Frist Job and how you felt about it.

[LostAngel]

Reason i have started this thread is out of help and out of curiosity. I stopped by a Dollar general store with my mom (She wanted to get some little easter nick nacks for her oldest sons daughters) anyway. when we started to leave, The woman closing shop, jokingly said come work for me (Talking to my mom that just earlier help her find something in the shop) My mom laughed then ask if she had any spots open. the store lady (if you will) said yeah we need people to work for us. so she gave her a forum and we left. she said she got it for a friend who is looking for another job but i couldn't help but ponder.... I am 19 and i still haven't finished high school i am self taught been home schooled all my life. now even though i have experience in some things like working in a camp kitchen for 6 years or doing home repairs for 4 months i have never had any experience with a "Real" job. i know the day will come when i am going to have to get a job i even thought about taking that job along with my moms friend. but now that i have thought about it i can't help but to feel nervous i am not so confident with my math. running a cash register is my biggest fear. everything else that was required for that job i didn't think anything else of except for that. now i stop and let "Real life" set in. i knew this day would come. its not that i don't want to, just scared to. its a big change for someone who doesn't leave his house for months at a time and when he does its only to go to the store for basic things. i want to know what it was like for all of you have your first job and what you where going through. perhaps even give me some good advice. Thank you for taking an interest in what i have to say.
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[pjbleek]

my first job was with Walgreen's drug store, did it for three years....just the usual shit, rang the register, helped empty the truck on delivery day. its not as hard as it seems. it was fun at times. hard to believe the responsibility they let us have on the night shift (handling obscene amounts of $$$) and expecting teenagers to act like adults...the worst was the day shift, seniors close to retirement or older and the only thing they wanted was to go home...

 

[Dana]

I was a line cook. You do the math...

 

[BadBoy@TheWheel]

Piano player in a whore house.....There's never a recession in that business...

 

[Kyle B]

My first job was a cashier at a supermarket. I was nervous about the register at first too, but it's very easy and you pick it up right away.

I wouldn't discount your past experience either. Just because you didn't work for a company in the conventional sense, doesn't make it any less of a job.

 

[Zorak]

My first proper job was in a newsagents, did a paper round before that.

I've had a lot of jobs, and it definatley looks better on the cv/resume for a young person to show they have experience in any employment field for a period of time. If only to illustrate you're reliable.

 

[StripedCat]

So, when I started my apprenticeship I was pretty nervous. Always afraid I could do something wrong.

But: finally people know that you're new and - hopefully - will teach you how to do your job.

My advice for you: Accept the fact that it always needs some time to learn a new job. Don't despair when things won't run well from the first day on. If you run the cash register and you notice to need more time as the current customer expects, then admit that you're new and that you do your very best.

And: I don't know what kind of learner you are (auditive, visual, and so on). I am a visual learner what means that I always noted everything down, so while doing my job I always could have a look on my notes.

Good luck for you. ^^

 

[LostAngel]

Thank you all for sharing your experiences and advice with me. it is greatly appreciated.

 

[RedRyder]

My first job was part-time while I was a Senior in High School. I was a cashier/clerk at a very small grocery type store. No beer or anything. Mainly milk, bread, ice cream, toilet paper, etc. I worked alone. My boyfriend basically hung out there with me and it made me feel safe. Nowadays, I'd never work alone in a party store period. Not sure any stores still have only one person anywho these days. *shrugs*

 

[Boomerang]

I got my first job when I was a junior in high school. It was as a "bearbuilder" at Build a Bear Workshop. It started out as a part-time position but I quickly began working 38-40 hours a week. A couple of years later I become the associate manager. That job helped me pay my way through college and made me realize I wanted to become a teacher. Who knows what I would be doing now if my first job was something different! It is pretty awesome how things work out.

 

[Diggin Deep]

My first job was as a warehouse associate at a underground pipe supply company. I loved it and eventually made it to inside sales until moving away to college. I am now back in the same type of business with a new company...just a different position. Hopefully, I'll be able to retire with this company!

 

[AUFred]

I grew up on a farm. Worked the fields, loaded the trucks, worked the fruit & veggie stand from the time I was about 12. Worked one weekend for a large Floral outlet and started working in a gun shop. Worked as a handyman for a while before working as a concrete tester at a testing lab. Eventually ended up working in a drawing room for a steel fabricator. Later other facets of that field. Never worked retail outside of the gun shop and that was not like working retail actually.

 

[dkwrtw]

Electronic Sub Assembly, I really enjoyed the work, but didn't enjoy the people I had to work around every day, the company hired a lot of drug addicts and alcoholics and such.

 

[hart]

Well I babysat first. But the first job I got was a summer aide at a college. It was fun and they even let me take typing in their typing lab so I knew how to type before going to school.

I've also worked in a restaurant, a printshop, a reader for a blind labor relations person, several government offices, for a psychologist at a University, and once I was briefly a reporter for a newspaper-that was fun.

 

[Staci]

my first job was at mcdonalds. started there when i was 15 and left at 23. hell if they paid me what i make now i would still be there LOL

 

[Loyalist]

My first job I got pocket money being a male model of a art class. As for how I felt about it, what do you think ?

 

[BadBoy@TheWheel]

Okay...Okay...My first real job was with the company I'm still with, before that I worked for my fathers company.

Clear enough?

 

[Xeno]

I never did take joy in my first job in all honesty.

(...it was a job nevertheless though...)​

 

[ganny]

My first job was loading watermelons. It was a summer job while in high school. I didnt mind it much. Helped keep me in shape for sports.

 

[retro]

I was a receptionist/assistant office manager in a Physical Therapy Clinic. I thought it was an alright job... it helped me learn how to talk to people on the phone in a professional manner and prepared me for working in a professional environment later on down the road. I worked there for a year before moving into the IT department at the same company. I consider myself to be pretty lucky that my first job was in an office and that I've been in that type of job (except for two months) ever since. The two months that I didn't work in a professional job were spent on the sales floor of Best Buy... that was horrible for me.