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dreadnessmonster
Posts: 28 - Karma: 36
I recently turned 16 and am looking for a job to get for the summer and to keep into the school year. What were some of your first jobs or do you have an recommendations or advice for me? Thanks!
Jul 6 2016 8:52PM
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JGWI
Posts: 2842 - Karma: 7,812
Anything but cleaning rooms.
Jul 6 2016 9:00PM
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CB4TSB
Posts: 428 - Karma: 1,221
Fast food, everybody should work fast food when they are a teenager. It will make you appreciate every job you have after that and you will want to study harder in school so you will never have to do it again.
Jul 6 2016 9:12PM
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Sno.
Posts: 12155 - Karma: 6,152
Busser for high-end restaurant if you can get it. Mad tips. Good hours.
Jul 6 2016 11:11PM
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yungcigsmoker
Posts: 785 - Karma: 5,922
I highly reccomend working blue collar jobs
Jul 6 2016 11:19PM
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.lencon
Posts: 6753 - Karma: 17,183
My first job was a hand job.. after that I got a blow job. I think I've had a butt job (like titty fuck but with butt cheeks in shower) ? but I know I'm still waiting for a boob job (titty fuck)
Jul 7 2016 12:40AM
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MIHoodlum
Posts: 245 - Karma: 256
TSBFast food, everybody should work fast food when they are a teenager. It will make you appreciate every job you have after that and you will want to study harder in school so you will never have to do it again.


Yup, first thing you will learn is helping humans gather food to servive does not pay.
Jul 7 2016 1:54AM
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russsavokskis
Posts: 699 - Karma: 1,264
My first job was/is working at Zumiez. I'll probably get hated on but it's our only real "skate shop" in my town and I love it. Sure there's some aspects that make it feel like the corporate job it is but the rest of the time it's got a small skate shop sort of vibe (at least at mine) I highly recommend it. You get paid decently for doing basically nothing but putting together skateboards and folding clothes. You also get to meet some pretty cool people everyday.
Jul 7 2016 4:28AM
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KravtZ
Posts: 6637 - Karma: 2,629
Worked at a local fish market. Was an AWESOME job. Great crew, learned a ton, appreciated work and learned to aprpeciate the value of a dollar.

Not to mention I made SO MUCH MONEY. Worked off the books making $20 an hour (which I know is quite high for that age)...that being said there is plenty of jobs otu there if you look hard and present yourself well.

I wouldn't accept minimum wage. I think its very easy to get a higher paying job in todays day and age. Food service like a restaurant or wahtever can be really good for wages but hours kinda suck
Jul 7 2016 11:40AM
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stokedelic
Posts: 1519 - Karma: 3,863
TSBFast food, everybody should work fast food when they are a teenager. It will make you appreciate every job you have after that and you will want to study harder in school so you will never have to do it again.


not even fast food, just food service in general. or just service in general. you learn time management as well as dealing with fuckwads, which are a common species amongst the tall grass.
Jul 7 2016 11:47AM
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Dddsz
Posts: 3042 - Karma: 7,324
TSBFast food, everybody should work fast food when they are a teenager. It will make you appreciate every job you have after that and you will want to study harder in school so you will never have to do it again.


Smaller family owned restraunts make you bust your ass way harder than fast food. Fast food is super basic.
Jul 7 2016 11:54AM
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Isaac.
Posts: 86 - Karma: 810
Get a cashier job at target or Walmart or some big retail place. Goes along with what others were saying about learning to appreciate white collar jobs and also to get a perspective where you can see all the dicks in the world and to not be like them. Plus $11/hr is never a bad thing
Jul 7 2016 12:58PM
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FerrisBueller
Posts: 8280 - Karma: 5,173
;'
Jul 7 2016 1:48PM
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PeppermillReno
Posts: 4787 - Karma: -586
Anything parks and recreation related. Get your lifeguard certification that is a good one too and same type of thing.
Jul 7 2016 2:41PM
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Yung_Jimmy
Posts: 342 - Karma: 554
Cutting grass and landscaping is the probably the highest paying normal job you can get at your own age. If you find your own yards to cut and work on you'll make like $20-$30 an hour. Even if you work for someone else you'll get like 10-15 and it keeps you in shape to.
Jul 7 2016 7:46PM
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a_burger
Posts: 5231 - Karma: 20,593
grounds crew is pretty chill, depending on the course you can either get lots of hours and make $$$$ or be out by 10 A.M. every day. Good job for learning how to operate machines and pretty much anywhere you go in the country there are always golf courses hiring in the spring.
Jul 7 2016 8:37PM
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brett_fisher
Posts: 2417 - Karma: 10,494
hooker
Jul 8 2016 8:48PM
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FastSpeed
Posts: 646 - Karma: 644
I work in a ski shop in the fall and winter and work as a greenskeeper in the summer. Ski shop has a great atmosphere and easy work. Being a greenskeeper is a little more labor intensive and pays better. It's also nice to be outside 40 hours a week instead of being stuck in the basement of a ski shop for 12 hours. (yeah I worked 9 to 9 with a 15 minute lunch break more than once)
Jul 8 2016 10:57PM
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Coloradoskier03
Posts: 174 - Karma: 501
Just work at the grocery store
Jul 8 2016 11:02PM
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daannnnieel
Posts: 5163 - Karma: 4,293
my first job was and currently is laying pipe, going to school is kinda a no-go for that one though considering I got hired on full time.
Jul 11 2016 9:50PM
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Bumblesteeze
Posts: 3092 - Karma: 748
Get your lifeguard qualifications and work either at a beach or at an outdoor water-park during the summer months.
Jul 11 2016 9:53PM
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Yung_Jimmy
Posts: 342 - Karma: 554
supermagician__my first job was and currently is laying pipe, going to school is kinda a no-go for that one though considering I got hired on full time.


I lay a lot of pipe too
Jul 12 2016 4:23PM
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jjdsteeze
Posts: 2562 - Karma: 4,135
amusement park, if there is one close to you
Jul 13 2016 10:17AM
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CabbyArrant
Posts: 779 - Karma: 4,120
I work at a camera shop it's pretty fucking great.
Jul 15 2016 12:49PM
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kpow
Posts: 373 - Karma: 33
put up flyers and go door to door looking for old people with money who need mulching, weeding, pretty much anything done around the house and charge $20 an hour. It's pretty easy to find a good amount of customers and then u can work half the time as your friends with minimum wage jobs and can get annihilated the whole time
Jul 15 2016 1:49PM
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ObiWanKablowme
Posts: 421 - Karma: 539
lifeguard. decent pay and you get to be outside all summer
Jul 17 2016 2:24PM
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Deforestation
Posts: 1606 - Karma: 3,192
Im working at a tenting company, (like tents for events and parties). The hours are shit but it's only a couple days a week because some days can go up to 20 hours. $12 is pretty good and anything over 40 hours you get $18.
Jul 17 2016 2:32PM
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Rennis_Deynolds
Posts: 2739 - Karma: 19,058
sell weed
Jul 17 2016 5:07PM
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s0ulbucket
Posts: 306 - Karma: 542
Right now I paint houses for $20 an hour with my dad til I go back to school, but before this I worked at a cellphone store. You learn communication/sale skills, plus you get commission on top of hourly wage. When my commission check came in, it was like getting a second full weeks worth of pay
Jul 17 2016 7:00PM
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CHORIZO
Posts: 2003 - Karma: 10,039
Cart barn at your local golf course. Pretty much a real solid job except i have to open sometimes whoch means being there by 5:30. I took an hour nap on a golf cart today tho
Jul 18 2016 2:07AM
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MikeStreeter
Posts: 64 - Karma: 188
I got a job this winter teaching little kids how to ski at my home mountain.
Jul 18 2016 3:20PM
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PoLaRpEaK
Posts: 439 - Karma: 555
Start in construction / trades. There are no good first jobs, but the best first job is one where you actually learn useful skills.
Jul 18 2016 3:57PM
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CHORIZO
Posts: 2003 - Karma: 10,039


Coworker took this. Those 5:30 am shifts are brutal

CHORIZOCart barn at your local golf course. Pretty much a real solid job except i have to open sometimes whoch means being there by 5:30. I took an hour nap on a golf cart today tho
Jul 18 2016 7:29PM
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Slush
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 12,942
President of the United States
Jul 18 2016 7:47PM
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