How Old Were You When You Got Your First Job?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

And what was it?

I got hired as a clerk for Brooks Pharmacy when I was 17.

[lionheart21]

Shelf stocker at a small retail store at 17

[Harry The Arrow was Wrong!]

15 at a butchers

[Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley]

16. Roy Rogers at an interstate rest stop.

[Deleted]

18, retail. I didn't get one earlier because my parents insisted I go whole hog with schoolwork/avoid roaming the streets late. The one time I choose not to defy them...

[The Unconquered Sun]

15 as a dish washer

[Limity (BLM)]

17. I joined the Army.

[britishbulldog]

14 filling medical paperwork

[eDemento2099]

It depends on how you define work. I was delivering flyers for money at the age of 14, and even though I was paid to do so, that didn't count as work in the eyes of my dad and I was deemed a worthless bum. I grew up (and lived most of my adult life) in the worst job market in my country, so it wasn't until the summer between my first and second year of university that I was able to get some more socially acceptable forms of work.

What's strange is that my dad got all bent out of shape about me doing whatever I could to pay my tuition, despite the fact that he was a truck driver who wasn't even literate at a functional level. And besides, I was always paid for delivering flyers, whereas the company I worked for during my first university summer cheated me out of a lot of money I was owed, so one step that was seemingly taken forward was actually a step backward.

[Deleted]

17- grocery store bagger

[LexExpress]

18 - retail in a gift shop at a large UK theme park.

[Annette]

17, local pizza place. 20+ years later and it's still one of the most fun jobs I ever worked at.

[Fundertaker]

25, statistician intern.

[Shy Guy]

started babysitting when i was about 13, but my first "real" job would be Dairy Queen, at 17.

which i then had to quit, because i was losing money by turning down babysitting jobs so i could work at DQ

[StuntGranny®]

Flipped burgers at a place called "The Burger Shack". I was 14 or 15. It was brutal and one of the main reasons I have forever sworn off working in any sort of restaurant. If I'm starving to death and that's the only job I can get, I will choose starving to death.

[edgestar]

Babysitting, when I was 12, then, a pool store, when I was 16.

[agent817]

I was 21, seasonal state employee.

I still work as one, but I am trying to look for other job opportunities.

[Doctor Of Style]

15, stocking shelves at an arts and crafts store.

[The Ichi]

Paper round at 13. I was saddened to learn I couldn't hurl the papers like in the movies.

[4TheGlory]

14. Bus boy.