First Jobs

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First Jobs

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What was your first job? It doesn't have to be a tax paying job either. Like mine was a babysitting program at a church in my area, things like that.
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Ok two my first was when I rubbed my mom's feet for twenty five cents an hour. It's not as bad as it sounds!

My other first job was mowing the lawn for my parents.
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I watched people's pets and baby-sat, I still do actually.
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Mowed the lawn. My 1st tax paying job was working at a farm cutting gladiolas and my 1st good job is what I am at now, working at a coffee shop
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I had a paper route until I got fired.
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I worked at a apple packing shed..where they clean,pack,and ship the apples off.
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JD wrote:I had a paper route until I got fired.

:hilarious: :hilarious:
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I've never had a job. \:D/

...well, unless you count delivering phone books when I was little, but that was only for like a week. :anxious:
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I worked for a yard raking company!
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Babysitting, which morphed into child care at my church. In fact, I worked child care tonight. Twelve 3-4 year olds, which really isn't so bad when you compare it to last week, which was twenty-two 3-4 year olds. *yanks hair out*
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"Hi, I'm Aubry and I"ll be your Sunday Scool teacher today"
"If we could all just gather around over here, I'll tell you your bible story for today"
"over here"
"Nope, no, I'm over here."
"O.k., who want's cookies?"
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I've never heard of anyone getting paid to be a Sunday School teacher, so does that count as a job, or simply a ministry?
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If we really want to get technical, my first jobs were household chores way back when. If we don't want to be technical, I started volunteering in various positions in church when I was around 9 or so, and started volunteering in another capacity at a second church when I was 14. I didn't get my first tax-paying job until right after I'd turned 15, working at a grocery store.
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I really didnt see household chores as really jobs because it is a requirement. I mean I think your first job is when you get rewarded for something you feel you are NOT obligated to do. Such as mowing the lawn or playing with Caleb a 5 year old neighbor. I am NOT OBLIGATED to do it however I do it for a reward. Whether it be tangible or intangible.
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Jonathan wrote:If we really want to get technical, my first jobs were household chores way back when. If we don't want to be technical, I started volunteering in various positions in church when I was around 9 or so, and started volunteering in another capacity at a second church when I was 14. I didn't get my first tax-paying job until right after I'd turned 15, working at a grocery store.
and the household chores were thankfully divided between the three of us... and my first tax paying job was working at subway and that lasted a whole 3 weeks but i only worked for 2 weeks because i was on a mission trip for the one week
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yep.. I have been doing the kitchen and the clothes since I was twelve...
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Jugglah wrote:I've never heard of anyone getting paid to be a Sunday School teacher, so does that count as a job, or simply a ministry?
No, that's a quote from Aubrey's Bathrobe in response to your comment on pulling your hair out just thinking of babysitting 22 3-4 year olds.
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King Butter Turtle wrote:
Jugglah wrote:I've never heard of anyone getting paid to be a Sunday School teacher, so does that count as a job, or simply a ministry?
No, that's a quote from Aubrey's Bathrobe in response to your comment on pulling your hair out just thinking of babysitting 22 3-4 year olds.
Oh, I recognized the quote. I just thought you were talking about yourself. (Actually, I bribed them with Cheetos, not cookies. Necessity is the mother of invention.)
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Jugglah wrote:Necessity is the mother of invention.)
Well, that and procrastination.
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Actual real job was Taco Bell, yay! \:D/ That only lasted a couple months before I went on to work where I currently have worked for over 10 years...

But before that I mowed lawns and probably did a few other random things. \:D/
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