What was your first job?
Jennifer Laura
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Jim Zhou@jim_zhou
I worked retail at a clothing shop in Century City, Los Angeles. It was terribly ran and after doing some math and realized that I wasn't going to be able to afford the parking (no employee parking passes), food, and rent just to work 12 hour shifts since they were also understaffed, I quit and they never actually paid me.
Then I graduated into the middle of the recession and managed to get kicked out of a Cutco presentation (I fell asleep). I ended up selling cruise packages to old Chinese retirees for a year. Although my family has been in shipping for generations, turns out my grandfather's 30 years of running the state-run grain shipping operation on the grand canal did not pass down to his grandson, or maybe it's because people are not grain and cruise ships aren't barges. I got fired after a year.
The next paying gig I had was second chair at a murder trial on the defense side where I managed to learn from scratch just enough programming to scrape every publicly visible facebook profile of a whole county of 50k people to better weed out jurors who say they can be impartial while not disclosing their very close ties to local law enforcement. We got a hung jury through that. I got paid $130/hr. Funny how these things work out. And since the trial was in another county, I left my desktop on at home mining dogecoin as a joke. 2013 was an interesting year.
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technical-salesman in the bank, but I already sold kinder toys in the playground
@fares_aktouf My first job was a hotel front desk clerk in Kuwait. I graduated from accounting school in India but was not successful or lucky to find a job in my home land. I applied via https://layboard.in/vacancies/jo... and it was real luck for me back then. The pay was good. Now I returned home, but will come back to the Middle East if I still can't find anything here.
My first real job was in biz dev. And I got fired :')
I created a video to share my thoughts...
@shivam_jha3 Much appreciated. I think it was a blessing in disguise for you as you got motivated rather than losing hope.
McDonald's kitchen worker.
First job as a Digital Marketing
@harshit_chawla Is it interesting field?
@jennifer_123 very Interesting field, if someone is interested in a creative field, Analytics strategy part and many other things. Digital Marketing is a very vast domain very we can have many different departments where we can learn and grow. Most Important in a digital world it is great to have so many options that we can track each and every metric of our goal which we want in the Marketing field.
@jennifer_123 yes it is a very interesting field. The nature of job is quite fascinating.
First ever job? Back office of a car dealership.
First job out of college? Product and Ops at a tiny VR startup.
my first job.. Teacher of Geography at school :)
ESL teacher in an online platform!
Manufacturing quality auditor. Traveled the world, audited supplier production lines, told very competent engineers with 20+ yrs experience how the client wanted them to do... urgh I feel a ashamed of how frustrated they must have felt about that. Anyway it was a great first job with a lot of learnings.
As a sales manager for an automobile company, the good old days
earned some first money as a freelancer at the age of 16, but only got my first fulltime job at 23 (researcher)
☕️ Barista although that wasn't enough to get me drinking coffee, find the taste very strong even now 😜
Starbucks barista! I absolutely loved it. I worked weekends and after school. I always asked for the 5 am shifts in the summertime so I could be out by 1 pm. Plus, I would work all the holidays to get extra tips!
Cart collector at your favorite retail store.
Motion Designer
I was 17. I was a carpenter's assistant. My boss had half a thumb and was a draft dodger. One day, I saved him from falling three stories off a balcony by holding onto his tool belt. Definitely character building!
My first job was a graphic artist at a printing shop
Tutor in Biochemistry. I was quite hesitant to teach biochemistry since I didn't really understand it when I took the course. But it was remarkably satisfying and I enjoyed every moment of it.