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It was payday again for me which is nice so I can keep my internet connection and get food. It got me thinking. Do you remember your 1st paycheck? How much was it for and what type of job were you doing?

i'm not sure... i've been working for my parents' business as a graphic designer since i was about 14. i don't think i got paid specifically for the work till i was about 16, but its all a bit hazy. first time i got got properly paid from a job was when i worked in mcdonald's when i was 16. no paycheck though - just a direct debit into my bank account. way less iconic (and memorable) :(

I've never had a job.

I got my first serious payment in cash. That was $800 for two-day job of fixing a computer and doing an overhaul on a dozen of them (and then software maintenance). I was 14 then, so computer-familiar people were hard to come by.

It was from Round Table Pizza. I was 16. It was for $80 + change. I had never had so much money before. I was very happy.:)

My first paycheck was $103.

Cashier.

It was payday again for me which is nice so I can keep my internet connection and get food. It got me thinking. Do you remember your 1st paycheck? How much was it for and what type of job were you doing?

I remember my first paycheck.

I was doing telemarketing, I got 440 bucks for 30 hours of work.
It was august and i didnt have to pop a grape to get paid very well(this was 15 years ago) I bought a case of beer, a pack of cigarettes and a sheet of acid.

Yes I got given £8 for doing my paper round. Did that round for near on 5 years. Waaaaay too long.

My first paycheck was about $225 for two weeks of work... Not exactly spectacular.

Today's paycheck was about $156 for a week of work, not even 35 hours' worth. Once I get my 40 hour weeks going, it'll be around $200 every week. And, since it'll be around $410 every two weeks, that's actually more than I was making with my last job.

So in no way am I complaining.

Yeah, it was for about $50. I was 12, and it was my first job as a waitress in a greasy spoon. I was getting paid under the table, at $4/hour.

It hasn't arrived yet, but I've made approx £350 from doing page layout and tweaking on the Second Edition of a Farsi New Testament.

What do I say? It's good money, I like the work, and I happen to live with the guy who wrote the program to use for this sort of thing.

And it could be done on a Linux machine.

I've never had a job.

I haven't either. I'll probably get my first one this summer.

I can't remember how much it was for, but I was sweeping floors and emptying bins.

£27.30 a week taking complaints for the local council - I thought I was loaded cos I could give my parents a tenner, pay for my travel etc and still go out clubbing at the weekend :)

My first job was a paper route, and I can't tell you exactly how much I took home that first week.

My first 'paycheque' job was at McDonald's when the minimum wage was $4.55/hr. I don't recall the exact amount I made, and I only worked part time.

my first paycheck was for 12.75. It was a little pathetic.

Although, it was payment for my training and one hour of work, so it makes sense

My first paycheck was 25€ for helping unload a truck full of computers and peripherals, on a Summer "job"...they actually paid "by truck", meaning that I earned the same wheter the truck was full or only half-full.

It was payday again for me which is nice so I can keep my internet connection and get food. It got me thinking. Do you remember your 1st paycheck? How much was it for and what type of job were you doing?

My first paycheck was $200. I bought a small present for my parents and sister, and spent the rest on DS games and booze.

I was a phone solicitor for a political party - they paid me $10/hour plus a commission, though I was crap so I just got $10/hour.

The first cheque netted me $83.

I haven't had a job yet, but I will probably get one the end of this year or next year.

My first jobe was a paper round but that was cash in hand and I did tha from 14 to 16. Then I bummed around until I was 17 where I got a real job last September. My first paycheck came in October and that was for 360 pounds.

I've never had a job, but I might try to get one at the university I go to over the summer...if I remember.

I think it was around $175 (80 hours). I was a file clerk at an accounting office for the Army when I was 14. It was a "summer hire" program for us dependants living overseas (Germany) as there aren't alot of first job opportunities for kids there. I remember my wage being $3.75 an hour and all I did all day was file returned checks. All day..every day..for 3 months. Man I had nightmares about filing cabinets after that.

$4/hr washing dishes at a fancy restaurant. The kitchen isn't really all that fancy...

I don't remember the amount.

My first job was about 2 years ago when I was 20. I was doing the first round of my co-op/internship as a test and systems engineer in the aerospace industry. I was making $18 an hour and brought home $580.12 after taxes for 40 hours of work per week. That was a really busy semester, too. The program on which I was working was on a strict schedule and starting to fall behind. I remember putting several 70 hour work weeks. Luckily for me I was getting time and a half. :)

From the book store I worked at during my sophomore year of college and the prior summer.

Wasn't for much, since I had only done a few hours orientation type work in that pay period.

I do remember my first real paycheck.

I blew it! :D

My mother suggested that I should always just blow my first paycheck as a way to celebrate (I could so so, of course, because I was still a teenager...without a car).

If I remember correctly, I spent it on a Hellsing manga, and Xenosaga II.

Hopefully I'll be getting my first paycheck in four weeks when I start my first part-time job. Wee!

my first paycheck was about 8 years ago, i was 14 or 15 and working in a supermarket stacking shelves, i quit after about 3 months cuz they wouldn't let me take time off for school trips. i can barely remember last week though. in fact i can't remember my last paycheck, that was in january or february i think. which reminds me, i need to find a new job. i don't think my old job will take me back after the break i've taken.

i find it amazing that people get to university without ever having a job. makes me wonder what they ever did before then. and where they got their money. my sister only got a job when she was 17/18 and grudgingly at that, i don't know what she was up to before that seeing as i've been at uni all that time but i can only guess my parents gave her the money for all her clothes and makeup and dvds and ipods and god knows what else she has. seriously there's kids i've met at uni who are surprised that anyone has to work before they finish uni. the mind boggles, it really does.

I'm too young to get paid 'real money' from 'strangers'. I do get anywhere from 5-15$ when mowing the lawn which is enough for me.

I'm too young to get paid 'real money' from 'strangers'. I do get anywhere from 5-15$ when mowing the lawn which is enough for me.

lulz. i used to get my dinner cooked for me for mowing the lawn when i was a kid.

I was a stock clerk/cashier/box cutter expenser at Discount Drug Mart. My first paycheck was from there, and it was tiny. I was sixteen at the time.

Most of my jobs have been cash paying. The first actual check I cashed in the bank was from an office job I had the summer before I went to college. I had to help organize a filing system of this small not-for-profit organization. It was one of the worst jobs ever, since every time I tried to organize something, I was yelled at told to put it back. So the records remained haphazardly scattered around the office of someone who never showed up. On the last day of the job, I had been sifting through the recent bank statements, and I remember running down the street so I could get to the bank, knowing full well the check I had would probably bounce if I didn't cash it immediately.

About $170.00 for 80 hours of working in one of the internet courses my local college ofered. The course was " Psychology on Educational Enviroments".

If you call working for the Demorcratic thingies in 2004, then I got a $60 check which I never cashed. :eek: I will get a more "real" paycheck this summer...

I was 15, my first job, $10.00 an hour plus tips, I washed dishes. I think my first pay check was for 100 some odd.

My first job was cash, no paycheck (or taxes &c. YAY!).

I picked strawberries, and some other stuff which I forget. Mostly strawberries.

I have no idea how much I got paid, though I vaguely remember it was by the flat, not per hour. I'm pretty sure it wasn't very much anyway.

The thing about it was you couldn't do it in the rain, so I spent the summer hoping for rain every day.