This thread springing up again reminded me of one of my other "first jobs". I was still in high school, grade 10 or 11, and the family had just moved into a new townhouse complex in Coquitlam. Summer came around and I was contacted by the property management company. Dunno how they found me, but essentially they were looking for someone to water the grass all around the complex and another like it down the street.
Had about 20 hoses and sprinklers and would set them all up every day and go move them every hour or so. It took 4 hours to do about half of all the grassy areas around both complexes, which I would alternate every other day, and they were paying me $10 an hour, which was retarded money at the time (circa 1988 or there abouts). Sometimes I wouldn't go out every hour on the hour and would flood the strip of grass some poor bastard's called his lawn.
Then I went on holidays for 2 weeks with the family and left a friend in charge who was super stoked at the prospect of making $400 for two weeks' work. Unfortunately, when I came back from holidays all the grass was dead. I got in serious shit for that, some residents had been watering their own patches, others were mad as hell their grass had died. Anyways, by the end of the summer the property management company had made plans to install sprinkler systems as ultimately they'd be more efficient and cheaper, but it was a good gig while it lasted.