What was Coco Chanel's first job?

Answer 1

she was a nurse in World War 1

Chanel was trained as a seamstress in the orphanage where she spent the early part of her life. Chanel took a job as a seamstress when she left this orphanage - she also worked in the evenings as a chanteuse at various Parisian night clubs. Good thing that she met a benefactor at one of these clubs - her sewing was atrocious.