My first actual "paycheck" job was $6.15/hr, fast food. That didn't last long, I went back to doing landscaping under the table for $9/hr... which was decent money at the time untaxed for a 18 year old kid. I liked landscaping a lot. As a matter of fact, the owner of the $6.15/hr fast food job eventually hired my buddy and myself to landscape his restaurant after I had worked there, and the owner dude loved the results.