I want to challenge my friend Sari (green haired Anni) and our filming/editing guy Tuomas to make similar video about their workplaces! And if YOU will make video about your jobs, please send link for me! It would be interesting to hear your career story. :) Sari`s channel: ua-cam.com/users/merikoira666videos Tuomas channel: ua-cam.com/channels/xtlX711aTB1iOVE9iqEeqQ.htmlfeatured
Anni Vuohensilta - but please never lose your accent! It's so lovely of both of you. I (or more like, we, my girlfriend and me) really like watching your videos. Thank you very much for making them! I also deactivate Adblocker to watch your videos, I hope that's supporting you :) Greetings from Bavaria!
Hey Anni, thank you so much for taking us through your work history. You really talk to us like we are your good friends sitting at the dining table with you. It helps us to understand you better, because everyone is the sum of all their experiences. I’ve been to IKEA many times in the USA and watching you in so many videos and getting an idea about your personality I could totally see why you loved working there! You and Lauri are doing bigger and better things now so I hope you aren’t too sad about leaving IKEA. So many of us love what you guys do. Your vlogs and content over at HPC really help me get through the day!
Thanks Phillip, really nice comment! :) IKEA is one big community over the world and many of my workmates have been (or are right now) working abroad. I am not sad anymore because I enjoy our UA-cam work and it is very nice to be with Lauri every day. :) Have a great week!
I think it was great that you were a cemetary worker for a while, planting flowers, cleaning the church and generally keeping things tidy. That struck a note with me. To me it showed an appreciation and expression of respect for those Finns who made your wonderful country what it is and defended it against invaders. A Finnish gentleman, Karno, married a relative of mine and had an import-export business in the main port city in my state. My first job was as a laborer working on installation of a steam pipeline on the grounds of the University in my home town. In recent years the University spent million$ digging it up and replacing it with an environmentally safe system. The pipe insulation was a big toxic mess. Now I am a machinist operating my own shop in the countryside. My only workmates are the possums, racoons and birds who look in on me working away here and there during the day and night. Your videos are the best entertainment I have had in a long time; I no longer watch TV, only UA-cam! Please make more videos!
Lovely story. I'm so happy that you and Lauri found each other. Not only do you make each other happy, but you bring joy and humor to all of your fans. Thank you for posting.
My first job was a telephone solicitor. I called people from a phone number list to try to sell them newspaper subscriptions. I was 16 years old in 1978 when I got this job. Pay $3.35 an hour. Yes i'm old!
That mohawk is amazing! I love how much pride you have in your work history. You got so emotional over having left IKEA, I teared up. I wish gap year was a thing in the US. It would give many kids the chance to mature a bit and decide if college really was for them or not. I'd go into my work history, but we'd be here all day (I've worked at over 20 places!) It would be a good video topic though, and I'll link it after I make it. My first job was working at the local library when I was 13-16, making $2.85 hour (less than minimum wage) shelving books, helping at the desk, etc. Many people don't realize you can work at 13 in the US. You're limited to 20 hrs a week and they can pay below minimum if you're underage.
Thanks, I was really proud of my mohawk! :D Yep, lefting IKEA was really tough for me. But sometimes you have to do decisions and I think I did right. Wow, you have had really many workplaces, that would be interesting vlog!
Thanks Anni for sharing. My First job was unloading trucks of merchandise for Sears in North Hollywood. It was fun because my co worker was into Heavy Metal Music, and I played heavy metal gutair, and we could talk about songs all day ! 😃
I love your videos! First paying job was hand stacking hay for a neighbor... um... 50 years ago. Lost count how many jobs I have had over the years.. I am close to retirement now! Looking forward to that.
My first job was working on my father's commercial fishing boat when I was 13. Every weekend and summers I set nets, picked the nets, fixed the nets, sorted and packed the fish, and maintenance on the boat. It was a lot of hard work, and I barely got paid. In a way it was fun, and I learned a lot, but it sure did suck plenty too. I worked on the boats until I got my drivers license.
My first job was in the British merchant navy as a Deck boy. I had been at sea training school for 16 months to learn what to do before hand. My salary was £22.60p a month (About 26€. Which was not a lot even then back in 1968. I also had compulsory 8 hours a day overtime too - which was later reduced to 4 hours compulsory hours overtime every day.)It was hard work but I travelled to many places even though I left one year later, I still look back fondly to that time.
My first job was a dish washer/food prep in a Chinese restaurant in a very small town when I was 15. They would make a TON of food at the end of the night just for me to take home.
My first Job was Mowing lawns, i used to walk around with a mower knocking on doors asking people if they wanted their lawns mowed. it was a really successful business, until i finished school and had to get a full time job, The Australian Navy.
Thanks for the story Anni! That mohawk was epic, my wife and I love your hair now but I wouldn't be opposed to seeing a comeback someday *wink wink nudge nudge*. My story starts with building street rods with my dad at a young age (8-10 years old), learned how to weld and basic mechanics during that time and took on projects on my own in his shop, this carried on through high school. My first paying job was at a place my brother worked at that did residential heating and air conditioning installation, lots of crawling around under new or already built houses doing the duct work. Second job was working where my dad worked my entire childhood, they were an dirt work company with their own sand and gravel pit, my dad operated equipment for them and I would work in the weld shop repairing buckets and anything that broke down. Both first, second and third jobs were during my high school years. Third job was at a go-cart / mini golf place and I serviced the cars and took care of whatever customers needed while they were riding the cars. Fourth job, out of high school i started working for a local company that produces refrigerator units that go on truck trailers. I met my wife online, about this time i moved to her home state and waited for her to finish college, after that I moved back to my home state of Washington and found my fifth job which was a fab shop in my local town that built flat beds and work/service truck beds, as well as any other random fabrication requests. That job was short lived and I ended up trying to find a job through a temp agency as a welder/fabricator. They placed me where I currently work, my 6th employer. It's an OEM that manufactures paving equipment, I started as a welder in fabrication, after a couple years i got bored and had the opportunity to switch to the engineering department doing research and development of new products. I did that for about 10 years, building almost everything new that our company currently sells in our product lines, through this I learned hydraulics and electrical as well, being able to build a machine from start to finish out of flat plate steel to running and driving out the door. After that I was given the opportunity to move to the office and begin learning 3D auto cad (solidworks) and design fixtures for the company as a tooling design engineer and now i've been with the company 14 years. I still fabricate for the company when necessary on prototypes and I build cars/jeeps on my own at home now for fun and recreation. If you're still reading, thanks for listening to my story! Looking forward to the next vlog from our UA-cam Queen!!!!
Very interesting. Loving the hairstyles you had during these years, especially the mohawk . My first "job" was when I was 14 years old, I was crocheting & knitting baby clothes and hats.Not really an official job, but yeah, I was making pocket money and little me was happy about it. Then when I was 16 years old I was handing out flyers for a mobile phone company .Then when I started high school I worked at a cosmetic stand in a mall, I was promoting different beauty products and giving out free samples to passersby (mostly perfumes). When I started my university years I worked at a grocery store as a cashier for one year, then I worked for another year at a gift & souvenir shop for the same boss. Then for the next 3 years I worked as a seller in a furniture shop with my husband ( I was selling and taking custom orders, my husband was a drafter and worked in the factory + he was personally delivering the furniture) . After I became an environmental engineer...I obviously had no interest in working in the field, so I started to work in a thrift store for 8 months until I managed to get my certificate . Now I'm currently a qualified nail technician and working in a salon, working hard on getting my certificate as a hairstylist and makeup artist and dreaming that someday I will be able to open my own salon. My husband is still working in a furniture factory as a drafter, but for a different boss, different factory. He is also an environmental engineer but with no interest in the field. He is learning to get his licence as a truck driver. He worked as a sheep caretaker in a farm, rope access worker, in construction and as a mountain ranger.
Nice vid! My first money making job was babysitting. I was 12. Then when I was 23 I got a job working with 2 of my brothers at a door shop. I started by cutting doors to custom sizes. Then I learned to do hinge preps and lock preps, then wind cut outs. Then I learned how to put in windows, package doors for shipping and picking parts for doors. I even learned to drive the fork lift. When I turned 30 I moved to be with my current wife. I got a job in a place that sells snacks and drinks to convenience stores. After a few years of that I got a job at Walmart in the warehouse. Did that for 3 months . Then got a job in the warehouse at canadian tire.
My first Job was 4 consecutive summers working at my local public school Bus Garage doing maintenance on buses and doing grounds maintenance. Come to think of it, I've only worked 8 different places in the last 34 years. Have been with my current employer for a total of 20 yrs.
Anni, My first job was washing dishes and busing tables at a country style restaurant on the east coast of America. Even after all of these years have gone by, 37 to be exact, I still don't mind washing dishes! Ha Ha! Namaste.
Moi Anni. Very interesting and personal video. You obviously really liked the IKEA job, such an emotional moment in the video :-) As for my first job. I started delivering newspapers when I was 14. Up at 4 AM in the morning and got paid ...well shit lol. Picked strawberries in the summer months back then as well. Didn't pay well either, but at least you could eat a lot of strawberries, when the owner wasn't around :-D Hugs and love to you and Lauri... to Tuomas and Sari as well of course P.S. I am way too shy and awkward to make a video... sorry :-/ P.P.S. I love the new clothes... Lauri especially haha.
I dont know why but your comments went to the spam. :D I saved it! When I was cemetery worker, I woke up 5 AM every morning. But summer mornings in Finland are really bright so no problems! Thanks and have great week! :)
Anni, I really like your channel! I wrote you on another video. Please, be happy you get to stay home even just with your husband. I was a musician... French horn. Romanian, toured all Europe. Lost my child after divorce and went for 19 years in the US. played, made masters... Got a surgery on my spine. Wasn't able to play my instrument. Drove a truck 6 years... One of those huge ones.... Got back in Romania... I will be happy to work some low level work now to stay around family.... I wrote just to say that you should be happy you stay home.... If you read some day... Love your youtube! Good luck!
Just wanted to say Greetings From FL, USA. my first Job was at McDonalds (2002) doing fast food things. I now oddly enough collect bodies for funeral homes. Before that I drove motorcoaches and city buses for around 7 years.
Hello Anni!!!! You had a very interesting work history. Like you I have worked many jobs. My 1st job was after I finished my junior year in high school. I moved in with my Grandparents, who I loved so dearly and miss so much. My Grandpa passed away January 29 1995, and My Grandmother passed away July 19 2016. Anyhow, all 3 of us loved Ice-Cream. I filled out an application at Baskin "31 Flavors" Robbins, I got the job right then!!! 2 weeks later I was store manager & in charge of everything. The best part, was I could take home as much ice cream and I hired all my friends to work for me. 1 of my most favorite yet sentimental memories was every day my Dear Grandfather would come in to hangout with me, watch me make cakes, and of course get 3 scoops of Chocolate Mousse Royal!!!!! I hope you enjoy my "my 1st job".
Thanks for sharing this with us. Very interesting jobs! My first job was unpacking minicomputers (before PCs, 1977) as summer job in high school. I learned how to do more with computers each summer and after a couple of years was fixing them, programming them, etc...Eventually this led to my 20+ year career as an eletrical engineer (electronics).
I started my first job when I was 15 years old. I worked at a rental center and was mostly doing delivery of things like big outside tents, tables and chairs, and similar items. It was tough job with many things that were heavy but it was fun. I think I made close to the same wage as your first job too. I also had a mohawk! ;)
So you asked, and even though it's a year+ later here you go. I think we as family members always have some sort of job. Most of the time we get to call them chores since they do provide for some harmony, if not happiness, at home. But sometimes our family jobs really are our real jobs too. Yours today is video creation. Mine many yesterdays ago was pulling soft serve ice cream cones on our family's ice cream truck. I think there are very few other first jobs child of 5+ year old can have than learning how to create a beautifully swirled ice cream cone. For sure it was fun to eat the mistakes. Even better, was the smiles and joy to serve ice cream on a hot day in Houston to the line of people surrounding the ice cream truck. The hot day made every person a prisoner of your cold treats. The compliments me the happy warden of of the ice cream stream flowing from the truck. It was super nice to be able to help out my mother and father to run the business. Felt proud as we all worked as a team with both windows on either side of the ice cream truck serving while one parent or the other accepted money from the crowd. As I said it was a soft serve ice cream operation. This meant a more complex operation to keep the business going. Yet at the same time a very small amount of options for the customer to choose from. But fresh seemed to command the day over other truck that offered packaged products. I do think there was enough business for all. Still, I am proud of the options our truck offered like fresh hot fudge dipped cones. Vanilla milkshakes and chocolate malts, and of course banana splits and sundaes. For bonus items at local rodeos and other event we took along bags of roasted peanuts and also made bags of popped corn to sell. Summer wasn't the only busy times. Even during the colder winter nights in December and January times when the weather is cold outside, and the wind was blowing, a line would form around the ice cream truck at 2 AM with people waiting their turn in line to buy some ice cream only a little colder than their shivering bodies. I remember on those days there were more than a few times when my father used another local person's phone (usually a customer a few minutes before, or after) to make a call their house back out our home for my mother to bring out more supplies. Cones, vanilla ice cream mix, syrups, boats for the splits, spoons, cups. And large cylinders of liquid propane to refill the tank on the truck than ran the generator. All of this in the back of a early 1960's white Chevy station wagon Two kids also along for the ride to journey out to wherever around Houston the truck ended up in the middle of the night. It was fun for us kids for a while. We enjoyed the chance to help out. Well, as much as any two droopy-eyed children can help out back in 1969. Those night resupply runs showed me a quality product will sell no matter what the weather is like at the time. Even more, my father out selling ice cream after a day in college, along with my mother doing the run with us, provided a solid demonstration of the effort it takes to move a family, and a business, forward in life. What a way for your father to put himself through college! A fantastic mom to as well to work as a team. Hard times. Sweet times. In today's world I doubt events like these would be smiled on much by the camera toting public. But back then, those days and nights made for some golden memories for me to keep forever. Follow the link below for a photo from the ice cream cream truck era. This photo is from the spring or summer of 1970 I think. Our family truck visited the Galveston County Fair & Rodeo grounds quite often. Not only was it good business, but also a fun time. Many ice cream cones were trader for BBQ from one of the vendors on the grounds. It was fun watching the cowboys do do impressing feats on horse and on bull. Bagged peanuts in the window are a cue where we were at. Those peanuts were mainly sold at events. not on the regular neighborhood route runs. Note the shirt. Loved (and still do) the US space program. Back then it was hard to avoid in Houston of the 1960's and 1970's. Every kid of that era, me included had starry eyes for space. I still do. So interesting to visit Johnson Space center many times. photos.app.goo.gl/HYVGgVHY8bqRcbJRA Things change, We left Houston a couple of years later. The student and ice cream truck business life of the Romero family transitioned to a new business based around Dr. Romero's clinic The change brought with it better times in many ways. A place to come back to. Interesting times in the 1970's. But little ice cream truck,,, I'll miss you forever.
Kiinnostava video, Anni! Olet ehtinyt kaikenlaista. Siistiä kuulla, että Ikea oli erityisen hyvä työnantaja. Mun ensimmäinen työpaikka (kesätyö) oli silloinen "tienaa tonni", että tais saaha 1000 markkaa kahden viikon työstä S-ryhmällä (ravintola-apulaisena). Tosin euroihin oli kyllä jo siirrytty, vaikka siitä vielä puhuttiin tolla nimellä, joten se oli varmaan jotain 200 euroa, mikä tuntuu jäätävän pieneltä nykyään kahden viikon työstä. Sen jälkeen olin useamman kesän kerrossiivoojana hotellilla. Ja sitten eri ravintoloissa keikkatyötä. Ja yhden kesän jaoin sanomalehtiä aamuyöllä. Olin koulunkäyntiavustajana ja kielikurssiohjaajana. Sitten opetin japania eri kansalaisopistoilla useamman vuoden ja lopulta yhden lukukauden ammattikorkeakoululla. Ja olin töissä messu- ja kongressikeskuksessa. Samalla oon tehnyt konsultointia ja kirjoittanut matkajuttuja lehtiin. Tulkkaamistakin kokeilin. Ja sitten pikkuhiljaa siirryin nykyiseen duuniin eli matkanjohtajaksi ja matkaoppaaksi. Kaikkee sitä on ehtinytkin tehdä! Hyvä videoidea kyllä - hauska näitä muistella! 👌 Mahtavat PING-asut! Mä en ihan ehdi PINGiksi Suomeen, mutta Antti tulee edustamaan meitä sinne. 😊 -Lotta
Olet säkin monenmoista tehnyt! Mutta hienosti työt johtanut nykyiseen hommaan ja varmaan kaikesta kokemuksesta on tuossa hyötyä. :) Toi "tienaa tonni" -homma oli kyllä katkeraa meidän pienellä paikkakunnalla, kun kaikki työntekijöiden lapset sai ne työt. :D
My first job was cutting grass for a local school board. 8 hour a day, all summer long, I pushed a lawn mower. I went from one school to another. Good tan but a few bee stings too. PS Nice suits!
My first job was a diesel mechanic. Started it in 2002 when I graduated HS. I worked for the City Of Little Rock. Left there in 2010 and went to work at Windstream Communications as a Fleet manager. Still there. Love it!
My first job, I was employed for the summer assisting with house building of a friend's aunt and uncle. They were super people and the experience was priceless. We stained, painted, hung wallpaper, fetched things. So neat to hear your story!
My first job was working at a Mo-Ped store. A Mo-Ped is a 50cc gas powered small motorcycle with almost useless bicycle pedals. I repaired Mo-Peds, assembled and sold them, and fixed flat tires. That was WAY back in 1976, when I was only 16.
My first job was at a freezer food shop offloading lorries and shelf stacking, it was awful and I quit after 3 hours, my next was as a maintenance technician which I am still doing 32 years later lol, love the hair by the way I used to have the same (many moons ago) but jet black ;P
Loving the business suits. My work history.. 1. Mobile Patrol Driver (security) - working on bridge renewal for railways. 2. Corporate Security Officer for Data/Mobile firm. This is the one job I miss doing. 3. Truck driver.
My first job was as a 14 year old entrepreneur cutting grass and doing lawn work for the old ladies of my neighborhood! I did not charge much ($10 per yard), but it was a long time ago (1980)!
I was moving lawns for a property maintenance company as my first summer job. They didn't let me use the ones you ride on, so I had to use one that you steer by pushing. I felt the vibration even when I went to be in the evening for the first few weeks, I was not used to doing anything like that :D
Funny coincidence. My first job was in high school working at an engineering company that specialized in the destructive testing of concrete using hydraulic presses. Most of my work was cleaning up the mess after crushing concrete samples. I also helped them cast the samples too. But as a computer student I saw an opportunity here as well. Their engineers were doing statistics with calculators and typing reports (I am old, it's true) The company had a small computer for accounting, so I talked to the owner and got a side job writing programs to help automate their reports. What the boss told me later was very true: From the neck down, what you can earn is pretty limited, maybe you can sweep up broken cement; from the neck up you are unlimited.
I think you two are a great addition to UA-cam and I wish you many years of success. I've watched most of your videos but not in chronological order. Your videos allow people to watch in any order that they stumble upon them, that's a good thing. "Beyond the Press" is what led me to channel
I'm jealous of your organization, Anni! I'm sure I've got a picture from every job I've had, but I would never be able to find them :( My first job was as a school custodian when I was 15 years old. It was quite enjoyable actually, very quiet and peaceful in a school once the children have left.
My dad is a roofer (roof builder), and during the summer i'd also help him on the roofs, so that was pretty much my only summer job from the age of about 10. After i turned 18 i got a job as a consumer electronics salesman. Was bretty gud :D
My first real job was mowing lawns and cleaning outdoors, at an insane asylum. Later I worked at shipping/receiving, at the same asylum. We unloaded trucks and kept a warehouse. Thanks for another great video!
You want to know my employment history? Lol alright story time. August 2003 I'd just turned 18 and got my first real job (up until then I had helped my dad in construction and was getting paid about $10/hr) at Kmart which is a US department store much like Walmart only almost bankrupt now. I got basically minimum wage ($6.50/hr x 40hrs a week). Toward the end of this job I also got a 2nd job at AutoZone (US auto parts store) for similar pay just much fewer hours. January 2006 I left Kmart to work for Pepsi for $10/hr full time again. Much better company but as you said, I missed having so many workmates (we call em co-workers in the US). That lasted for about a year but then my relationship at the time demanded that I move, so I quit Pepsi for a little bit and sold cars (Suzukis) thanks to a very sweet sign on bonus. About a month later I realized it was a horrible dealer and there was a reason they offered a sign on bonus and conflicted with every moral I had, so I got out of there really quick. Unfortunately immediately after that I went to sell cars for a different dealer (Nissans) thinking it'd be different. It wasn't. After about a month at that dealer in April 2007 I landed a great job at Gulfstream Aerospace paying $13/hr with LOTS of overtime equating about 55 hrs a week working in an airplane factory. Really enjoyed that. Up until about November of 2007 when I had a little accident at work and got laid off. Then I was unemployed for a bit and living off my savings until about January of 2008 when I got another job working in a Boeing airplane factory for $15.64/hr (no overtime though lol). Then in November 2008 there was a big worker strike at the Boeing factory in Washington which ended up getting me and several others laid off from that job too for a time. Next job was sometime in January of 2009 I think I got a job for $13/hr at a beer warehouse hauling carts and pallets of beer around all night (night shift) and loading them on trucks. This job was horrible in every way but one, I worked so hard every night I got down to my lowest adult weight of 170# (from 215# previously) in about 9 months. However I eventually got tired of the stuck up bosses and ever-increasing workload at that job and decided to something entirely different so later in 2009 I decided to join the military. I enlisted in April of 2010 and I've been in the US Air Force ever since and honestly it's still my favorite job even 10 years later. Best pay I've ever had, free college education, and I've been to and/or lived in 26 US states and 5 or 6 countries.
Hi Anni =) To answer your question: My first job was when I was 17. I did a job called “detasseling” here in IL. Basically, you walk the fields of corn, pulling the tassel off of the top of each corn stalk. The job would start very early in the morning, and would pay pretty good, but it was hard work. You had to wear gloves to keep the corn from cutting you, and carry water, because of the heat. The job only lasts for about three weeks or so depending on the season. Look up “corn detasseling” for more information. Nice video, and thank you for sharing your work career(s) =)
Hi Anni! My first job I was 14 years old and delivered newspapers to people in my neighborhood. It wasn't much money but it was OK. I delivered the newspapers in the morning on my bicycle then went to school. After that I worked in a pet store until I graduated college.
My first job was woodworking for my dad's business. He made oak-carved pieces that hung on the wall (Like clocks and mirrors and stuff), then sold them at art shows. So I was sanding, cutting, gluing, etc to wood all day long. After that I worked washing dishes in a restaurant. Then I went to college and had a job packing boxes at a place that sold audio/video equipment. Then I worked as a web developer for a few years. And the last 10 years I have worked at a place called Sound Devices that makes audio and video recording devices. Obviously I love my current job, having been there so long. I'm still paying for school and probably will be for most of of my life since I'm in America. I hope you find some time to get out and see people, Anni. It seems like all the people is what you liked a lot about your job at IKEA. :)
Another great video Anni!! I love watching both HPC & BTP... I am liking your AV channel just as well. You two seem like such nice people, it is nice to learn more about you!! Thank you & keep up the great work.
Moi Anni! My first workplace was working for my family’s newspaper business when I was a kid. But when I went off to college I became a nuclear engineer in the navy on submarines. I have had many different engineering jobs since then in chemical plants and refineries and the marine shipping industry and environmental engineering.
First paid job "request" was woodworking project for school teacher, which we made together with friend on 9th grade. Then there was couple weeks of candle making at summer. Then some work on scrap disassemble shop. After that random PC support thing here and there. Then few years of coding and currently coding + systems specialist stuff.
The month I left school I applied for a job in a warehouse which I thought would be fine work to do while I was working out where I was going to study to build a career in IT, but the guy didn't hire me for warehouse, during the interview he found out I was good with computers and instead gave me a job setting up a computer system for the warehouse. He didn't know what title to give me, so I suggested "IT Manager" because I thought it'd look impressive on my resume. Now I actually do real warehouse work and drive a forklift - turns out IT work makes me depressed. Luckily I figured that out before I wasted my time studying it for years.
Very nice Anni....it's nice to hear someone had a job that they really liked....my first job was at McDonalds! Lol....I made about $3.80 per hour (that's about 3.11 euro) this was back in the 80s mind you. I worked there for about 3 months then got a better job, I'm glad I did it though....I feel more accomplished that I worked my way up through the ranks from starting literally at the bottom lol.
My first job was delivering news papers with my friend. I was 12 years old. We had a route with about 140 customers. The Saturday papers were about 1" thick and took-up 2 carts. Our route was many city blocks away and pulling those damn carts full of papers just about killed us, just to get to the start of our route! Then on Tues. & Wed. nights after dinner, we had to go and collect the money for the papers. You wouldn't believe how hard it was to get some people to pay-up for the papers we had delivered! Luckily `some customers really appreciated us and gave us like 50 cents for a tip. I made about $7.00 per week for all of my efforts and most of that was spent on candy!
lol i love your flashback pictures, they're awesome. my first job was toys r us when i was 15, and it was a terrible place to work.. i'm not surprised they're going out of business now. i work by myself now in analytical chemistry and i can totally sympathize about missing coworkers! it can make a lot of difference. can't wait to see you guys wear those suits! ♡
Actually my 4. workplace (lunch cafe) has stopped, because they had some hygiene problems etc there. Good workmates are really important thing and even the boring job is nice when you have great coworkers!
My first job was in a movie theatre. I sold popcorn and candy and cleaned everything. That job was kind of crazy. We served hundreds of people everyday and it was really stressful. Later I worked for two different fast food restaurants (Arby’s and Jack-In-The-Box). Both were also very stressful. Then I worked as a nurse assistant in a children’s acute care hospital. That job was the most rewarding but the most exhausting. Then I worked as a diesel mechanic for a landscaping company for two years! Funnest job because I worked with my friend and we enjoyed working on the large machines. Then I worked for one year as a machine operator at a packaging manufacturer. Boring as hell but payed the bills. Now I am just trying to finish school so I can get a job that I want!
omg, I'm 27 and I'm... the museum guide :D unfortunately this is my first job because I study from almost... 8 years. I studied history, then public history, now I'm writing my PhD work. I wish I could start to work earlier because working gives a lot of experience even in so stupid place as a museum :) there is a few customers in my workplace too, so me and my workmates read a lot of books, we love it :) but maybe one day I will the UA-cam Queen too :D greetings from Poland!
Hi Anni, I really love your videos H.P.C. and B.T.P. and Anni channel . My first work place was a truck garage when I was 13 and I built a 1961 Mack B62 thermodyne diesel truck from the chassis up . I had a great boss and learned quite a lot there . I hope some time you can visit Boston , I would love to meet you and Lauri face to face I think you are wonderful people .
Moi Anni and Lauri, Nice to hear your humble beginnings! Mine was a hot job also and making $2.85 an hour washing dishes for catering business! Lots of sweating and lots of wet clothes! LOL on the suits too! They do stand out! Kiitos !
Hello Anni &Lauri. My 1st job was working in a cable manufacturing place, straight out of 12 years of schooling. Good place to work, but after 2.5 years the whole place went into recievership, and closed up, then I went to finding part time work , then a few years after that, I found a full time job.
Age 6 worked on local dairy farm-paycheck was fresh gallons of milk and a $10 bill for the week. Age 11 (1963) worked with my Dad building houses from foundation to the roof-started at $50 a day (real good money). Continued working with my Dad til early 2000's through high school and university with a 7 year stretch in mid 80's to early 90's as hospice nurse. Just wanted to mention the Ikea locker clean out looked a little like a hotel room we've seen before (chuckle, chuckle). Working with family can be a challenge at times but mostly a very rewarding experience. Also, did the aluminium ball cut with torch make it into the display case?
Thanks for your story, you started really early your career! Yes, I noticed same, exactly same as our hotel room. :D Actually it is not in vitrin yet, but we are planning to put it!
My 1st job was working at Dixie dozen. It was a movie theater building. I worked there for a year and six months. I was in charge of candy sales and stocking all the candy , popcorn , drink cups. And all the cleaning and sweeping . And locking the doors at night. I loved my first job. I have had eight jobs. I am on my 9 the job right now. I work at Kroger's and I do Clicklist.
It really was nice and very cool it had a great benefit When a new movie came out after the first day of the public paying to see it. That night all the works could bring one family member or friend to see it for free and we could bring our own food and drink. I miss working there.
I’ve always been a computer guy. First “salary” was a bag of dried fruit when I was 15,I believe, and then did PC support and computer assembly for e couple years in early college, then switched to coding full time. Always wanted to do a wider variety of jobs, but they don’t pay as well, so no luck for me ;)
Hahhah, great salary, almost better than my ice cream kiosk salary! But when you have earned enough with PC things you can do something else just for fun. :D
Sergey Chernyshev In my view. What does Information technology mean for most of employers? Money muncher. If you like to master your business skill, just work with Hong Kong, your skill shall be improved faster than many places.
I did some lawn mowing and electric repair at my first job at Theology University and Priesthood Institute (chatolic). It was a summer job 14 years ago, and I was the only one there who were not baptized :)
A lot of times, it’s the people you work and the times you shared with that you miss the most. I’ve worked for a couple of companies that were like that.
Loved this vlog! My first job was "do-anything-and-everything guy" in a small TV production company. Wash dishes, help buy or make props, do spreadsheets, assist the film crew. On shoot days we work anywhere between 12-16 hours straight. On location where it is a business, we have to wait for the place to close before we can start shooting so the camera starts rolling at around 12am after the crew finishes setting up. It was quite surreal to finish work at lunchtime. Also remember that one location in an alley at 3am, where it smells of dead rats. Now I work in advertising as an art director. A lot less crazy but still a crazy life.
First job was a TV repair shop go-fer guy - I shepherded big glass TVs from our two shops about 50km from each other, busted old tubes to be recycled, learned a bit o' electronics and how to solder and desolder. Then, after I left home: pizza delivery guy, computer salesman, made fudge + caramel apples + chocolate + brittle for 3 years, then finally a few well-paying computer sysadmin jobs. Now: solopreneur! Yay! No money! No time off!
Nice story! I started out as a computer programmer and worked at one place for 17 years, and now I am a manager of the programmers at a different place for the last 26 years! But I also play bass in a band!
So cool to hear your career and different workplaces. Liking the fun suits! I have had 2 full time jobs and both of them were stressful in different ways (T^T), I wish I could find a job that I love just like you enjoyed your Ikea job! My first paid job was at a school. I did an admin job, doing a lot of miscellaneous tasks including basic IT support, data entry, creating passwords and student accounts, photocopying etc, for 1 year, until it got too boring. I was falling asleep at work!! So I quit. I also worked briefly for my aunt who did marketing (as a holiday job), but I wasn't very good at it. Then, I stopped working because I went away to study. After that, I worked as an unpaid intern (T^T) for 9 months at a hospital, then they decided to hire me (yay) and I worked there for 3 more years as an associate psychologist. It was a difficult job, but I learned a lot. THEN, I went to study again for 3 years (due to job requirements to become a psychologist - that was also very difficult), and I have just finished that so now I have No Job. XD
My first job was selling hunting/fishing/camping equipment at a department store in BC, Canada.. I also really liked that job but after almost 3 years my manager started to really bother me so I just quit one day and never looked back! I then got a job doing large scale sandblasting in 2011, something I had never done and knew nothing about but I turned out doing well and I still do it today just for a different company and for a lot more money! I used to sandblast Semi truck frames, big excavators and things like that. that was a lot of fun but the amount of bullshit and dangerous risk involved wasn't worth the paycheck so now I make more money blasting smaller scale shit with a much cleaner and safer setup. I also paint here and there which I also really enjoy. I get to listen to my own music all day and work on my terms. Its pretty rad!
Hello Anni, very interesting jobs/career. Having a Mohawk haircut, then wearing 19th century clothing seems very Weird. Well done for always working, the suit of clothes you and Lauri are wearing looks like something you extruded in the very famous "Hydraulic Press". You are both braver than me. Love number seven job "You Tube Queen" . My first job at 14 years old was helping my father adding electrical wires in old houses for new lighting and socket outlets. These houses had outside toilets, and sometimes only gas lighting. Part of my job was to lift up the wooden boards in rooms to lay/route the wires in the gap between the ceiling below. In the bedrooms, I would have to move the "Chamber Pots" from under the beds, which still had liquid, and sometimes solids in them!!!!!!. Also small containers with feminine used products. Yuk!!!. Great channel both. Best regards from England.
Thanks for comment. I loved my mohawk, it was really cool. :D Huh, your first job sounds pretty hard! Greetings from Tampere, Finland and have a great day!
Thank you for your reply. Tampere must be the most intelligent city in Finland. I have never visited Finland (Suomi), I have worked in Norway (Skudeneshavn, on west coast) and Sweden (Göteborg/Gotheburg, Sandviken, Sunne, Fagersta, and Luleå ). I worked in Luleå from July to September. It was very strange to have sunshine/daylight for over 22 hours per day. Best Regards John
It's so nice to see how comfortable you're getting in front of the camera, Anni! My first job was as a waitress at a curry restaurant, owned by a Scottish Pakistani. The pay was about AUD$16 an hour, which wasn't bad, and I got payed in cash.
Thanks for sharing your story Anni :) My first job right after highschool was at a big company making stonecruschers. And now 33 years later I'm still there :-O ,,,only the company name has changed a few times Now It's Sandvik Rockprocessing. Have a great day ! :-D
So interesting to hear the story of how people got to where they are in life. Maybe another video could be of how you met Lauri, how he proposed... My first job was delivering newspapers in my neighborhood at 13 years old. Next was McDonalds, then one summer working as a counselor at a summer camp. One summer I worked at an ice cream shop and the money was not great and the owner was very strange. (Similar story to yours) I worked on a farm one summer and a daycare the last summer before I started my career as an elementary teacher. I’ve been teaching for 16 years in different classrooms! (How did I get so old!?!) I absolutely love teaching and wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Hi Anni! Thanks for sharing your stories about your workplaces. My first job was in a McDonald's drive through window at 16 years old. Low pay (it was almost 25years ago!) but surprisingly fun for such a fast pace.
Love you and Lauri! Good work! My first job was in Wyoming in the USA over the summer. I worked at a bowling alley at 15 years old and we installed new approaches board by board. New wood lanes and the first automatic scorers in that alley. Very unique job.
You were so punky! Love that mohawk! I've had (and quit) a lot of jobs, because I had to work while I went to college, and a lot of bosses don't want to deal with a student's schedule requirements. My first job at 17 was fun, I did one hour photo processing. People take some really weird pictures, and I could write a book about the things I have seen! I've also been emergency medical tech, a pharmacy tech, a salesperson, and an internet retail manager. I earned my Bachelor's degree and I still want a Master's degree, but I am finally working in my field. I am a middle school teacher, and I plan on teaching until I retire. :)
Yes, I was 100% punk girl! :D That is so true, some bosses dont understand students and their schedules. They dont even try to understand! Great to hear you have found your dream job! :)
In high school I made pizzas at Domino's from the age of 16 to almost 18. I quit there to work at a Landscape construction company installing lawn irrigation, ponds and water features for 3 years. While I was doing that, I went through a Vocational training course for precision machining and I got my current job as a Machinist and Ive been machining here for nearly 12 years now.
My first job was at a yogurt store. Was fun, but learned a hard lesson fast. Don't date the manager! Since then, I've had way too many jobs to count, and I'm on my third career. Typical American.. But happy with what I do now! Took me a long time to get there. I think you're doing great to feel this so early on. You go!
Anni, the museum you worked at looks like a museum in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan called Hanka Homestead Finnish Museum. My first job was a tour guide in an old underground copper mine called Adventure Mining Company (no joke, that was the name of the actual mining company in the 1850s!). The mine was also in the U.P. of Michigan not far from the Hanka Homestead Museum.
Nice video, and I love your suits! XD My first paying job was as a paperboy - I was 11 years old - and delivered newspapers to approx. 225 customers, two times a week. It was a shitty job, lousy salary even for a 11 year old kid, and I only did it for 3 months, then I got to work for my grandpa in his workshop - way better salary and way better job! (he was a mechanic and I was cleaning the shop 2 times a week)
my first job was when i was 17 and i worked as a roofing labourer but now that im 20 i have been leaning to be a carpenter and joiner for a year now and im from Scotland and my college lecturer used to work in Finland and he is also from Scotland
Hello, I came from beyond the press! You guys are awesome and always make me laugh. The graveyard job, 40km per day, then gardening? That’s a lot of exercise! My first job.. paper delivery when I was 12 🙂 and then a waiter when I was older, with the worst wage ever
I've had so many jobs that I can't even remember the number. My first job was at a garage while I was at school. I started off pumping petrol and by the end was doing real mechanic stuff. My worst paid job was pruning olive trees in Greece but the best paid was £150 an hour. I've worked as a photographer in an advertising agency and a sound engineer in theatre, music and television. In 2000 I had a huge change in my life and have struggled since but that's another story. I work now for myself with my partner Tamzin as a machinist repairing vintage motorcycles and making new parts for them. I'd prefer to be a writer or a historian but this is how it is.
Anni, you are the cutest. I love your stories. My first job was telemarketing, calling people trying to get them to do surveys with me on the phone asking their preferences on certain products. It was an utterly terrible job and I got fired after 3 days lol.
My first job was mowing lawns $25 per lawn. Mowning, weedeating, edging and clean-up. I live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is so hot in the summer! But that is when the grass grows the most and when I was the busiest. Now I work in a park as a Maintenance mechanic. It is still hot! LoL
I want to challenge my friend Sari (green haired Anni) and our filming/editing guy Tuomas to make similar video about their workplaces!
And if YOU will make video about your jobs, please send link for me! It would be interesting to hear your career story. :)
Sari`s channel: ua-cam.com/users/merikoira666videos
Tuomas channel: ua-cam.com/channels/xtlX711aTB1iOVE9iqEeqQ.htmlfeatured
Sari stopped uploading so much. She just disappeared. : (
I hope all is well for her.
psygn0sis I chat with Sari every day so I know everything is ok, she has been just busy. 😁
Anni Vuohensilta I would love to hear about Sari and Tuomas past careers
Challenge accepted! :)
Hahaa! Wild challenger appears and I am here with my green hair helmet! 😀 Challenge accepted 😁🤘🏼
Your English is getting really good!
Thanks, nice to hear!
Anni Vuohensilta - but please never lose your accent! It's so lovely of both of you. I (or more like, we, my girlfriend and me) really like watching your videos. Thank you very much for making them! I also deactivate Adblocker to watch your videos, I hope that's supporting you :) Greetings from Bavaria!
Manuel G I think we can not ever lose it because it our accent is so strong. :D Have a great day!
Hey Anni, thank you so much for taking us through your work history. You really talk to us like we are your good friends sitting at the dining table with you. It helps us to understand you better, because everyone is the sum of all their experiences. I’ve been to IKEA many times in the USA and watching you in so many videos and getting an idea about your personality I could totally see why you loved working there! You and Lauri are doing bigger and better things now so I hope you aren’t too sad about leaving IKEA. So many of us love what you guys do. Your vlogs and content over at HPC really help me get through the day!
Thanks Phillip, really nice comment! :) IKEA is one big community over the world and many of my workmates have been (or are right now) working abroad. I am not sad anymore because I enjoy our UA-cam work and it is very nice to be with Lauri every day. :) Have a great week!
I think it was great that you were a cemetary worker for a while, planting flowers, cleaning the church and generally keeping things tidy. That struck a note with me. To me it showed an appreciation and expression of respect for those Finns who made your wonderful country what it is and defended it against invaders. A Finnish gentleman, Karno, married a relative of mine and had an import-export business in the main port city in my state. My first job was as a laborer working on installation of a steam pipeline on the grounds of the University in my home town. In recent years the University spent million$ digging it up and replacing it with an environmentally safe system. The pipe insulation was a big toxic mess. Now I am a machinist operating my own shop in the countryside. My only workmates are the possums, racoons and birds who look in on me working away here and there during the day and night. Your videos are the best entertainment I have had in a long time; I no longer watch TV, only UA-cam! Please make more videos!
Only one work mate?? Nelli would like a word with you.
I mean Nelli is my boss, not work mate. :D
what about Leo and Leoko.....! they are very important too
I would've mentioned them too, but I couldn't remember how to spell their names! Ha.
Thats what i was going To say nelli would be the Boss .my jobs have only been a couple days of work .I cant really work cause of my legs are fuk up.
Lovely story. I'm so happy that you and Lauri found each other. Not only do you make each other happy, but you bring joy and humor to all of your fans. Thank you for posting.
Thanks for comment and have a great day!
My first job was a telephone solicitor. I called people from a phone number list to try to sell them newspaper subscriptions. I was 16 years old in 1978 when I got this job. Pay $3.35 an hour. Yes i'm old!
Thanks for your story Barry! Not great wage, but important experince!
That mohawk is amazing! I love how much pride you have in your work history. You got so emotional over having left IKEA, I teared up. I wish gap year was a thing in the US. It would give many kids the chance to mature a bit and decide if college really was for them or not. I'd go into my work history, but we'd be here all day (I've worked at over 20 places!) It would be a good video topic though, and I'll link it after I make it. My first job was working at the local library when I was 13-16, making $2.85 hour (less than minimum wage) shelving books, helping at the desk, etc. Many people don't realize you can work at 13 in the US. You're limited to 20 hrs a week and they can pay below minimum if you're underage.
Thanks, I was really proud of my mohawk! :D Yep, lefting IKEA was really tough for me. But sometimes you have to do decisions and I think I did right.
Wow, you have had really many workplaces, that would be interesting vlog!
Thanks Anni for sharing. My First job was unloading trucks of merchandise for Sears in North Hollywood. It was fun because my co worker was into Heavy Metal Music, and I played heavy metal gutair, and we could talk about songs all day ! 😃
Sounds really nice! :D Good music taste!
I love your videos! First paying job was hand stacking hay for a neighbor... um... 50 years ago. Lost count how many jobs I have had over the years.. I am close to retirement now! Looking forward to that.
Thanks David! You have done lot of work! Hope you will enjoy your retirement. :)
My first job was working on my father's commercial fishing boat when I was 13. Every weekend and summers I set nets, picked the nets, fixed the nets, sorted and packed the fish, and maintenance on the boat. It was a lot of hard work, and I barely got paid. In a way it was fun, and I learned a lot, but it sure did suck plenty too. I worked on the boats until I got my drivers license.
Huh, sounds really hard! But I think it teaches very much when you work on young age.
My first job was in the British merchant navy as a Deck boy. I had been at sea training school for 16 months to learn what to do before hand. My salary was £22.60p a month (About 26€. Which was not a lot even then back in 1968. I also had compulsory 8 hours a day overtime too - which was later reduced to 4 hours compulsory hours overtime every day.)It was hard work but I travelled to many places even though I left one year later, I still look back fondly to that time.
Thanks for your story, sounds tough but nice!
My first job was a dish washer/food prep in a Chinese restaurant in a very small town when I was 15.
They would make a TON of food at the end of the night just for me to take home.
Nice! Hope you liked chinese food. :D
My first Job was Mowing lawns, i used to walk around with a mower knocking on doors asking people if they wanted their lawns mowed. it was a really successful business, until i finished school and had to get a full time job, The Australian Navy.
Wow, nice business! :D Young entrepreneur.
Thanks for the story Anni! That mohawk was epic, my wife and I love your hair now but I wouldn't be opposed to seeing a comeback someday *wink wink nudge nudge*.
My story starts with building street rods with my dad at a young age (8-10 years old), learned how to weld and basic mechanics during that time and took on projects on my own in his shop, this carried on through high school. My first paying job was at a place my brother worked at that did residential heating and air conditioning installation, lots of crawling around under new or already built houses doing the duct work. Second job was working where my dad worked my entire childhood, they were an dirt work company with their own sand and gravel pit, my dad operated equipment for them and I would work in the weld shop repairing buckets and anything that broke down. Both first, second and third jobs were during my high school years. Third job was at a go-cart / mini golf place and I serviced the cars and took care of whatever customers needed while they were riding the cars. Fourth job, out of high school i started working for a local company that produces refrigerator units that go on truck trailers. I met my wife online, about this time i moved to her home state and waited for her to finish college, after that I moved back to my home state of Washington and found my fifth job which was a fab shop in my local town that built flat beds and work/service truck beds, as well as any other random fabrication requests. That job was short lived and I ended up trying to find a job through a temp agency as a welder/fabricator. They placed me where I currently work, my 6th employer. It's an OEM that manufactures paving equipment, I started as a welder in fabrication, after a couple years i got bored and had the opportunity to switch to the engineering department doing research and development of new products. I did that for about 10 years, building almost everything new that our company currently sells in our product lines, through this I learned hydraulics and electrical as well, being able to build a machine from start to finish out of flat plate steel to running and driving out the door. After that I was given the opportunity to move to the office and begin learning 3D auto cad (solidworks) and design fixtures for the company as a tooling design engineer and now i've been with the company 14 years. I still fabricate for the company when necessary on prototypes and I build cars/jeeps on my own at home now for fun and recreation. If you're still reading, thanks for listening to my story! Looking forward to the next vlog from our UA-cam Queen!!!!
I read all story! You have many things during the years. Lot of knowlegde and experience!
Thanks and have a great day to you two!
Very interesting. Loving the hairstyles you had during these years, especially the mohawk .
My first "job" was when I was 14 years old, I was crocheting & knitting baby clothes and hats.Not really an official job, but yeah, I was making pocket money and little me was happy about it. Then when I was 16 years old I was handing out flyers for a mobile phone company .Then when I started high school I worked at a cosmetic stand in a mall, I was promoting different beauty products and giving out free samples to passersby (mostly perfumes). When I started my university years I worked at a grocery store as a cashier for one year, then I worked for another year at a gift & souvenir shop for the same boss. Then for the next 3 years I worked as a seller in a furniture shop with my husband ( I was selling and taking custom orders, my husband was a drafter and worked in the factory + he was personally delivering the furniture) . After I became an environmental engineer...I obviously had no interest in working in the field, so I started to work in a thrift store for 8 months until I managed to get my certificate . Now I'm currently a qualified nail technician and working in a salon, working hard on getting my certificate as a hairstylist and makeup artist and dreaming that someday I will be able to open my own salon. My husband is still working in a furniture factory as a drafter, but for a different boss, different factory. He is also an environmental engineer but with no interest in the field. He is learning to get his licence as a truck driver. He worked as a sheep caretaker in a farm, rope access worker, in construction and as a mountain ranger.
You have done many jobs, really interesting! Great to hear you have found your dream job. :)
nicely done, Anni. It blows my mind how you can carry on a perfectly good English conversation. You are amazing!
Thanks! I can tell you I took many parts again. :D
Nice vid!
My first money making job was babysitting. I was 12. Then when I was 23 I got a job working with 2 of my brothers at a door shop. I started by cutting doors to custom sizes. Then I learned to do hinge preps and lock preps, then wind cut outs. Then I learned how to put in windows, package doors for shipping and picking parts for doors. I even learned to drive the fork lift. When I turned 30 I moved to be with my current wife. I got a job in a place that sells snacks and drinks to convenience stores. After a few years of that I got a job at Walmart in the warehouse. Did that for 3 months . Then got a job in the warehouse at canadian tire.
Thanks for your career story, interesting! Walmart´s warehouse must be huge place. :D
My first Job was 4 consecutive summers working at my local public school Bus Garage doing maintenance on buses and doing grounds maintenance. Come to think of it, I've only worked 8 different places in the last 34 years. Have been with my current employer for a total of 20 yrs.
Nice to hear your current workplace is good!
Anni,
My first job was washing dishes and busing tables at a country style restaurant on the east coast of America.
Even after all of these years have gone by, 37 to be exact, I still don't mind washing dishes!
Ha Ha!
Namaste.
Hahhah, hope you have dishwasher machine then. :D
Anni,
Nope. Doing it the old fashion way, by hand!
Namaste.
Moi Anni. Very interesting and personal video. You obviously really liked the IKEA job, such an emotional moment in the video :-)
As for my first job. I started delivering newspapers when I was 14. Up at 4 AM in the morning and got paid ...well shit lol.
Picked strawberries in the summer months back then as well. Didn't pay well either, but at least you could eat a lot of strawberries, when the owner wasn't around :-D
Hugs and love to you and Lauri... to Tuomas and Sari as well of course
P.S. I am way too shy and awkward to make a video... sorry :-/
P.P.S. I love the new clothes... Lauri especially haha.
I dont know why but your comments went to the spam. :D I saved it!
When I was cemetery worker, I woke up 5 AM every morning. But summer mornings in Finland are really bright so no problems!
Thanks and have great week! :)
Anni, I really like your channel! I wrote you on another video. Please, be happy you get to stay home even just with your husband. I was a musician... French horn. Romanian, toured all Europe. Lost my child after divorce and went for 19 years in the US. played, made masters... Got a surgery on my spine. Wasn't able to play my instrument. Drove a truck 6 years... One of those huge ones....
Got back in Romania... I will be happy to work some low level work now to stay around family....
I wrote just to say that you should be happy you stay home.... If you read some day...
Love your youtube! Good luck!
Just wanted to say Greetings From FL, USA. my first Job was at McDonalds (2002) doing fast food things. I now oddly enough collect bodies for funeral homes. Before that I drove motorcoaches and city buses for around 7 years.
Thanks for comment, your current job is pretty interesting. :D Greetings from Tampere, Finland!
I KNEW lauri likes gaming, i had it in my blood. Nice Vaultboy Tshirt he has!
Hello Anni!!!! You had a very interesting work history. Like you I have worked many jobs. My 1st job was after I finished my junior year in high school. I moved in with my Grandparents, who I loved so dearly and miss so much. My Grandpa passed away January 29 1995, and My Grandmother passed away July 19 2016. Anyhow, all 3 of us loved Ice-Cream. I filled out an application at Baskin "31 Flavors" Robbins, I got the job right then!!! 2 weeks later I was store manager & in charge of everything. The best part, was I could take home as much ice cream and I hired all my friends to work for me. 1 of my most favorite yet sentimental memories was every day my Dear Grandfather would come in to hangout with me, watch me make cakes, and of course get 3 scoops of Chocolate Mousse Royal!!!!! I hope you enjoy my "my 1st job".
Thanks for sharing this with us. Very interesting jobs! My first job was unpacking minicomputers (before PCs, 1977) as summer job in high school. I learned how to do more with computers each summer and after a couple of years was fixing them, programming them, etc...Eventually this led to my 20+ year career as an eletrical engineer (electronics).
It is really interesting how summer job lead to real job and career!
Anni Vuohensilta Yes, it also helped in my case to live in Silicon Valley during the boom times!
I started my first job when I was 15 years old. I worked at a rental center and was mostly doing delivery of things like big outside tents, tables and chairs, and similar items. It was tough job with many things that were heavy but it was fun. I think I made close to the same wage as your first job too. I also had a mohawk! ;)
You had nice job!
Mohawk style was so cool! :D
Those suits are fabulous. Anni with lip shirt, wild jacket, and zig-zag pants - stylish! I mean, it's a kind of style!
Hahhah, thanks! :D
So you asked, and even though it's a year+ later here you go.
I think we as family members always have some sort of job. Most of the time we get to call them chores since they do provide for some harmony, if not happiness, at home. But sometimes our family jobs really are our real jobs too. Yours today is video creation. Mine many yesterdays ago was pulling soft serve ice cream cones on our family's ice cream truck. I think there are very few other first jobs child of 5+ year old can have than learning how to create a beautifully swirled ice cream cone. For sure it was fun to eat the mistakes. Even better, was the smiles and joy to serve ice cream on a hot day in Houston to the line of people surrounding the ice cream truck. The hot day made every person a prisoner of your cold treats. The compliments me the happy warden of of the ice cream stream flowing from the truck. It was super nice to be able to help out my mother and father to run the business. Felt proud as we all worked as a team with both windows on either side of the ice cream truck serving while one parent or the other accepted money from the crowd. As I said it was a soft serve ice cream operation. This meant a more complex operation to keep the business going. Yet at the same time a very small amount of options for the customer to choose from. But fresh seemed to command the day over other truck that offered packaged products. I do think there was enough business for all. Still, I am proud of the options our truck offered like fresh hot fudge dipped cones. Vanilla milkshakes and chocolate malts, and of course banana splits and sundaes. For bonus items at local rodeos and other event we took along bags of roasted peanuts and also made bags of popped corn to sell.
Summer wasn't the only busy times. Even during the colder winter nights in December and January times when the weather is cold outside, and the wind was blowing, a line would form around the ice cream truck at 2 AM with people waiting their turn in line to buy some ice cream only a little colder than their shivering bodies. I remember on those days there were more than a few times when my father used another local person's phone (usually a customer a few minutes before, or after) to make a call their house back out our home for my mother to bring out more supplies. Cones, vanilla ice cream mix, syrups, boats for the splits, spoons, cups. And large cylinders of liquid propane to refill the tank on the truck than ran the generator. All of this in the back of a early 1960's white Chevy station wagon Two kids also along for the ride to journey out to wherever around Houston the truck ended up in the middle of the night. It was fun for us kids for a while. We enjoyed the chance to help out. Well, as much as any two droopy-eyed children can help out back in 1969. Those night resupply runs showed me a quality product will sell no matter what the weather is like at the time. Even more, my father out selling ice cream after a day in college, along with my mother doing the run with us, provided a solid demonstration of the effort it takes to move a family, and a business, forward in life. What a way for your father to put himself through college! A fantastic mom to as well to work as a team. Hard times. Sweet times. In today's world I doubt events like these would be smiled on much by the camera toting public. But back then, those days and nights made for some golden memories for me to keep forever.
Follow the link below for a photo from the ice cream cream truck era. This photo is from the spring or summer of 1970 I think. Our family truck visited the Galveston County Fair & Rodeo grounds quite often. Not only was it good business, but also a fun time. Many ice cream cones were trader for BBQ from one of the vendors on the grounds. It was fun watching the cowboys do do impressing feats on horse and on bull. Bagged peanuts in the window are a cue where we were at. Those peanuts were mainly sold at events. not on the regular neighborhood route runs.
Note the shirt. Loved (and still do) the US space program. Back then it was hard to avoid in Houston of the 1960's and 1970's. Every kid of that era, me included had starry eyes for space. I still do. So interesting to visit Johnson Space center many times.
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Things change, We left Houston a couple of years later. The student and ice cream truck business life of the Romero family transitioned to a new business based around Dr. Romero's clinic The change brought with it better times in many ways. A place to come back to. Interesting times in the 1970's. But little ice cream truck,,, I'll miss you forever.
Kiinnostava video, Anni! Olet ehtinyt kaikenlaista. Siistiä kuulla, että Ikea oli erityisen hyvä työnantaja.
Mun ensimmäinen työpaikka (kesätyö) oli silloinen "tienaa tonni", että tais saaha 1000 markkaa kahden viikon työstä S-ryhmällä (ravintola-apulaisena). Tosin euroihin oli kyllä jo siirrytty, vaikka siitä vielä puhuttiin tolla nimellä, joten se oli varmaan jotain 200 euroa, mikä tuntuu jäätävän pieneltä nykyään kahden viikon työstä. Sen jälkeen olin useamman kesän kerrossiivoojana hotellilla. Ja sitten eri ravintoloissa keikkatyötä. Ja yhden kesän jaoin sanomalehtiä aamuyöllä. Olin koulunkäyntiavustajana ja kielikurssiohjaajana. Sitten opetin japania eri kansalaisopistoilla useamman vuoden ja lopulta yhden lukukauden ammattikorkeakoululla. Ja olin töissä messu- ja kongressikeskuksessa. Samalla oon tehnyt konsultointia ja kirjoittanut matkajuttuja lehtiin. Tulkkaamistakin kokeilin. Ja sitten pikkuhiljaa siirryin nykyiseen duuniin eli matkanjohtajaksi ja matkaoppaaksi. Kaikkee sitä on ehtinytkin tehdä! Hyvä videoidea kyllä - hauska näitä muistella! 👌
Mahtavat PING-asut! Mä en ihan ehdi PINGiksi Suomeen, mutta Antti tulee edustamaan meitä sinne. 😊
-Lotta
Olet säkin monenmoista tehnyt! Mutta hienosti työt johtanut nykyiseen hommaan ja varmaan kaikesta kokemuksesta on tuossa hyötyä. :)
Toi "tienaa tonni" -homma oli kyllä katkeraa meidän pienellä paikkakunnalla, kun kaikki työntekijöiden lapset sai ne työt. :D
My first job was cutting grass for a local school board. 8 hour a day, all summer long, I pushed a lawn mower. I went from one school to another. Good tan but a few bee stings too.
PS Nice suits!
Seems cutting grass is pretty popular summer job.
Thanks!
My first job was a diesel mechanic. Started it in 2002 when I graduated HS. I worked for the City Of Little Rock. Left there in 2010 and went to work at Windstream Communications as a Fleet manager. Still there. Love it!
Thanks for your story and have a nice day. :)
My first job, I was employed for the summer assisting with house building of a friend's aunt and uncle. They were super people and the experience was priceless. We stained, painted, hung wallpaper, fetched things.
So neat to hear your story!
Great to hear you had nice work experience. Sometimes it means very much for young people!
My first job was working at a Mo-Ped store. A Mo-Ped is a 50cc gas powered small motorcycle with almost useless bicycle pedals. I repaired Mo-Peds, assembled and sold them, and fixed flat tires. That was WAY back in 1976, when I was only 16.
I think I could listen to you two talk all day !
We have made about 500 videos so you can really do it. :D Thanks and have a great day!
My first job was bailing hay and farm work. Also is it just me or does Anni resemble Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) from the movie Fifth Element?
My grandparents had farm too and I "helped" my grandpa sometimes. :D
Mmm, maybe I look little bit like Leeloo!
Very pretty. You and Lauri are a very nice couple.
Yes she does
Anni Vuohensilta multipass
My first job was at a freezer food shop offloading lorries and shelf stacking, it was awful and I quit after 3 hours, my next was as a maintenance technician which I am still doing 32 years later lol, love the hair by the way I used to have the same (many moons ago) but jet black ;P
After 3 hours? You really didnt like it. :D
Loving the business suits.
My work history..
1. Mobile Patrol Driver (security) - working on bridge renewal for railways.
2. Corporate Security Officer for Data/Mobile firm. This is the one job I miss doing.
3. Truck driver.
Thanks! :)
Interesting jobs!
My first job was as a 14 year old entrepreneur cutting grass and doing lawn work for the old ladies of my neighborhood! I did not charge much ($10 per yard), but it was a long time ago (1980)!
You helped old ladies and earned money, win win situation! :)
I was moving lawns for a property maintenance company as my first summer job. They didn't let me use the ones you ride on, so I had to use one that you steer by pushing. I felt the vibration even when I went to be in the evening for the first few weeks, I was not used to doing anything like that :D
I had really nice red ride on lawn mower in cemetery. :D
Funny coincidence. My first job was in high school working at an engineering company that specialized in the destructive testing of concrete using hydraulic presses. Most of my work was cleaning up the mess after crushing concrete samples. I also helped them cast the samples too. But as a computer student I saw an opportunity here as well. Their engineers were doing statistics with calculators and typing reports (I am old, it's true) The company had a small computer for accounting, so I talked to the owner and got a side job writing programs to help automate their reports. What the boss told me later was very true: From the neck down, what you can earn is pretty limited, maybe you can sweep up broken cement; from the neck up you are unlimited.
Thanks for your story, well said!
I think you two are a great addition to UA-cam and I wish you many years of success.
I've watched most of your videos but not in chronological order. Your videos allow people to watch in any order that they stumble upon them, that's a good thing. "Beyond the Press" is what led me to
channel
I'm jealous of your organization, Anni! I'm sure I've got a picture from every job I've had, but I would never be able to find them :( My first job was as a school custodian when I was 15 years old. It was quite enjoyable actually, very quiet and peaceful in a school once the children have left.
Is that custodian almost same as janitor?
Yes, same same.
My dad is a roofer (roof builder), and during the summer i'd also help him on the roofs, so that was pretty much my only summer job from the age of about 10. After i turned 18 i got a job as a consumer electronics salesman. Was bretty gud :D
My first real job was mowing lawns and cleaning outdoors, at an insane asylum. Later I worked at shipping/receiving, at the same asylum. We unloaded trucks and kept a warehouse. Thanks for another great video!
Thanks for comment! Now I see almost everyone has been moving lawns for summer job. :D Thanks for watching and have a great day!
Both channels are time well spent. Thank you.
P.S. My son-in-law is in the process of making a "bearing bracelet" for my daughter.
You want to know my employment history? Lol alright story time.
August 2003 I'd just turned 18 and got my first real job (up until then I had helped my dad in construction and was getting paid about $10/hr) at Kmart which is a US department store much like Walmart only almost bankrupt now. I got basically minimum wage ($6.50/hr x 40hrs a week). Toward the end of this job I also got a 2nd job at AutoZone (US auto parts store) for similar pay just much fewer hours.
January 2006 I left Kmart to work for Pepsi for $10/hr full time again. Much better company but as you said, I missed having so many workmates (we call em co-workers in the US).
That lasted for about a year but then my relationship at the time demanded that I move, so I quit Pepsi for a little bit and sold cars (Suzukis) thanks to a very sweet sign on bonus. About a month later I realized it was a horrible dealer and there was a reason they offered a sign on bonus and conflicted with every moral I had, so I got out of there really quick. Unfortunately immediately after that I went to sell cars for a different dealer (Nissans) thinking it'd be different. It wasn't.
After about a month at that dealer in April 2007 I landed a great job at Gulfstream Aerospace paying $13/hr with LOTS of overtime equating about 55 hrs a week working in an airplane factory. Really enjoyed that. Up until about November of 2007 when I had a little accident at work and got laid off.
Then I was unemployed for a bit and living off my savings until about January of 2008 when I got another job working in a Boeing airplane factory for $15.64/hr (no overtime though lol).
Then in November 2008 there was a big worker strike at the Boeing factory in Washington which ended up getting me and several others laid off from that job too for a time.
Next job was sometime in January of 2009 I think I got a job for $13/hr at a beer warehouse hauling carts and pallets of beer around all night (night shift) and loading them on trucks. This job was horrible in every way but one, I worked so hard every night I got down to my lowest adult weight of 170# (from 215# previously) in about 9 months.
However I eventually got tired of the stuck up bosses and ever-increasing workload at that job and decided to something entirely different so later in 2009 I decided to join the military. I enlisted in April of 2010 and I've been in the US Air Force ever since and honestly it's still my favorite job even 10 years later. Best pay I've ever had, free college education, and I've been to and/or lived in 26 US states and 5 or 6 countries.
Hi Anni =) To answer your question: My first job was when I was 17. I did a job called “detasseling” here in IL. Basically, you walk the fields of corn, pulling the tassel off of the top of each corn stalk. The job would start very early in the morning, and would pay pretty good, but it was hard work. You had to wear gloves to keep the corn from cutting you, and carry water, because of the heat. The job only lasts for about three weeks or so depending on the season. Look up “corn detasseling” for more information. Nice video, and thank you for sharing your work career(s) =)
Hi Anni! My first job I was 14 years old and delivered newspapers to people in my neighborhood. It wasn't much money but it was OK. I delivered the newspapers in the morning on my bicycle then went to school. After that I worked in a pet store until I graduated college.
My first job was woodworking for my dad's business. He made oak-carved pieces that hung on the wall (Like clocks and mirrors and stuff), then sold them at art shows. So I was sanding, cutting, gluing, etc to wood all day long. After that I worked washing dishes in a restaurant. Then I went to college and had a job packing boxes at a place that sold audio/video equipment. Then I worked as a web developer for a few years. And the last 10 years I have worked at a place called Sound Devices that makes audio and video recording devices. Obviously I love my current job, having been there so long. I'm still paying for school and probably will be for most of of my life since I'm in America.
I hope you find some time to get out and see people, Anni. It seems like all the people is what you liked a lot about your job at IKEA. :)
You have done many jobs!
Yes, there were many good bosses and coworkers in IKEA. :)
Another great video Anni!!
I love watching both HPC & BTP... I am liking your AV channel just as well.
You two seem like such nice people, it is nice to learn more about you!!
Thank you & keep up the great work.
Moi Anni! My first workplace was working for my family’s newspaper business when I was a kid. But when I went off to college I became a nuclear engineer in the navy on submarines. I have had many different engineering jobs since then in chemical plants and refineries and the marine shipping industry and environmental engineering.
First paid job "request" was woodworking project for school teacher, which we made together with friend on 9th grade. Then there was couple weeks of candle making at summer. Then some work on scrap disassemble shop. After that random PC support thing here and there. Then few years of coding and currently coding + systems specialist stuff.
Candle making must be fun!
Love those test card suits! Loved seeing all the different versions of Anni too - always smiling 😀
Thanks, nice to hear! :D
The month I left school I applied for a job in a warehouse which I thought would be fine work to do while I was working out where I was going to study to build a career in IT, but the guy didn't hire me for warehouse, during the interview he found out I was good with computers and instead gave me a job setting up a computer system for the warehouse. He didn't know what title to give me, so I suggested "IT Manager" because I thought it'd look impressive on my resume. Now I actually do real warehouse work and drive a forklift - turns out IT work makes me depressed. Luckily I figured that out before I wasted my time studying it for years.
Thanks for story, interesting to hear. Luckily you dared to change the direction!
Love the test pattern on the suits, the horizontal resolution bars are even working
Very nice Anni....it's nice to hear someone had a job that they really liked....my first job was at McDonalds! Lol....I made about $3.80 per hour (that's about 3.11 euro) this was back in the 80s mind you. I worked there for about 3 months then got a better job, I'm glad I did it though....I feel more accomplished that I worked my way up through the ranks from starting literally at the bottom lol.
I think McDonalds is pretty common first workplace. (Some of student friends also worked in MC).
My first job was delivering news papers with my friend. I was 12 years old. We had a route with about 140 customers. The Saturday papers were about 1" thick and took-up 2 carts. Our route was many city blocks away and pulling those damn carts full of papers just about killed us, just to get to the start of our route! Then on Tues. & Wed. nights after dinner, we had to go and collect the money for the papers. You wouldn't believe how hard it was to get some people to pay-up for the papers we had delivered! Luckily `some customers really appreciated us and gave us like 50 cents for a tip. I made about $7.00 per week for all of my efforts and most of that was spent on candy!
Huh, you have started early and hard job!
lol i love your flashback pictures, they're awesome. my first job was toys r us when i was 15, and it was a terrible place to work.. i'm not surprised they're going out of business now. i work by myself now in analytical chemistry and i can totally sympathize about missing coworkers! it can make a lot of difference. can't wait to see you guys wear those suits! ♡
Actually my 4. workplace (lunch cafe) has stopped, because they had some hygiene problems etc there.
Good workmates are really important thing and even the boring job is nice when you have great coworkers!
10 years old went into the woods with my uncles and learned to log. Been logging for over 50 years.
You started very early!
My first job was in a movie theatre. I sold popcorn and candy and cleaned everything. That job was kind of crazy. We served hundreds of people everyday and it was really stressful. Later I worked for two different fast food restaurants (Arby’s and Jack-In-The-Box). Both were also very stressful. Then I worked as a nurse assistant in a children’s acute care hospital. That job was the most rewarding but the most exhausting. Then I worked as a diesel mechanic for a landscaping company for two years! Funnest job because I worked with my friend and we enjoyed working on the large machines. Then I worked for one year as a machine operator at a packaging manufacturer. Boring as hell but payed the bills. Now I am just trying to finish school so I can get a job that I want!
omg, I'm 27 and I'm... the museum guide :D unfortunately this is my first job because I study from almost... 8 years. I studied history, then public history, now I'm writing my PhD work. I wish I could start to work earlier because working gives a lot of experience even in so stupid place as a museum :) there is a few customers in my workplace too, so me and my workmates read a lot of books, we love it :) but maybe one day I will the UA-cam Queen too :D greetings from Poland!
It's always good to get a buzz on and watch you guys!
Hi Anni, I really love your videos H.P.C. and B.T.P. and Anni channel . My first work place was a truck garage when I was 13 and I built a 1961 Mack B62 thermodyne diesel truck from the chassis up . I had a great boss and learned quite a lot there . I hope some time you can visit Boston , I would love to meet you and Lauri face to face I think you are wonderful people .
Moi Anni and Lauri, Nice to hear your humble beginnings! Mine was a hot job also and making $2.85 an hour washing dishes for catering business! Lots of sweating and lots of wet clothes! LOL on the suits too! They do stand out! Kiitos !
Moi Rob! Huh, your first job sounds really hard! And wet. :D Kiitos!
Hello Anni &Lauri. My 1st job was working in a cable manufacturing place, straight out of 12 years of schooling. Good place to work, but after 2.5 years the whole place went into recievership, and closed up, then I went to finding part time work , then a few years after that, I found a full time job.
Age 6 worked on local dairy farm-paycheck was fresh gallons of milk and a $10 bill for the week. Age 11 (1963) worked with my Dad building houses from foundation to the roof-started at $50 a day (real good money). Continued working with my Dad til early 2000's through high school and university with a 7 year stretch in mid 80's to early 90's as hospice nurse. Just wanted to mention the Ikea locker clean out looked a little like a hotel room we've seen before (chuckle, chuckle). Working with family can be a challenge at times but mostly a very rewarding experience. Also, did the aluminium ball cut with torch make it into the display case?
Thanks for your story, you started really early your career!
Yes, I noticed same, exactly same as our hotel room. :D
Actually it is not in vitrin yet, but we are planning to put it!
My 1st job was working at Dixie dozen. It was a movie theater building. I worked there for a year and six months. I was in charge of candy sales and stocking all the candy , popcorn , drink cups. And all the cleaning and sweeping . And locking the doors at night. I loved my first job. I have had eight jobs. I am on my 9 the job right now. I work at Kroger's and I do Clicklist.
Your first job sounds really nice and cool!
It really was nice and very cool it had a great benefit
When a new movie came out after the first day of the public paying to see it. That night all the works could bring one family member or friend to see it for free and we could bring our own food and drink. I miss working there.
Both me and husband love all your videos! Please never stop!
I’ve always been a computer guy. First “salary” was a bag of dried fruit when I was 15,I believe, and then did PC support and computer assembly for e couple years in early college, then switched to coding full time. Always wanted to do a wider variety of jobs, but they don’t pay as well, so no luck for me ;)
Hahhah, great salary, almost better than my ice cream kiosk salary! But when you have earned enough with PC things you can do something else just for fun. :D
Sergey Chernyshev In my view. What does Information technology mean for most of employers? Money muncher. If you like to master your business skill, just work with Hong Kong, your skill shall be improved faster than many places.
Anni Vuohensilta I guess that depends on places.
I’ve always been an electronics guy. Never had a chance for a normal job like ice cream kiosk guy. Not many workmates just cables and pcbs ;)
I really smile when I see your face. You bring such a happy feeling. Thank you.....
Thanks for the nice comment 😁
I was a trolley collector at our local supermarket, i started there at 13 years old long before any of my friends had jobs.
Nice, you started your career early. :)
I did some lawn mowing and electric repair at my first job at Theology University and Priesthood Institute (chatolic). It was a summer job 14 years ago, and I was the only one there who were not baptized :)
Nice! Lawn mowing is fun!
Aww you really liked your Ikea job. I never felt that way about any job I had.
Great vid :)
Yep, I really loved it! Thanks!
A lot of times, it’s the people you work and the times you shared with that you miss the most.
I’ve worked for a couple of companies that were like that.
Loved this vlog! My first job was "do-anything-and-everything guy" in a small TV production company. Wash dishes, help buy or make props, do spreadsheets, assist the film crew. On shoot days we work anywhere between 12-16 hours straight. On location where it is a business, we have to wait for the place to close before we can start shooting so the camera starts rolling at around 12am after the crew finishes setting up. It was quite surreal to finish work at lunchtime. Also remember that one location in an alley at 3am, where it smells of dead rats. Now I work in advertising as an art director. A lot less crazy but still a crazy life.
Production company work is really hard and long days! Sometimes people think it is very easy to just film, but it´s not!
First job was a TV repair shop go-fer guy - I shepherded big glass TVs from our two shops about 50km from each other, busted old tubes to be recycled, learned a bit o' electronics and how to solder and desolder. Then, after I left home: pizza delivery guy, computer salesman, made fudge + caramel apples + chocolate + brittle for 3 years, then finally a few well-paying computer sysadmin jobs. Now: solopreneur! Yay! No money! No time off!
Thanks for your story, many jobs!
You guys are my favorite lol. Cheers from New York
Thanks and greetings from Tampere, Finland!
Nice story! I started out as a computer programmer and worked at one place for 17 years, and now I am a manager of the programmers at a different place for the last 26 years! But I also play bass in a band!
So cool to hear your career and different workplaces. Liking the fun suits!
I have had 2 full time jobs and both of them were stressful in different ways (T^T), I wish I could find a job that I love just like you enjoyed your Ikea job! My first paid job was at a school. I did an admin job, doing a lot of miscellaneous tasks including basic IT support, data entry, creating passwords and student accounts, photocopying etc, for 1 year, until it got too boring. I was falling asleep at work!! So I quit. I also worked briefly for my aunt who did marketing (as a holiday job), but I wasn't very good at it. Then, I stopped working because I went away to study. After that, I worked as an unpaid intern (T^T) for 9 months at a hospital, then they decided to hire me (yay) and I worked there for 3 more years as an associate psychologist. It was a difficult job, but I learned a lot. THEN, I went to study again for 3 years (due to job requirements to become a psychologist - that was also very difficult), and I have just finished that so now I have No Job. XD
Engrossing story! I hope you get new job soon! :)
Thanks, Anni :)
My first job was selling hunting/fishing/camping equipment at a department store in BC, Canada.. I also really liked that job but after almost 3 years my manager started to really bother me so I just quit one day and never looked back! I then got a job doing large scale sandblasting in 2011, something I had never done and knew nothing about but I turned out doing well and I still do it today just for a different company and for a lot more money! I used to sandblast Semi truck frames, big excavators and things like that. that was a lot of fun but the amount of bullshit and dangerous risk involved wasn't worth the paycheck so now I make more money blasting smaller scale shit with a much cleaner and safer setup. I also paint here and there which I also really enjoy. I get to listen to my own music all day and work on my terms. Its pretty rad!
I love that Lauri has a Fallout Vault Boy T-shirt on! Fallout is my most favorite game of all time
Hello Anni, very interesting jobs/career. Having a Mohawk haircut, then wearing 19th century clothing seems very Weird.
Well done for always working, the suit of clothes you and Lauri are wearing looks like something you extruded in the very famous "Hydraulic Press". You are both braver than me.
Love number seven job "You Tube Queen" .
My first job at 14 years old was helping my father adding electrical wires in old houses for new lighting and socket outlets. These houses had outside toilets, and sometimes only gas lighting.
Part of my job was to lift up the wooden boards in rooms to lay/route the wires in the gap between the ceiling below.
In the bedrooms, I would have to move the "Chamber Pots" from under the beds, which still had liquid, and sometimes solids in them!!!!!!. Also small containers with feminine used products. Yuk!!!.
Great channel both.
Best regards from England.
Thanks for comment. I loved my mohawk, it was really cool. :D
Huh, your first job sounds pretty hard!
Greetings from Tampere, Finland and have a great day!
Thank you for your reply.
Tampere must be the most intelligent city in Finland.
I have never visited Finland (Suomi), I have worked in Norway (Skudeneshavn, on west coast) and Sweden (Göteborg/Gotheburg, Sandviken, Sunne, Fagersta, and Luleå ). I worked in Luleå from July to September. It was very strange to have sunshine/daylight for over 22 hours per day.
Best Regards John
It's so nice to see how comfortable you're getting in front of the camera, Anni! My first job was as a waitress at a curry restaurant, owned by a Scottish Pakistani. The pay was about AUD$16 an hour, which wasn't bad, and I got payed in cash.
Thanks, nice to hear! :)
Pretty good salary in the first job!
Thanks for sharing your story Anni :)
My first job right after highschool was at a big company making stonecruschers.
And now 33 years later I'm still there :-O ,,,only the company name has changed a few times
Now It's Sandvik Rockprocessing.
Have a great day ! :-D
Hi Peter! There is also Sandvik´s factory in our hometown Tampere. :)
Lookin good GUYS im glad i found this channel
Thanks for watching Jay! :)
So interesting to hear the story of how people got to where they are in life. Maybe another video could be of how you met Lauri, how he proposed...
My first job was delivering newspapers in my neighborhood at 13 years old. Next was McDonalds, then one summer working as a counselor at a summer camp. One summer I worked at an ice cream shop and the money was not great and the owner was very strange. (Similar story to yours) I worked on a farm one summer and a daycare the last summer before I started my career as an elementary teacher. I’ve been teaching for 16 years in different classrooms! (How did I get so old!?!) I absolutely love teaching and wouldn’t trade it for anything.
I will do video about our story, maybe when we have wedding anniversary on summer! :)
Great story and many interesting jobs.
Hi Anni! Thanks for sharing your stories about your workplaces. My first job was in a McDonald's drive through window at 16 years old. Low pay (it was almost 25years ago!) but surprisingly fun for such a fast pace.
Hi Jason! I always enjoy fast pace. December was really busy time in Tiimari store but I enjoyed it reallu much!
Love you and Lauri! Good work! My first job was in Wyoming in the USA over the summer. I worked at a bowling alley at 15 years old and we installed new approaches board by board. New wood lanes and the first automatic scorers in that alley. Very unique job.
I have to tell you I learned all U.S. states on weekend so now I know where is Wyoming. :D
Your first job sounds really interesting!
You were so punky! Love that mohawk! I've had (and quit) a lot of jobs, because I had to work while I went to college, and a lot of bosses don't want to deal with a student's schedule requirements. My first job at 17 was fun, I did one hour photo processing. People take some really weird pictures, and I could write a book about the things I have seen! I've also been emergency medical tech, a pharmacy tech, a salesperson, and an internet retail manager. I earned my Bachelor's degree and I still want a Master's degree, but I am finally working in my field. I am a middle school teacher, and I plan on teaching until I retire. :)
Yes, I was 100% punk girl! :D
That is so true, some bosses dont understand students and their schedules. They dont even try to understand!
Great to hear you have found your dream job! :)
In high school I made pizzas at Domino's from the age of 16 to almost 18. I quit there to work at a Landscape construction company installing lawn irrigation, ponds and water features for 3 years. While I was doing that, I went through a Vocational training course for precision machining and I got my current job as a Machinist and Ive been machining here for nearly 12 years now.
My first job was at a yogurt store. Was fun, but learned a hard lesson fast. Don't date the manager! Since then, I've had way too many jobs to count, and I'm on my third career. Typical American.. But happy with what I do now! Took me a long time to get there. I think you're doing great to feel this so early on. You go!
Hahha, sorry but I laughed for your first job story. :D Have a nice day!
Anni, the museum you worked at looks like a museum in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan called Hanka Homestead Finnish Museum. My first job was a tour guide in an old underground copper mine called Adventure Mining Company (no joke, that was the name of the actual mining company in the 1850s!). The mine was also in the U.P. of Michigan not far from the Hanka Homestead Museum.
I searched it from Google and looks really Finnish! :D
I think underground mines are pretty scary!
Nice video, and I love your suits! XD
My first paying job was as a paperboy - I was 11 years old - and delivered newspapers to approx. 225 customers, two times a week. It was a shitty job, lousy salary even for a 11 year old kid, and I only did it for 3 months, then I got to work for my grandpa in his workshop - way better salary and way better job! (he was a mechanic and I was cleaning the shop 2 times a week)
Many kids here in Finland do same newspapers/advertising leaflets job. Bad salary and hard job!
my first job was when i was 17 and i worked as a roofing labourer but now that im 20 i have been leaning to be a carpenter and joiner for a year now and im from Scotland and my college lecturer used to work in Finland and he is also from Scotland
Thanks for comment!
I loved this video Anni, it's great to hear more about my favourite UA-camrs. Please can you do more like this?
Love you guys.
Really nice to hear you liked! :) Have a great day!
Hello, I came from beyond the press! You guys are awesome and always make me laugh. The graveyard job, 40km per day, then gardening? That’s a lot of exercise!
My first job.. paper delivery when I was 12 🙂 and then a waiter when I was older, with the worst wage ever
Hi and welcome! :)
Yep, the graveyard summer was really hard. I just worked or cycled or slept. :D
I've had so many jobs that I can't even remember the number. My first job was at a garage while I was at school. I started off pumping petrol and by the end was doing real mechanic stuff.
My worst paid job was pruning olive trees in Greece but the best paid was £150 an hour. I've worked as a photographer in an advertising agency and a sound engineer in theatre, music and television. In 2000 I had a huge change in my life and have struggled since but that's another story. I work now for myself with my partner Tamzin as a machinist repairing vintage motorcycles and making new parts for them.
I'd prefer to be a writer or a historian but this is how it is.
You have done well for being so young. The suits are awesome.
Thanks!
Anni, you are the cutest. I love your stories. My first job was telemarketing, calling people trying to get them to do surveys with me on the phone asking their preferences on certain products. It was an utterly terrible job and I got fired after 3 days lol.
Thanks, nice to hear. :) Huh, sounds terrible! And usually people dont like telemarketing sellers and they can be really rude.
My first job was mowing lawns $25 per lawn. Mowning, weedeating, edging and clean-up. I live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is so hot in the summer! But that is when the grass grows the most and when I was the busiest. Now I work in a park as a Maintenance mechanic. It is still hot! LoL
Good salary, I think! (If they werent football field size lawns.:D)
Maybe not football size yards but they sure felt like it!