Recommended first jobs?
 

I'm looking for jobs for this summer and am looking for advice. I'm not very sure of what's out there but I live near a summer tourist destination (lake of the Ozarks) and have mechanical experience as well as a lot of boating experience. I'm basically open to anything, I'm interested to hear some of your first job/summer job experiences :thanks:

Boat tech?


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That'd be hard without any certification :( I'd love to do it but I haven't spent enough time fixing boats to properly do something like that. At one point that was my dream job though (I was like 12 but hey set expectations low and hopes high).

My friend John's first job was working at the marina gas station and he loved it. Got to be outside, people watch, and often customers would tip him in ice cold beers from their coolers. For a teenager this was heaven.

And because this was back in the day before credit card gas pumps, he would always squeeze an extra gallon or two for friends.

Everybody loved him.

Tour vehicle driver

My first summer job was in a movie theater. It only had about 6 actual screens, so it wasn't too busy and the manager always over hired people because he hated doing work. We only made about 6 dollars an hour anyway so if he sold a few movie tickets he recouped his cost for the night almost immediately. He'd also let us smoke pot in the projection rooms, and half the times he'd have his own to bring with him.

I was 16 when he asked me out too, and he was 33. Quite a bit of a weirdo.

Anything that pays you. When I was a kid, I did back yard mechanics, detailed cars, pumped gas, washed dishes, moved used tires for recycling, baby sat, mowed lawns, shoveled snow, laborer, whatever paid me money.

I delivered fliers once and only once. I hate it when people act like they are above a job when that job will give them money that they need. But delivering fliers was the worst pay to work ratio ever. They paid pennies per flyer so after delivering a few hundred fliers you might make a few bucks. I could have made more money buy finding it on the ground at a grocery store.

I had a job interview for KFC once but didn't get that job. The funny thing is, that's the only job interview that didn't land me a job. And now that I'm thinking about it, the job I have now, that I've had for 14 years, is only the second job I've ever had as far as the government is concerned. Weird.

I would suggest getting a job that will give you motivation to improve yourself. My first job was a cashier, which was okay, but then I got a job working at UPS. Loaded semi trailers for 4.5 years. Realized quickly that I was going to finish college, and never do that again... and that's exactly what I did.

Landscaping if you can handle it. Long hours = fat pay, but youll have to really sweat for it.

Wait tables. It's a hard job, and you'll certainly appreciate your servers from then on. You can make decent money at it too.

Find something that can be related to what you want to do in the future. In HS I worked as a small engine mechanic in a local shop fixing lawn mowers, chain saws, or whatever other random stuff came in. Also worked in a machine shop for a couple summers as an apprentice. Had to do a lot of cleaning and grunt work but got to do quite a lot of fabrication and machining as well. LEARNED A LOT! At the time it kind of sucked since I worked harder than all my friends and made less. But now I make more than double what they do due to my experience.

You're going to be in the Ozarks during summer?

Only one job to do. Party.

I'm 18, graduating high school. Thanks for the suggestions so far. Waiting tables won't work very well down here because EVERYWHERE sells alcohol and you have to be 21 to even handle it...My parents would give me the strangest look ever but I've considered finding a landscaping job. I would always complain about landscaping our own house but also, in my experience, doing work for others makes me work a little harder. I've actually done some detailing for money locally, I'm thinking about posting flyers around so that I could do that on the side. As toward doing something mechanical I could possibly get a job at a local repair shop that my stepdad works with a lot, although they keep a small staff and I don't wanna be that one kid who is only working there because of a family connection.

My only question is how do you own an FR-S with no job?