Question of the Week is a weekly feature here in which we take a cross-section of opinions from Detroit Lions players and coaches (and sometimes opponents) about a singular topic. Most of the time, they have nothing to do with football. Have a suggestion for a question? Email: michael.rothstein@espn.com.

Previous Questions of the Week: First football memory; Who makes players laugh; Ten years from now ...; Rookie nerves; Exciting offseason activity.

ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Summer is over. Football is starting. This could also mean remembering first jobs, many of which came over summers when school was out.

(If you're curious, my early jobs included camp counselor, bus boy and Blockbuster Video employee).

What about the Lions? What did they do for their first jobs when they were younger, before they started playing in the NFL?

That was this week's Question of the Week.

Wide receiver Corey Fuller: Like real, paid job? This. I volunteered one summer when I was at Virginia Tech at the YMCA with kids as a summer camp but that was it.

Reporter: So you never had a job in high school?

Fuller: I couldn't. My parents wouldn't let me. They wanted us in sports so we could go to school and go to college, you know what I mean.

Cornerback Cassius Vaughn: My first ever job? I used to work at my dad's grocery store when I was 10 or 11. I made an allowance, it wasn't no real job, job, but it was a family thing, you know. Vaughn's Grocery and Deli. We closed it down and moved on to bigger and better things, man.

Center Dominic Raiola: Football. I'm serious. NFL. My job was working out. For real. I had a summer fun job, but that wasn't fun. It was, I actually got fired after one day. It was field maintenance at Nebraska so we did this field maintenance on the track field. We were edging and it was a hot day. The sprinklers came on so we started doing Slip-N-Slides on the field. They were like, 'Uh, you can't work here.' Then we did some kind of summer camp for kids, for underprivileged kids in Nebraska.

Cornerback Rashean Mathis: College. It was NYSP program, a National Youth Sports Program. It was geared toward underprivileged kids and we did it at our college (Bethune-Cookman) actually. I stayed around for the summer every year, for three years for sure, and helped out with kids. Teaching them stuff, too. It was geared around the sports program, but also respect in all types of levels. It was fun. It grew my love for kids.