What was your first paying job as a teenager? I worked at a pizza joint, How about you??

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21. Babysitting and petsitting.

My one client was a music student learning to be a conductor/director. I babysat his kids one night a week. I got paid $8 for the evening. On Tuesdays, I'd give him his $8 back because I took voice lessons from him. We still joke about that. Forty-eight years later, and I'm still singing for him in his group. Can't afford voice lessons from him now though - maybe if he gave a "friends/family discount".

My first job that actually had taxes taken out was working at a car dealership typing inventory cards, retyping the window stickers to pad the visible prices, and working the parts/repairs register. Didn't care a lot for the job, but it was rather enlightening. I left there during college because I found out they fraudulently filed sales/insurance paperwork using my parents names and address to pump up their sales numbers. Dad never owned that type of car in his life and my mom didn't have a driver's license.