What was it? After babysitting since the age of 11 for ~$5/hr, Grocery Store cashier. Started Easter Weekend, which was crazy (Easter weekend is the 3rd biggest food-buying weekend of the year, after Thanksgiving and Christmas).
How old were you? 15
How much did you make? I want to say $8/hr? Somewhere around there?
How long did it last? Through the Christmas break of my Sophomore year at Wake. I worked xmas break and summer after my freshman year, then Xmas break of soph. year, then left.
What did you learn from it, if anything? I learned that I'm really good at memorizing produce codes, that tons of seemingly healthy parents (eg: country club moms) buy the most crappy, processed food for their kids and that infuriates me, that I have little patience for people who, when it's really busy, stand there and watch the food pile up at the end of the belt rather than helping bag their own stuff, and that it's really fun to close on a Friday or Saturday night when your favorite banker (aka the guy you have a crush on) is the one behind the customer service desk because you basically get to hang out all night since no country club moms come to the grocery store after 8:30pm. I also realized how competitive I can be- I think my "item scans per minute" record stood for like 3 years after I left.