What was your first job? How much was the salary? which year was that? what did you do with the money?

Mine :)
S/W engineer
3400 USD/annum
2000
clothing and jewel

just curious.

mine,
Php15,000/month
para-legal
2006
i treat my family for a dinner in a restaurant. =)

None/nothing/refused/no answer....

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raised
:)

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It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others.—Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

Worked evenings at a retailor named Twin Fair in their hardware/electrical/plumbing section starting in 1980 to help pay college costs. Earned the princely sum of $3.35/hour! I walked to work or rode my bike.

Yeah, yeah, uphill, both ways, in a blizzard, in July. I had only one shoe, so I had to hop on one foot to get to work...but, unlike kids today, I was grateful for what I had...

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"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong". (Knight's Oath, Kingdom of Heaven)

domestic, in an old Jewish nursing home
£7/week (before decimal currency), 12 hour shift-work, with a three-hour break
1963 (aged 14.5 years)

£6 went to parents for my board and lodging; £1 for fares; I was left with £1, and I paid an account for clothing. Parents had 8 children to support.

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I shall pass through this world but once. Any good that I can do to a fellow creature, let me do it now. For I may never pass this way again. (unknown)

My first job was babysitting, 1971 $2.00 per hour. I went on to become there daily babysitter and was paid $40 per week plus food plus swimming pool, ect. Would go on vacations with them and still get paid

First Job: Clerk at convenience store –evening shift

Pay: $1.60 per hr.

What I did with the money: Paid tuition and went to college during the day

Year: 1970

Note: Quit after I got robbed at gun-point by a strung out junkie who needed a fix.

Pocketmole, I still listen to my Gordon Lightfoot music.

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"He who never made a mistake never made a discovery." Samuel Smiles

Hahaha
Worked at Friendly's Ice Cream shoppes as a waitress.
Unsure how much I made but it was probably about $5 an hour
1985
put it in the bank for future use (college,car,rent)

I ended up throwing ice cream at a lady who was a complete bYatch to me treating me like I was a peice of dirt... Yikes!! To be a teenager again!!

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He who sings scares away his woes. ~Cervantes

My first real wage job (as opposed to baby sitting and crop picking) was a job in a lab during the summer, while in high school. I was paid $1.25/h ($50 gross per wk), which was minimum wage. Note that in 2010 dollars, this would be $8.42 (more than current Federal minimum).

My first full-time job as research assistant paid $1.60/h. In 2010 dollars, this represented a whopping increase to $8.62 (also minimum wage; also better than today's minimum). The jobs started in in 1966 and 1973.

Typist
120 USD/annum
2003
Gave to mom and bought some stuff for me

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'Truth Alone Triumphs' (Satyameva Jayate)

My first steady job was working at my neighbor's pharmacy. Mostly, I ran the front cash register which happened to be the one with the candy counter and cigarettes. I don't smoke, but I do remember that a pack of cigs sold for 55 cents. Gift-wrapping also fell to me, but I liked doing that. Sometimes I even got to make up Easter baskets, choosing the basket, the candies, and usually a little stuffed animal, all wrapped up in colored cellophane. That was always fun.

I got paid $1.35 an hour, beginning in 1972, age 15. I worked after school and summers for a few years. I have no idea what $1.35 works out to in today's economy, but I know it was less than minimum wage, even back then. Nevertheless, for me, it was a huge raise over the 50 cents per hour that I'd been getting paid for piecemeal babysitting jobs around the neighborhood.

What did I do with the money? I paid for my own make-up and entertainment/going out with friends. I bought birthday and Christmas gifts for family and friends. My parents also gave me $5 per week in allowance to help cover those things, but of course, I had certain responsibilities and chores I had to do, including planning and cooking the family dinner once a week.

Whatever money I had left, I put into savings. It was later used as spending money for clothes, food, etc., when I went away to college. The last of it went towards my wedding, just after my freshman year. My dad thought my $250 wedding dress was too expensive, so my parents would only buy the dress I wanted if I paid for the veil and shoes myself. (In all fairness, though, they had just paid for my sister's wedding nine months prior.)

DarkMoon, you and I have something in common. The first steady job that I had to actually interview for, i.e., new employer was not my neighbor, was at a bank. Well actually, it was a savings and loan. I began working as a teller for I think $605 per month, circa 1978.

Orchid and Atiya, what is an "S/W engineer"?

Thanks for the laugh, Vickster. Why wait to be a teenager again? Chuck stuff at people daily is my advice to you. Hurl away! Wing something just for the sheer joy of it! You're bound to hit someone who deserves it!

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Sanity is not statistical

Yes, this is when I was thirteen.

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'Truth Alone Triumphs' (Satyameva Jayate)

Its software engineer. Its commonly written as S/W in our field.

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It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others.—Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

My first summer job was as a gardener's assistant in a large factory yard. The Gardener was an engineer in that factory. He gave me directives and guidance every morning and came to look after me on lunch breaks and checked what I had done after his work days. I learned a lot during that summer and loved what I did.

I earned 800 FIM (about 250$) a month, the year was 1972. Bought a fine HIFI set in August and paid most of my school books when entering high school in September.

In the autumn I started as a DJ in the biggest teenager's disco in Helsinki. That was only Saturdays but I earned my "week money" and was able to buy my own clothes, subscribe for Melody Maker, New Musical Express and National Geography and buy a whole lot of vinyl records and books.

The next year I started as a DJ in a restaurant disco. Did that job during my rest high school years two or three nights a week. The summers I spent as a construction worker but was able to have a real vacation on July. Earned some 1000-2000$ a year.

(RuthP, you are the ruler of the statistics... How much was 1000$ of 1973 today?)

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I sold cosmetics from office to office and factory to factory. I was still in school then.
About 1995, don't remember the salary. I bought myself some jeans.