#firstsevenjobs

firstsevenjobs is trending on Twitter right now. To play along, you need to list your first seven jobs.

Thought it would be fun to list here at CC! Think WAY back to your first “paid” gig. Lemonade stands count. :slight_smile:

Babysitter
Ice cream scooper
Phone solicitor (also, shortest gig EVER! I was awful and hated it!)
Pizza Hut Waitress
Receptionist (temporary…BORING!)
Cafeteria worker (college)
Grocery store cashier (college)

Your turn. :slight_smile:

Babysitting, warehouse stocker, online writing, restaurant host, waitress, drugstore cashier, campaign intern…

Nowhere to go but up, right? :))

I’ve only had 4 paying jobs ever. Retail (high school), finance (internship when in college - 2 summers at the same firm), then job #1 for 16 years and job #2 for 14 years.

Babysitter
Caddy at country club
Shoe store associate
Dish washer at country club
Grocery bagger
Night auditor at hotel
Advertising media planner

Babysitter
Retail (tennis store)*
Calligrapher (addressing wedding and bar/bat mitzvah invitations)
Bank teller (summer job)
Freelance graphic designer
Legal Assistant
Lawyer

*Applied to scoop ice cream at a Baskin Robbins, but was rejected because girls weren’t strong enough for the job

Babysitter
Bug counter in the corn fields
Park District activities coordinator
Cashier at a dry cleaner
Sales at a County Seat Jeans store
Social Worker
Teacher

Ha, what a great idea:

  1. Newspaper delivery (6am, pouring rain, mean dogs) with my older brother
  2. Dog sitter/answered phones for neighbor the night of artistic performances re: remaining tickets
  3. Retail
  4. Lifeguard
  5. At my college: Summer coach for my college's camp in my sport; Bused tables in the cafeteria where all the psych professors ate (an Ivy) - what a bunch of annoying losers (sorry, hope I'm not offending anyone); Banquet waitress; Circulation desk at small library on campus, where I shelved books & tried to make sure the 2 people who came in all summer didn't sneak out books, since there was no book check-out in summer
  6. Bartender, cocktail waitress
  7. TA for my legal research & writing professor in law school

It did get better from there, although there was no middle road - next job was on Park Ave in Manhattan and it was a great job, but I didn’t know how much I didn’t know. What a huge learning curve! Best job ever, I miss it.

I think I am seeing why I tend to tip so well…

Farmhand
Lawn Mower
Camp Counselor
Security Guard
Pizza Delivery
Audio-Visual Technician
Flower Deliveryman

Wow, bug counter?!

Funny, ONLY girls worked at my scoop shop!

Totally forgot that I worked one college summer at a local retail clothing shop - how did I fit all these jobs in?!!!

Babysitter
Blueberry picker
Strawberry picker (lasted one day)
McDonalds cashier (didn’t last long enough to get up to burger flipping)
T shirt screen printer
Whatever they needed that week for an office temp services company
Tutor

I did the office temp thing after freshman year. I spent three weeks as the receptionist at a law firm. I found out the last day that the regular person was calling in sick because a man had made death threats to the Sr partner over the outcome of a case. Yikes! The rest of the placements were safer.

1.Pharmacy clerk. (high school and college)

College jobs:

2.Summer work at a factory (worked on timers for bombs!)
3.Inventory at retail stores.
4.Hanging advertising flyers on doors
5.Waitress
6.Hostess
7.Bartender

Everyone needs to have at least one job in either retail or restaurant work, right??? :wink:

^ or both!

Paid jobs with a regular paycheck:

Bakery helper
Cannery worker (not sure what the position was called really)
HS facilities maintenance
Chemistry lab assistant
Teaching assistant
Research associate
Research scientist

and the list goes on. :slight_smile:

High School:

  1. Babysitter
  2. Summer work at an allergist’s office - doing whatever anyone wanted me to do 8-5 (2 summers)

College:
3. Math tutor - lower level college math
4. Dorm security (all 5’2" and 90 pounds of me)
5. Day care center tutor for elementary age students. Poorly managed - parents paid for an hour of tutoring but the day care center put all the kids in at the same time according to subject matter - grade levels from 1st through 5th. Nothing got accomplished and I quit.

Post-college:
7. Receptionist/office staff for a fledgling computer co. Their receptionist took the summer off to stay home with her children and I needed a summer job before starting a job in Sept. Worked for both of us and it was fun.

Office clerk
Summer scheduler at my old HS
Law firm office worker
College tour guide
Bank lender
Bookkeeper
Freelancer

abasket & FallGirl - yes!

ignatius - you reminded me with your dorm security job (like!), I was also an RA in college - how could I forget that? Geez, I was busy in college.

between junior high and the last year of college:

babysat
played piano for a job
taught tennis
waitressed
made donuts in the early morning hours
typed thesis papers
office clerical worker

after undergrad college I started my career.at the bottom and worked my way up in addition to grad school

Let’s see–tutor, babysitter, hotel switchboard operator, retail salesclerk, shoe salesclerk, clerical typist, and summer recreational leader were probably my 1st 7 jobs–the 7th job was after freshman year of college. Have had more jobs since. :wink:

Retail for a now defunct independent clothes store 8th grade
Restaurant…cashier, bus person 9th and 10th
Burger King 11th
Temped summers and Christmas in college
Secretary for land developer
Cocktail waitress…paid more than the previous job…college
Waitress at a terrible restaurant …post college