The first time you sold your soul

[Akhkharu Asgard]

I was thinking about past jobs that I have had. And was wondering what everyone's first job was. And no, mowing the lawn for daddy for a few bucks doesn't count!

My first job was in a library. I was sixteen and I started out at below minimum wage. And eventually made minimum wage by the time I quit (a bit less than a year after I started). My job was to shelve books, alphabetixe books, flush books (not down the toilet, but there were times I wanted to), and look for old books, magazines, newspapers, etc in the crappy dungeon basement for an idiot...I mean "patron" of the library. It started out somewhat decent. But I think my coworkers started to not like me for some reason. Some old female librarian would spy on me. She would walk by where I was shelving books about 10 times every 15 or twenty minutes. And she wasn't doing anything, she wasn't helping anyone with anything or doing jack crap. That sort of freaked me out. That and getting hit on by an overweight 12 year old girl who apparently had a crush on me. That was a bit freaky. I eventually moved on to better and crappier jobs. But that was my first one!

[Lunamoth]

Uhm, I think my first job was at Burger King, as fast food was the only job a 14 year old could get in that area then. Sometimes I worked the same shift as my older brother. It wasn't terrible, though I'm sure there were bad days. Anyone who's worked in fast food knows the drill.

But i had to do something to save up for my Duran Duran albums. :p

[Flaire-FireStar]

*gets ready to run for the hills*

I was a janitor at Alcan, making $22.12/hour. (CANADIAN) I didn't like anyone I worked with. I managed to sprain my ankle there. And it was only a summer job.

[Etoile]

I was a hostess at a restaurant. Not too bad. It was a pretty nice restaurant. I did have to clear the tables sometimes, and one time a waitress spilled spaghetti sauce all over me. Nice. Nothing like working 10 hour days with no breaks when your 16. Definitely illegal. Oh and getting hit on by the creepy dish guys and line cooks - not fun.

Oh, and if my employer has my soul, what exactly do you have then, AA?

[Spera]

I was a Casheir at Mikes Market. My sister helped get me the job, as she worked in the Deli.

[Catiana]

My first job was when I was 16 and I was an office clerk in the administrative office for the school district where I lived.

[QUEEN OF THE DAMNED]

My first job was when I was 14 and my parents bought a CD store. How much did that rock!!!!!
I cleaned, put up posters, learned an awful lot about music and CDs, sold CDs, tapes, Tshirts etc, unpacked stock, labelled stock, learned the crappy computer system used by the record companies (it changed 4 years later) and generally had a ball. I could dress the way that I wanted, I could actually be goth at work and it didn't hinder the business (even in a country town), I could make people leave with a smile on their face and feel good about it. It was after school, weekends, holidays etc. For $50 (AUS) a week.
So that wasn't the first time I sold my soul...that was good.
I sold my soul to Big W, a big chain department store, got a job in the entertainment section, got hired on the spot after my experience in the CD store at the age of 16. Worked after school 5 hours a day 4-9 pm. Earned about $6 (AUS) an hour. Got ripped off and screwed around and eventually sacked because of a mix up that was the manager's fault, sold my soul there when the stupid manager was telling me how independant CD stores were ripping the public off and I didn't say anything like "well maybe that's because chains like you guys get such big a discounts that the record companies have to jack up the prices for the independants" like I should have. BTW independant CD stores have a profit margin of about $4 per album, singles have a profit margin of $1 if they are lucky, and independant CD stores will not lie to you about the availability of albums just because they dont have them in stock (in my experience, as opposed to chains, who do)

[sarabethv]

Babysitting when I was 13. And yes it counts as a job. I did it on a military base and had to be certified, which meant I had to go to classes and pass them in CPR, First Aid and child care.

[Lewen]

At 14 until 16 I worked in a bakery, baking, selling, cake decorating and generally keeping the front of the shop. I worked under the table for roughly $45 a week. It sucked, but I learned alot. I mainly worked there as a favor to my grandfather who helped the baker since he arrived from germany.

[IvyWitch]

My first job was as a cashier for Grand Union when I was 14. I think I made about 6.00 an hour, if that.

[memnoch]

I was thinking about past jobs that I have had. And was wondering what everyone's first job was. And no, mowing the lawn for daddy for a few bucks doesn't count!

My first job was in a library. I was sixteen and I started out at below minimum wage. And eventually made minimum wage by the time I quit (a bit less than a year after I started). My job was to shelve books, alphabetixe books, flush books (not down the toilet, but there were times I wanted to), and look for old books, magazines, newspapers, etc in the crappy dungeon basement for an idiot...I mean "patron" of the library. It started out somewhat decent. But I think my coworkers started to not like me for some reason. Some old female librarian would spy on me. She would walk by where I was shelving books about 10 times every 15 or twenty minutes. And she wasn't doing anything, she wasn't helping anyone with anything or doing jack crap. That sort of freaked me out. That and getting hit on by an overweight 12 year old girl who apparently had a crush on me. That was a bit freaky. I eventually moved on to better and crappier jobs. But that was my first one!

selling your soul huh? I despise that terminology. Getting a job is part of being an adult. It isn't selling your soul, its taking on responsibility. However some hippy screwed up peoples heads into believing no one should have to work.

also seems like you had a crappy attitude. I don't think I would have liked working with you either.

With all of that said my first job was taco bell. I not only worked my scheduled shift, I came in whenever they needed help. I got paid minimum wage, and thanked them for giving me a check. I kept a positive attitude for the most part. While I wasn't the best employee I did my best considering it was my first job

[semi]

I got my first job when I was 12. Janitor at a YMCA. Minimum wage, 20 hours a week.


Edited to add that I don't consider it soul selling to have to have a crappy job. It's just survival and there's nothing wrong with that. I enjoy working for what I have. Life would be very dull if it was free.

[Noriohtle]

Im with you and your idea of the Work Ethic Memnoch, As i was 14 when i got my first job ::gasp:: in 1979 I worked as a Waitress At a Turnpike Truck Stop... i made 1.14 cents an hour plus tips.... I learned do your job well and make more money.. i was used to taking home from 70 - 150 a night in tips .. i was one rich kid back then. and i tried to be a good kid too... gave my folks the tips and kept my check for playing with... when i graduated 4 years later my parents took all those tips and bought me a nice used car paid a year of insurance and a nice new wardrobe to start my new job with... From Howard Johnsons to the Job i have now i look on each one with pride as i did the best Job i could do at any job given to me. lots of good memories thank you for bringing up the subject.

[Akhkharu Asgard]

I was a hostess at a restaurant. Not too bad. It was a pretty nice restaurant. I did have to clear the tables sometimes, and one time a waitress spilled spaghetti sauce all over me. Nice. Nothing like working 10 hour days with no breaks when your 16. Definitely illegal. Oh and getting hit on by the creepy dish guys and line cooks - not fun.

Oh, and if my employer has my soul, what exactly do you have then, AA?

That place has your spirit. I have your soul.

[Raven Reed]

I wokred at a hotdog/lemonade stand on the beach.

[Kaliel]

I was a McDonald's junkie. I gained 10 pounds, became a swing manager and got "let go" / quit for being a girl.

I do not like getting stepped on, and some of those people, do a lot of steppin!

Kaliel

[Lunamoth]

I wanted to add, I didn't think of it as selling my soul at the time, because I just wanted to be able to buy things since my dad couldn't spare extra for non-necessities.

However, it is no one's place to tell me that just because I don't *want* to work for anyone other than myself, I don't have a work ethic. I've got plenty, but not everyone was cut out to become a drone.

[Arinya]

Subway....but now I'm a telemarketer!

[Eirwen Hartsock]

Oh my first job...I know I am SO going to regret this...I worked second shift 4pm to midnight in a Hanes/Sara Lee Knit Products Distribution Factory for four summers debulking and boxing men's undergarments...this included boxers, briefs, boxer-briefs, t-shirts and the ever popular a-shirt (aka wife beaters). I was the only single white female on my entire shift and the extreme minority...it was a culture shock for me...and it's amazing I survived without speaking Spanish. It did take me a few summers to get use to Hispanic culture when it to some thing. However I also consider it one of the best experiences of my life and it taught me quite a bit. Plus starting at 7.50 wasn't half bad.

Although while I was working night shift at the factory I was working day shift at the Disney Store in our local mall...now that place will suck your will to live! I swear the things you do to have money.

[RowanMegaera]

My very first job was the summer when I was 13. I got to work a little booth at the local water park selling and applying temporary tattoos. The worst part about it was the fact that I had to shave the area to which the tattoo was going to be applied and some people were really furry. Blech!!! Working at the water park was great, I got in free, could take a break whenever I wanted to and got to wear a swimsuit.

[Infinite Grey]

A deli :blech: horrid! but at least I got to have food fights with the fruit department late at night

[LadyTrinity]

My first job was working in an Automotive part production plant. I was 17 and making 7.15$/h :strike:

[trippingdaisy]

I was 13 and the job was cleaning a local bed and breakfast. It was run by a quiet American couple, who were really nice to me, although the pay was a bit lame. I was very grateful for it, though, as the money was a big help at home. The only thing that ticked me off a bit was when the woman once complained I was going too slow starting on the upstairs rooms. I was quite little, and dragging some of the industrial cleaning equipment was really difficult for me. It wasnt too bad, though, and I have pretty fond memories of the place. :)

[pawnman]

My first "job" job was Taco Bell. I used to eat there every day, so when I turned 16 I put in an application...and REALLY started eating there every day. Every shift, I ate Taco Bell. We started coming up with our own creations (my own was a Burrito Supreme, minus the red sauce, plue nacho cheese, guacamole, and three cheese).

Ah, those were the days.

BTW: I never saw anything at Taco Bell in my combined 3 years there (I left for a while, and came back as a shift manager in college) that would ever make me even think twice about eating there. It's probably one of the cleanest food chains I've ever seen.

[ap Dafydd]

First one for me was a holiday job in the local steelworks when I was 16.

Spent the summer stamping national insurance cards and paying out the wages.

(that was in the days when wages were still paid in cash!)

gwyn eich byd

Ffred

[Kyra Kismet]

My first job is the job I still have now.
I work in a butchers,covered in blood, and I have for 2 years now, its fun, and as yet hasn't turned me vegitarian!

[luna rising]

Scooping ice cream in the shop that was attached to a wee little supermarket in a town of . . . oh, I dunno. . . about 27. South Vienna Oh - where that dude from Survivor is from. It sucked. I had one big ole Popeye forearm on my scooping side, and I got a big ass from peanut butter milkshakes.

[Élistariel]

My first job was as a scribe. Boy am I gonna love telling my kids that (if I ever have any). I took notes for a girl in our class who couldn't hear. She dropped the class, but I'm still in it. My grades are horrible, but I made about $65.
that's the only job I've ever had. Gads, that is embarrasing
I hope to be working with CVS soon. I need to make a call...
Oh crap, I threw the number away. :awwman: Time to go get it back...
(they pay your way thru school.... woohoo)

[Brielle LaLune]

I was 16 and I was working in the shoe section of departments store. It was awful!! :dis: On days when I wore skirts, smarmy old men would ask me yo bend over to tie their shoes for them. :lookaroun And half crippled old ladies with enormous bunyans who souldn't bend down to put on their own shoes, required me to help them... *shudders* I have a fear of bunyans now... Not to mention the fact that the shoe department was right across from the perfume counter, so I constantly had a headache....Needless to say, I kept the jub only through the Christmas season!

[number_the_dead]

Scooping ice cream in the shop that was attached to a wee little supermarket in a town of . . . oh, I dunno. . . about 27. South Vienna Oh - where that dude from Survivor is from. It sucked. I had one big ole Popeye forearm on my scooping side, and I got a big ass from peanut butter milkshakes.


That's like me, My first job was at Custer's Last Ice Cream Stand in a small town.... I had really strong arms after that job! It was great cause i got all the free Ice cream I could eat (which explains my big ass!!) My favorite was the Mint choc. chip ice cream w/oreos and hot fudge sauce....mmmmmmm...... I think that is what they call a grasshopper in some places... I worked for minimum wage and I was alone on my shifts wich really sucked when we would have tour busses come in.. we had an old timey Juke box and when it was slow I would blast Mr. Sandman and Sukiaki loud enough that you could here it a block away..... The worst thing that happened there was one day I wore a V necked shirt and a bus load of tourists came in.... They kept laughing and saying something in another language..... And the guys kept coming back for more ice cream....... After they finally left I realized that when I would lean over to scoop the ice cream .. My shirt would open kinda and you could see EVERYTHING!!!! Oh the embarrassment!!!!!!!

[PoisonIvy]

My first job was when I was 15 and I worked in a print shop developing negatives in a darkroom.

[WitchJezebel]

My first job was at 15 (I don't count the babysitting from 13 - 15 b/c I was sitting with my cousins), I worked at the deli down the street making sandwiches, slicing deli meats, putting together the salads for the display case and cleaning up. I made $4.50 an hour off the books. Right after that I got a cashier job at Pathmark supermarkets and I stayed there thru the rest of high school. I think that's where my obsession with food got started - I could (and still can) name every item in the produce aisle! :lol:

[memnoch]

My first "job" job was Taco Bell. I used to eat there every day, so when I turned 16 I put in an application...and REALLY started eating there every day. Every shift, I ate Taco Bell. We started coming up with our own creations (my own was a Burrito Supreme, minus the red sauce, plue nacho cheese, guacamole, and three cheese).

Ah, those were the days.

BTW: I never saw anything at Taco Bell in my combined 3 years there (I left for a while, and came back as a shift manager in college) that would ever make me even think twice about eating there. It's probably one of the cleanest food chains I've ever seen.

oh yeah, this is the man who got me the job at taco bell. As far as creations chili cheese buritos minus the cheese plus nacho cheese or my own creation, I called it a Megamelt (a large tortilla 2X the beef, 2X the cheese, 2X the tomatoes, steam it, then add sour cream)

Now I'm going to have to go there and order a Megamelt

[memnoch]

Scooping ice cream in the shop that was attached to a wee little supermarket in a town of . . . oh, I dunno. . . about 27. South Vienna Oh - where that dude from Survivor is from. It sucked. I had one big ole Popeye forearm on my scooping side, and I got a big ass from peanut butter milkshakes.

wow, an ice cream shop in South Vienna, that must have kept you busy

[ravenmyst]

left home at 16, worked as busboy at local restaurant, 3 something an hour, went back home so I could graduate highschool

[Amethyst Rose]

My very first job was as a food prep. in a restaurant. I lasted 3 days before they fired me. I think that the only reason they hired me was because my parents used to own a restaurant and they figured I'd just automatically be good at the job without training , because of that.

My next job after that wasn't till I was 18. I worked as a waitress in a bar for 3 months before moving away to university.

[Bix]

I worked at a local coffee shop, not Starbucks, one that was locally owned. I had to be up at work on Saturdays and Sundays at 6am in the morning. The owner was the most anal person I've ever met.

Owner fired me and didn't even call me to tell me it. When I confronted him about it, he pretty much said he thought I'd get the picture since he was cutting my hours...even though he specifically said he cut my hours due to overpaying his employees.

[Dio]

My first job was for a video store. I had to work for two nights, waving at customers.....dressed as Gumby!

The costume was too small, so I had to duck my head down in order to see out of the eye holes. It was extremely hot, and uncomfortable...not to mention humiliating :(

[Sothis*Crowfeather]

I am still looking to sell my soul...or get a job. *sigh*

[Tzhebee]

Technically, my first job was a paper delivery girl...at age 10. Back in the day when you walked around with 85 papers hanging in a bag thrown over your shoulder at 5am. It sucked ass.

But I don't really count that (sorta like babysitting). So, my first job was a cashier at Shopko. I was there for 3 years in various departments and roles.

[WitchJezebel]

Technically, my first job was a paper delivery girl...at age 10. Back in the day when you walked around with 85 papers hanging in a bag thrown over your shoulder at 5am. It sucked ass.

I actually wanted a paper route when I was a kid and my mother said no b/c she said it wasn't ladylike. I was a tomboy and she was really prim and prissy and it drove her batty so she tried to change it.... didn't work :crazylaug

[claxon]

My first job rocked. :D

It was actually what I always wanted to do. Programming video games. It was great, I didn't want on of those annoying jobs like shelf stacking, or McDonalds cashier, so the times when I applied for them, I was lucky enough to not even get an interview (or in most cases, a reply). So my first job was more or less my dream job, and I got £1000, for a 20 day contract, as well as having my work on display at an exhibition for the Cultural Capital of Europe. It's just a shame it was freelance, because I got 1 more contract and then no work for more than a year.

[Akhkharu Asgard]

selling your soul huh? I despise that terminology. Getting a job is part of being an adult. It isn't selling your soul, its taking on responsibility. However some hippy screwed up peoples heads into believing no one should have to work.

also seems like you had a crappy attitude. I don't think I would have liked working with you either.

With all of that said my first job was taco bell. I not only worked my scheduled shift, I came in whenever they needed help. I got paid minimum wage, and thanked them for giving me a check. I kept a positive attitude for the most part. While I wasn't the best employee I did my best considering it was my first job

Hold on, I was just trying to have a little fun. You don't know me in real life, so do not imply that i'm some non responsible hippy jerkface. I actually have a great job right now while I'm going to college to eventually partake in a carrer in a much loved area. I have quite a bit of responsiblity I would think to have jobs able to pay for everything myself through college. I have a somewhat sarcastic attitude that does not transfer well over words, and it's purely for humour. It's not a crappy attitude, I'm sorry. I've had some really bad jobs and bad situations in jobs where I will not pretend to be some goody goody little kid. I'm sorry. The title was supposed to be humourous as well.

Philosophicaly we have sold our souls to money and material purposes. That's where the title came from. Seriously, lighten up.

[BrigidMoon]

I made pizzas and bussed tables at 16 for 4.15 an hour. Probably am aging myself by making that statement, doh! ;)

[megandawn]

I continue to sell mine every week. I bartend and have for years. Pouring drinks, while pretending to have as much fun as the people drinking them is hard work. Being hit on by drunks that at closing time realize that you are their last chance to hook up that night. It really does feel like selling your soul but the money is great!

[kitsch]

i was a telemarketer. *ducks*

by the way, when they call and ask you to do a "five minute, no obligation" survey, they're really just filing your information so they can call you later and harass you into buying magazines.
oh, and the big-screen television giveaway? i've never seen the tv, or the person who supposedly won it. bastards.