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09-29-2022, 1:36pm | #21 | ||||||
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Morning paper route at age 13, got up and folded papers at 3:30 am and 1-1/2 hours delivering on my bicycle before school and then "collecting" on Sundays. People ducking me pretending they weren't home or telling me they "don't have change right now" while I was trying to collect my lousy 50 cents (25 cents if you didn' get the Sunday paper).
My first foray into finding out the retail public can be @holes... Mowed lawns, raked grass on Saturdays when the 'ole man didn't have me doing chores around the house. We kids swapped washing/drying dishes after dinner (nobody had dishwashers back then)... |
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Due to inflation they are no longer free
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My step dad had a janitorial service. I would work from 5pm to 4am when the business were closed, i did this during the summer and on weekends. I buffed and waxed floors and cleaned the offices. I didn't get paid because he would have to pay an adult $4.00 an hour when he could get me for free. I did that from 9-15 years old. I got a job at a lamp company making $1.65 an hour. A year later i got a raise to $2.00 and hour. I had a 55 Chevy Convertible at 15 years old. It cost me $300. I worked at that lamp company until i got drafted.
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I'm just happy that am able to walk into the store and buy whatever I want.
Thank you Dollar Tree. |
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Yadkin gettin' all badass and shit. Hell yes! |
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By the time I got into the biz the billing and collections were handled by the News Agency; all I had to do was deliver the papers. If a customer didn't pay I'd get a "Stop" slip along with the papers and I'd know to delete that household from my delivery route. Those machines that would automatically tie a string around a rolled-up newspaper were pretty impressive to a middle school kid. |
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Picked up hay bales for $8/day (10 hour days), pulled stumps, mowed lawns, carried morning papers. After i got my driver’s license, i gravitated toward jobs using my intellect - rode on the back of asphalt spreader, carried roofing shingles up a ladder, mastered a shovel as a laborer. Made getting an education a no-brainer.
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Newspaper delivery where I live is a joke. They drive by and chuck papers out he car window.
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Not sure if I should "part it out". The control board is only a few years old. |
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Just the usual stuff, mowed lawns, shoveled snow, delivered papers.
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