--- title: Marissa Mayer's First Job Was Working as a Checkout Clerk. Tell Us Yours. description: At MONEY, we're looking for the funniest, grossest, and most heartwarming stories about first work experiences. Tell us yours. authors: - name: karavbrandeisky url: https://money.com/author/karavbrandeisky/ at_money_since: 2014 articles: 2 covers: - Career Advice - Identity Theft former_staff: true published: '2014-08-26T20:37:22.000Z' modified: '2020-07-07T10:32:15.000Z' section: Career Advice tags: - best first jobs - first job - first job advice - first jobs - food service jobs - Kids and Money - summer jobs - Teenagers - worst first jobs word_count: 186 canonical: https://money.com/first-job-stories-worst-best/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Marissa Mayer's First Job Was Working as a Checkout Clerk. Tell Us Yours.](https://money.com/img/logo-social.png) Everyone has to start at the bottom of the ladder. For Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, that rung was the County Market in Wausau, WI, where she worked as a grocery checkout clerk the summer she turned 16. She told [Fortune](http://archive.fortune.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1010/gallery.40_first_jobs.fortune/), > I learned a lot about family economics, how people make trade-offs, and how people make decisions on something fundamental, like how to eat. And, quirkily, I picked up the habit of turning all the bills in my wallet to face and be oriented the same way, because we needed to do this as we counted out our tills at the end of our shifts. It still bothers me to this day if a bill in my wallet is turned the wrong way. 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