First cash jobs were bucking bales and weeding beans. First “real” job was working at IGA stocking Archived Message Posted by harb on May 18, 2022, 16:51:06, in reply to "I just got asked what my first job was" Shelves, bagging groceries and eventually cashier. Hardest job…physically….was working at a fire brick plant. Did a little bit of everything from placing raw bricks for burning to palletizing hot bricks fresh out of the burner and everything in between. Did that for at least two summers and breaks. Previous Message Trying to explain corn detasseling to someone not from the Midwest is weird. [url= 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