What was your first "paying" job???

[Butterfly0328]

I just thought it would be fun to find out what everybodys first legal "paying" job was. Babysitting doesn't count.. I will go first. At the age of 14 my first job was a motel maid at a Best Western motel...I worked there during the summer to earn money for my Drill Team uniform.

Scary thing is that during one of my breaks a friend of mine from high school and myself had left the "break room/laundry room" where a few other older ladies were also taking their breaks and had gone to the motel office for a soda. We had passed a man on the way, and when we returned noticed the door was closed; which it never was. I opened the door to find the man we had passed holding the older ladies at gun point and they were all naked. Had my friend and I waited even 30 seconds longer we would have been in there also and God only knows what would have happened. I eventually had to go to court in order to identify the guy. Thank God I wanted that soda...

[DavidFR, BSN, MSN, RN]

I worked in a men's clothing store which was also one of the last old fashioned High Street taylors.

It paid a pittance, my colleagues were good fun but the work was so boring, it motivated me even more to get into nursing school. The only interesting part was watching the tayloress at work - such craftmanship (or in her case, craftwomanship?); a skill now largely lost in our off the peg, ready to wear world.

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

I worked in the jewelry department of a now-extinct catalog store.

Montgomery Ward?