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

[MichMan]

45. Burger Chef

Worked making sandwiches while in HS

The last summer before college, they had a special throwback promotion celebrating some anniversary of the founding. They sold regular hamburgers for 15 cents each (normal price was around 40 cents I believe)

Their claim to fame at the time was the "Works Bar" which was essentially a self serve buffet with lettuce, tomatos, pickles, onion and all the condiments to dress up your sandwich to your choosing.

Instead of people ordering one large sandwich like a Big Shef (Big Mac clone) or a Super Shef (Whopper clone) , they would order like 10 regular 15 cent hamburgers instead. That means we had to make 10 burgers instead of just one big one. They were so cheap, people would walk up and order a few dozen at a time. Bought them for their dogs, or threw them at each other in the parking lot. It was crazy !

A few years before that I had a newspaper delivery job when I was around 12. Instead of delivering the papers to homes, I was the middleman who had the big bundles dropped off at my house. I would divide them into separate piles for each kid (Jimmy gets 26, Don gets 29 etc), so really very little work. Got $10 a week