Question about your first job
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Starting when I was about 11 or 12, I worked on my grandparents' farm for $100 for the summer, and that was considered extremely generous (early-to-mid-'70s), and only because they were my grandparents. I have no idea what that would work out to per hour, but I worked basically from sun up to sun down. I used that money to buy all my school clothes and supplies for the coming school year (I seem to recall that my parents supplemented this to some degree, but not a ton.) On the up-side, my uncle taught me to drive the old "pipe trucks" (that we used to move irrigation pipe) in the fields, and I was a pretty damn good driver by the time I was 14.)
My first non-grandparents-farm paying job was picking beans for 8 cents per pound with a 1/2 cent per pound bonus if you stuck it out for the whole summer. Yes, it sucked. It really, really, really sucked.
My first "real job" was working for Payless Durg Store (which was sort of a K-Mart sort of place, and I remember that I got the Federal minimum wage of $2.65/hour plus a @ cent "shift differential" because I worked at night and on weekends. WOO HOO!
Then, summer after my junior year in high school I went to work in "the mill"; that would be the plywood mill my whole family worked in at $7.10 per hour for the "graveyard shift" (11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.), and I thought I was a Rockefeller or something. It was a HUGE amount of money, that was intended to go toward collage, but entirely too much of which went toward my car and partying.
My first non-grandparents-farm paying job was picking beans for 8 cents per pound with a 1/2 cent per pound bonus if you stuck it out for the whole summer. Yes, it sucked. It really, really, really sucked.
My first "real job" was working for Payless Durg Store (which was sort of a K-Mart sort of place, and I remember that I got the Federal minimum wage of $2.65/hour plus a @ cent "shift differential" because I worked at night and on weekends. WOO HOO!
Then, summer after my junior year in high school I went to work in "the mill"; that would be the plywood mill my whole family worked in at $7.10 per hour for the "graveyard shift" (11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.), and I thought I was a Rockefeller or something. It was a HUGE amount of money, that was intended to go toward collage, but entirely too much of which went toward my car and partying.
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Flashbacks yet?
I prefer this one
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First job: burger flipper at a baseball park concession stand.
Wage: 3.85/hour--minimum wage in Alberta in 1986.
Strangely, I couldn't tell you exactly how much I made per hour at any other job I've worked since. Even jobs that I worked at for years. I just don't remember.
Wage: 3.85/hour--minimum wage in Alberta in 1986.
Strangely, I couldn't tell you exactly how much I made per hour at any other job I've worked since. Even jobs that I worked at for years. I just don't remember.
I worked at the Great American Cookie Company in my local mall. It was a low paying job, but at least I got free food. All the restaurants in the food court would trade food items. I ate great the whole time I was there.
My most memorable story was one involving a 16 year old employee and a fat chick customer. This chick ordered 6 cheesecake brownies and a diet coke and asked what happens if she dont like them. I told her I guess we will give her the money back and she replies, "I'm going to trhow them in your face and I want fresh ones made."
Dont ever piss off the people who handle your food. The 16 years old employee went in the back and got the cheescake brownie dough and had....um...."relations" with it. Once he was done he baked it and 30 minutes later we served it to this shrew, laughing the whole time because little did she know but the stuff she was stuffing in her mouth was very friendly with the "private area" of the 16 year old.
My most memorable story was one involving a 16 year old employee and a fat chick customer. This chick ordered 6 cheesecake brownies and a diet coke and asked what happens if she dont like them. I told her I guess we will give her the money back and she replies, "I'm going to trhow them in your face and I want fresh ones made."
Dont ever piss off the people who handle your food. The 16 years old employee went in the back and got the cheescake brownie dough and had....um...."relations" with it. Once he was done he baked it and 30 minutes later we served it to this shrew, laughing the whole time because little did she know but the stuff she was stuffing in her mouth was very friendly with the "private area" of the 16 year old.
I counted and bagged small auto parts in a warehouse for 6.75/hr. I quit after a month, when I realized my free time and almost entire wage + some was going into commute costs, as the coworkers with whom I had made arrangements to carpool refused to pony up their share. I basically paid for the privilege to stoop over a card table and divvy up 10,000 tiny washers into groups of 10, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week (+ 2 1/2 hours a day commuting).
Damn California
If I had a 2 1/2 hour commute, I would cross two states (it's the equivalent of going from Philadelphia to DC).
Damn California
2 1/2 hours round trip, in very heavy traffic going from IE to Anaheim.
My worst commute was last year. 3 hours each direction. Fortunately, it didn't last long.
my first job was a gardener 40 hour week for £100 back in 1985 to 88 quit that to be where I am now
My first real-ish job was as an assistant instructor at my martial arts studio and I made $5.15 an hour. My first real-real job was as a dishwasher in a restaurant the summer before last and I made $7.50 an hour.
Excluding babysitting and glorified babysitting (at an Evangelical church during Sunday services and after school at a Jewish private school), my first job was at Hughes Aircraft Company. It lasted 16 years and I met Hubby there. I started at $10/hr and finished at $25/hr. I liked the work and many of the people. Too bad the a$$holes were in supervision.
I mowed lawns for a couple of summers and had a paper route, but I don't remember what those jobs paid. When I was in high school, I had a job for a while at a local fast-food place flipping burgers for $1.75 an hour. (Minimum wage at the time was $2.15, I think, but that was for the full-time help.)
My first job was at Dunkin' Donuts for the same pay.
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