OT: What was your first job as a teenager?

[Scrutineer]

Working as a milk man. Inspired by this video.....

 

[boba]

Thought it was on Hartford Road? We used to go there all the time. Was there another one in Manchester? The good old days when Dairy Queen was everywhere.

At one time (1970's) one knew they were in the rural west when the closest and only fast food was a DQ. No McD or BK within a hundred miles back then.

 

[Chin Diesel]

For all the newspaper carriers out there, the death day was Thanksgiving Day which had all the Christmas inserts. Turkey Day edition was like a double sized Sunday print.

 

[AreBee1969]

Sorting slimy, backwashed returnable bottles and cans in my brother's liquor store. Took that money right to the arcade behind the store.

 

[Scottobot]

5th to 7th grade paper boy for Hartford Courant. Made about $30 a week, this was in 1980s. When I turned 15 started bagging groceries at Stop and Shop.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

At fifteen, when most employment wasn't legal until you were sixteen, I was a day camp counselor ($100 for the 8 week season) on week days and caddied on weekends.

At sixteen, I was a door-to-door enumerator checking past data & collecting new info for the Price & Lee Company that compiled reverse directories, during the time when Thompsonville, Hazardville, and Enfield were all rolled up into just being Enfield.

At 17, I was an unskilled laborer for a company that developed land into newly constructed homes in Southington and East Hartford/Manchester. Every day I drank gargantuan slushies from Augie & Ray's on both sides of the river. I was the guy who had to empty out the spackle buckets that served as toilets in the houses' basements, and do final sweep up cleaning before they were sold, unloading building materials, and other stuff that I could pick up the day it was assigned to me.

To somebody's early comment, I came home every day with hands that needed scrubbing and a real sense of being sweaty dirty.

 

[Hoophound]

At fifteen, when most employment wasn't legal until you were sixteen, I was a day camp counselor ($100 for the 8 week season) on week days and caddied on weekends.

At sixteen, I was a door-to-door enumerator checking past data & collecting new info for the Price & Lee Company that compiled reverse directories, during the time when Thompsonville, Hazardville, and Enfield were all rolled up into just being Enfield.

At 17, I was an unskilled laborer for a company that developed land into newly constructed homes in Southington and East Hartford/Manchester. Every day I drank gargantuan slushies from Augie & Ray's on both sides of the river. I was the guy who had to empty out the spackle buckets that served as toilets in the houses' basements, and do final sweep up cleaning before they were sold, unloading building materials, and other stuff that I could pick up the day it was assigned to me.

To somebody's early comment, I came home every day with hands that needed scrubbing and a real sense of being sweaty dirty.

No porta potties back then? Yuck.

 

[huskyharry]

Research project at UConn. They had randomly selected something like 10 foot by 300 foot roadside areas throughout the state. We drove to each place and collected all of the trash, then brought it back to a prior chicken coop and sorted and weighed it. Fun to drive around and see the state...some of that stuff was nasty!

 

[B1GEast]

Stocked shelves at small grocery store Town & Country Supermarket at 16.

In charge of Health & Beauty section at Walbaums later that year.

Did a tour of duty at Zayers department store the following year stocking shelves and shagging carts

Senior year started at Aubuchon Hardware before finishing at the Ramada Inn as a banquet house keeper setting up meeting rooms.