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Today you will have your choice if you win a $25 Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts Gift card.
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I personally love Starbucks and really look forward to getting a gift card. I love a good strong cup of coffee. And maybe I'm a little biased since I used to be a Starbucks manager! This wasn't my first job ever, I was actually a manager at Starbucks finishing college and pregnant with my first daughter.
But my very first job was working at a local newspaper when we lived in Vermont as teenagers asking if people wanted a newspaper subscription.
Oh that makes me chuckle. Then I moved on to Dunkin Donuts, and worked between Dunkin Donuts, Tim Hortons and ended my coffee jobs at Starbucks.
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Julie
Baby sitting
Alison F
The movie theater, I loved the perks of free movies and I still love theater popcorn!
Mary Ann R.
Selling chocolate door to door.
Janelle
Waitress I waaks terrible at it lol
Pat F
I worked at TJ Maxx
Emdad Ahmed
Sales Associate at Sears!
Lisa S
Babysitting, then bank teller
Dayna
I worked in the gift shop at Cracker Barrel. I probably spent half my paycheck shopping there.
Molly
Babysitting/working at the family business
Debbie
Dunkin Donuts
Jamie Neville
My first job was at a shoe store.
Susan F.
I delivered papers. It was awful!!
Brita Loftus
Babysitting, but first on a payroll was a receptionist at a hair salon
Katie Reis
I was a daycare teacher
Michael Sheeran
My very first job was helping out the next door neighbor with his summer landscaping business.
Toni Petersen
TJ Maxx!!
Nipu
Babysitting and dog walking
Gina G
I worked at a local pizza place!
Matthew Blanar
Burger King
Cheryl Chin Dooley
Babysitting!
Norma Giunta
My very first job was being a salesperson at a local bakery. I sold cakes, pies and donuts!
Laureen Corey
My first paying job was with the CETA summer program working as a maintenance/grounds. Cleaned the trash of the schools grounds, nasty. Mopped floors, painted bathroom stalls and walls, moved moving boxes. Etc. Then on to Burger King. Worked in a nursing home as a dietary aid. Papa Gino’s making pizza
MARCI
my first job was trying to sell newspaper subscriptions over the phone. it was horrible, lol
sheila trinchet
My first job at 14 was working for Rax Roast Beef for $3.35 an hour
Sarah Cunningham
My first job was an associate at a locally owned screen printing and sports jersey shop. I was 15 and I applied the letters and numbers on the backs of tshirts and hoodies for all of our high school sports teams.
Brandi Allen
Waitress at Newport creamery
Shereen S
First job was at a children’s summer workshop
Amy Bouchard
Cleaning a mini strip mall
Meggan St. Jean
I worked at the library re-shelving books
Deb M
Summer missionary with CEF
Margarita
My first job was a mechanical engineer back in the former ussr
Jenna
I did work at dunks for 5 yrs or so, but 1st job was at pet express
Jennifer
Lifeguard at a lake.
Susan
My first job was a receptionist at a Real Estate office
Christy r
A personal care tech at a nursing home (I’m a nurse now)
Megan Castellano
Working as a receptionist at a yoga and Pilates studio at 16
Rachel Kennedy
My 1st job was a summer camp counselor.
Megan Greener
My first real job aside from Babysitting was working at Babies’R’Us. I loved that job!
Jana Pritchett
My first job was at Odds and Ends
Sandy Reynolds
Working at my Dad’s deli
Nancy Bowers
I babysat for a neighbor.
Holly Runge
A specialty breakfast restaurant called Village Inn!
Monica Mason
I was a bagger at a grocery store! It was family owned, not a chain and we were closed on Sundays!
Trisha Wingate
I was 14 and had my own grass cutting business. I had a single mom so anything I wanted I had to buy.
yaa A
ohh this will date me lol. 1st job was at a video rental store, yikes!
Kristie
My First Job was at Italian Restaurant working the counter, asking phones and taking orders
Bonnie L Keller
I was 14 and worked on a farm. We did produce and raised turkey’s for a national slaughter company. I didn’t eat turkey for about 10 years after that.
Jenn B
My first job was in a movie theater when I was 16!
Heather Plowman
Wendy’s was my first job.
Naomi
Camp Counselor
Margaret Smith
I worked as a secretary.
Jennifer Letendre
babysitting with my bestfriend starting at 12/13, first real world job was mcdonalds, and my bestfriend got a job there too, so we had alot of fun working together
Chrissy S
Taco Bell!
Melissa F
My first job was at KFC for $3.35 an hour. Looking back, it was a lot of work. At the time, the free meal every work day was pretty awesome By the time I moved on to a different company, I didn’t want to eat KFC for some time.
Kimberly Griffin
My first real job was disaster restoration! It was crazy I was 18!🤗
Mary
My first job was stay in babysitting for a toddler 7-5pm at 17 yrs, old and paid my tuition etc, when I was in my first year in college(go to school 6-9pm).
Don Szudarek
My first job was at Taco Bell. My wife of 24 years was my manager! LOL
Charlene Stamper
My first job was as a Deli Clerk for Kroger Grocery Store.
Shannon S
I made pizza Dough at Little Caesars. It was so hard as a teen to get up and be at work by 6 am. I think that why I still hate mornings.
Elma werner
Cashier at Service Merchandise
Barb Cavalieri
My first job was at age 15 working for a florist/greenhouse. I LOVED that job and stayed there off and on for years, as a bookkeeper, secretary, delivery person, floral arranger.
Julie D'Arienzo
Looney tunes character at an amusement park! Best job ever 🙂
Jimmy Chin
First job was working as a messenger after school.
Michaela
My first Job was at a senior center at the age of 18. It lasted 3 weeks because my mom who said was going to be able to watch my daughter whom has disabilities for the few hours I worked decided she didn’t want to. But it’s okay my daughter needed me any way ❤️
Molly Beard
Oh man my country girl will come out: my first job was on a Chinchilla farm. I fed them, loaded bags of feed, etc.
Natasha
I worked for a junk mail sorting company!
Susan C
The first time i earned money was teaching a blind girl how to type on a braile typewriter. My first real job was working at McDonalds!
linda
I worked at a local grocery store.
Sandy J
I actually learned how to make pizzas at the age of 16
Sandy J
I actually learned how to make pizzas at the age of 16
Mitch Parker
I delivered newspapers at 12 for The Daily News in Brooklyn
Michelle Angiolette
My first job was in a bakery at a local farm.
Hope
I’ve cream shop!
Elle
Camp counselor and a summer camp.
Erika P.
My first job was at a hot dog cart at the county fair.
Holly harris
My first job was working at the hospital I was a TV lady. Lol
Alyssa
First job was working at an insurance office.. That’s when I realized I don’t like sitting behind a desk for 8 hours :/
Debbie Jackson
Summer job working at a basketball camp in Pocono Pines, PA first as a canteen worker then as a counselor.
Joel E White
Working at a drug store (Fay’s) in high school that was eventually bought out by Rite Aid.
Suzie
Funny you should ask, I worked at Dunkin for a few years as my first job 😉
Cathy M
My first job was at a supermarket called Waldbaum’s left that job to work at Bj’s because of the flexible schedule because I was a high school student.
Alicia Tolar
My first job was babysitting for many families in our neighborhood. But my first “official” tax paying job was at Wal-Mart in the late 80s.
Kathleen Friel
I was a banquet waitress.
Jim P
My first job was as a kid shoveling driveways in Buffalo.
Kindra Grimes
My first job was at the concession stand at our middle school and high school during sports games !
Patricia Salmeron
My first real job was working at bank processing credit card payments. Imagine that!
Joanne Bisesi
My first job was selling corn along the side of the road.
Virginia Perrier
My first job was a cashier at a local speedway
Alana
Pharmacy clearly/technician.
Janice Cooper
I worked was an office job in an elementary school. I was a Co-op and got this job thru my business class during my senior year.
Susan Taylor
First job was at a day care center summer camp. I was 12. I was the actual clown at the circus themed camp
Amanda Sobczak
I waitressed at a restaurant.
Christine Moulton
My first job was a cashier at hannaford
Kristin
My first job was as a cashier at Kmart.
Janelle
Waitress ..I was not very good at it lol
Lisa Carr
My very first job was working at our neighborhood drug store. I loved that job.
Cindy Zickefoose
My first job is real estate appraiser.
Coralia
Round Table Pizza 🍕
elizabeth miller
My very first job was as a cashier at Hardees.
elizabeth miller
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Leigha Brouillard
My first job was at a perfume kiosk in the mall!
Lauren Ashworth
My first job was working at an after school program. 6 years later I still work for the company ❤️
Alix
My first job was at a childcare center!
Katie F
I was a babysitter for 7 kids at 15. I loved that job!
Joanie Nagel
First job was babysitting then Dairy Queen!
Carene
My first job was blueberry picking at my aunt’s blueberry farm. The first job that I got on my own was in retail at Marshall Field’s (department store bought by Macy’s).
Cheryl Gollon
My first job was working at Montgomery Ward in the catalog deot when I was a teenager.
Monica
My first job was babysitting. Then I got a job at the local DQ. (I love Dunkin’ Donuts!)
Marcella Montoya
My first job was telemarketing for Sears, selling maintenance service contracts. I was 16, oh how people hated telemarketers lol. I could have used a good strong Starbucks then!! They’re my favorite
Nicole Marchese
First job was at Jewel Osco pushing carts…. ugh my back regrets this today!
Janelle JB
Summer camp counselor.
Mary Cronin
My first job was working at a bagel store. On weekends I helped bake the bagels and during the week I helped sell them.
John
Great gift card
Michelle
Cashier at Tops grocery store, then Wegmans cashier 4 years later
Suzanne L
Worked at a library
Lisa
My first job was at a pizza shop in town
Renee Crooks
I was a cashier at Publix.
Susan P.
We lived in the Bahamas while I was in high school and you had to have a work visa to work, so I babysat all through high school. In college, I worked in a sandwich shop.
Shelly Leatham
My first real job was as a cashier at Kmart. I enjoyed it a lot, especially getting paid in CASH!
Suzanne Dibernard
receptionist/hair shampooer in a salon
Fawn Proctor
Babysitting
Stacie Garafano
My first job was babysitting, second was paper route
JoAnne K-E
My first job was babysitting. I think that’s why I waited so long to have kids 😉
Carmen Godsey
I was Billy Bob in the big bear costume for Showbiz Pizza Place (like the mouse at Chuck E Cheese). I also would work the mechanical Billy Bob on stage and could talk to the kids from the sound booth. So fun!!!!
Nani Jones
My first job was for the Community Action Agency. They provided summer jobs for youth. I worked in a daycare.
Caroline Stein
My first paycheck was from a catering company. I would work on Saturdays as a server at wedding receptions.
Maria Schneider
My first job was Pizza Hut as csr
Christina Muñiz-Facey
My first job was at Wendy’s fast foodwhen I was a teen. Aftwr a guy threw a chicken sandwich at me because it had lettuce, I quit.
Maria Schneider
My first job was Pizza Hut.
Lesie Taylor
My first job was at Baskin Robbins when i was 16.
Jeremy McLaughlin
Was at at hardware store
Carolyn Potter
my first job was at age 10 waiting on tables for a girls camp
Cheryl G.
Babysitting!
Marge Marino
My first job was babysitting.
Alyssa West
I babysat 2 children 5 days a week after school until their parents came home from work.
Peggy
My very first real pay check paying job was a hostess at Pizza Hut.
Renee Desordi
My first job was delivering newspapers.
Lisa
My first job other than babysitting was washing windows in a car wash. The cars would come out and two of us would jump inside and clean the windows.
Heather Gleason
My first jobs were babysitting and playing organ for my church. I also cleaned my grandfather’s whole house every month (after my grandma died), and he paid me $10 each time.
I have both DD and Starbucks apps installed on my phone, and I will be grateful for some spending money from either place! Thanks for the contest!!
Erin Phillips
Reception and mail delivery in a large telecom company. I miss it there!!
Johannah
I worked in a gas station pumping gasoline, checking oil, washing windshields, changing oil and water pumps (those were the days).
Reva
Babysitting was my first job. Loved it
Stephanie Fournier-Zajac
My first job was selling newspaper subscriptions
Karen
Putting price tags on clothes at Filenes warehouse!
Christina B Swafford
My first job was at an appliance repair store… cleaning
Patti Casey
My first job was at Universal Pictures as a clerk/typist. My high school typing teacher recommended me and 6 other girls. I went for my interview and got the job. It was exciting working there.
Gretchen
Selling magazine subscriptions by phone – ugh! I didn’t last long…
Kris
My first job was McDonald’s! Started on my 16th birthday too!
Susan Christy
My first job was during my senior year of high school, working for an accounting firm that also had the local H&R Block franchise. I went to the H&R Block school at night and when tax season came around I was a 17 year old girl doing people’s taxes. I really loved that job.
Bridget
Babysitting
Lisa Eder
Babysitting was my first job!
Janice
Kennel assistant in an animal hospital
Catherine Caito
Babysitting!
Tracey c
I had 3 paper routes at the same time! Babysat same time frame too!
Leon Cook
Picking up trash
Tom H.
Worked on a GQ event with the creative director of a fashion designer and it lead to my first job at 16 with that designer. Thanks for the chance to keep caffeinated, Tasia!
Lisa Grosso
McDonald’s was my first job
Andrea
The fish and chips place Long John Silvers, oh the hush puppies.
Paige Shuta-Wernoch
My first job was helping my grandmother in her catering company.
Maureen bradley
Babysitting!
Brigitte Morales
It was at a laundromat which is why my laundry skills are so amazing now!!!
PS. I looooooove Starbucks ❤️
Kathy
Babysitting, then nurse’s aide.
Dianne lutz
I worked at a bakery
Beverly D Williams
I had 9 yards I mowed. Pretty cool for a girl way back then.
Martha Sopfe
Babysitting
Martha Sopfd
Babysitting
Wendy
Love Starbucks. Haven’t been to one in years since I retired.
Kathryn
My first job was at a bagel place
Ellen S
My first job was in high school for American Express.working 5-9 pm.
Rita Jarrett Neill
making baby clothes
Dawn Mamon
Cashier at Jubilee
Karen
My first job was a cashier in a small IGA grocery store.
Gabriella
Babysitting
Lisa Bourlier
Working at my Dads shop when I was 14 and babysitting too!
Linda Prellwitz
My first real job ( other than lots and lots of babysitting ) – I was the Wallpaper Girl at a Pergament Paint Store . I made $1.15 an hour = $46 a week and that Christmas was so proud to buy my Mom a complete new dish set !
Jennifer Jeczen
My first job was working at a bagel shop
Mary W
I think years ago babysitting was most girls’ first job. My first “real” job was growing and propagating African violets at a commercial greenhouse. The violets were shipped all over the world!
Ronnie
My very first job was at a McDonalds.
Sandy
Cleaning an elderly couples house
Terry B
My first job was delivering the weekend news paper.
Ronnie B.
My very first job was at a McDonalds.
Kelley
I was a bus girl at a local restaurant where my mom was a waitress.
Maggie
I washed dishes in a tiny restaurant.
Megan Benedict
Ride operator at Darien lake!
Alyssa Call
I worked at a dry cleaner during High school.
Shawna Radder
My first job was babysitting of course!
Paula
My first job was was during the summers while in college was with the state as a PT liquor store clerk
Shelly
My first job was a waitress, cook when needed and dishes at a little place in Clarence, NY called The Cup and Saucer. I at that time(16 years old) could run 4-5 plates up my arm or put several cups of coffee on my fingers, boy if I think about it now, I was a pretty good waitress if I may say so myself.
Tammy
Wow this question brings me back. My official 1st job was delivering the weekly “Penny Saver” paper at the age of 12, my dad would roll them and have them ready for me to deliver every Wednesday afternoon after school. I was paid 2 cents per paper, I remember how excited I was when after a few week with one route they contacted me and offered me two additional routes.
Katy Smith
Babysitting.
Sharon Amenta
My very first job was babysitting for a doctor who had five children under the age of 10.I loved it!
Serge B
Dishwasher at HOJOS
Michelle Bahre
Dining hall at the local college
Michelle C.
After babysitting, my first job was as a bank teller.
Joann
Worked at a nursing home as a nurses aide for many years at 16 after school and weekends
Jessica
Baby sitting, then Kmart.
Deb Furner
Grew up on a farm so technically that. After that i worked in an office as a secretary.
Mary anderson
Technically helping my father run a hotdog/sausage stand at 12 or 13. First offical job on the books was at a pizza place
Juanita Calderon
My first job was at a Clark’s shoe store at the mall.
Judy M
sewing in a hat factory
Kathy Mundell
At a swimming pool vonsession stand, as a teen ager then in Health care as young adult
Ashley Knight
My first job was an Ice Cream girl at a roadside restaurant/parlor/gas station combo in central PA!! I loved that job and it inspires my dream to open a shop someday if it works out!!
Amalia
Delivering newspapers after school with my brother
Candida
Cashier
Michelle
My very first job was a regal cinemas that we actually helped finished setting up the brand new location. I worked at the ‘cafe’ making specialty drinks and snacks like coffees and baked cookies
Amanda Aronhalt
Laundry and housekeeping in a nursing home. Imet my husband there!
Alyssa D
Barista at Dunkin Donuts
Debbie Whiting Joyce Fox
I was 14 and wanted a babysitting job but ended up with the owner of the local supermarket calling me to be a cashier . I stayed with that job at Shop-nBag til j was 19 years old.
Stephanie Radecki
My first job was a swimming assistant coach in the summer months while I was in high school. Fun! I loved it.
Sloan
My first job was loading cars onto railroad transportation cars. I took my first paycheck and purchased a watch for my mother.
Elizabeth amplo
My first job was working in a local baby furniture store I stocked the shelves after school
KEVIN LESHKO
Dishwasher at a local steak house.
Amanda H
My first job was at 14 years old at the Burger King in the local mall. Worked with my brother. It was a great experience!
Debbie Dinardo
First job was Beef Coral
It was like an Arby’s but real roast beef .
Ava E.
My first job was babysitting and dogsitting.
Muriel Dubois
cUstomer service desk at Zayre’s
Ingrid Bermiss
My first job was the military in the Marine Corps wouldn’t trade that experience for the world.
Michelle Once
My very first job was working at the dining hall of my university. I was a freshman and felt so embarrassed when my friends would see me working with my hair net on.
Ashley
Six Flags Darien Lake at 14 , good times lol
Dorothy J Boucher
My very first job was yard work, I use to make money going around cleaning peoples yard and planting plants and such, I was 12 yrs of age, and did this for a few years.
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Heather Thurlow Reardon
After babysitting my first real job was a cashier at Kmart.
We’re a dunkin’ family here. I don’t do coffee, hubby drinks enough for us both. I prefer their frozen hot chocolate. 😍
Tina Faccini
Well my very first job was babysitting. But my very very first job that I got a real live paper paycheck was at Kmart in the toy department at Christmas time!!!! I was scared for life and never wanted to step into a toy department ever again lol. When I grew up and had kids they only got toys if my husband went and got them 🤣
mami2jcn
My first job was babysitting.
Monica Wallace
My very first job was Wal-Mart. I work there through high school and college.
Melissa Blanar
Besides babysitting-a cashier at Wegmans
ELLEN CANNIZZARO
My first job was,at baskin
Robbins.
Colleen f
Nursing aid
Aclema Babwah
My first job was babysitting.
Susan Taylor
First job was working at day care center
Aubrey Price
My first job was a sales associate at Kohl’s!
Julie Scarborough
My first job was at Mc Donald’s.
Mary Ellen B
My first job was working on a tobacco farm.
Robin Amico
My very first job was helping to run my parents fabric and craft store we had next to our house.
Karen P
Babysitter.
Katie
My very first job was at Valu Home Center.
Mooka
My first job was babysitting.
Melissa Dunn
my first job was at a Pizza place called Papa Gino’s
Heidi Maria Schilling
Good morning,
My very first job was a as file clerk at a doctor’s office.
Dawn Kay
My very first job was a cashier at Ames Department Store.
Alyssa Forhan
My first job as a 15 year old was a telemarketer for a window and siding company (but not the obnoxious kind that won’t take “no” for an answer 😉).