How old was you when you got your 1st real job?

[Elizabethar]

16

[lynnc35]

16, and my son is 16, and he just started his first real job last week.

[yulyrnc]

16 I worked as a cashier

[cloudsoup]

well, i consider my first real job (although it was
under the table) to have started when i was 15,
it was an office/nanny job that i kept unitl i was 20,
so it looks pretty good on paper and i earned a
considerable amount for a teen.

i miss it!

[pabpaj]

I was 16 years old and worked the front desk at one of the local Holiday Inns in my hometown of Colorado Springs, Colorado.  My best friend in high school got me the job and we had some fun times together!

[afroach]

I was 18. I spent my first paycheck buying my baby brother a halloween costume.
           Annette

[Valerie1979]

15

[tigerlilly01]

18

[evelynmartin]

19 drawing blood at the hospital

[MrsTBarber]

I was 15 years old.  I started working at a school teachering summer school for 1st graders.  I can hardly believe that I have been working for 14 years!

[LThorn14]

I'm 15 right now and I've never had a "real" job. Well it depends on what you consider a real job. I've been working online since i was 13 and I'd say I've made enough money to consider it a real job. 

[agranta]

i was 18...had babysitting jobs before that

[sands01]

I started detassling when I was 14 or 15. When I was 16 I started busing tables at a local hotel.

[articx]

I was 15 years old. It was through a summer program that allowed me to work at the school I was going to at that time.

[ddrewitz]

My first real job was at perkins as a bus boy at the age of 15.  I had a job before that but it was only for two weeks doing corn detasseling.