Posted on 09/06/2015 6:35:43 PM PDT by blueunicorn6
In honor of Labor Day, tell us a little bit about your first job.
Throwing newspapers into the hedges! :>)
1975 at the local Dairy Queen
What more is there to say?
At a filling station while I was in high school.
We checked the oil, washed the windshield and swept out the floor. Only checked tire pressure if asked. Of course we also pumped gas.
Sak’in groceries when they still had cash registers.
I was eleven and I would walk about two miles to it. I would set up PVC deck furniture for a man who lived on a boat in the local marina. He paid $2 to do it. After I was done me and my brother would swim in the lake across the street.
I was the clean-up man at Kessler’s meat market. The job didn’t last long. I quit after seeing a cows head in a bucket. Not that I’m a tree hugging hippy animal lover, but that was the last straw.
Shoveling snow in the winter, raking leaves in the fall, cutting grass in the spring and summer
Selling the NY Times. People screeched down the line “I wouldn’t buy that commie rag if you paid me!” Fired within a month.
Picking raspberries and strawberries for a local farmer. (Yummm.)
Shoveling snow, and raking leaves in Brooklyn at the age of 10? About 50 cents for a side walk and drive way. I had a work ethic, and would do anything that I could handle as a kid right through college. (and beyond)
Long Distance Operator, Graveyard Shift, New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Nothing Good happens after midnight...talked down a few suicides, reported fires and burglaries, and fielded lots of harassing and obscene calls.
I was 17.
Washing dishes, replaced by automation.....
Bag boy at A&P grocery store.
Paperboy from age 10 to 16. Then I got my driver’s license and graduated to manning a dishwasher and swinging a mop in an Italian restaurant. At least the pop and food was free, and 2 of my best friends ended up there. Sunday night cleanup was a blast, we raided the bar [lightly] as we were the only ones there. Fun, fun, fun!
I forgot about picking peanuts for a local farmer. He had only a small plot and paid the local kids to pick them.
I made 35 cents that day which was a fair amount in 1953. My older brothers made around a dollar each.
cutting yards with the old man’s lawn mower - $10 a yard. saved gas $$ to carpool a ride to go surfing
Me too! Lots of good stuff came out of having a paper route. I started when I was in the 6th grade and did it until I went off to college! The last couple years I mostly had a younger kid do it for me as I was busy with other stuff. But I would still do the collections and keep the tips!
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