Fourteen. I worked Christmas holidays and Summer at a high-end department store downtown going from department to department collecting the sales and credit slips and taking them upstairs to office. It was fun. My aunt worked there and she lived with us so it was no problem with transportation. The Summer of being 15 I worked in a used record shop owned by my uncle. Then at 16 I finally got a permanent part-time job at a cinema. I worked after school and on weekends. All of it was fun to me. The only pay I remember is the movie theatre. They started me at $1.00/hour and after three months I got a nickel raise.
This post was edited by Thriftymaid at August 26, 2017 1:24 PM MDT
Wow, you are old. lol My first job paid 2.75 an hour, and i thought i was ancient. hahahahaha thanks Thriftymaid, your always a good sport and fun to be with. ;)))))
This was selling popcorn at a theatre. I thought those paychecks were way way cool! I was a kid who made all of my own clothes. This is how I bought fabric. :)
I worked as a part-time cashier in a diner while I was going to junior high and high school. My first full-time job I was 17 and I made $75.00 a week as a legal secretary.
This post was edited by SpunkySenior at August 26, 2017 1:26 PM MDT
I can't remember what my hourly wage was back when I was babysitting. I seem to recall leaving with $20 most nights and I worked for 5-6 hours. My first real job I started when I was 16 or so. I made $5.50 to start,which I thought was pretty sweet because it was above minimum wage at the time.
I think I was 14 and I worked in my brother's Hobby Store after school. I can't remember the hourly wage, but it was also part of a work experience program for school. The money from my first check was stolen out of my back pack anyway. Then at 15 I started working weekends shovelling sand in the oilfield. I probably got $8.00 an hour to start. At 16 I got another job at a honeybee farm. I don't remember the wage, but it was a sticky job. I've had all kinds of jobs since. The most I was making as a teenager back in the 90s was probably $12.00 an hour in the oilfield.