Item 4 31-MAY-94 23:24 Melissa Marie Petrek (suprnaut) First Jobs From Hell and Beyond Burger slinging, clerking at Dad's office, scrubbing the fleas off mutts at the corner vets (whoever said the work ethic was dead?) What was your very first job, and what was it like? 27 responses selected of 27 total 4:1) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 13:38 My very first job that actually paid regularly was at the sonic on Stassney. - - - - - 4:2) Ben Cohen (bcj) 01-JUN-94 22:01 Mine was at the Orange Julius in Barton Creek Mall. I was a dashing figure in my brown and orange polyester vest and hat. - - - - - 4:3) Terry (terry) 01-JUN-94 23:23 The Algonquin Golf Course in Clayton, MO. a suburb of St. Louis. It was good exercise but boring to sit around waiting in the shack. - - - - - 4:4) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 23:51 hey Terry (terry), Alex is from Independence, MO. Wonder if y'all know any of the same ppl? hmmm, it's a long shot but it could happen. - - - - - 4:5) Holly Iles (holly) 01-JUN-94 23:51 Have you ever gone to Omega Kega? - - - - - 4:6) Terry (terry) 02-JUN-94 0:01 Nope, I grew up around St. Louis and Chautauqua, Illinois. Independence was a ways off. Went there once on a school field trip. - - - - - 4:7) Holly Iles (holly) 02-JUN-94 0:18 ll oh well, knew it to be a long shot. - - - - - 4:8) melissa marie (suprnaut) 02-JUN-94 17:37 first job was clerking in a hospital, and it really sucked. i had to wear white polyester pants and tops, even though i was *not* a certified medical worker. there was this sleazy lab technician (married) who used to come on to me in the cafeteria line. it was hellish. - - - - - 4:9) Holly Iles (holly) 03-JUN-94 1:12 oh god, polyester white pants...it >must< have been hellish. You poor poor thing. - - - - - 4:10) melissa marie (suprnaut) 12-JUN-94 2:40 one of my mom's friends got me the job -- needless to say, it didn't pay jack shit. - - - - - 4:11) Clay Colwell (eris) 29-JUN-94 15:43 First 3 jobs -- cashier at a Tom Thumb (when was the last time you saw a 15-year-old working the cash register [*not* a laser scanner, but an honest-to-Gawd keypad]?), file clerk in Accts Rcvable at Seton Hospital, and pizza architect at Conan's (do they still treat their help like crap?). - - - - - 4:12) melissa marie (suprnaut) 29-JUN-94 18:15 never had the priviledge in working in food service, clay. that was one thing my parents drew the line at. i did, however, take a second job at this miserable place called "nutrisystem" (weight loss center). My job was to sit behind the receptionist's desk and mind the non-ringing phone. Oh - and look cute and pleasant. - - - - - 4:13) Holly D. Iles (holly) 29-JUN-94 21:05 Is that place (nutrisystem) as big a joke as I think it is? - - - - - 4:14) melissa marie (suprnaut) 02-JUL-94 19:07 you betcha. i couldn't believe the amount of $$$ people spent joining a program that taught them how to eat right! - - - - - 4:15) Sean Simmons (seans) 22-JUL-94 0:16 My first job was at Round Table Pizza and lasted five weeks. I got fired for being too slow at 'painting' pizzas. Imagine that, rejected by a pizza parlor. To this day it still doesn't bother me. - - - - - 4:16) I haven't decided (melina) 22-JUL-94 8:48 My very first job was working for the Park District of Urbana, Illinois. I worked in Busey Woods, mostly maintaining the trails -- which involved trundling a wheelbarrow full of wood chips deep into the forest coz there was no way that a truck could get back there, dumping it out in a big mud puddle, raking it out, then trundling all the way back for more. Also had to cut back excessive plant growth that was threatening to overrun the trails. Also had to pick up litter. Also had to build little wooden footbridges and such things. This was the summer of 1986. I was sixteen. Two good things came of this job: (1) I got a free pool pass (2) I met my mate, who was a frequent visitor to these woods. - - - - - 4:17) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 06-AUG-94 0:10 My first job was at Dunkin' Donuts in New York. I was a "baker's assistant" which meant tht I got to scrape the icing off the floors dump the stale donuts and coffee grounds into our bee-infested dumpster while getting stung repeatedly. I lasted one month and quit when I cound distinguish between my nose and the welts on my face from the beestings. - - - - - 4:18) I haven't decided (melina) 06-AUG-94 9:00 well, that's worse than mine for sure. I didn't get stung once. Sunburned, maybe. - - - - - 4:19) melissa marie (suprnaut) 29-AUG-94 17:22 yeesh, howard ... my condolences. - - - - - 4:20) brassman (brassman) (brassman) 31-AUG-94 3:12 humm very first job was ..um..working with my dad and my brother in law. My dad was a painting contractor and so when I was in high skool I would work with him during the summers ometimes- it sucked- esp cuz I dont get along with my dad and my sister eventually divorced my brother in law;) So al in all a pretty lame entry into the working world. - - - - - 4:21) Stefan Smagula (smag) 10-FEB-95 14:23 My first job after college was at the Homicide Investigation Unit in NYC. It sucked. The chief was a former tank commander in Nam and had all these little army men and tanks on his desk. He also had a loaded gun in his unlocked desk drawer. That always made me feel safer when he was screaming at me and calling me an idiot for not getting his hoagie fast enough. I nearly quit everyday for a year, but my dad told me that if I quit I could not live at his father's place...and have you guys ever seen the rent they charge for apts in Manhattan? I finally quit, and have dedicated my life to revenge. I think this job burnt me for just about any corporate or legal work, ever. - - - - - 4:22) melissa marie (suprnaut) 11-FEB-95 2:18 god, that sounds too bad to be true -- like one of those goofy "naked gun"-type movies. what exactly did you do at this job? - - - - - 4:23) Paul Terry Walhus (terry) 11-FEB-95 4:29 I think smag gets the job from hell of the year award. - - - - - 4:24) melissa marie (suprnaut) 12-FEB-95 1:24 i'll second that terry. - - - - - 4:25) Nina Berg (shadith) 20-MAR-95 11:20 OOh, smag, that sounds awful. My first job was delivering papers for the Red Wing Republican Eagle, a local paper in my home town. Even its very name gives me hives, now. - - - - - 4:26) melissa marie (suprnaut) 21-MAR-95 2:40 anything with the name "republican" in it should! - - - - - 4:27) Nina Berg (shadith) 22-MAR-95 8:20 Exactamundo. (fast forward, the year is 1998)

Actually, it wasn't my first job that sucked, but my last one (1992). I worked for a family of antique postcard dealers. The only heat source was a woodstove that they fed with--no lie--the garbage they brought from home. The air quality hit an all-time low when they started throwing disposable diapers in it. We used to drive into the parking lot and look up and see black smoke belching out of the chimney. *shudder* Reminded me of a concentration camp.

I worked in an auto parts store, parts of it sucked and parts were ok. I learned a lot about parts and got some good exercise scaling up and down 20' high shelves looking for rotors and alternators. The part that sucked most was filling up lead acid batteries, acid is hell on jeans.

ok, y'all don't jump on me....am still in my first job (besides the time i was a *gulp* secretary part time for a local small town church)......

wow! You are messing up all the statistics!

Hey, I thought that was my job!!!

OK, does it count that even though I work for the same "people", I am doing a new thing? (like way new, required retraining and stuff)

It counts. Same employer, but totally different job, right? Ain't the government wonderful? (by the way, my mother retired last week from her position as our church secretary)

good for her! Thanks for backing me up, Autumn.

So, where are they sending you off to now? I'm guessing Bosnia, by the sound of things.....

just overseas, very hot place and that's all i really know. :(

Yup, it's Bosnia...they tried to send my husband to Saudi last year for 4 months but I nixed it. The guy they sent instead came back with TB....

Am I cheering you up any, Wolf? (*sheepish grin*)

yeah, i feel real good now :{ (watch out with those sheepish grins around a wolf *giggle*)

My first boss was a clown.

were you, by chance, his gorgeous assistant?

ha-ha!!!