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Today you will have your choice if you win a $25 Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts Gift card.
I will be going LIVE on Facebook at 10:00 a.m. est Monday 🙂
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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Baby sitting
The movie theater, I loved the perks of free movies and I still love theater popcorn!
Selling chocolate door to door.
Waitress I waaks terrible at it lol
I worked at TJ Maxx
Sales Associate at Sears!
Babysitting, then bank teller
I worked in the gift shop at Cracker Barrel. I probably spent half my paycheck shopping there.
Babysitting/working at the family business
Dunkin Donuts
My first job was at a shoe store.
I delivered papers. It was awful!!
Babysitting, but first on a payroll was a receptionist at a hair salon
I was a daycare teacher
My very first job was helping out the next door neighbor with his summer landscaping business.
TJ Maxx!!
Babysitting and dog walking
I worked at a local pizza place!
Burger King
Babysitting!
My very first job was being a salesperson at a local bakery. I sold cakes, pies and donuts!
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
my first job was trying to sell newspaper subscriptions over the phone. it was horrible, lol
My first job at 14 was working for Rax Roast Beef for $3.35 an hour
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.
Waitress at Newport creamery
First job was at a children’s summer workshop
Cleaning a mini strip mall
I worked at the library re-shelving books
Summer missionary with CEF
My first job was a mechanical engineer back in the former ussr
I did work at dunks for 5 yrs or so, but 1st job was at pet express
Lifeguard at a lake.
My first job was a receptionist at a Real Estate office
A personal care tech at a nursing home (I’m a nurse now)
Working as a receptionist at a yoga and Pilates studio at 16
My 1st job was a summer camp counselor.
My first real job aside from Babysitting was working at Babies’R’Us. I loved that job!
My first job was at Odds and Ends
Working at my Dad’s deli
I babysat for a neighbor.
A specialty breakfast restaurant called Village Inn!
I was a bagger at a grocery store! It was family owned, not a chain and we were closed on Sundays!
I was 14 and had my own grass cutting business. I had a single mom so anything I wanted I had to buy.
ohh this will date me lol. 1st job was at a video rental store, yikes!
My First Job was at Italian Restaurant working the counter, asking phones and taking orders
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.
My first job was in a movie theater when I was 16!
Wendy’s was my first job.
Camp Counselor
I worked as a secretary.
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
Taco Bell!
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.
My first real job was disaster restoration! It was crazy I was 18!🤗
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).
My first job was at Taco Bell. My wife of 24 years was my manager! LOL
My first job was as a Deli Clerk for Kroger Grocery Store.
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.
Cashier at Service Merchandise
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.
Looney tunes character at an amusement park! Best job ever 🙂
First job was working as a messenger after school.
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 ❤️
Oh man my country girl will come out: my first job was on a Chinchilla farm. I fed them, loaded bags of feed, etc.
I worked for a junk mail sorting company!
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!
I worked at a local grocery store.
I actually learned how to make pizzas at the age of 16
I actually learned how to make pizzas at the age of 16
I delivered newspapers at 12 for The Daily News in Brooklyn
My first job was in a bakery at a local farm.
I’ve cream shop!
Camp counselor and a summer camp.
My first job was at a hot dog cart at the county fair.
My first job was working at the hospital I was a TV lady. Lol
First job was working at an insurance office.. That’s when I realized I don’t like sitting behind a desk for 8 hours :/
Summer job working at a basketball camp in Pocono Pines, PA first as a canteen worker then as a counselor.
Working at a drug store (Fay’s) in high school that was eventually bought out by Rite Aid.
Funny you should ask, I worked at Dunkin for a few years as my first job 😉
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.
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.
I was a banquet waitress.
My first job was as a kid shoveling driveways in Buffalo.
My first job was at the concession stand at our middle school and high school during sports games !
My first real job was working at bank processing credit card payments. Imagine that!
My first job was selling corn along the side of the road.
My first job was a cashier at a local speedway
Pharmacy clearly/technician.
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.
First job was at a day care center summer camp. I was 12. I was the actual clown at the circus themed camp
I waitressed at a restaurant.
My first job was a cashier at hannaford
My first job was as a cashier at Kmart.
Waitress ..I was not very good at it lol
My very first job was working at our neighborhood drug store. I loved that job.
My first job is real estate appraiser.
Round Table Pizza 🍕
My very first job was as a cashier at Hardees.
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My first job was at a perfume kiosk in the mall!
My first job was working at an after school program. 6 years later I still work for the company ❤️
My first job was at a childcare center!
I was a babysitter for 7 kids at 15. I loved that job!
First job was babysitting then Dairy Queen!
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).
My first job was working at Montgomery Ward in the catalog deot when I was a teenager.
My first job was babysitting. Then I got a job at the local DQ. (I love Dunkin’ Donuts!)
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
First job was at Jewel Osco pushing carts…. ugh my back regrets this today!
Summer camp counselor.
My first job was working at a bagel store. On weekends I helped bake the bagels and during the week I helped sell them.
Great gift card
Cashier at Tops grocery store, then Wegmans cashier 4 years later
Worked at a library
My first job was at a pizza shop in town
I was a cashier at Publix.
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.
My first real job was as a cashier at Kmart. I enjoyed it a lot, especially getting paid in CASH!
receptionist/hair shampooer in a salon
Babysitting
My first job was babysitting, second was paper route
My first job was babysitting. I think that’s why I waited so long to have kids 😉
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!!!!
My first job was for the Community Action Agency. They provided summer jobs for youth. I worked in a daycare.
My first paycheck was from a catering company. I would work on Saturdays as a server at wedding receptions.
My first job was Pizza Hut as csr
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.
My first job was Pizza Hut.
My first job was at Baskin Robbins when i was 16.
Was at at hardware store
my first job was at age 10 waiting on tables for a girls camp
Babysitting!
My first job was babysitting.
I babysat 2 children 5 days a week after school until their parents came home from work.
My very first real pay check paying job was a hostess at Pizza Hut.
My first job was delivering newspapers.
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.
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!!
Reception and mail delivery in a large telecom company. I miss it there!!
I worked in a gas station pumping gasoline, checking oil, washing windshields, changing oil and water pumps (those were the days).
Babysitting was my first job. Loved it
My first job was selling newspaper subscriptions
Putting price tags on clothes at Filenes warehouse!
My first job was at an appliance repair store… cleaning
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.
Selling magazine subscriptions by phone – ugh! I didn’t last long…
My first job was McDonald’s! Started on my 16th birthday too!
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.
Babysitting
Babysitting was my first job!
Kennel assistant in an animal hospital
Babysitting!
I had 3 paper routes at the same time! Babysat same time frame too!
Picking up trash
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!
McDonald’s was my first job
The fish and chips place Long John Silvers, oh the hush puppies.
My first job was helping my grandmother in her catering company.
Babysitting!
It was at a laundromat which is why my laundry skills are so amazing now!!!
PS. I looooooove Starbucks ❤️
Babysitting, then nurse’s aide.
I worked at a bakery
I had 9 yards I mowed. Pretty cool for a girl way back then.
Babysitting
Babysitting
Love Starbucks. Haven’t been to one in years since I retired.
My first job was at a bagel place
My first job was in high school for American Express.working 5-9 pm.
making baby clothes
Cashier at Jubilee
My first job was a cashier in a small IGA grocery store.
Babysitting
Working at my Dads shop when I was 14 and babysitting too!
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 !
My first job was working at a bagel shop
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!
My very first job was at a McDonalds.
Cleaning an elderly couples house
My first job was delivering the weekend news paper.
My very first job was at a McDonalds.
I was a bus girl at a local restaurant where my mom was a waitress.
I washed dishes in a tiny restaurant.
Ride operator at Darien lake!
I worked at a dry cleaner during High school.
My first job was babysitting of course!
My first job was was during the summers while in college was with the state as a PT liquor store clerk
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.
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.
Babysitting.
My very first job was babysitting for a doctor who had five children under the age of 10.I loved it!
Dishwasher at HOJOS
Dining hall at the local college
After babysitting, my first job was as a bank teller.
Worked at a nursing home as a nurses aide for many years at 16 after school and weekends
Baby sitting, then Kmart.
Grew up on a farm so technically that. After that i worked in an office as a secretary.
Technically helping my father run a hotdog/sausage stand at 12 or 13. First offical job on the books was at a pizza place
My first job was at a Clark’s shoe store at the mall.
sewing in a hat factory
At a swimming pool vonsession stand, as a teen ager then in Health care as young adult
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!!
Delivering newspapers after school with my brother
Cashier
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
Laundry and housekeeping in a nursing home. Imet my husband there!
Barista at Dunkin Donuts
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.
My first job was a swimming assistant coach in the summer months while I was in high school. Fun! I loved it.
My first job was loading cars onto railroad transportation cars. I took my first paycheck and purchased a watch for my mother.
My first job was working in a local baby furniture store I stocked the shelves after school
Dishwasher at a local steak house.
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!
First job was Beef Coral
It was like an Arby’s but real roast beef .
My first job was babysitting and dogsitting.
cUstomer service desk at Zayre’s
My first job was the military in the Marine Corps wouldn’t trade that experience for the world.
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.
Six Flags Darien Lake at 14 , good times lol
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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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. 😍
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 🤣
My first job was babysitting.
My very first job was Wal-Mart. I work there through high school and college.
Besides babysitting-a cashier at Wegmans
My first job was,at baskin
Robbins.
Nursing aid
My first job was babysitting.
First job was working at day care center
My first job was a sales associate at Kohl’s!
My first job was at Mc Donald’s.
My first job was working on a tobacco farm.
My very first job was helping to run my parents fabric and craft store we had next to our house.
Babysitter.
My very first job was at Valu Home Center.
My first job was babysitting.
my first job was at a Pizza place called Papa Gino’s
Good morning,
My very first job was a as file clerk at a doctor’s office.
My very first job was a cashier at Ames Department Store.
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 😉).