How much were you paid....

[Tumbleweed]

Think back to some of your first jobs....how much were you paid? I used to work for local farmers when I was in my mid teens....most paid 50 cents an hour back in the 50's...I told one guy I wouldn't go out for less than a dollar an hour....he wouldn't pay it......so I got my dollar an hour from someone else, namely the guys father-in-law.....I would've liked to have heard their conversation about being a cheap bastage.....

[Jeff '79]

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

[Rob]

$3.15 to pump frozen yogurt

[Yamma]

$6.15 an hour when I was 15, working as a cashier at a a plant nursery.

[Defib1961]

$2.10/hr as a bus boy at a Dairy Queen back in Amarillo. I quit there 9 months later to go sack groceries at Albertson's for $3.10/hr. I was making big $$$ then for a high school kid.

[Tossin]

6.50/hour when I worked in college. Before then it was all lawn mowing, which varied. The first lawnmowing job I got, I was paid 10 to do the yard.

[LATB]

1968

work for dad

carpenters helper

8 years old

.25 per hour summers/weekends

1972...

12 years old...bought 1st mini bike cash.

[Datawiz]

I started working at a car wash when I was 14. I made $3.25/hour. When I was 16, I made basically the same amount hourly, but I was also on commission for collecting the money from the customers and up selling spray wax and white walls. I was bringing in over $500/cash per week (on TOP of my paycheck) as a 16 year old. This was in 1984.

[MrPeabody]

Originally Posted by LarsAtTheBeach

1968

work for dad

carpenters helper

8 years old

.25 per hour summers/weekends

1972...

12 years old...bought 1st mini bike cash.

Let me guess...two months later you traded that mini bike in on a different one.

[Mark C5]

1965 14 years old, worked construction on a pile driving rig building Crystal City, Arlington, VA. Paid $1.25 hr.. Couldn't wait for school to start!

[Tossin]

Originally Posted by MrPeabody

Let me guess...two months later you traded that mini bike in on a different one.

[Sleestak]

My first non-bug someone in the neighborhood for some kinda side job job was a paper route which netted about $100 a month and I thought that was so baller.

[Vet4jdc]

I cut grass for $4.00 an hour when I was 14....

[mrvette]

I born in '44 Wash DC burbs, one car family, age 10 or so dad got me my ONE bike...a 26?" Schwinn single speed....much too tall for me....

never could find a paying job in that suburban climate....stores innundated with their own kids and so

when outta HS and off to college, the folks moved to 20 miles ONE way from town....killed me as a PT worker and college 'student'.....

all the money went up in gasoline....and dates/beer....which is why I learned hotrodding and mechanics...

my first job...1.25/hour age 19 in the DC burbs....min wage at the time

65 bux/week take home....

by the time I retarred, it was a rare day I didn't have 1.5 grand on me at any given time....cash....piss on credit....

oh well, funny trip, fun times, crazy existence....

next life....

[ZipZap]

$2.85/hr at a gas station in 1976.

[Blademaker]

$1.60 an hour working for my Dad when I was 13

[Aerovette]

$1.25/hr and I still have a check stub or two somewhere. That was in 76.

[Diego M]

5 bucks a day picking fruit when i was 8 years old.

serious

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by Diego M

5 bucks a day picking fruit when i was 8 years old.

serious

I guess it's just in your blood, isn't it. Any new fruit cams for us these days?

[OddBall]

$1.85 hr working as a janitor at a private school when I was 14. I used to get off of my public school bus at the private school to go to work for four hours a day. Gave my paycheck to my mother to help pay the bills.