The FUN PLAZA in Myrtle Beach SC, I worked the skyball machines (fished if they took someones money and gave the prizes) rode my bike from 48th ave north to there, about 6 miles, worked Tues-Sat in the summer and made 10 dollars a day, 50 bucks!! but hey I was 10 years old :Brow: My bike was blinged to no end!! theres alittle bar right beside FP that would cash my check for me and after 30 years, they both are still there.
General laborer for a custom home builder in the mid '80's Best job I ever had. I learned so much :TU:
When I was 16, I pumped gas & changed tires at an Amoco station back in '77. I remember they paid a .25 commission on every quart of oil sold.
Starting in late 95 I had some odd jobs mowing lawns and washing dishes for about 3 months before I turned 16. Then I got a job at a bike shop making $5/hour. They didn't like me too much so I got another job at another bike shop the following summer for $6.50/hour. Quite a nice step up! I was there for 3 years with $0.50 raises every year. When I got to college I got the best job I will ever have, I drove a university shuttle bus. Holy crap if I could make a living doing that I would in a heartbeat! Then there was my co-op engineering job in college which was not the most fun job I've had but I finished making $12.50/hour, but that was rather low compared to some of my friends in the same program.
delivering papers I started delivering papers in 1973 at the ripe age of 11. I made about $11.00 a week getting up at 3:30 each and every morning. Had it till I bought My first car in 1976, a 1971 Skylark custom white bottm / lime green top for $600.00. and it was CHERRY. I then went to work at a grocery store in 1978 for 2.30 per hour. I spent all my money on my car jacking it up with gabrial high jackers with a 3" lift extension and put kelly springfield N-50 15 with 10" deep dish cragers on the back and had two red differential lights. (man am I dating myself or what) I got stopped by the p o l i c e all the time. I finally got a bumper height ticket and off came the big old tires. I totalled the car in 1981 while home on leave from the Marine Corps and it took me till 2003 to get another one. Dave :grin: :TU:
Bread On Top! Bread On Top! You're Squishing My Bread! Did a stint doing that too, back in '79.. I think. They paid us 4.50 Hr. :Brow:
My first job was a delivery boy/ stock clerk at the local drug store. I think I was about 15 years old. It was part-time after school and I got minimum wage. Minimum wage didn't cut it so I worked out a deal with one of the Pharmacist and became a major supplier of CONDOMS in my neighborhood. Everybody I knew was 15-16 and you know what they were pre-occupied with. Business was unreal and everyone had a "NEW' Trojan in their wallet and a smile on their face !!!!!!! Now that I think about it, maybe that's why I always have been an independant businessman. * OH-OH, I THINK I LEFT MYSELF OPEN FOR A COMMENT FROM THE "H-E-C-K-L-E-R" !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ou: o No: ou: o No: ou: o No: ou: o No: ou: o No: ou: o No: ou: o No: ou: o No: ou: o No: ou:
shoe shine boy My first job was shining shoes in a barber shop. It was 1966 and I got $.25 for shoes and $.35 for boots. Made about $25-$30 a week working about 48 hours/week. Then in 1968 I went to work for Sonic Drive In at $3.50 for an 8 hr. shift. Those were the good ole days weren't they? Now I own a distribution company that does about $2-$3 million in sales per year. I love this country. It is the land of opportunity. All you have to do is apply yourself and be willing to work towards the future and not live for today. Randy
First Job Made $100.00 every two weeks working in the Youth For Hire program for the City of Buffalo. Lasted one summer. Got a job at Allan Brown American Motors Dealership as a lot man the following year. A wopping $1.95 hr.I was living like a king.Bought a used '66 Chevelle with the money.Left after one year to a better paying job --- $2.00 hr. Ah, seems like the money went further then.
My first job was working the gatehouse at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, Virginia. After a week the park manager calls me into his office at paycheck time. Says I'm not supposed to get a paycheck that week. Hey I expected that -- they told me that in advance. Then he said my name had gotten entered somehow, but my hours had correctly been applied to next weeks check, so I had actually gotten a check the first week. Which meant -- drum roll, please -- My first ever paycheck was for $0.00! Way to boost a kid's sense of self worth! We had a good laugh about that one. Wish I still had it -- got lost at some point over the years. Oh well -- those were some good times. -- Steve
Lumper Helping unload my Dads trucks. The payment was food and lodging. I was ever grateful not to be reminded how there were probably kids in Siberia who would just love to be in the back of his truck shlepping cases of tomatoes when it was 90+ degrees! :error:
Gee, thats a tough one. At first I thought paper route, but the realized I was a caddie before my route and did both for a while. Then I recalled shoveling snow once when I was about 6 years old, BIG mistake. ou: I think that was the hardest $0.50 I ever earned. :Smarty: :error:
Me and my brother shoveled alot of snow to buy gas and oil for our snowmobiles way back in the early 70s. Funny how we learned not to waste so much gas when we had to buy it ourselves instead of mom and dad :laugh: Tom
My first job was clean up girl for my dad's home repair business. I would have to pick up the old shingles, wood & other grabage then put it in the dumpster. No pay, just food in my tummy & a roof over my head. I hated it then, but what could I do he's my dad. My first paying job was McDonald's ou: got hired on my 16th birthday, pay was $4.35 an hour. I was the girl in the drivethru window. I worked there for a couple of years, my boss at the time wanted me to attend Humburger U, after I got out of H.S. so I could manage one of his stores. Beth
Sweeper In '78 I started as a floor sweeper and shoveler at a grain elevator. Do you know how bad wet wheat can smell? I have deep respect for the guys that have to do this job for me now-but I threaten to "help" if they complain too much! Its my family business, family has been in milling since 1857.
First job was cleaning a rich guy's swimming pool twice a week for $20 a week, IIRC. Nope, no "pool boy" perks... First real job was at a Haagen-Dazs ice cream parlor, just over minimum wage ($4.75, maybe). Ate ice cream everyday; never got tired of it.
WOW i cant believe i missed this thread! My first job was/is at Krispy Kreme! gee, i wonder how i got that job :moonu: Im at a retail shop and i box donuts, stock boxes, clean everything, make coffee, and sell donuts! I make 7.25 and hour! You know you already have it bad when you dont have your license and you already cant afford your buick!
First Summer Job walking Bean fields cutting weeds in Illinoise at my cousins. First real job Wendys hamburgers. Had some wild times there.
