What was your first W-2 job?

[mikeofaustin]

I started working at 'sonic' as a cook when I was 16 making $3.35 an hour. I used to make food and stuff it into french fry boxes, and when I went outside to empty the trash, I'd stuff it down my throat ( the food that is ). At the time, the best sandwich was the chicken sandwich.

[FarmerChick]

grocery store

bakery

good job actually--didn't do it long tho.
between HS graduation and getting ready for college courses.
sure can't remember the paying wage at that time. I guess it was 'very forgettable'

then off to CIGNA as a computer programmer after computer college.

[davest]

bus boy/dishwasher whopping $1.25 hour.

[Keychainman]

Grocery Store , as a bag boy, there is no such thing now days. making $1.75 per hr.

[spartacus53]

I was able to get working papers in 66-67, worked for $1.25 hour.. by 1970 I thin it was $1.75 hour..

Oh, I was a page at he NYC library. Never used the Dewey Decimal system either, just tossed books on empty shelves to make them look full

Nothing like minimum wage as a kid

[packerbacker]

Age 17, US Navy. Went to boot camp, A School and was aboard an aircraft carrier sailing in the Tonkin Gulf and South China Sea 2 months before I turned 18. Just in time to escalate the air war over N Vietnam.
Before that I did yard work, shoveled snow and had paper routes but no W2. Lied about my age once and operated the merry-go-round at a county fair. No W2 there either but got a new girlfriend by giving her and her friends free rides.

[nsdq]

golden corral 4.75hr at the age of 15/16

[Frankn]

Back around 1956 while in high school during summer vacation I got a job as a draftsman laying out mercury vapor lighting around the stadium in Balto. Believe it or not, it worked when it was powered up. Frank

[kenley]

Age 12 at a Mom & Pop 24hr. grocery store. They even had a butcher shop. Cigaretts out of a machine was $.25 but there were three new pennies in the cigarette wrapper. I bagged, stocked, built Christmas tree stands in the Winter and sold watermelons in the Summer. Melons sold for .02/lb hot or .025 cold. I worked 4hrs during school days and 8-10 on week-ends and Summer break. Week-ends were $3.00 a day. Don't remember the actual hourly rate.

[Smudge]

Stock boy at Walgreens!

[Cool Hand Fluke]

It was June, July, and August of 1975 at Fort Knox Kentucky. Drill Sargent Barnes was cursing, cussing, and yelling at myself and the 1st platoon. Drill Sargent Barnes had us doing pushups on burning hot asphalt, had us low crawling until our elbows bled. He had us running in formation for miles and miles in full combat gear until near death from exhaustion. The weather was hot and humid even at 12 midnight while we spit shined our boots. What an awful experience for your fist W2 job.

[Goose-0]

I was a pin-boy at a bowling alley. I spotted pins (load em into a machine and push down on a bar that lowered the 10 pins and released them in the proper setup) on a Saturday afternoon. Pay? About $6 an afternoon of 4 hrs work. I got paid the following Saturday in cash in an envelope. I noticed one of the 1st times that I was paid, I wasn't paid enough. I asked the boss about it and he said the guv'mint had to take taxes and 'something for your old age'. Old Age? Heck, I'm 12 now. Why should I pay for me getting old? Well, it's been a while now, and so far I have collected 2-1/2 times what I and my emplorers have paid into the Ponzi scheme....er, ah...social security. I did at one time feel bad that I'm sucking off of the taxpayers, but now, my Soc Sec is being taxed because....."You earn too much." (I don't work.)

[Ray S S]

As soon as I was 16, I got a job bagging groceries and stocking shelves in a grocery store for 50 cents an
hour. The summer before that I caddied at the local golf course. Don't remember just what I made. Before
that I was living in the upper penninsula and I worked in a garden for the local school teacher for 3 hours a day,
5 days a week for $3.00 a week. Also at 13 I started working at our church which was a 1 room building
similar to the old 1room schools. Arranged the fold-up chairs with a Bible and hymn book on alternating
chairs and swept the floor. Also in the cold weather I went in early and lit the fuel oil stove to warm it up
for the Wednesday night meetings. The church was next to the school so I would go in and take care of
that, then walk home as I only lived a couple miles from there at that time. On Sundays, some one else
went in to light the stove. There was no water in the building so it was cold the rest of the time. They
paid me $5.00 a week. And I also got an extra bonus from them. For the last 4 years that we lived up
there, the church paid my way for a week each summer at the Bible camp which was in Northern Wisconsin.
That cost them $5.00 a week. That was in 1951, '52, '53, and '54. I sure had fun at that camp and loved
every minute of it. That was where I developed my life-long interrest in canueing.

Ray

[poorhunter78]

W-2, I always use WD..

Delivered Auto parts, In a piece of Crappola nissan truck with half an exhaust.. Dont know what wage was, It's never enuff..

[lonesomebob]

In 1939, I was paid to shovel up puke behind a bar, I could keep any money I found in the parking lot, and was paid special wages for replacing broken glass. cause that made me a specialist. Bob

[BosnMate]

United States Navy, I was an assault boat coxswain driving an LCM (Landing craft mechanized -- 56 feet long, 55 tons, twin Gray Marine Diesel engines, twin screws and rudders) USS Merrick AKA 97. The first time I was driving the boat, I had been assigned as the bow hook, and the cox'n was letting me learn to drive on a liberty run, late in the evening when there weren't many people. We pulled into the landing in Long Beach and I didn't back down soon enough, darn near lofted the two shore patrol guys into the water. It's surprising how far those pier pilings will bend and not break.