Babysitting at age 10 - watching 3 kids (ages 4 months, 1 year and 2 years old, respectively) for 2 hours at 50 cents an hour while their parents were at church each Sunday. Kind of young to be sitting with such tiny people, now that I think back...but I guess everyone figured that my mother was right across the street, if I would have needed help.

First 'real' job? Department store clerk - the hosiery, hats and gloves counter. One of the toughest jobs I ever had. "The public" can be brutal! I've been extra nice to clerks and wait staff ever since.

For my neighborhood, it was picking beans, berries, and hazelnuts/filberts.
Beans paid 3 cents per pound.
Strawberries paid 90 cents per crate.
Hazelnuts paid $4 per gunnysack.


What was your first job?
Did you actually make a buck?