What Was Your First Paying Job? How Does It Measure Up To Celebs’?

Robert Downey, Jr. just topped Forbes.com's annual list of Highest Paid Actors in Hollywood, for the second year in a row. He reportedly raked in $75 million this past year. We're assuming it's a lot of residuals from the HUGELY popular Ironman movies.

The Rock came in at number two...yes, we still smell what he's cooking.

We started talking about first paying jobs (not necessarily babysitting or family-biz work, but ones where you needed "working papers" and had to start paying Uncle Sam)...

I was a cashier at Quality Markets in Lakewood, N.Y. for $3.80/hour. Gordon was in the Depew Rec Department doing general maintenance for $2.30/hour.

What was your first paying job, and how much did it pay?