First Jobs

[tower912]

I started delivering newspapers 2 months after my 12th birthday.    Burger King when I was 16.

Everybody starts somewhere.

[Uncle Rico]

I started delivering newspapers 2 months after my 12th birthday.    Burger King when I was 16.

Everybody starts somewhere.

Hahahaha, your family was poor.  Explains a lot.

McDonald’s for me at age 15, followed by a job in retail through college. 

[4everwarriors]

Sold men's clothing at Columbia Clothiers on 12th and Vliet and later at Pivar Brothers at 20th and Fond Du Lac, hey?

[Hards Alumni]

Taco Bell at 14

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

The old guy down the street paid me $7.50 to mow his lawn. He often paid me in half-dollars.

Chuck-E-Cheese at 16.

MU Office of Research & Sponsored Programs work study for four years.

[reinko]

Had a few good ones in the MKE growing up:

High School
~Carnival Services company, basically the people who set and ran up church festivals (rides, games...)
~Car Washes in Franklin and Oak Creek
~Grocery bagger at Grasch's in Tosa
~Mow'ed the lawn at my churches cemetery

College
~Suiter server/bartender Bradley Center
~Brown Bottle bartender/server
~Taste of Home in Greendale server/bartender
~Bunch of work-study jobs

[mu_hilltopper]

Bagged groceries in high school for $2.70/hr.  Got promoted to cashier and that sweet sweet $3.30/hr rate.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Age 16.  Delivered drugs

[swoopem]

Caddying summer going into 7th grade

[Pakuni]

Had a nice little landscaping business going from about 12 to 16 then became a lifeguard.

[Uncle Rico]

Age 16.  Delivered drugs

I know you looked familiar

[Jay Bee]

Bus boy at a 50s-themed diner, 2 weeks after 14th bday. Also did a little soda JERKING and dishwashing there over my 4+ year tenure

[lawdog77]

Detassling corn during the summers of high school. Nothing like making $3.35/hr in the hot sun. Thought I was rich when we worked over 40 and started making $5/hr.

[Hards Alumni]

Age 16.  Delivered drugs

[ATL MU Warrior]

Detassling corn during the summers of high school. Nothing like making $3.35/hr in the hot sun. Thought I was rich when we worked over 40 and started making $5/hr.

holy hell...i was going to post just about the same thing.  I think I was at 3.25 or 3.50 an hour.  One of the absolute worst jobs.

[StillAWarrior]

• Selling newspapers door-to-door in the hospital very young - probably 10 or 11.
• A regular paper route at 12
• Washing dishes in an Italian restaurant at 14 - I consider this my first "real" job.

[dgies9156]

Pre-College
"Courtesy Clerk" (aka, fancy southern phrase for grocery store bag boy and car loader), Sunflower Stores
Gopher and all-around badly abused boss' kid, Deal ole Dad's office

College
Intern, newspaper in NW Wisconsin that doesn't exist anymore

[Scoop Snoop]

Working in a vineyard at age 13 for $1.25 per hour.

High School years:

Wrapped meat at a butcher shop.

Mowed lawns.

Painted houses.

Thoroughly cleaned a one room school house on a Lake Erie island prior to the start of the school year.

Marquette:

Counted inventory in one of Milwaukee's department stores (do not remember which one).

Tutored at an elementary school somewhere around 27th street for the then huge pay of $10 per hour in the late 60's to '70.

[The Lens]

HS:

Work Grant / Work Study at MUHS (I was poor)
Freddy's Frozen Custard in Mequon (I was poor living amongst rich people)

College:

Gameroom at the "new" Union AMU is F.U.N. (Shout out Toby)
Freddy's Frozen Custard (5 Tool player*, Front, Machines, Fountain, Grill, Fryers, et al)
Line Chef at Wolf's Island in The Quon
Elliott's Partyland in The Quon
College Pro Painters
Milwaukee County Stadium Parking (Shout out Earl!)
Marquette Trib Ad Exec

Post College Scratch:

Brown Bottle (Shout out Linda)

*I could walk into a Kopp's right now, jump in any position and I can guarantee you ticket times wouldn't slip, they might even improve.

[21Jumpstreet]

Bus boy at 14 and worked in the biz my entire career besides a six month stint selling sponsorships for a celebrity golf tournament.

[StillAWarrior]

If we're going for this level of specificity:

Pre-College
Newspaper sales at hospital
Newspaper route
Dishwasher at Italian Restaurant
Youth baseball coach
Sandwich board walker
Construction site help
McDonalds
Waiter at Swenson's

College
Set construction in theater scene shot (MU)
Carwash attendant
PR Intern at Haggerty Museum of Art (MU)
Selling Cutco knives
Bag boy at grocery store

[Warrior Code]

Once I got my driver's license, I worked at the local Boys and Girls Club (I believe my title was "Youth Development Specialist") and as a busboy for my buddy's dad's restaurant.

[JWags85]

Line Chef at Wolf's Island in The Quon

Just so everyone knows...this is now the venerated and exalted Sybaris

[4everwarriors]

Line chef...is that code for surveillance camera installer, hey?

[Spotcheck Billy]

Dishwasher @ Holiday Inn in the Falls at 16 for $2.30/hr
quit that POS to work in the banquet halls @ Westbrook Lanes for $1.80/hr (pay cut was worth it)