So, What was Your First job like?
If we're going with first first, my first "job" was babysitting for the neighbors. It was alright. Their kid was friends with my little sister, so she was used to being with me. She was kinda spoiled though, and would be fussy about the snacks I would make her and refused to do her homework most nights.
The first job I consider as a real job was when I worked at a grocery store as a cashier. It was alright. I didn't have to do much other than show up and be a decent person.
Was it great? Did it Suck?
It was alright.
What kind of work did you have to do? How did you find your job?
Rang out customers, cleaned the registers and the front of the store. Sometimes I would help face the shelves if we were really slow, when I got older I started filling the liquor department. After a few years of working there, my boss fired the cleaning company that did the bathrooms so I started cleaning those too (it wasn't so bad. They provided gloves and cleaning supplies. Managers were required to clean them, but anyone else could decide not to if they really didn't want to.)
Eventually I became a sort of supervisor, not quite a manager, but I was given keys to the back office, oversaw the other cashiers when the managers where away, handled customer complaints and returns. I sold and redeemed lotto tickets and cigarettes. I scanned alcohol for younger cashiers when I turned 18.
I got my job rather simply: I applied at the local grocery store, followed up with a phone call, was asked to come in for an interview. Dressed up a little nicer than I needed to (it's a pretty good rule of thumb to dress one step fancier than you intend to work in on a day-to-day basis). The interview was pretty brief- I sat down with the owner of the store, who asked me a few questions about my availability and my past work experience. At the end of the interview I was told to come to work the next Wednesday to start.
did it pay well or at least decently? Did you find better jobs afterwords?
It paid alright. Minimum wage, but as a high schooler that was plenty for me. As for better jobs? Well, it depends on what you consider better. I work at a pretty big retail store right now, was recently promoted to full time and given a three dollar per hour raise. However, at my new job I have to deal with a LOT more people (I work in the city, now, too, as opposed to the suburbs where the grocery store was), and most of the people I see aren't regulars, aren't people I know from my neighborhood.
In a way, it's a little worse: I don't know the people I'm serving, since I rarely see them more than once, which hinders my ability to help them and provide the best service to them. However, there is more for me to learn and more room to move up than there was at the grocery store.
Please, tell your story of your experience of your first Employment below.
Oh, jeez, I kinda did in the rest of the questions, lol.