My 1st job was at an amusement park. I was 16 and continued on until the ripe ole age of 19. Those were actually some of the best times of my life, not sure if it was the people I met or the age itself. I didn't really have any cares or responsibilities at that time (other than to finish high school and get good grades), life was one big party.
I met a great group of people who continue to be some of my closest friends even today. We developed traditions in our early years: May 2-4 camping every year.....no matter how cold or muddy we were all there, driving 45 minutes every Friday to hit up our favorite bar (this went on for like 6 years) and of course every payday, the entire park went to the same bar to have a few bevvies together. We went to Bush Parties, camped out by the Humane Society, at the beach & have many ridiculous stories to go along. There was the time we went camping LD & I spent alllll night long hiding from a few suitors. The next morning Mikey hit a pole & ran out of gas when we were rushing to work. At the Humane Society camping extravaganza, Donnie and I were the last two left as everyone else had gone to work. We woke up to find his car broken and some strange man parked beside us. He drove us down the road to a payphone and we walked into work late. Why he wouldn't drive us the extra 5 minutes down the road to work was beyond us. There was the time LD threw up on her way into work, right in front of the children's fountain.....she was sent home. Oh yes, and the time Jean Claude Van Damn made an appearance Sher and I were covered in chicken guts ewe. On more than one occasion before the restaurant opened you could find us sleeping errr napping in the staff area just before work, trying to catch even 20 minutes of shut eye. How we functioned on 2-3 hours of sleep I will never know.We would often test the limits and see what kind of shenanigans we could get away with while inside working as well. The guys would be in charge of the kegs......and often helped themselves and us to a little drinky drinky every now and again. We would take extra long breaks at the far end of the lawn to see how long it would take our supervisor to find us. I was well fed those 3 or 4 years eating nachos, pizza and Fudge O Shakes. I enjoyed sitting with the polka band and listening to the very dirty jokes the men had to tell. I remember one fond evening after a staff party, breaking into the park at 2am with about 10 other workers, just to see if we could. I twisted my ankle and did a superman on top of a huge pile of dirt.....but it was fun and exciting. I would never dream of doing such a thing at this age, to be carefree and young again......I miss those days!!!
What was your 1st job?
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I worked at Gino's Pizza - they fired me.
McDonalds. Yes laugh all you'd like.
Geez your was much more exciting than mine. It was at Eckerd Drug Store. yawn.
My first job was at the school's print center. It was a harrowing experience actually.
PS Poison Ivy part 2 is listed as one of the bad movies I love.
BB, why did they fire you?
WIGSF, buahahah, actually i worked in the restaurant in the amusement park....just sounds better, it's really not.
JLee, yawn indeed haha.
Wiwille, I must have missed that post....perhaps the Who's the Boss boxset will be out one day.
OMG, I miss those days so much, and I think I laughed the entire time I was reading this as I remember every one of those moments. Too fummy...the good old days
At a gay club. It was cool, only a lot of old guys would give me their numbers, and when I say old I mean grandpa old ; )
How funny! How you didn't get fired for some of that I'll never know ;)
My first job was at Blockbuster Video. Since it was my first job I didn't know that they were supposed to give me breaks - they never gave me one the whole time I worked there.
But, in college I worked at Walt Disney World - Epcot to be exact. They have an internship program where you come down from whatever school you attend and work in one of the parks and attend Disney classes, etc. I have some crazy stories from that time too - I guess working in a theme park gives you more than a few tales to tell - and this is especially true because they have all the college interns live together in one apartment complex (crazy, crazy). I liked working there so much that I moved to Orlando permanently (or, really, permanently for now - it's been almost 8 years) after college and got a professional job with Disney. Now I work for another theme park in town. It's funny to work in "serious" jobs at a theme park - it's professional but also fun. I love it.
Mine was at the age of 16 in a factory. I was in charge of labelling piles and piles of clothes. I was doing it the whole day and then I had to load all of this and put it in boxes.
Tiring, killing and boring, but it has been always a helpful thing that has gone with me during the years after and has reminded me that anything isn't easy ;)
That is the best first job that I have heard in a long time - especially for that time period in your life as that would have been much better than mine which was refereeing soccer games and having irate parents yell at me.
Give me a funnel cake any day.
Well, first jobs are supposed to suck right? If it was a great job, you'd still be there. Besides, we all need to learn how to handle shitty jobs. It builds character or something or so I am told. Frankly, all my first job did was leave me reeking of McChicken.
I worked drive thru at Krystals. (It's like a White Castle for those who don't know.) But I was the shit! :o)
my first job was at the YWCA...working with kids and families on ontario works. If you're counting first REAL jobs away from working with my parents....
If you're not, it was for my mom when I was 13
My first job was as a tutor at a community college. Can you say foreshadowing to now being a professor?
-N
My first job (that wasn't under the table) was when I was 13 or 14. I worked as a dishwasher at a university's kitchen. The manager's daughter (a couple years old than me) would visit once in a while and harass me (including grabbing my butt). I would have filed a complaint, but to be honest, that was the most action I saw that year. :P
Dawn, we should get together with Lynn.
Santosuke, gotta love the dirty old pervs haha :)
SS, perhaps the staff at amusement parks are a lot more laid back than other jobs.
MM&I, it's true when one has a job that is difficult like that, it builds character.
2DP, yumm funnel cake!!! Unfortunately my budget park did not have that.
WIGSF, how many jobs have you had?
Linny, haha Krystals sounds like err umm something a little different than a drive through. Glad you clarified haha.
PP, yup the one with your mom counts.
Natalia, you had a grown up job unlike the rest of us :)
Michael, i'm pretty sure there was some booty grabbing at my job as well....ahh to be young again :)
We should totally get together with Lynn, does anyone still talk to her?
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