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Post by dragonsparks on May 20, 2013 22:00:26 GMT -5
Mine was self employement, I used the family lawn mower a gas can & 50c leaded gas. Gas was 59c a Gal. I was 10 year's old. YES 10 YEAR'S old in Fairburn Ga.  I would charge $2.50 for Just the front yard & $4.40 on hole yard for my regaular costumers. There was always people who would let it grow for two weeks before they let me cut it. I charged them 6.25 hole yard. My Buddy's(They didn't want anything to do with the push mower) would borrow All the soda bottle's off the back porch. That was my side line. LOL..."Man those were the DAY'S!" They Truly Were... Dave |
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Post by skuttadawg on May 20, 2013 22:16:22 GMT -5
I was cutting grass at 13 . First official job was at Dominoes when I was 16
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Post by scooter12 on May 20, 2013 22:17:51 GMT -5
My first job was cleaning a Farrell's with my uncle, in San Jose, CA... I was 11 years old and vacuumed, swept, put chairs down off tables, wiped off tables.. Pretty simple job.. Made $10 per week. Farrell's is a ice cream parlor..
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Post by onewheeldrive on May 20, 2013 22:19:06 GMT -5
Delivering newspapers for a friend for a month while he was on vacation. Kinda fun at the time. Paperboy was one of my favorite video games at the time..
I think I was 12 or so.
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Post by devo344a on May 20, 2013 22:37:06 GMT -5
Lived on a farm so farm worker and mechanic I was about 7 used to drive tractor cut wood bail hay
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Post by domindart on May 20, 2013 22:45:15 GMT -5
15 or 16 yrs old I worked at Regal auto wash a car wash part time. Dad bought me a car, a 94 Z28 camaro and I had to put gas in it
Had to get rid of that car later due to high insurance and bought my own car, a 89 5.0 mustang.
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Post by dragonsparks on May 20, 2013 22:57:46 GMT -5
OMG! LOL Most of you are young enough to be my Children.  Tears of joy I dodged that bullet.  Dave |
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Post by justbuggin2 on May 20, 2013 23:26:13 GMT -5
migrant farm worker picking tomatoes 50 cents for a 5 gallon bucket at 8 or 9 years old first tax paying job was dish washer at a steak house back when Janet Jackson song Nasty boys came out
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Post by triker on May 20, 2013 23:40:42 GMT -5
I did odd jobs, mowed grass, ect. But my main job was working for a flower shop selling roses and carnations on a street corner. I made fifty cents a dozen. I was 12 years old.
Roy
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Post by crawdad on May 21, 2013 0:58:28 GMT -5
My first job was in a fish cannery in BC Canada.I was 14 and worked 14 to 16 hours a day . Made .60 cents a hour . Had a great time!!!  My second job was the Canadian Army at 17 at $18.00 per month . |
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Post by larry001964 on May 21, 2013 3:13:39 GMT -5
Superior Co.
I was 18, and my father helped me get the job there, It was a metal recycling plant crushing cars and sending the metal to GM, and my job was in Maintenance.
Before that I was building houses with my father ( he was a general contractor ), cutting lawns, pretty much what other teenagers were doing to earn some spending money..
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Post by gatekeeper on May 21, 2013 5:12:16 GMT -5
Paper route at 12. At 15 spent a summer driving a tractor and bucking hay for $1.50 an hour. At 16 worked in a furniture and appliance store till the end of high school for $2.00 an hour.
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Post by carasdad on May 21, 2013 5:39:00 GMT -5
[replyingto=gatekeeper]gatekeeper[/replyingto]15..I was a cook at Olympia Truck Stop in Plainwell, Michigan...for $2.35 per hour. I was a homeless kid as my dad was abusive broke my arm and kicked me out. Back then there was no real CPS. You could do anything to your kids as long as you had a 'Reason'. I lived on the streets until I was 18, then joined the military. I stayed there for 21 years. I have 6 kids..none have ever even been spanked or booted. Because I think with kids..crossed arms and silence....have more power than....crossed eyes and violence. I worked my butt off for those Truckers..and was the fastest cook there...because road time is important to them. 4 times my boss let me off 3-4 days to go on the road with them. Loved it..but learned respect for them...ya see it takes a tough person to live 3 days of eating greasy cheeseburgers..and 3 days of listening to one worn out Conway Twitty 8 track tape...omg..  Yeah I lived a tough life..homeless as a teen and shot up by Camel Riders..cause as a Medic I was saving young Marines lives. If I could go back in time..and change anything..would I?...yeah..pretty much everything.. Promise me one thing.. first chance you get today.. HUG your children...not SLUG your children. Glenn...aka..Yayiima benatigee |
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Post by ramblinman on May 21, 2013 5:50:22 GMT -5
when i was 11 - 12 i fished golf balls out of the water hazard with a friend and sold them to the golfers for 50 cent each. 25 cent if they had any nicks. i don't know if you can count that as a job. we didn't work hard but still made good money for a kid. about $25 each every time we went. at 13 i mowed lawns, had 4 customers. was paid $5, $6, $10 and $25. hated cutting the $25 yard, it took me 3 hours. i gave that yard up when i got my honda spree.  my 1st job with a paycheck was washing dishes at a banquet hall at the age of 15 for $3.35/hr... meh $3.35? now that i think about it that $25 yard wasn't so bad after all. lol |
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Post by shalomrider on May 21, 2013 6:08:37 GMT -5
howdy, paper route at 9 or 10. eves after school and 4 a.m. sundays. when the paper delivery truck dropped the bundle on sunday about 3 a.m., i was out getting it and putting the comics section inside and was out doing the deliveries by about 4 a.m. small pay. first bonus a gas powered airplane on a string which flew in circles around ya and controlled for up and down by a tilting handle. this was late 1950's. by age 12 was bucking hay and grape boxes out from under the vines. yaeay, got to stay home from school to help in the "harvest".
lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken
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Yeah I lived a tough life..homeless as a teen and shot up by Camel Riders..cause as a Medic I was saving young Marines lives. If I could go back in time..and change anything..would I?...yeah..pretty much everything.. Promise me one thing.. first chance you get today.. HUG your children...not SLUG your children.