iOS Engineer Oleksandr Berezovsky published a screenshot of a post where a girl admits how she earned money by collecting Colorado potato beetles from her grandmother’s potatoes.
iOS Engineer Oleksandr Berezovsky published a screenshot of a post where a girl admits how she earned money by collecting Colorado potato beetles from her grandmother’s potatoes.
The screenshot says that since she was paid 5 kopecks for each beetle, the girl secretly collected beetles from her neighbors' gardens to earn more.
«I was already working two full-time jobs back then,» Berezovsky joked and asked the community if they remembered their first job. The answers were sometimes funny.
«My grandfather used to pay a penny for every fly he killed in the house, until he caught him with a flyswatter near the village toilet,» said Lead Software Engineer Stepan Zelenin.
Anna Lopuseva, Service Sales Manager, says that she killed moths at home for money. «And if it was a normal job and not paid by parents for housework, then I was a salesperson, or rather, a promoter, but the functionality there was sales,» she added.
Roman Kovalsky, Frontend Senior Technical Team Lead, said that he had the only computer in the house, and schoolchildren would come to play. «Two kopecks a minute. And at that time I was sleeping after classes at the university,» he said.
HR Generalist Alla Sayuk shared that she topped up people’s mobile accounts near a large supermarket. «There was such a service once, when there were no terminals and Privat24. That was back in 2007, and it was trash back then. It lasted me a couple of days,» she says.
Designer Alina Zamaraeva said that as a child, she and her brother sold their old toys from the trunk of their uncle’s Zaporozhets to gypsy children. «And they bought them until their parents noticed a very lively movement and stopped it,» the girl shared.
«From the age of about 9, I sold kittens at the market. The cat would give birth and when they were two months old, the kittens would find owners. Then I sold strangers' kittens. Only once did I have to leave one in someone’s yard. It was very difficult. And so my jobs were selling kvass, ice cream, picking berries and destroying weeds in the field, washing dishes. Not everything should be on your CV, but these are the ways to become a specialist,» says Nadiya Sulimenko, Environmental Health Safety Engineer.
Deputy Director Bohdana Malikova also traded at the market. «I sold berries at the market. In our family, everyone goes through this, it’s like a tradition. It’s called 'let’s learn to earn our own penny.' Now my niece has taken over the baton,» she said.
And entrepreneur Maksym Kovalenko said that his first job happened when he was 8-9 years old. «I gathered friends and unloaded cars with goods for a car dealership in Odessa. Year 92-93…», he shared.
« In the fourth grade of school, we, the children, were organized to take to a fur factory to collect boxes for hats. We were paid a penny for two boxes. This was the end of the 80s. And during the holidays, we collected linden and chamomile blossoms, dried them and handed them over to the pharmacy, where my grandmother was the manager. I don’t remember the level of payment, but it was enough for goodies,» said PM Natalia Dramaretska.
