercise for relief. Fortunately, I got fired pretty quickly, so I managed to make it out with my sanity intact.

Well, mainly, anyway.

I know what you mean, one of the biggest gripes I have with my job is that i'm the only one in the service area for hours at a time. Some days it can be tough to keep motivated, just scooting around by myself.

[domoaligato]

web developer

[PixelVandalism]

I'm waiting for a call, I should get it around 2.

[sparc]

My first job was selling stuff the computer shows which are now extinct.

[PixelVandalism]

I didn't end up getting the job.

[harrison]

first job was at 14, working as a junior tech at a local mom & pop computer shop that ended up going under after their first year.  second job (although, first legit job) was stocking shelves at a slave-on-foods grocery store.  i ended up in the dairy department, and did that for something like 2 years or so.  man, such a long time ago.

I didn't end up getting the job.

keep your head up man, something always comes along

[PixelVandalism]

first job was at 14, working as a junior tech at a local mom & pop computer shop that ended up going under after their first year.  second job (although, first legit job) was stocking shelves at a slave-on-foods grocery store.  i ended up in the dairy department, and did that for something like 2 years or so.  man, such a long time ago.

keep your head up man, something always comes along

It's all good, I was kind of hoping that I wouldn't get it.
I'd love to work in an electronics shop.

[cheebs]

15 years old.  Six Flags.  Cashier.  Lines out to the parking lot.  Never again.

[Wildcard]

Age 6-7 - Lemonaid stand
Age 8 - Broker for school lunch exchanges (commission fee was Cheetos paws)
Age 9 - TMNT in training
Age 10 - unemployed
Age 11-13 helped a friend in the summer with his newspaper route by getting the papers put together
Age 14 - worked concessions at a movie theater (paid taxes, filed for a full tax return)

[weenis]

With ambition like that you should be a millionaire by now.

[dirge]

Collecting trolleys at a supermarket. Great job, paid to workout basically.

[PixelVandalism]

I'd really like to get a job at an electronics store.. but I doubt that will happen..

[dirge]

Keep trying bud, 90% is down to the person, been through MANY expensive day rate consultants that are ****ing hopeless.  I place attitude and approach over experience.

Hire the right person, train for skill.

Go in positive, or it'll show and you won't stand a chance.

[TexasFlood]

Having food, shelter and hopefully a couple of keyboards, however is not overrated.

For most of us that means work.

[PixelVandalism]

Having food, shelter and hopefully a couple of keyboards, however is not overrated.

For most of us that means work.

The benefits of being 16
I will just lack keyboards without a job.