How did you earn your first $$$

[OzoAndIndi]

My first real money in terms of a paycheck... spent most of the summers through my teens as a counselor at a day camp.

First money online was probably via CafePress.

[icausewipes]

You caught me interest, what is a fluffer? I'd look it up, but I might not be prepared for what I might see.

They are the backbone of a billion dollar industry.

[belfpala]

A fluffer is someone who keeps the actual actors... "ready" in between shots. Basically a professional blowjobber. They aren't as widely used any more afaik since viagra etc commonplace

Ahh damn it, I was hoping it was a kind of cat.

(...yes, sarcasm, I knew what it was.)

[NoRest4Wicked]

I worked as a bagger/cart pusher at a local grocery store starting at 14.

[zealo]

I was a janitor of sorts ( cut grass, painted walls, reorganised furniture and replaced roof insulation etc ) at my old school during the summer break between 9th grade and what would be high school when i was around 14, could be 15 but was a long time ago, earned roughly 1200 dollars in US currency for 3 weeks of work.

[cFortyfive]

Couple prices from a music competition when I was around 10.
First money earned online was via ultima online I suppose.

[Zvinny]

I worked in a pizza place, then a restaurant washing dishes, then a shipping and recieving warehouse, then I joined the Navy when I figured out I couldn't do shit without a degree and didn't have enough money for an apprenticeship or trade school.

[Deleted]

First £ I actually earned rather than being given to me I guess was from conning kids at my school with one of those fake coins with heads on both sides.

First £ I earned legitimately was from working in an office shredding paper. Jesus that was dull. I remember purposely feeding too much paper into the shredder knowing it would jam, just so I would have the challenge of unjamming it as like "OOH, A TASK"

Edit: actually, I take that back, I had a summer job stuffing inserts into the front of a CD case. Half of them went out with blood on them from all the paper cuts I got T_T

I liked the first story Keep them coming

[Gsara]

$20 when I was 13 playing in a bar with my schools band director. My parents also got free drinks because I was to young to drink, they were happy.

[drwelfare]

Picking up cans and other metal to sell at the scrap yard.

First job was at 18 doing call center work.

I still save and sell metal to this day, can make money doing to. Have also sold plasma over the years

[Dys]

First dollar earned was from selling golf balls when I was 8. I used to live next to a golf course, so I would walk along the outskirts of it, picking up stray balls and selling them back to the players. A normal white ball was only $.25, blues were $.50, golds were $1.00, and the only ever pink one I found went for $3.

First employed dollar came from being an office bitch, or janitor/maintenance/errand guy I guess.

[vetteklr]

I operated a weed eater for the County. Lol

[Osoroshii]

First money I actually earned on my own was probably when I was about 7 or 8, raking leaves for my neighbors and doing the whole neighborhood lemonade stand thing.

First money I earned that wasn't a childhood cliche was when I was about about 16; the dojo I had been training at always maintained an assistant instructor to teach the kid's classes and help in the adult classes as needed (including substituting for the head instructor when he was out). I had been coming in to assist the assistant instructor for a couple of months when he had a falling out with the real sensei (playing inappropriate music during the kid's classes, spending more time with his girlfriend than actually teaching the kids (which was why my assistance had become necessary to begin with), and he'd argued for more pay despite doing less work)... He was stripped of his position as assistant instructor and while he wasn't banned from the dojo, he did stop coming.

I ended up taking over as the assistant instructor. Pay wasn't much, just $5 per class that I actually taught, and it was paid to me monthly rather than weekly. Came out to be $80 a month on average (there were only 4 kid's classes a week and he almost never missed the adult classes), so it was well behind what other kids my age were making with their part-time jobs at McD's or Krogers or whatever, but at least I was getting paid to do something I loved.

Flash-forward a year and some change and the dojo is in trouble; the building's rent had gone up exponentially, martial arts as a fad was at a low point which meant fewer new students, and the sensei was having a lot of personal trouble at home (a nasty divorce, according to his brother)... We all suspected he might be shutting down soon. We did not expect, however, for him to just stop showing up entirely for almost two months straight, leaving me to try and teach both the kid's classes and the adults classes on my own and perform all necessary belt tests. I called him to find out what was going on, and all he told me was to keep filling in for him as normal and he'd be back when he was able.

When he finally did show back up, on a Monday, he announced that he was shutting the dojo down and retiring at the end of the week.

...and that he also didn't have the cash to pay me for the last two months.

[Themius]

In middle school I would loan people money and then have them pay me back plus interest and late fees. My teacher loved the idea and thought it was great, but had to shut me down (I had been doing this for two months and students started complaining about me) because it was seen as loan sharking. I also sold answers to tests to the... less intelligent people in my class and always gave them the wrong answers. They bullied me and so that was my way of getting back at them.

As far as online I sold large amounts of gold as I ran a Casino and made 10% of everything. Those were the times when I made the most money online as days could be as profitable as over $150 an hour.

Then I moved over to blogs of which I have several that make not much, a few hundred a month.

Then I have eBay and Amazon selling which does quite well.

[Bodom]

Chopping wood for my grandma. I think she gave me about 20$ for roughly 3 hours of work or so. Was 10 years at that time so it was a lot of money to me.

[Deleted]

$20 when I was 13 playing in a bar with my schools band director. My parents also got free drinks because I was to young to drink, they were happy.

Nice, what did you do in the bar?

[Riptide]

got a job, didn't ask Obama for a handout

So you were a bum until 1-6 years ago? That's what I took from your quip.

Back on topic.
My first $ was from mowing yards in my neighborhood with my dad's lawnmower. I was 8 and I thought everyone would give me an allowance.
My first job was as a paperboy at 10.

[VeganHunter]

I washed dishes in a Chinese restaurant when I was 9. My grandmother was a waitress there, and she got me a job there.... all under the table of course, as 14 was the legal age to work there, way back then.

[vindicatorx]

First job I had was when I was fourteen I detassled corn for 2 summers. It sucked a lot and I was paid under minimum wage.

[Elegiac]

I worked in a department store.