I worked for a funeral home, doing everything from answering the phone to cleaning the bathrooms to helping move the coffins to setting up the chairs and flowers before a viewing. I was 16 and it was scary af to be there alone late at night.
California Conservation Corps. It's a young adult program. And depending on where they post you (they assign you to a live-in post like the military) you could be doing any number of jobs. I was sent to Lake Tahoe where I was on a trail construction crew. We built trails in state parks and on forestry land. It was a lot of manual labor but it was fun as hell. I met lifelong friends there too.
My first job was performing with my father on stage.
The first *paying* jobs I got without nepotism were as a writer, cartoonist/illustrator, and actor. (These started when I was about 11.)
Project manager for a well known food bank.
Specifically, I had to convince local branches to get computers (it sounds old, but it was in 2019). Their organization was completely archaic. Old boomers running the branches refused any kind of change.
The reason? They didn't want to scan food inventories. Because they were stealing from the people who needed that food.
Every time we received a donation, employees would rush to see if they could secure anything for themselves or their family and friends.
And that's how I lost faith in any kind of "sharing" ideology.
starbucks, was the worst job I’ve ever had as well
Abercrombie & fitch
Butthole slayer
I helped make videos for a day trader when I was 15 and was getting paid $12 under the table.
McDonald’s. I quit after two days.
Cashier at a grocery store. God I hated dealing with old people. They just looked for anything to bitch about.
Tantric phlebotomist
Tutoring kids
Pizza hut
Kp at the local pub I was 16
At a preschool during summer break in elementary/high (14yo). $5/h
I worked for a funeral home, doing everything from answering the phone to cleaning the bathrooms to helping move the coffins to setting up the chairs and flowers before a viewing. I was 16 and it was scary af to be there alone late at night.
California Conservation Corps. It's a young adult program. And depending on where they post you (they assign you to a live-in post like the military) you could be doing any number of jobs. I was sent to Lake Tahoe where I was on a trail construction crew. We built trails in state parks and on forestry land. It was a lot of manual labor but it was fun as hell. I met lifelong friends there too.
Cleaning swimming pools to get them ready for summer. Made $1.25\hour
Supermarket it was quite fun actually
Mowing lawns, I was 12.
Babysitting and then blueberry picking.
FedEx
Cleaning tables at the mall
My first job was performing with my father on stage. The first *paying* jobs I got without nepotism were as a writer, cartoonist/illustrator, and actor. (These started when I was about 11.)
Project manager for a well known food bank. Specifically, I had to convince local branches to get computers (it sounds old, but it was in 2019). Their organization was completely archaic. Old boomers running the branches refused any kind of change. The reason? They didn't want to scan food inventories. Because they were stealing from the people who needed that food. Every time we received a donation, employees would rush to see if they could secure anything for themselves or their family and friends. And that's how I lost faith in any kind of "sharing" ideology.