What was your first job?

[MasterSpam]

Ooooo, this is a great topic. I’m not going to bore y’all, but my first 2 “under-the-table” jobs we when I was 14/15 yrs old. Both turned out quite humorous. When I was 14, in Medford, Ma, my corner store hired me to help work the deli. They taught me how to use all the sharp objects one shouldn’t teach 14 year olds. For a while it was going great. Got the hang of using bread knives, spread knives. They even let me use the meat slicer. Until one day someone ordered the OLIVE LOAF! Yup, sliced the top of my finger right off and ended my career as a sandwich maker. When my finger healed, I got a job a few doors down at a piano store cleaning pianos. Now y’all might think where this is going. But hang on. It was awesome. I’d get $30 - $40 a day (2-3hrs) cleaning pianos. Struck up a friendship with the salesmen. One of which had a daughter he kept talking up. I had weekend money. Didn’t work too hard. Learned how to move pianos. It was great, for a freshman in high school. This lasted a while. I was able to throw my money around on dates. Cleaning/moving pianos was going to be my high school gig. I even met this cute freshman at the start of my sophomore year. We went on a couple dates. I told the guys at work. I got a raise so I could “treat my girlfriend right”.it was awesome. One night, my girlfriend took me home to meet her family. Sure enough, she was the salesman’s daughter. Well, let’s just say I wasn’t cleaning pianos too much longer….

I graduated from Medford Sr High in 69!

 

[MasterSpam]

My first job was in the summer of '69 the Oregon State Highway Dept as a "daisy picker", i.e., highway intersection gardener and Trash Stabber.
Second job was a super scooper at Baskin Robbins in Pasadena while at PCC. I couldn't stand ice cream after about 6 mos. as it was a company training store and we could eat all we wanted. Making $1.15/hr in college meant I took advantage of that for those first 6 mos.
After that, I lucked into my optics fabrication career which lasted 52 years...

 

[cyure]

My first job was with the Oregon State Highway Dept as a "daisy picker", i.e., highway intersection gardener and Trash Stabber in '69

I have never heard it called that before.

 

[J Alynn]

My first actual job was Chick-Fil-A, the very first freestanding Chick-Fil-A location in the Carolinas. The day I was legally old enough to work. If you're familiar with Chick-Fil-A, then you know that they serve waffle fries.

Occasionally, customers would order French fries, and we were trained to tell them that we don't serve French fries, we serve waffle potato fries, and would be more than happy to add waffle potato fries to their order. Seems silly, but we were trained to clarify. From time to time, the customer would argue that they specifically wanted French fries. One time a guy got heated with me over Chick-Fil-A not serving French fries, so I told him I'd be happy to serve him his Chick-Fil-A sandwich, and then he could walk over to the McDonalds to get his French fries. That made him irate. He caused a scene and it took not just the manager but the operator also re-re-re-explaining.

Later, a Chick-Fil-A franchise opened on campus at my private high school and hired students to work the breakfast and lunch hours. You order an 8 pack of nuggies? You're getting as many tasty nuggs as can be crammed in that box, maybe 15 or so. You order 12 delicious, piping hot nuggies, probably getting 20. Small waffle potato fry? That sleeve is going to be absolutely erupting fries. A sandwich? Probably gonna have some nuggs in that bag too. And yes you can have all the sauces you want.

After the first semester of this, the manager, who was the only adult working at that location, held a meeting to let us know that we had the single worst loss ratio in the entire Chick-Fil-A system.

I think it was there for just one more semester before they pulled the plug.

Lmao. My daughter went there today on campus at Texas A&M and her friend ordered a large fry. They had none boxed so they gave her 2 mediums. Instead of dumping them and filling a large. Gotta wonder when that staff is getting their lecture. I have tears in my eyes. So glad I just read this after she called earlier. Hysterical

 

[J Alynn]

Funny story. Reminds me of local burger joint where I grew up called Burger Chef. They would hire all the local high schoolers with pretty much the same result. They were always packed but it wasn't sustainable.

I made pizzas at Penn State and me and another guy would stuff crust every 15th pizza so that students got bonus stuffed crust. Did it 2 days a week for an entire semester and nobody ever knew we did it. Was like 5 to 6 pizzas everytime we worked together. Kids really are clueless at that age.

 

[J Alynn]

C7A1 with a C79 optical sight.

It's based on the M16 platform but is Canadian designed and built with many improvements over the M16 including a chromed barrel sleeve for increased durability, a fully ambidextrous design, and a removable trigger guard for use with arctic gloves. It also differs from the US version in that it has safe, single shot, and full auto mode. The US version as far as I understand does not have full auto and instead is limited to three-round burst. I've never used an M16 though so I could be wrong.

C7 remains our standard service rifle but has been significantly upgraded since I've been in. I also trained on the M2 browning, C6 GPMG, C9 LMG, 84mm Carl Gustav recoilless rifle, and the M72 short range anti-armour weapon. I had a lot of fun back then. lol

Well now I definitely know where I’m moving -you have a guest room? I can deal with kids and I’m a pretty decent cook

 

[J Alynn]

I loved Burger Chef when I was in high school! It was the only fast food my town had, so lunch time meant loading as many kids as would fit into the back of a truck, driving insanely fast to get in line at "Burger Death", and then driving back, also insanely fast, just in time to be late for 5th period. good times.

Where’d you grow up. I didn’t think there were that many of those. I know we had one in my town as well.

 

[dreamweaver]

I made pizzas at Penn State and me and another guy would stuff crust every 15th pizza so that students got bonus stuffed crust. Did it 2 days a week for an entire semester and nobody ever knew we did it. Was like 5 to 6 pizzas everytime we worked together. Kids really are clueless at that age.

So it sounds like you guys were the good Samaritans of the student body.