First Salary!!!Please share what you did with your first salary
Hi all,
This weekend I'm going to watch 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1'
So excited!!!!!
The book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the first thing I bought in my first salary.
I'm curious to know, what you guys bought on your first salary...
Please share what you did/bought with your first salary
20 Answers
A washer and dryer for my wife to use, instead of going to the laundromat.
Hace muuuuchos años en el 11 grado de la escuela secundaria mi primer trabajo fue en una casa de ancianos y mi primer compra fue un tocadiscos. Many years ago my first job (in grade 11) was in a Seniors' Home, my first purchase was a record player!
I had been going to school for a year with no income, so I probably used the money for food and bills. And there was always something to fix on the blue volkswagon bug.
It was just so great to have a job at last.
I remember perfectly... I was working on an ophthalmology clinic, doing tests to the patients who were about to get surgery.
Recuerdo perfectamente, estaba trabajando en una clínica de oftalmología, haciéndole estudios a los pacientes que estaban por hacerse una cirugía.
And I bought and iPod... which my dad kept for himself.
Y compré un iPod... que mi papá se quedó.
... I remember perfectly because that was 3 years ago... jeje
Oh, mi eso fue hace años, desespigamiento semillas de maíz. No tengo idea de lo que hice con mi primer sueldo. ¡Recuerdo lavando todo lo que el barro asquerosa fuera de mi pelo!
Oh, my that was years ago, detasseling seed corn. I have no idea what I did with my first salary. I remember washing all that icky mud out of my hair!
I was working in a public library.
Trabajaba en una biblioteca pública.
And I bought books!
¡Y compré libros!
I think I made a contribution to the people inventing dirt.
I was 14 and worked weekends and after school at the donut shop a block from my house. The rule was that I had to save 1/2 of my salary...the other half was mine, but I had to buy my own clothes, meals outside the home, etc. The first thing that I bought with my own salary was a 45 rpm record.....the Bee Gees, "New York Mining Disaster of 1941". It was their first U.S. release, before disco.....
I went to work when I was 14 years old, My Mother allowed me to keep my first months pay to buy clothes ..I earnt 6 pounds a week...I thought I was rich ...
Creo que fue el pago inicial de mi primera moto de nieve. I believe it was the down payment on my first snowmobile.
These are much more modern and advanced than mine ever were, I started in 1969, but I posted this photo to show Vaanz what a snowmobile is.
He comprado mi madre una "torta de Arco Iris" con mi primer cheque de pago. Fue la torta más exóticas que jamás había visto, ella lo amaba.
I bought my mother a "Rainbow cake" with my first pay check. It was the most exotic cake I had ever seen ,she loved it.
Mi guitarra Consuelo absorbe mi primer sueldo.
Every penny of 92 days ( I counted them one by one) of hard work in the cement phase of a construction site, ended up buying this handmade flamenco guitar.
My later teacher and mentor made her, I named her Consuelo..
I was 15 years old.
She is in front of me right now in my office in perfect condition and I am very proud.. 
Vaanz,
Great question! And should I 'fess up? Yeah! Why not. I have loved the Beatles music for as long as I care to remember. And so, of course, (part) of my first pay-packet went on a Beatles record.
And, just in passing - to buy a record you actually had to...
- Go into a (record) shop
- Pass over some cash (credit cards unheard of circa 1972)
- Take your record home (you probably went to the shop by train)
- Put the record on a record-player (yes electricity was invented by that stage ...but only just...
I was 16 years old when I earned my first salary, working as a bell hop in an old dumpy hotel in the winter of 1962. I was living alone, in a tiny, unheated, dark room, with a bed and a one burner electric stove. The first thing I bought was one chicken, at a local supermarket. I went home, put that chicken in a pot of water, with no vegetables or seasoning, because I had no idea how to cook at the time, and I boiled it. Man, that was the best tasting chicken ever, because I hadn't had anything to eat during the previous two days. How do you like that for an answer??? I learned an important lesson during those days: life is not fair.
Cuando viví en España el otoño pasado, también compré "Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal" (en español) con mi primer sueldo. 
Voy esta noche a ver la séptima película. ¡Qué disfrutes!
When I lived in Spain last fall, I also bought "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (in Spanish) with my first paycheck. I'm going to go see the seventh movie tonight. Enjoy!
Happy Thanksgiving!! ¡Feliz Día Acción de Gracias!
