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First Job
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 5, 2004 9:15 AM
YES!!!! I got my first job as a grocery store sacker today!!!
Now I can buy models with my own money!!!
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Posted by nslakediv on Monday, July 5, 2004 9:19 AM
Look out Bill Gates, welcome to the working world. I remember my first job delivering newspapers, we would get paid once a month, and right to the LHS I would go, and come home with a bag full of athearn blue box kits, back then they averaged about $3-$7 a kit, now you need at least $10 a kit and $20 for Ready to Run, OOOO the good old days.
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Posted by fec153 on Monday, July 5, 2004 11:10 AM
First job-paper route. Watching dawn out of the Atlantic ocean in Miami Beach. Wasn't
into modeling then. Rode 'em from N.Y. to Conn. and N.Y. to Miami. Last train trip was
in '56. Fort Benning to Miami and back.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 5, 2004 11:13 AM
WElcome to the working world. My first job was packing groceries. I'm glad I picked that job because I learned a lot about how companies run that day. From ordering stock to stock, stocking the shelfs, money managment, dealing with costumers, and time managnment. You'll have a good time working and it will feel so great to be able to buy what you want. Just remember to save some of your money. Cause you never know when unexpected expenses will come, like car repairs. congratulations and I wish you the best at your new job.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 5, 2004 12:15 PM
Thanks guys for the word of encouragement. I'll take that when I start my job Wednesday.

C'ya
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 5, 2004 1:35 PM
congrats on the job mate, I started my working life at the age of 15, making sausages and grinding up pet mince in the back room of the local butchers. I'm glad to say I have come along way since then, but have never forgotten where I came from. Life is what you make it. You will have to give us all an update toward the end of the week on how you went .
cheers.
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Posted by Roadtrp on Tuesday, July 6, 2004 1:46 AM
My first job was doing cleanup in a Pizza Hut. Yup... doing dishes, mopping floors, vacuuming carpets, cleaning restrooms (the stories I could tell) etc. After a while there I advanced to cook, and I really LOVED cooking pizzas (my favorite food).

Now I'm an Info Tech Supervisor and Database Administrator. It pays the bills rather nicely. But if I could do anything I wanted without worrying about the money? I'd be cooking pizzas again. I liked that job more than any other job I've had in my life.

When I get to the point when I semi-retire and can work at something without worrying about the money, old RoadTrp will be cooking pizzas again!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 7, 2004 8:32 PM
Wow! I just got back from my job at the grocery store and it went great! Couldn't of gone better![:D][:D]
Thanks guys for the responses![:D]
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Posted by dave9999 on Wednesday, July 7, 2004 10:26 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Roadtrp

My first job was doing cleanup in a Pizza Hut. Yup... doing dishes, mopping floors, vacuuming carpets, cleaning restrooms (the stories I could tell) etc. After a while there I advanced to cook, and I really LOVED cooking pizzas (my favorite food).

Now I'm an Info Tech Supervisor and Database Administrator. It pays the bills rather nicely. But if I could do anything I wanted without worrying about the money? I'd be cooking pizzas again. I liked that job more than any other job I've had in my life.

When I get to the point when I semi-retire and can work at something without worrying about the money, old RoadTrp will be cooking pizzas again!!



I'll take a Meat Lovers w/extra cheese on pan crust.[:p] Dave
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Posted by TrainFreak409 on Wednesday, July 7, 2004 10:54 PM
You now place with us working guys and gals. My first job was at PURKEY'S TOY TRAINS. I got money to buy models, and I get discounts

I now have a second job at Quizno's!

Pity that money makes the world go 'round.




[8]TrainFreak409[8]

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 8, 2004 12:49 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by TA462

Just don't blow your first pay check on trains. Now that your working your going to need to learn how to save as well as spend.


I have to whole - heartedly agree with TA462. Learn to save some for a rainy day. One of these days you will be glad you did. [;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 8, 2004 2:01 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Roadtrp

My first job was doing cleanup in a Pizza Hut. Yup... doing dishes, mopping floors, vacuuming carpets, cleaning restrooms (the stories I could tell) etc. After a while there I advanced to cook, and I really LOVED cooking pizzas (my favorite food).

[#ditto]Ditto here, but with one major exception! Working at the Hut usually meant eating at the Hut, so I have been ruined for Pizza. [xx(] It's pretty well killed of my taste for most Italian foods (anything with Marinara sauce). It's the old, "too much of a good thing" addage at work.
Welcome to the work force Flyer! [:D] Remember, a bag of frozen peas makes a great substitute for an ice pack if needed![B)]
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Posted by BRAKIE on Thursday, July 8, 2004 8:05 AM
First job I had was working 20 hours a week in a hobby shop at the age of 16. as a sales clerk...Man,I thought I was in 7th heaven..

Larry

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Summerset Ry.


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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 8, 2004 10:47 AM
Congrats. My first Job Mowin a Friends Lawn Think in about startin a Lawn service for my Neighbor hood and i'm gonna call it "The Lawn Ranger"
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Posted by krump on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:53 AM
Greenhouse Builders - hole punching aluminum strips.
employed by my uncle at $1/hr (Cdn) when I was 11 yrs old - beat the paper route back then, but Uncle made all the money

cheers, krump

 "TRAIN up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" ... Proverbs 22:6

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