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Picking vegetables on a small local farm at the age of fifteen for four something an hour. It was everyday for just about three months. I'd start at eight AM and usually was done buy about two to three, but there were a few twelve hour days in there as well. It was mostly corn, tomatoes, and watermelons, but there were also a variety of peppers and some beans as well. I made enough money that summer to buy my first car with the added benefit of learning how to drive. We had a beaten up old pickup truck that we drove out into the fields to load up. There was a small store on the premises and most of what we picked was sold the same day. I had a couple friends from school there with me, so it wasn't all bad, but to this day I just can't bring myself to eat fresh corn or watermelon.

I was an assistant to an air conditioning installer the summer before I turned 16. In retrospect, 40 hours a week of crawling through attics in the Florida heat hardly seems worth $4.75/hr ($7.90/hr in 2007 dollars), but the $150/wk was great to a 15 year old.

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C'mon. Try to stay relevant fUckwit.

Making sense is also a bonus when posting here.

Because we're talking about your first paycheck, I'd hope you made some cents.

duly noted

I was 14 and my dad got me a job as a lumper at the frozen food (chicken/beef/anything cold) wherehouse he drove truck for. Depending on how hard I worked (got paid per truck unloaded) I could bring home close to 500$ (under the table) a week. The illegals on the dock didn't like me coming in and taking a share of the work though so when rail cars would come in (all day work and get paid well for it) I would let em have it. It was offsite and real backbreaking work so I didnt mind.

Edit: Forgot to mention that this was a summer job that I went to 5 days a week for 40+ hours. Killed an entire summer befor Highschool.

Edited, Mar 3rd 2009 3:52pm by Aadyn Litefoot

I was 17, a sysadmin for these people, and made somewhere in the low to mid teens, dollarwise. I don't remember anymore exactly how much.

My first official paycheck was at age 15 from the State of Florida, and I slept on the job. Okay, I was supervising a camping trip at a local nature center. I got a $50 stipend for that. Also, I used to mow my neighbor's yard when they went out of town, and they paid me $40 every time. Not bad for only 2 or 2 1/2 hours of work.

I worked stuffing envelopes, copying, stapling, sorting and occasionally moving heavy stuff around from when I was old enough to do so constructively. I had three siblings and those of us old enough to help would line up like a little assembly line. In the early days this was mostly for activist semi-political causes. Later there was a family small business. Eventually after our friends started helping their parents asked that they be paid, so we were paid too. About US$10/hour in today's money. We had a great time helping mostly because it was very rare: we'd assemble mailers maybe 3-4 times per year and do some physical labor maybe 1-2 days per year. I still have a great fondness for the activities. Before we had kids, my wife and I helped all our acquaintances move. Most of the time we were the *only* people they asked to help. When we moved once we invited most of them to return the favor and had something like 20 people show up. There was literally no way they could all help at once. Fun times.

The first real sustained job I had was handling data entry and inventory balancing for the aforementioned small business. I did this job one spring alone (normally more people would work on it). The job was paid for as a single lump sum, not per hour. I type very, very fast on the keyboard and numeric keypad. I made about US$70/hour in today's money. I'd get home from school and work on it an hour or two every day and then a bit more over the weekend. I saved it all and that's how I paid for college tuition.

Current equivalent $15.43 / hr, $771.50/week, I was paid biweekly. My entire first paycheck went to a ring for my then girlfriend for our one year anniversary.

I used to work for actor John Leguizamo while in High School. He was away recording the dialogue for the first Ice Age movie and I was working in his house, fixing his bills and filling and cleaning and running errands for his mother. I made 5 dollars a week I think. When he came back he immediately raised my paycheck, nice guy.

Started working when I was 17, 2002 I think, summers as a Janitor at a small private college up in New York. I made $6.50 an hour working 40 hours a week. I made roughly $400 every two weeks. During the school year I got $80 bucks a month from my parents becaue the job market up there sucked *** unless I wanted to drive an hour one way to work every day.