How did you get your first salary?

My first salary was earned when 19 was working abroad. I was a freshman in hotel management in Switzerland. For a part-time job, I will occasionally do odd jobs in restaurants without delaying my studies. I remember I got my first job opportunity by knocking at the door. I knocked on doors and asked them if they could offer jobs. Later, the owner of a local Swiss restaurant told me that a company was going to hold a party in their restaurant (a bit like the annual meeting of the company), with about 100 people. There are only two waiters in his restaurant at ordinary times, and there are not enough staff. He asked me if I would help at that time. I wouldn't give up the hard-won opportunity, so I agreed at once. I didn't know until the day of the party that from the first course, the main course to the dessert, one had to keep serving and removing dishes and help the kitchen. The most terrible thing is that the plates in that restaurant are all those huge porcelain plates, which are very heavy. There are only me and two waiters in that restaurant, and the boss will monitor the audience and come to help from time to time. I have learned the professional skill of holding three plates at the same time, but his plate is so heavy that I can't lift my arm at night, and it is bruised with purple marks. The activity that day lasted about three hours. The next day, my boss and I went to check out. My boss said to me in broken English, "You are the best China girl I have ever seen. Even the waiters in our restaurant are not as professional as you (only two dishes with heavy tastes can be served at a time). And you have been working hard without any slack. " That day, my boss paid my bill in four hours, which is the most expensive working hour in his family. After getting my first salary, I went to a silverware shop in town and bought a bracelet for my mother. I can't remember exactly how much it costs, about five or six hundred. I personally gave her to my mother when I came home from vacation.