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Mid 70's gathering chicken eggs for the neighbor for 2 bucks an hour. Then the big time hit, my other neighbor started raising rabbits and hired me to butcher them up paying me 65 cents a rabbit, I got to where I could do 13 an hour. at 13 years old I was making 8.45 an hour. I was swimming in money.
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Went from minimum wage $1.65, IIRC, to $6.35. Thought I was rich.
Old Turd- Deplorable- Unrepentant Murderer- Domestic Violent Extremist
Just "Campfire Riffraff and Trash"
This will be my last post! Flave 1/3/21
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1989 I was 13 yo and making $4.50 an hour and getting 4 hours a week at my second job.
I was laid off for the slow fall and winter months but my boss swung by my house with a $100 Christmas bonus!
I stayed with the company until I was 25 or so and my last Christmas bonus was well above $2k.
Great guys to work for and wouldn't change it for the world.
Screw you! I'm voting for Trump again!
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the 24HCF.
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"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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First job other than mowing lawns or throwing newspapers was bussing tables for $1.20 an hour.
That was 1973.
Spent it all on .22LR and 12ga shotshells.
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We know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The first thing I got paid for was cutting yards for $2 a pop. That’s how I paid for my first Model 700 at $101.89.
In the summer of ‘68 and ‘69 I worked as a “lot boy/gofor” at an auto dealership. Detailing used cars, cranking all of them first thing in the morning, delivering cars, etc was my specialty. 😊 I was pulling down a whole $1.10 an hour (minimum wage) and the accountant just about had a fit when I finished with more than 40 hours one week which meant I got an hour of overtime.
A few years later as an Ensign starting flight school with a new bride, it seems like I was getting about $485 and we were RICH. I think a 2 bedroom, furnished apartment was about $175/month.
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Around 1976, summer job on a ranch. $10/day plus room and board.
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Early on I thought I wanted a job, turns out all I really wanted was a paycheck.
Shortly after that, I realized that if i"d rather be doing something else, it was a job.
Never had a real job.
Always have been "gainfully un-employed".
ya!
GWB
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A Kill Artist. When I draw, I draw blood.
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Dunno what qualifies as a "real" job. Mowed grass, delivered papers for starters. Made a little jingle spearfishing. Then I hit the big time. $98/month, room and board included. Army basic training was a hoot.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Hunt...
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Started out digging drain tile with a shovel, new construction. 5 bucks an hour, around ‘85 or ‘86. Should have made college seem attractive, but it didn’t. I was 12 or 13 at the time, and 5 bucks was a sight better than minimum wage flipping burgers.
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Got a paper route in the sixth grade. The customers paid 7 cents for each paper. I got 2 cents of that.
Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.
Democrats would burn this country to the ground, if they could rule over the ashes.
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Washing dishes in a local bbq joint for 3.35 hr.
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I don't remember what I made in total, but I know I worked a lot of hours at minimum wage.
It was good instruction to pick up a trade Unskilled labor on a construction site gets treated like the bottom end.
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4.25/hr working at Little Caesar’s pizza. Man we had some good times after the doors closed
She never made it past the bedroom door, what was she aiming for...? She's gone shootin..
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1974 ,driving a school bus ,1.65 an hour plus it got me to class on time.
there is no man more free than he who has nothing left to lose --unknown-- " If it bleeds we can kill it" Conan The Barbarian
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Save for the US Army, I've been self employed all my life.
I payed $1,500 in taxes in 1959.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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$2.40 an hour in the Automotive/Sporting Goods section at Grand Central/Fred Meyer 1985. They could've made a series about the people and what went on there. Best job I ever had.
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Dunno what qualifies as a "real" job. Mowed grass, delivered papers for starters. Made a little jingle spearfishing. Then I hit the big time. $98/month, room and board included. Army basic training was a hoot. 10/4 on a real job. Managed to scrounge up a lawn-mower and a broom @ 10 years old. Mowed yards. At 15, worked after school in a Dr's office scubbing floors and plunging toilets for "sewer rats". At 16 loaded trucks for $1.25 an hour. At 17 was scaffold builder for $5 hour in the Houston area chemical plants on shutdowns In between I sold vegetables from our truck patch out of a surf van, cut firewood and sold it on the side of the road, At 19 for a while I painted addresses on curbs in new neighborhoods. Quit that and sold Fuller Brush for a while. Waited tables and bar-tended between, 1971-1976. 1976-1985 would be the closest thing to a real job, Took over an industrail suppy/Job shop biz. Went broke an lost my house and cars. Wholesaled cars, delivered pizzas, sold life insurance, had a paper route, sold bag phones, used cars between 1985 & 1989. Licensed Real estate broker and Commercial RE Appraiser between 1989 & 2008. Pretty much been a slum lord since then, Ya! GWB
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