First job you remember?
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04/15/20 12:16 AM
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I'm not talking first job you got paid and took taxes out of, I mean the first job you had as a little kid. Mine was around 10yo or so shoveling snow. I would do a huge driveway that would take most of the day for $10 That would have been back in about '78 or so and was huge money back then. In fact, I'm surprised I'm not living off of it now??? At least that was my thought process back then Then I cut grass in the summer. I would mow acres with a push mower for $5. The same lawn that most landscapers would charge $75 or more today and do in an hour. Hummmm… now I feel exploited
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 12:23 AM
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Painting farm trailers . Green upper ad red chassis ... I was about 8 back in Germany
Let's go Brandon
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Re: First job you remember?
[Re: Finster]
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Shoveled driveways for 2.00 and split it with my buddy....1968. Mowed lawns with a push mower ( the owners) for 2.00. Collected night crawlers for 1/2 cent each. And delivered the local news paper on Thursdays for .06 cent per paper profit. Got a 1.00 tip from most customers at Christmas....I was Rich !
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 01:01 AM
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While I did shovel snow for neighbors,I also started selling worms and frogs while we were still living in St.Paul Worms a nickel a dozen and frogs were 3 cents each.Made $60.00 that first summer ,which was a good sum for a kid in the early 60s. Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 04:41 AM
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not sure ut was a job but first money venture was trappin gophers nickle a tail ..them i was maybe 11 or 12 my older brother contracted with a guy to haul flax straw bales to town.. id drive the truck and brother 7 yrs my elder threw them up over the box... he was a big strong boy... we would stop and stack every so often... took em to town and loaed em in boxcars we got 13c a bale. lookin back it wasnt near enough if i remember right we get 300 on a load so 39 dollars we would get 3 loads a day but man that was hard work. i guess 120 bucks in 1970 was some money.. always had chips in my pocket.... then i got married
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 05:13 AM
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Grew up on a farm. Not sure what hours I was expected to work but it was something like 1 hour after school each day and 2 or 4 hours on the weekend. I casually mentioned this to my 5th grade teacher thinking this was just how everybody's family did things. She mentioned that I must be getting rich working all those hours. I hadn't gotten paid, it was just part of my responsibilities. But, that got the wheels turning and within a few days I decided I was getting ripped off. I never said a thing to my dad about it though. About a week later, without me saying a thing, he told me he was proud of how hard I was working and was going to start paying me 50 cents an hour. I was thrilled! I was 10.
-Ryan
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 05:34 AM
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Grew up on a farm. Not sure what hours I was expected to work but it was something like 1 hour after school each day and 2 or 4 hours on the weekend. I casually mentioned this to my 5th grade teacher thinking this was just how everybody's family did things. She mentioned that I must be getting rich working all those hours. I hadn't gotten paid, it was just part of my responsibilities. But, that got the wheels turning and within a few days I decided I was getting ripped off. I never said a thing to my dad about it though. About a week later, without me saying a thing, he told me he was proud of how hard I was working and was going to start paying me 50 cents an hour. I was thrilled! I was 10. we didnt get payed either and didnt expect to... everybody pitched in... when it was time to pick rocks even my sisters were out in the field....i ground feed for the hogs id say bout 7 or 8 dad would set tractor and grinder by big pile of barley in the center of big grainery.. he dumped in the 50lb bags of suppliments and id shovel into the grinder..most of the time was 2010 jd diesel so ya couldnt feed it too fast ground a batch a night sometimes 2 dad always had 200-400 on feed plus 20-30 sows... hogs were definitly our groceries clothes ect... sure we had the cows and other grain income... but the hogs was the monthly paycheck..
The only place you find free cheese is in a mousetrap !
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 05:35 AM
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combing coon for the fleshers at 8 or 9.nickle a piece and i walked home thinkin i was E.J.Dailey.it was better than dads plan for me of being a proffessional rock picker.
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 05:38 AM
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and i cant say we didnt get payed we got money whenever we needed it but nothing frivilous..... think i was 14 dad said this 20 acre patch is yours this yr for workin ... planted sunflowers dryed out didnt get much think 600 dollars..
The only place you find free cheese is in a mousetrap !
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combing coon for the fleshers at 8 or 9.nickle a piece and i walked home thinkin i was E.J.Dailey.it was better than dads plan for me of being a proffessional rock picker. how much you get for pickin rocks... we didnt get payed but when they hired high school kids and had 2 crews think they got 1 .25 hr... we could go work out on saturday if we wanted sometimes... but i was too sick of pickin rocks to go do it for the neighbors
The only place you find free cheese is in a mousetrap !
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 06:17 AM
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i got caught with firecrackers the year my parents built their house and i got nothing a 5 gallon pail full.
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 06:25 AM
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Don't remember my age at the time but I was very young working on our farm taking care of our cows, horses, dogs and chickens. It took me almost 3 days to mow all the grass around the house and orchard with a push mower. I also worked on the neighbors fox farm and I learned at a very early age to put up fur so I worked for the local furbuyer also. I enjoyed all of those jobs. It was hard work but very rewarding because I always felt like I was getting things done all of the time and learned new things almost daily. The furbuyer payed me in trapping supplies I needed which is the way I really wanted it. The fox farmer tried to pay me cash but I didn't want it so we worked out a deal where I received a beautiful pair of silver Fox and pens to keep them in.and on our farm I didn't get paid with money but I always had clothes on my back, food in my belly and a nice roof over my head and that was good with me but I believe the most valuable"pay" I received was the life experiences that helped mold who I am to this day. I helped and watched 3 different businesses run 3 different ways and they were all successful but all 3 had the same core values and I believe the best one was, if you want something you must work for it and I carry that with me still today.i worked all 3 of these jobs simultaneously all through my school years until I graduated high school then went in the military for 14 years and I still think about those jobs and the people I worked with almost everyday all these years later. Those were great times.
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 06:49 AM
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Picking weeds trk farm 35 cents an hour, when maters were ripe 10 cents a bushel. One day i picked five dollars worth by end of the day
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 06:53 AM
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Selling golf balls retrieved out of the golf course ponds and sold back to golfers was my first job. I was eight or nine at the time.
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