[petsetc]

1964 - $0.65/hr making change at a game room on boardwalk, Wildwood, NJ
1970 - $6,100./yr - Ensign, USCG

[chuckpedrey]

First part time job was delivering the Detroit Free Press to about 75 customers for $1.00 a day

First full time job was after college it’s a corporal in the US Army for $96.00 a month

[chuckpedrey]

Part time delivering the Detroit Free Press to about 75 customers for $7.00 a week

First Full Time job = US Army for $96 a month

[Marmaduke]

Originally Posted by gbs317

It was 1962 back in Brooklyn, NY I was 8 years old running my own “business” shining shoes. My father had an old homemade shoeshine box when he was younger man and I used that to make a few dollars at 25 cents per shine. It was a great “territory” in front of Wes’s candy store because it was the last stop on Ave U and Veterans Ave where all the bus drivers went to sit down at the counter for food or pickup coffee and those were the days when men wore real working leather shoes, I think Knapp was the preferred brand back then.
It was a great summertime job, the bus drivers treated me like gold. They talked to me as if I was one of them and to an eight year old they looked cool in their blue bus drivers uniforms.
When five o’clock came around my mom would give Wes a call and he would come out and tell me it was time to go home to dinner. I thanked him, packed up my stuff and walked back home. It was another great day with 5 to 10 dollars in quarters in my pockets. I wish I still had that old shoeshine box today.

Loved this story! You must've learned a lot of great things about life from those bus drivers!
What a wonderful Entrepreneurial Sprit you had!

[Caymus]

1st job minimal wage working for a newspaper during high school. We would spend the week manually assembling part of Sunday Paper with all the advertisements. Back then Sunday papers were heavy.

1st real job (low $20K?) as a Chemical Engineer in 1980. I remember we were given 5% increases after 6 months to keep pace with new college hires. Inflation was high back then.

[dtennent]

First job was a paper boy in 1963. Delivered 60 papers and made $5.40/week if everybody paid.

First, job in 1980 paid $30,000/ year. Walked in the lab and told my boss. From his expression, it was clear that I was going to make more than him.

[Marmaduke]

Originally Posted by swooner

Who cares?

This was a fun reminiscence! Sorry it did not move you to smile.
1971 P.T. job after school,
4-7, an 7-4 Sat/Sun.
Nuns Trained me as a Nurses Aid, earned good money, cash.

1st FT job was only around 10K a year, but it always felt great to be a young wage earner! I finally splurged on a used B&W T.V. for my room! It cost $35.00. From the local TV repair shop! 3 stations in our city at the time...2, 4, and 11!
OK with us.

[Joe C.]

Shoveled snow as a kid. No hourly wage, but ended up with a few bucks after every snowstorm.
Sunday paper route ...... Three hours work for around 12 bucks.
Part time dishwasher when I was in high school....I forget how much per hour, but not much.
After high school, into the navy.....$96 a month plus combat pay.
First full time job as a janitor.....$90 a week.
Last full time job in 2001as a communications design engineer $34 per hour.
Retired in 2002

[cwmmfink]

.80 per hour as a bus boy. After BS from Penn State 8500/year.

[Girlcopper]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).

2) Your first "real full-time" job.


Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr

Part time. $1.10 hourly. Cashier at A&P in NY
Fulltime. Dont remember but I’m sure it wasn’t much.

[oneclickplus]

Me:
1) $1.60/hr (McDonald's 1972)
2) $15,900 (mainframe programmer 1979)

[kcrazorbackfan]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).

2) Your first "real full-time" job.


Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr

Worked free for my Dad on a 2,400 acre farm.

$25,000 working in an engineering department before I became a LEO.

[Mrfriendly]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).

2) Your first "real full-time" job.


Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr

$1.75 /hr dishwasher at Perkins Pancake House Spring Lake NJ then on to cook before leaving for college in Boston. Loaded trucks at UPS in college for 3yrs $10/hr and felt rich compared to my peers in school. First “real” job was salesman in Rhode Island for a WR Grace company in 1979 at $15,000/yr plus commissions.

I know it’s more info than you asked for but was fun reminiscing.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by swooner

Who cares?

Judging by all the posts on this thread many do. Does it bother you?

[rsmurano]

1st part time job going to school and surfing everyday: $1.65 hr
High school, started my own business.
Decided to cash out my company and go to college,