How much were you paid....

[Entropy]

$90/week, summer of 97. Worked as a camp counselor in charge of the dining hall at a Cub Scout Camp. I swore off food service after that summer, and basically told the camp director that I would never do that type of work again. 60+ 6-10 year old kids 3X per day was absolute insanity.

I do have some good stories though.

[Nemesis]

Not counting the inconsistent pay of the restaurant jobs I had from ages 15-18, I count the job I held when I was 18.

I made 8.50/hr as a lot attendant at a vw/audi/porsche dealer in 2004. I would have done that job for half that. Even though it was just in the lot, I got to drive some really nice cars and the service managers for all 3 makes were really nice and great to work for.

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by Drew M

Not counting the inconsistent pay of the restaurant jobs I had from ages 15-18, I count the job I held when I was 18.

I made 8.50/hr as a lot attendant at a vw/audi/porsche dealer in 2004. I would have done that job for half that. Even though it was just in the lot, I got to drive some really nice cars and the service managers for all 3 makes were really nice and great to work for.

Damn. I never knew your were such a whipper snapper. BUT, I understand your love for cars and racing. Same thing for me with the car wash in the 80's when I was a teenager.

Look at me now.

[navyndi2]

When I was about 10 I sstarted selling golf balls at the gold course, i sold them for .25, .50 and .75, I was bringing in about 300 a week.

[Nemesis]

Originally Posted by datawiz

Damn. I never knew your were such a whipper snapper. BUT, I understand your love for cars and racing. Same thing for me with the car wash in the 80's when I was a teenager.

Look at me now.

You've done quite well.

I'm not surprised you didn't know. You rarely see anyone my age with their own car. I like being the young guy. I keep some of the older guys on their toes.

I worked their car wash 2 summers later, too.

I have pictures of myself in a friend's race car from when I was little, but I didn't really get into racing until the Porsche Rennsport Reunion in 2001...when I was 15.

I'll have to scan those pictures and send them to you.



edit: this post came across as extremely self-centered but whatever, I love to talk racing.

[Flatbush Harry]

My first job out of college paid $518.23/mo + $100/mo flight (i.e., hazardous duty) pay. They also gave quarters and rations allowances...best damn job I ever had...to this date.



Harry, 2Lt, USAFR (ret)

[vetterdstr]

Originally Posted by Jeff '79

$1.86/hr for steaming clothes in a ladies clothes store.....The fringe benes were where the payoff was though...

So that's when your avitar pic was taken!

[Kerrmudgeon]

I think I was 10 and looking to increase my nonexistant allowance, stocked shelves at a small grocery weekends for 5$ a day.....first real job was 1.50/hr. BUT, a case of 24 beer was 5$ and gas was .39cents a gallon......!

....some real funny jobs here

[MrPeabody]

Originally Posted by Entropy

$90/week, summer of 97. Worked as a camp counselor in charge of the dining hall at a Cub Scout Camp. I swore off food service after that summer, and basically told the camp director that I would never do that type of work again. 60+ 6-10 year old kids 3X per day was absolute insanity.

I do have some good stories though.

Thank you for your service.

[PLRX]

When I was 11 my dad's employees made $2.00~$2.50 an hour. In 1987 before I joined the Marines I was making $240~$300 a week.

In August, I'll tell you what a civilian makes

[J S Machine]

$5.50 or $6 and hour..can't rememeber exactly..whatever minimum wage was. I was 14, worked in the evenings for a local oil co. doing gas pump and car wash maintenance.

[Sneaks]

Worked for the local farmers hauling hay, and working tobacco fields for $3.00 an hour. 8-10 hours throwing 60-80lb bales of hay around really made you appreciate when the straw farmers called. That was like a vacation!
First "real" job was washing trucks at a Blue Beacon truck wash for $3.35 an hour, minimum wage, but you made bonus money after you washed so many trucks. Most weeks I averaged between 8-10 bucks an hour. Dam good money in '84 for a 16 yr. old kid.

[6spdC6]

While as a kid I did a lot of odd jobs to make money (Snow shoveling, grass cutting, painting ETC) My first real job at age 16 was packing groceries at a large supermarket, the wage was $1.15 per hour and of course taxes and social security was taken out!

[Burnt C6]

Originally Posted by Jeff '79

$1.86/hr for steaming clothes in a ladies clothes store.....The fringe benes were where the payoff was though...

What you sniff the crotch of their pants or what?

[C5SilverBullet]

$5.00/hr as a porter at Broerman Chevrolet.

[ptindall]

Age 16, 1996. Minimum wage of $4.75/hr at Sun Lighting. I left that job four years later at something like $10/hr to go work at Bombardier/LearJet.

[NEVRL8T]

Had a paper route when I was 12, kept it until I was 16, made about $150 bucks a month. Got a real job at 16 in a grocery store and made $3.35 an hour.

[Cybercowboy]

I remember one day I was hired with a few other neighbor kids to help unload several big semi-loads of black diamond watermelons. I worked all day, about 8 hours, with a 30 minute break for lunch (they gave us a peanut butter sammich, watermelon, and ice water), and at the end of the day we got paid. I made $18!!!!

That was the last day I did that. Took me two washings to get the watermelon juice and stank out of my clothes.

I picked tomatoes for $1/hour when I was about 14. Washed windows for $1.50/hour then too. Whatever it took. I had all sorts of terrible-paying jobs back when I was young.

[LATB]

so....

has anyone here worked for less than 25 cents per hour?

[Truck Guy]

$1.10 per hour for part time job in high school-15 years old