My first job was amazing. Summer job before my senior year of HS working at a billing office Archived Message Posted by Jackie on May 18, 2022, 14:21:34, in reply to "I just got asked what my first job was" for a physician group. It was in an old house in downtown Spfld near Memorial Hospital that had been converted to office space. Staff must've been like 5 or so. Super easy stuff like filing or whatever. If I didn't have anything specific to do for them, they were fine with letting me just sit there and read (I had a stack of novels to read over the summer preparing for my upcoming AP Lit class senior year). Sometimes they even let me just go home. With pay! Speaking of pay, $5/hr was pretty sweet in 1987 (minimum wage was I think maybe $3.35 at the time, maybe $3.65). Message Thread: | This response ↓ I just got asked what my first job was - Sounder May 18, 2022, 13:54:34 My parents met Detassling. There isn't a more Midwest thing than that.* - eta May 19, 2022, 9:53:58 "Ope, just gonna sneak by ya and drop off these tassels there"* - Sammich May 19, 2022, 9:59:42 i assume you follow this account? - illiniranger May 19, 2022, 10:02:20 This is a favorite of mine - Sounder May 19, 2022, 16:55:18 I didn't, but I do now* - Sammich May 19, 2022, 10:58:41 Cashier at parent's gas/service station selling cigerettes at 9* - Savoy May 19, 2022, 9:51:30 Trick question: Quality is Job 1.* - DT May 19, 2022, 9:00:59 How is it pronounced, though? * - Tuscy May 19, 2022, 10:01:24 Washing dishes at my parents' restaurant starting at 14. Got to help cook after I turned 15. McD's - ATL May 19, 2022, 8:57:31 Depends what you consider a job. - larue33 May 19, 2022, 8:22:54 South Suburban Star Newspaper delivery boy. First that came with a W-2 form was McDonald's* - timmer May 19, 2022, 8:09:10 walking beans, hometown grocery store * - Jersey May 19, 2022, 8:06:08 Did that for 3 days but it wasn’t worth the money. First I stuck with was a paper route.* - DT May 19, 2022, 7:24:28 I lived in ECI for four years and my company is big in ag and I am not quite sure what it is* - ATL May 19, 2022, 7:23:47 1st cash job was working on a pecan tree farm. 1st paycheck job was harvesting german status* - illinilosch May 19, 2022, 7:11:35 busboy then clerk at a big box store* - biclops May 18, 2022, 19:00:50 Lawn mowing > little league umpire > kitchen staff > TIS Bookstore* - Dilbert May 18, 2022, 17:19:50 Walking beans, then a fried chicken place, then retail* - PapaDels May 18, 2022, 17:15:09 First cash jobs were bucking bales and weeding beans. First “real” job was working at IGA stocking - harb May 18, 2022, 16:51:06 My second job was IGA. My hardest job was probably working the docks at Kraft... - Tuscy May 19, 2022, 6:48:42 Being a pizza delivery driver was an amazing job growing up* - reggiedunlop May 18, 2022, 16:44:20 Maybe the most fun job I ever had - Sounder May 18, 2022, 16:45:10 Open gym/field supervisor for wheeling park district - Mrap24 May 18, 2022, 16:42:00 Machining and painting roof bolts that were sold to coal mines. It wasn’t bad. * - illiniranger May 18, 2022, 16:33:48 Speaking of nostalgia, lunch was fried spam and velveeta - Sounder May 18, 2022, 15:20:40 Outside of delivering newspapers, it was Ponderosa Steakhouse $2.26/hour!* - RSMBob May 18, 2022, 15:18:48 $13/hr?!?!? Sign me up!!!! - timmer May 18, 2022, 15:16:19 Breadeaux pizza @ 15. I couldn't use the big pizza slicer until 16.* - DiamondDazzle May 18, 2022, 15:06:46 other than mowing lawns, caddying* - gvibes May 18, 2022, 14:45:35 "I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. - Kajagoogoo May 18, 2022, 14:53:14 Yes, it was super annoying that every golfer assumed every caddy had caddy shack memorized* - gvibes May 19, 2022, 8:41:27 I figured that was a prerequisite for the job. - Kajagoogoo May 19, 2022, 9:58:10 Monical's* - Tuscy May 18, 2022, 14:34:52 Godfathers (1st tax witheld). * - memyselfandillini May 18, 2022, 14:40:39 a pizza you can't refuse (do it)* - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:42:24 I urge you to refuse. kitchen mantra was reuse reduce recycle; and not environmenalists* - memyselfandillini May 18, 2022, 14:58:48 I worked in a small independent pizza place, I've seen terrible things* - Sounder May 18, 2022, 15:00:26 Go on ...* - complainant May 18, 2022, 15:11:54 say no more* - memyselfandillini May 18, 2022, 15:04:02 My cousin worked at Monical's in college. It was quite wonderful. For me, not for them - longsnapper May 18, 2022, 14:36:34 We used to show up and eat for free at Alexander's - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:43:29 My first job was amazing. Summer job before my senior year of HS working at a billing office - Jackie May 18, 2022, 14:21:34 I spent two summers working as a drive through bank teller - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:39:36 did they give you a uniform to wear?* - bbonb May 18, 2022, 14:24:53 It was 1987, so all forms of pegged acid-wash jeans were acceptable - Jackie May 18, 2022, 14:28:22 The Decade of Hair* - bbonb May 18, 2022, 14:38:05 We needed a whole decade to make room for all of it* - Jackie May 18, 2022, 14:42:03 My wife has glamour shots from the 80's - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:52:55 the first apply filter app?* - bbonb May 18, 2022, 16:44:44 Did that shit fall in the summer humidity? I just vaguely remember tall bangs... - haighter May 18, 2022, 14:43:44 Probably somewhat, but we had some pretty powerful hairspray* - Jackie May 18, 2022, 14:50:17 To this day, the smell of hairspray takes me directly to a specific high school crush* - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:53:41 I'm not sure when I last smelled hairspray? * - haighter May 18, 2022, 14:55:15 A few hours ago* - Jackie May 18, 2022, 15:00:29 For sure, it's been a while* - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:56:29 I remember watching a Motley Crue doc where they talked about the cases... - haighter May 18, 2022, 14:51:47 Mowing lawns, walking beans, pollinating corn* - opey8 May 18, 2022, 14:21:31 Same. What a hot, humid, terrible job. But, I got $$$* - bbonb May 18, 2022, 14:17:03 did you have to walk? the place i worked at had "rigs" with baskets to ride in - lcubed May 18, 2022, 14:14:05 yes we walked* - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:43:49 We rented those rigs and drove them when I contracted with Pioneer once the corn got too high for... - MtHoodIllini May 18, 2022, 14:20:36 I worked for pioneer in baskets. I lasted a week. - BoCool May 18, 2022, 15:07:49 We were bussed out and had to walk the field* - longsnapper May 18, 2022, 14:18:26 this operation had to be a walking osha violation - lcubed May 19, 2022, 10:00:03 This - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:44:49 it was a different time back then* - bbonb May 18, 2022, 14:38:58 My first regular job was selling hats on Maxwell Street on the weekends in Chicago. I doubt if - MtHoodIllini May 18, 2022, 14:13:36 I spent many hours there at Maxwell Street....my mom taught at a school - TarheelIllini May 19, 2022, 7:13:19 It was a pretty wild neighborhood. I once walked a pimp and two of his girls to his Cadillac........ - MtHoodIllini May 19, 2022, 16:38:00 If only you'd worked at a place where you could smell onions grilling... - osklister May 18, 2022, 16:29:30 I'd eat a Maxwell Street Polish sausage with onions for breakfast. Old black dudes with 40 foot..... - MtHoodIllini May 18, 2022, 18:53:14 LOLOL... lotta cash transactions. - osklister May 19, 2022, 9:31:13 Cash was king!* - MtHoodIllini May 19, 2022, 16:53:42 Baling hay, walking beans, detassling, mowing,roofing, sporting goods store, building grain silos, - longsnapper May 18, 2022, 14:11:05 Stockboy at K-Mart* - bjl63 May 18, 2022, 14:10:43 Pours one out for Venture. - osklister May 18, 2022, 14:23:00 K's Merchandise was best in class* - longsnapper May 18, 2022, 14:36:57 Not just becase you could go play Atari in the electronics room* - memyselfandillini May 18, 2022, 15:03:02 It's all a charade, right? - RangerDanger May 18, 2022, 14:08:44 farmers weren't the ones doing it - it was seed companies.* - eta May 19, 2022, 9:53:32 Oh, and roguing>>>>>>detasseling* - RangerDanger May 18, 2022, 14:26:10 (our boss was the basketball coach/athletic director)* - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:10:59 I assume that these jobs are done by migrant labor now?* - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:09:44 Machines plus migrants to catch anything missed* - opey8 May 18, 2022, 14:20:45 Machines & Migrants has a great burger* - longsnapper May 18, 2022, 15:02:08 I hate you. * - haighter May 18, 2022, 17:23:31 Acknowledged * - PapaDels May 18, 2022, 17:13:50 Three of my friends and I ran a crew of about 50 kids for Pioneer Seed & Grain the summer after..... - MtHoodIllini May 18, 2022, 14:06:06 I was a hockey referee* - KCWildcat May 18, 2022, 14:05:06 Babysitting and detassling. I was really good at detassling, too* - Taz May 18, 2022, 14:01:26 I'm glad I did it because it taught me what hard work is really about - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:03:24 My son keeps asking me if he gets to work for my company when he gets "grown up"... - haighter May 18, 2022, 14:05:38 My wife is functionally the operations manager of a cider company - Sounder May 18, 2022, 14:07:58 Stupid paper route - Stu May 18, 2022, 13:59:13 I delivered papers for my brothers when they were at camp. - Memlie May 18, 2022, 14:19:00 Yeh the paper route was full of BS like this - Stu May 18, 2022, 14:41:01 summer maintenance crew at an apartment complex - IlliniSax05 May 18, 2022, 13:56:25 Mine was mowing lawns...my first post college job was working for a conservative Jewish... - haighter May 18, 2022, 13:56:14 I guess mine was technically mowing lawns as well - Sounder May 18, 2022, 13:57:28 I worked at IUB and 02 Main in college. * - haighter May 18, 2022, 14:03:59   Searching