Today’s prompt from Shimelle is: Write about your first job and ask
your blog readers to share their first job stories too.
Another interesting one for me. In Turkey, it’s not common for teenagers
to work like it is in the US. So I never had a real paying job until I
moved to the US. It all depends what first job means to you. The first
time I got paid for doing something was proofreading for the college
newspaper. The first “corporate” job I had was for Bell Laboratories my
Junior year in college. I was a programmer. And the first
“real/fulltime” job I had was as a programmer at Goldman Sachs. Most of
my career has been about programming or managing people who are. Now I
manage products and not people, but it’s still about the code I suppose.
I had a brief period where I taught 5th grade which was the most
interesting and the most dreadful year of my life.
So I guess, career-wise, my life hasn’t been incredibly interesting. But
it’s also not horribly boring. Something in between. I’ve almost always
been lucky enough to work for reputable companies and with intelligent
people. I can’t ask for more.
Well I can. But not yet.
Sounds interesting to me!
Boring? Not interesting? Your life? Far from it!
Sounds cool to go work in foreign country – not boring to me! 🙂
My first job was when I was 13. I worked at a Houlihan’s restaurant. In the morning about 7-11 I would fill S&P shakers, roll silverware and napkins, and do some prep work. I was never much of a morning person so i spent the first hour or so sleeping in a booth. On Friday and Saturday nights I would work behind the bar serving bar food and washing bar glasses. I got paid 7 bucks an hour and that is/was quite a lot for a 13 year old back in 1992/93.