First job pay

[Kleine Scheiße]

• Internship #1 (temp., 1 month): unpaid
• Internship #2 (temp., 3 months): unpaid
• Job #1 (temp., 2 months): $3,000/mo
• Job #2 (temp., 1 week): $15/hr, no overtime
• Job #3 (temp., 2 months): $5,000/mo
• Job #4 (perm., dismissed due to hospitalization, 3 months): $3,166.67/mo
• Job #5 (temp., current): $21/hr, $31.50/hr overtime

• Fewer than 300 miles from hometown: internship #1, internship #2, job #4
• 300 to 999 miles from hometown: job #1, job #3, job #5
• Greater than than 1,000 miles from hometown: job #2

Don't know how to really vote in the poll considering I have never made enough in a year to where I am required to file taxes; and have mostly worked salaried positions with schedules between 60 and 80 hours per week. My current position is also the first one I have considered a "real job," five years out of college.

[Minnesota Mike]

First W-2 job, $3.10 an hour. I worked at a place that made concrete lawn ornaments, started when I was 15. It was actually a pretty sweet gig because I worked 40 hours a week in the summer M-F, I had my nights and weekends off and made more $$$ than any of my high schools buddies who were doing retail sh**t at odd hours. I also made enough I didn't have to work during fall and winter of the school year (worked part time in the spring) and was free for football and basketball.

First none W-2 for non family was mowing lawns or baling hay when I was about 12.

[holtridge]

I think it was $6 an hour stacking boxes. I was still in high school. People flipping burgers make more than that now.