Work when you were 18

[stickonatree]

Originally Posted by feynmix

Tutoring is seriously the best thing ever, if you can teach.

+1

i do it part time right now and it's quite satisfying. i look forward to work.

when i was 18 i worked at a grocery store + coached a middle school soccer team.

 

[Jenaimarr]

data entry - holy **** this was the most menial, mind-numbing job ever created. Sat on ****** for 8 hours a day and 10-keyed the value of a check into their corresponding accounts. Went through a couple thousand checks a day. I believe robots or some sort of self-feeding scanner does this these days rendering manual data entry an antiquity.

after school tutoring - This job was awesome. $15/hr under the table to shady tax-eschewing chinese people who ran the joint. Worked at Kumon (japanese tutoring chain) to teach algebra to over-achieving 2nd grade asian kids.
- It was pretty weird having just learned calculus a year or two before and having to teach middle school kids the same thing.
- looking back, I realized my middle-aged married boss (who wore braces and had bad breath) used to hit on me all the time but I was just too naive to realize it. I guess it could be called sexual harassment these days.

 

[Half Honky]

I went to a public boarding school that made students work in order to "give back to the community for our education" or something to that nature...so during high school I worked in the school coffee shop, the math department, cafeteria, and mail room.

Last summer I worked at J.Crew and I agree that working clothing retail sucks ass, although the 50% discount on shirts was nice. I also worked at a university Japan Center as a receptionist-type person, but it was volunteer work and mostly so I could add it to my study abroad application.

This summer I've get to help poison the American population at a tobacco store in a mall...I know the manager there and I'll be making 9 bucks an hour mostly watching movies on a laptop and talking bullshit all day, while occassionally selling a cigar or two. As a bonus the manager is a couple years ahead of me studying the same stuff, so he can actually help me with any summer school crap I bring with me.

 

[DicDictionary]

Originally Posted by m@T

I umpired indoor cricket.

......What?

 

[Matt]

At the back there is a white scoreboard, next to that is an umpire...I did that job for $10 a game when I was 14 or 15.

 

[X-It]

I worked part time as a waitress in a restaurant in Amsterdam.

 

[Scintillante]

I'm 18 and I work in a McDonald's

 

[DicDictionary]

Originally Posted by m@T

At the back there is a white scoreboard, next to that is an umpire...I did that job for $10 a game when I was 14 or 15.

Damn I feel stupid right now, I realized I read "cricket" as "croquet."

 

[centalones]

Originally Posted by third

starbucks

3 years later

starbucks (again)
I've heard that working for Starbucks is surprisingly not bad.

 

[BYucko]

Oh gosh, I need a job that is 'a step above' cashier as well.

A lot of folk who quit Safeway or whatever are looking to go to somewhere like Future Shop, where the commision is supposedly good. I don't know, but it's worth a shot I suppose.

 

[Nataku]

I worked at the Salvation Army. Probably the funnest job I've ever had.

 

[Texasmade]

I worked at a deli shop for a few summers and at a couple of warehouses for 2 summers. Warehouse work in Houston during the summer blows.

 

[Nonk]

I had already been in the Army 2 years by that age and was serving on operations in Northern Ireland.

Not that I am advocating that as a serious choice for you.