Remember Your First Salary? Check Out These, Funny, Inspiring, Relatable Tweets

My first salary was a very modest stipend as a junior associate in a lawyer's office. I spent half and put half in the bank. I remember feeling quite virtuous. Hindi films would have us believe that first salaries are almost always spent buying much-needed sarees for self-sacrificing mothers. And the tweeple had a lot to share about their #FirstSalary:

Many of the tweeple were happy to share their stories – others not so much

So many start out at a BPO or a call centre, with a very modest income and tough working hours. Some are lucky enough to quickly make a lateral shift with better prospects.

Any delay can be painful

…Joy!

So this twitter user started small and seems to be doing quite well for himself now.

So many of us did this: giving tuitions to kids while also doing college. While it helped us earn a bit, it also gave us valuable life lessons in humility and managing difficult people (read reluctant kids and their demanding parents).

The actor of Sacred Games fame shared this – it sounded a little more glamorous than most other #FirstSalary tweets.

Never ask a woman her age and a man his salary, (or vice versa) goes the old saying.

This tweet is by someone who apparently started to work as a child; as a hawker. He is clearly prosperous enough now!

For some those memories were happy, for others, they were not.

This is a strange story about a shopping app that credits money into one's account. Whether this is fact or just wishful thinking is not clear.

Not sure if this qualifies as a job; sounds like a parental incentive to child to learn some responsibility.

I also did this for small change. Plus my cousins and I would put up performances for the family and expect them to pay ticket money. (Yes we had a rather good opinion of ourselves.)

The preferred thing to buy with that first salary it would seem: shoes for the father, saree for the mother…. As Bollywood taught us!

Just getting a job is the important thing.

It hurts doesn’t it – when the government takes away a chunk of that hard-earned money!

This is or was everyone’s story at some point.