I started doing yard work for neighbors in my early teens. However when I turned 16, and was eliglble for a work permit, I worked at a Carl's Jr.

Rolling and throwing newspapers at four-thirty a.m. 1955, twelve years old.

I mowed lawns for cash when I was a kid... Then moved to delivering papers in addition. I think I've had a constant job since I was 9 or 10.

I worked in my moms dog grooming business.

I was an associate at a small town grocery store. I stocked, bagged, built displays, and cleaned.

I mowed the family lawn, cleaned the bathrooms, swept and vacuumed as part of my 35 cent weekly allowance, when I was 10 or so. Wouldn't call that a job.

I babysat the neighbor kids for 50 cents an hour, which gradually went up to $1.50 per hour as I got older.

First real job was "opening hostess" of our neighborhood Herfy's Hamburger Restaurant. "Would you like a Wacky Burger Box today?"

Paper boy in Hollywood, CA, when I was 10 or 11. I delivered the Hollywood Reporter and my route was Hollywood Blvd., between Vine and Highland. It was all businesses and they all tipped good -- mostly with money, but also with free meals and movie passes.

I left school at 16 and spent the first six months working in a factory. I was terrified with the thought that I would spend the rest of my life drilling holes in pieces of metal. So I quit, became unemployed for a few weeks. Things took off from there!

My first regular pay came from teaching first-year university students about relativity and electromagnetism.

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What do you mean by "first job"

My first thing I did that results in cash given to me: Delivering newspapers. (Yes, a paperboy).

First scheduled job (with fixed hours, pay cheques) job in high school - fry cook for KFC.
Yes, it took me many years before I could eat fried chicken again. Just got so saturated with the smell of fried chicken it didn't appeal to me.

I helped in the harvest of earth worms