First job was cleaning / scrubbing dog kennels for local vet after school circa 1972 ... Whopping $1.35/hr. Even when I got my first "real" full time job in a union shop (1975), I started off at $4.25/hour. Have been "steadily increasing" since then. But, have been hard at it all along as well. I think one of the military branches has a saying that "The only easy day was yesterday."
Everything is a hustle. Otherwise you are going backwards.
