Yes, babysitting was my first paying job. I "sat" at about seven different homes in our neighborhood. In my junior year of HS I got a job at K-Mart and worked there until right before I graduated.

My first car was a 1978 silver Camaro. I loved that car and thought I was just the bomb for having it! Two years later when I got married (yes, I was just a baby) we sold it.

My first non-sitting job was Younkers @ Christmastime. I learned to gift wrap the most difficult of packages and to do it quickly! I was also taught how to set up and use their simple printing press, the kind where you set each letter, to make the signs you see over racks and on displays. That part of the job I really liked. I was a junior in HS. My next job was a year later, when I was a senior, my boyfriend's mom helped me get a job at the Art Center in the gift shop . . . now that job I loved!

My first job was working at the neighborhood bakery...too many goodies!! It closed by 6 pm so I could do my homework and see my beloved in the evening.

I never owned a car on my own...got married to my love young and we owned cars together...the first one we had as a married couple was a Gran Torino...the '72 model (before the ugly bumpers were ordered by the govt.
It was baby blue with a white vinly top (remember those?). His dad wouldn't allow him to get a/c ...but we loved that car. Traded it in when rust started bubbling to the surface.

My first paying job was at the University of Dayton, scoring tests on an old fashion computer/scoring machine. I was 16 and made 50 cents per hour.

My first owned car was a 1964 Chevy Biscayne stick shift. Filled it up every 2 weeks for 6.00 and drove it till the next fill up.

Those were the days, my friends.

My first paying job was at a much younger age. Mom would pay me by the piece to iron. I very proudly starched and ironed my Dads shirts that he preached in. I think she was trying to help me earn money because I also got paid for ironing my baby brothers bibs!

I don't remember what my first car was. It was whatever my DH owned when we got married. We liked the Hondas when they first came out. It was a very boring car but good gas mileage.