teachercd Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I worked at a Jewel...which is just a big grocery store. I was a kid that bagged your stuff. Sometimes I got carts in the parking lot. Because of my age I could not work more than 3 hours per day during the week and 4 hours on the weekends. I think that I started off at 4.50 an hour...maybe 4.75 Quote Link to comment
husker B-rent Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Burger King baby! Payed 5.15/hr at age 14. Pay checks were usually around $80 that first year Quote Link to comment
Minnesota_husker Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Rainbow Foods--grocery Store Bagger-- like 6.85/hr or whatever Min. Wage was. Moved up to courtesy after a year and pushed carts around.. think i got like 7.50 for that. Quote Link to comment
TonyStalloni Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Setting forms for a poured basement crew all summer after my junior year of high school for $1.50 an hour. Hot miserable job. Quote Link to comment
Junior Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Detasseling for a local seed corn company when I was 13 or 14. Awful job. Don't remember how much it paid. Probably $5 something an hour, I think that was minimum wage at that time. Quote Link to comment
carlfense Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Worked full time during the summers for a neighboring dairy farmer. Mostly put up hay but did just about everything else as well including cultivating, spraying, hauling sh!t, etc. $7 per hour at age 12. My city friends never understood how I had so much money. Edit: I should probably add that I was driving a smoking, croaking, 4 speed diesel F250 with a red vinyl interior to work each day. Hopefully my future kids have the opportunity to grow up on a farm, too. Haha. Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Trucking company where my mom drove changing flat tires on 18 wheelers, 14, but I was making bank, 8 bucks an hour in the late 80's.... I was pimpin Quote Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 First paying job was loading chickens into cages to be sent off to be processed. Age 12. Paid $5/hr for a couple days work. Hated every minute of it. First payroll job was Taco Bell in Greeley, CO. Age 15 $4.25/hr. Quote Link to comment
Scratchtown Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 "Grocery Kart" 16 and $5.35 Quote Link to comment
beanman Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Detasseling corn. Probably around age of 13. 4 bucks an hour I think it was. Fun job. Quote Link to comment
Junior Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Detasseling corn. Probably around age of 13. 4 bucks an hour I think it was. Fun job. No way, you detasseled too?? Quote Link to comment
36 Skerz Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I was 12 or 13 in the hayfield. $25 a day, which was like $3.25/hr, and I thought I was loaded. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I've been slingin' yay since junior high Quote Link to comment
HuskerShark Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Age 18, worked for an electrician. $8/hr Quote Link to comment
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