First job you had...What was it/Age/Pay

Minnesota_husker said:
killer cacti said:
First paying job - 17 years old - Driving a tractor back & forth to peach fields. 6am til we got finished usually 60-80 hours per week, no overtime pay, $6.50 per hour. Pretty good cash for a high school summer job because we got about a $300 check every week after taxes, but it sucked.
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Are you complaining about driving around?
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Ha. Nah. That wasn't so bad. It was more the SC June/July/August weather which consists of 95-100º heat with 70%+ humidity, plus working 6am to at least 7pm and sometimes later. Worst part of it was by the time you got off, just wanted to go home, eat, shower, sleep & do it all the next day. Had no social life at all, but the plus side was I never went anywhere to spend money, so I had a good bit in the bank.

Edit: I last worked there 10 years ago, just a year or two ago got the want to eat a peach again. Be around enough rotting peaches and it will do you in for a while.

 
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Worked for an old farmer named Tuffy Thompson...Started when I was 14 at $8/hr and worked for him through high school.

He was a one of a kind guy. Told me he used to grow Muckets. I asked him what that was and he said it was a plant that they use to make hair peices for bald pu%%sies.

 
Fazoli's at 16. Job duties were to clean tables, take out trash, replenish condiments, go around with breadsticks. Was paid minimum wage which I think was a little over $6 at the time.

 
I was a towel boy for the Swedish Bikini Team. They didn't pay me. In fact, I got a restraining order against me.

 
I grew up on a ranch in western Nebraska so I was working basically my whole life. I think I started getting paid around the age of 8 or 9 to work out in the hayfield. I think they paid me about $25 or $30 a day which was quite a bit for someone like me that lived 75 miles away from the closest store that I could actually spend money at.

 
beanman said:
I was a towel boy for the Swedish Bikini Team. They didn't pay me. In fact, I got a restraining order against me.
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Here's beanman during a break.

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First actual paying,taxes out job: flipping burgers, 15, minimum wage ($3something), hated it.

Second actual paying, taxes out job: maintenance crew for State Park, 16, minimum, LOVED IT!

At this job, I learned that a 1957 Ford dump truck will lift the front tires about 2 feet off the ground if you dump the clutch with the hoist fully raised. Good times.

 
Stumpy1 said:
Worked for an old farmer named Tuffy Thompson...Started when I was 14 at $8/hr and worked for him through high school.

He was a one of a kind guy. Told me he used to grow Muckets. I asked him what that was and he said it was a plant that they use to make hair peices for bald pu%%sies.
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I believe that particular hairpiece is called a "merkin". :-)

 
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