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I remember holding my first paycheck like it was gold.

Two television characters: one in an office setting holding a phone, and another in a store setting wearing a blue vest with a name tag

Two scenes from TV shows. Left: A person in office attire holding a phone. Right: A person in a store uniform, with a name tag "Sylvia."

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How much did you make at your first-ever job?

Discussion of people's first job and their pay.

Please don't say anything basic like canned tomato soup.

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Person on left shows surprise at a dish of sliced rolls and soup. Person on right in a white shirt sits at a table with food

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What's the BEST soup?

It's World Egg Day and I know a platter of deviled eggs hates to see me coming

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Split image: Left, deviled egg with an arrow; right, person smiling with text "I like eggs."

How do you take your eggs?

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&euro;4,75 which is roughly $5.33 working as a archive clerk at a medical clinic in 2017. The clinic had switched to fully digitalised patient files a while ago, but still had a whole room full of paper files. By law the most recent ones had to be saved for another x years and the rest had to be destroyed. Three days a week I'd go and sort those files: open it, check the first page to confirm the intake date, log some data in an excel sheet, and either sort it into the right box or throw it out. Especially when going through older piles that all had to be thrown out, the motion of opening and closing files became so repetitive that I'd do it in my sleep still

1995, deli market I made 5.50 an hour. Got 2 raises for in the first year for 25 cents each. I was 15. My son just started his first job at Chick-fil-A and is making $11.50 an hour he is also 15. So in 30 years the minimum wage has only just doubled.  

I made a whopping $3.35 an hour back in 1989. I worked at  flower kiosk in a mall right next to the smoking section lol

candy from the store because I was washing my dads clothes as a job

.45 cents an hour working in a toy store while in high school, 1962-63.

In my first job at the Recreation Department in 1978 I made a whopping $2.10 checking in basketballs and such. But, I also got a job reffing Volleyball for $12 per hour! 

BONUS: I spun that into a job reffing Adult Basketball on weekends. 
The best part?  I was making $15 PER game as a Junior in High School while my classmates were making $2.10 per hour

I washed dishes at a popular out of the way, hole in the wall restaurant for fifty cents an hour two nights a week but it was thirty hours.  I saved enough to buy my first car for $225, a used 1957 Chevy Bel Air in 1966.  If I still had that car today my retirement would be secure.

How much did you make at your first-ever job?

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