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Plowed for $1 per hour....Hauled hay for a nickel a bale, that's where the tall cotton was !!!
One man with courage makes a majority....
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Get a haircut and get a Real Job... Get it together like your big brother Bob... [actually i havn't had a "real job" yet... with any luck i'l die before i do...]
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In 1972 made $10,000 per year working swing shift pulling 27s on a plywood mill round table. Was also going to college full time.
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Paid for my college working evenings and Saturdays in a Western Auto store '66 - '69 for $1.65/hr. Tuition was $600 a semester at a large university. Then got my commission from ROTC and IIRC got $600 a month. Paid off my college loan the first year with such largess coming in.
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
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1979 $3.50/hr fixing flats at a service station in a Texas oilfield town
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Always worked construction. By 19 was making 3.5x minimum wage. Lots of traveling, staying out of town, drinking, raising hell, long hard hours. 18 of 32 years working has been self employed. Just mailed out 26 W-2’s
I’ll never forget my grandfather telling me at a very early age….. buy a 1 ton truck and you’ll never be without work. Best advice I’ve ever gotten.
Hope my son is smarter than I was and takes his college education as far as he can.
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2 cents a bale in jr high back in the mid 60's. When I was in Trade School I worked nights at a foundry for $2.77.I was on salary for most of my CNC Programming career.
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It's been said, "God put man on earth to work'.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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1st full time job when I got out of school paid depending on performance through the week, was anywhere from $137.00 to $200.00 a week. That was gross pay too.
Why do I have to press 1, for English?
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$1.60 an hour. 1967 IIRC stayed til 1970. Large grocery store where I learned a lot about life. At one time or another I did everything but management. Bagging, cashier, stocking, checking in suppliers on weekends(when managers came in later), sitting outside on a watermelon truck on July 4. All by the time I was 19. Didn’t realize how good life was.
“When Tyranny becomes Law, Rebellion becomes Duty”
Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version)
"And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."
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First job out of the military in 1980 was as a security and logistics guy for an air freight contractor. $21,000 yearly +expenses. Great job with good pay. Congress shut us down in 1983. After that I struggled til the late 80s.
"Chances Will Be Taken"
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Washing dishes in my dad's restaurant and bar for.$.50 an hour after school. Grandpa lured me away after a year to deliver furniture from his store for $1.00 and hour. Tax free then and I thought I was a rich guy.
Saved enough to pay cash for my first car. I would do that all over again.
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1953 I was working part time for $1.00 per hour. I was typing manifests for a trucking company and doing payroll work when I had time.
In 1958 I finished high school and went to work for our city in the public works department. For this I was paid the magnificent sum of $.90 per hour (a 10% pay cut.) My work experience must have paid off since I was hired ahead of all the others who applied for the job.
Jim
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Started at johns manville when I was 13, lied about my age
.75 cents a day
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First paid job that wasn't for family or once a week was for 8 bucks for a diesel mechanic.
I am MAGA.
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Started at johns manville when I was 13, lied about my age
.75 cents a day
Damn wonder you ain’t got lung cancer.
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Mudding drywall in 74 for 3 bucks a hour. I went into the Army in the spring of 75, finished basic about the time Saigon fell. Was a helicopter mech in the army so when I got out I went to work on airplanes. There isn't any money in A&P so went to work on trucks and equipment for twice the money and never looked back.
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In high school in 68, 69, 70 minimum wage was 2.10 I believe.
When I started my apprenticeship in 1971 I was making 50% of journeyman plumbers wages. I was getting a whopping 3.10 an hour. I was clearing 98.46! First wifey and I about didn’t make it on that.
How much you make starting out.?
Things changed, 46.08 when I retired, could make more on a Saturday than I did in a month in 71. Union plumbers were getting 6.20 then, probably 8.50 with insurance and .50 vacation money. Times have changed, not for the better either First real job out of college I made 4.35 per. That was down from my union job in the barrel factory which was $5.40 per. Last year I made $610,000. I’m glad I quit the barrel factory.
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As a busboy in 1966 I got $1.85/hr , which was the union wage (min IIRC was $1.65). Plus tips.
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