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My first job was as a paper boy, I think I was around age 10 when I started delivering the Toronto Sun newspaper 1 day a week on Sunday mornings.

I can't remember how much I earned. I do remember having to collect from customers and was always chasing certain customers around to get paid.

After delivering the Sun for a while I got the chance to buy a Toronto Star route off my neighbor, delivery 6 days a week.

My route was a senior citizen home Kipling Acres. I used to borrow a wheelchair, stack my papers on it and make my rounds in the seniors home room to room.

My first real gig was working at Rexdale Bowlerama around the corner from my house. I made $2.15 an hour and worked 10-15 hours per week. Job duties were fixing the bowling machines (both 5 and 10 pin), returning rental shoes to the counter, emptying ashtrays, making sure there were sharpened pencils and scoresheets on each lane before league play started. Also had to clean the washrooms.
It was a cool job for a kid, after a few months Ontario raised the minimum wage for students to $2.45 from $2.15. I worked with at least a dozen of my friends from school at that job. I earned $20 - $30 a week.

In highschool my buddy got me a job on the dock of a trucking company, his step father owned the company.
$5.10 per hour when minimum wage for students was $2.45 so the money was very good (this was 1981). We would get out of school at 3:10PM and take the bus to work, usually start on the dock at 4PM and go til 7PM, 5 days a week. Some days one of the company trucks would be making deliveries on his route near our school and the driver would be driving by as we were getting out of school so he would stop and pick me and my buddy up and take us to the dock in his truck. He later told us the main reason for driving by at 3:10 pm was to look at all the highschool girls in their tight jeans. I made $75 - $120 a week depending on my hours. Not bad for a highschool job. I was a spender, smoked alot of pot and went to movies and concerts. My buddy that was also working had $10k saved by the time we were in grade 12, he bought a new Honda. I bought a $500 Ford.

In late November and early December we would work the weekends as security guards at the trucking company because there was millions of dollars of booze in the trailers in our yard. I would finish on the dock Friday night at 7 pm and then sit in the dispatch office watching TV until 7AM when I was relieved by my buddy, we alternated AM/PM, he had an old Dodge Dart and I would drive it home Sat morning and drive it back Sat night at 7PM to relieve him. This was a sweet gig, when I was bored at 2am I would take a set of keys and fire up one of the tractors and drive it around the yard, one time I drove it down North Queen St and got stuck.

One of the biggest perks working with truck drivers was learning how to swear properly. Also learned about women from those guys, no wonder I use hookers nowadays.

My student jobs were fun. What did you do as a kid?
 
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for a very brief period, maybe 2 months when i was 14, me and a buddy on my street got a gig working at a nursery... doing dirty work... throwing down mulch, moving plants all over, watering stuff ... loading vehicles...it was shit and i hated it... was around $5 an hour or so i think.

about mid summer, i quit and got my buddies at the country club to get me on doing anything... i cut holes, raked bunkers and did other odd stuff on the maintenance crew ... i wasnt really supposed to be working, but they found a way around it...i did that part time for the next summer too... when i turned 16, i got my dl and went to work almost full time as a cart boy...pulling carts out/putting them up at night etc...driving the range ball picker around...whatever shit work needed to be done around the clubhouse... $5.25 i remember making... and can remember during big tourneys at the club, having to work 50hrs or so quite a few weeks of the summer...sucked ass bad because i wouldnt be done some long daylight days until 9pm or so...was a bitch trying to go home and then go out with the girlfriends... or get fucked by the scheduling and have to be back up there at 6 to pull out carts

at 17, i got moved into the clubhouse part time as well and did both cart stuff and register stuff til college started.. worked part time in the shop during that time because i made the traveling golf team and classes were a bitch too... i think i made around $6.25 then.
 
First job ever was a typical lemonade stand deal when I was 7-8. But soon after that, a buddy and I would go door to door and offer to paint the black and white address on people's curbs. I had a whole kit with stencils, spray paint, and everything. We charged 10 bucks per curb. I remeber making a couple hundred bucks on a Saturday afternoon and I was only 10-11.

Soon after some rogue juror type Mexicans stole our idea and charged 5 bucks per curb. Put all the local kids out of business. Then I started selling pot.
 
I delivered Sears flyers when I was young. The details are foggy. Once a week probably? A nickel a flyer maybe ??

My first job job was a summer job on a fruit farm for $2.85 /hour. Hard work but great job in a lot of ways. Learned a lot about a lot of things.
 
I was a hockey referee for 10 years... as I got older, I got more work..up to $30/hr cash.... I used to drive to Quebec with this OPP officer and ref industrial league hockey in rural Quebec. I was under-age at the time and the cop just told me to tell anyone that asked I was 18... Got to drink under-age with the officer and we used to speed home at a crazy pace.. I remember getting pulled over once for speeding (cop driving) and the conversation ended up being... "try to slow down"...as both cops chuckled..


Good times...
 
Lets see, my first job was when I was 14, freshman in highschool, had to get a work permit from school, and they gave me a hard time about it. But I got it. I was a cashier at Weis Markets, about a mile from house and right across the street from my house, I usually worked weekends and after school. They eventually let me go because I would stay still and talked to much. That made me mad at the time now it makes me laugh. I mean, what do you expect when all your cashier are high school girls that are all friends?!

Anyways, I had a few babysitting jobs too here and there, for people in our church or my moms friends. I did a paper route too, did it with my bff Alicia and her little brother, they had a rout right on their street, so it was easy, and I spent most of time with her so it worked out. Then as you all, when I was 17, my junior year of high school, I work at TRC with the gang. Good times were had there. No clue why or how that job ended, maybe Steve does, I don't remember at all. That following summer I turned 18 (see, steve, if you woulda just held on for 6 months,) and it was my senior year, I spent pretty much the entire partying and taking nothing seriously and just dickin around as much as I could, truly enjoying my last year as a kid. Once I graduated high school I got a job at Quizno's when they first opened, and enlisted in the Army, though I obviously never went. and that is that.

Oh yeah, and I also worked with a close family friend every summer at the town houses he owns. That was a very enjoyable job, I learned a lot from that man. He was like a father/grandfather to me. I wish I could have appreciated my time with him more.
 
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My grandfather use to pay me to put his checks in order for his business This was when the bank use to mail the cashed checks back to you.

My dad use to own a parking lot in this beach town, and I would park cars. Use to park 5-10 cars, pocket the money and then bounce for the day. Could have made so much more. I remember one guy pulled in and told me to fuck off, so I just booted his car. I was nine or so and had no clue how the boot worked so I had to call my grandfather. We booted the car and charged him $200 to take it off, guy should have just paid me the $10.


I did a bunch of landscaping as a kid, i had a ride on lawn mower and I would just ride around knocking on doors. got pulled over when I was 11 driving it on the side of a fairly busy road on the way to a job.

Once I turned 14 i started working in restaurants, didnt make much maybe $6/hr to start, but I started selling weed to the workers, or trading weed for booze, which i would sell to the high school kids. Been working in restaurants ever since, partly because of all the tom foolery that goes on.
 
Tully's story reminded me of something.

Back during the summer holidays I used to take my old mans push lawn mower to the industrial area not far from our house, I'd look for companies that had tall grass growing and offer to cut the lawn for $5 -$10 bucks. I made good money and got paid in cash.

I forgot about that.

I also used to use highschool fund raising drives to fund raise for myself. I'd sell chocolate almonds for a dollar more than what we were supposed to and keep the extra dough for myself. I think this is how I became hooked on easy money.
 
Use to also go the golf course and find lost balls when I was young. My buddies dad use pay 50 cents a ball.

In 6th grade I started selling pizza by the slice, I would order pizza from the pay phone and have it delivered to my buddies house who lived across the street. We bounce out of school pick up the pizza and sell them at lunch. This only lasted 3 or 4 days till the school caught on. I got suspended, my mom was furious, but dad was proud.
 
I vote for Blitty's stenciling job. Now that sounds not bad.

My first steady job and one of longest duration (8 mo) was sorting books, wasting time at a library. 3.35 an hour 1989 I was 17.

Before that I remember a couple times working for this asshole at the flea market. I had to keep an eye on the precious socks and crap he was selling.
 
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In 6th grade I started selling pizza by the slice, I would order pizza from the pay phone and have it delivered to my buddies house who lived across the street. We bounce out of school pick up the pizza and sell them at lunch. This only lasted 3 or 4 days till the school caught on. I got suspended, my mom was furious, but dad was proud.
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HAH that's great, what a little entrepreneur
 
Worked as a carnie (games) for a family business before I was legal to work non-family. Then I worked as a dishwasher at a restaurant where I eventually worked in every position except sous-chef and head-chef.

Worked as a grunt at a ski area where I was supposed to be a paintball ref (but they did zero paintball business).

Overlapping with the restaurant once I was 18 and could sell liquor and cigs I worked at a convenience store. Best job of my life... Wish I could go back ever single day.
 
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