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Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6842989
04/15/20 07:03 AM
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Michigan
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Michigan
Starting mowing the local cemetery when I was 12. 16 inch Lawnboy pushmower. I even graduated to gravedigger when I got older. Made good money but it was hard work. My Great grand parents, grand parents, and Father are all buried there.

Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6842993
04/15/20 07:07 AM
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rogers city mi.
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I was 14 or 15 so that was about '67 neighbor asked me to help him load out a potato truck don't know what they weighed but they were burlap bags and had to be carried out of the basement just me an him driver had a bad back got paid 5 bucks and got home at 3am Dad was waiting didn't say anything but he looked like he was on fire neighbor never asked me to work again


olden tyred
Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843002
04/15/20 07:21 AM
04/15/20 07:21 AM
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Central Pennsylvania
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Don't call me Mister, Mister
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Central Pennsylvania
Grew up on a farm, my dad paid me 25 cents an hour. During the summer when off school I could get an easy 60 hours a week. During school I usually got in about 20 hours a week. That was in the late 50's and very early 60's.


I got myself a seniors' GPS.
Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination,
it tells me why I wanted to go there.
Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843017
04/15/20 07:52 AM
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NY
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NY
Picking up drops, piece work, a nickle a crate. Drops were apples on the ground, they were used for cider. I was about eight years old.


Let's go Brandon!
Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843022
04/15/20 07:56 AM
04/15/20 07:56 AM
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Posts: 17,550
Rodney,Ohio
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,550
Rodney,Ohio
First paid job was mowing our church. That was 20-25 years ago...still doing it, pays a bit better and takes 1/4 of the time thanks to my zero turn.

After that I did some lawn work/light farm work on a doctor's horse/pig/goat farm.
First official job according to social security was tutoring Spanish at Ohio State University-Newark.

Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843039
04/15/20 08:13 AM
04/15/20 08:13 AM
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Houghton Lake, MI
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Houghton Lake, MI
Picking up baseballs and mowing the field at a batting cage. That was 1974. They didn't have nets and fences to stop the long hitters so we carried a 5 gallon bucket around collecting balls and dumping back in the machine. I made.25 cents an hour back then it was pretty good money especially for a kid. Had to watch for fast flying line drives. At least we mowed with a big gang mower.

Last edited by strike2x; 04/15/20 08:14 AM. Reason: Misspelling

Wish I had more time to trap....
Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843040
04/15/20 08:15 AM
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ny
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ny
Working around the farm.Feeding animals,mowing,shovel snow,do hay,cleaning barns and coops.Got paid in BBs and .22 shells.


the wheels of the gods turn very slowly
Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843075
04/15/20 08:53 AM
04/15/20 08:53 AM
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7mtns of CENTRAL PA
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7mtns of CENTRAL PA
Let me know what I missed. Grandparents and uncles/aunts had farms so come summer and after school I spent my vacations and after school hours: picking rocks, baling hay/straw, forking s--t, combining corn, wheat, or oats, mowing yards, hay, etc., shoveling ear corn into cribs, snow, coal, grain into graineries, selling fruit/veg at roadside stand. So graduating high school and getting a real job was like a vacation. Not-went to farm after work. Missed one-dairy farm-back when u carried buckets back and dumped in tank!!!


NRALIFER,PRPA LIFER,HUNTER,FURTAKER
Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843082
04/15/20 08:59 AM
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Missouri
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Missouri
Sold Sunday papers

Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843085
04/15/20 09:02 AM
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paper boy at 10 yrs then bottle washer at grandpas dairy at 12 for $1 hr.. I remember when Dems voted to put social security in general fund gramps said that money they were saving for you when you retire some day? well boy you"ll never see it!!! HA gramps! I got it before its all gone!

Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843149
04/15/20 10:15 AM
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Happy Valley
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Happy Valley
I worked in a pepper factory. My job was to separate the pepper from fly poop. The only way to do it was by taste.

Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843152
04/15/20 10:19 AM
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Ky
When I was 12 My father had a massive heart attack. I had to cut enough fire wood for the entire winter. I would fall the trees and cut 2 pick up loads EVERY sat starting that Oct. I may have weighed 75 lbs soak and wet. I would load the bigger blocks and split them every evening after getting home from school. Saturday roll around back at it. I was so small I had let the saw ride on my leg and once it kicked back and laid my knee cap open. Put some dirt on it and kept sawing .LOL
Love to see a kid now days even know how to start a chain saw let alone cut , load , and split 1 load of wood, let alone 2 a week !!!

Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843155
04/15/20 10:25 AM
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Oregon
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Oregon
First job was picking marionberries for 50 cents a 9 lb flat. That would have been July of 1963 and I had just turned 6 years old. Still remember getting that first flat picked and getting paid with a 50 cent piece and then running to the local store to spend it.

Nothing much has changed in my spending habits over the years.


My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843163
04/15/20 10:30 AM
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Paper route fill in for my best friend. Few bucks for a week while he and family away. Mason tender summer job when I was 14 and got 75 cents an hour. Big money then. Friend were working farms for 50 cents an hour.
I learned a great lesson that summer...not going to do that for a living.

Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843165
04/15/20 10:30 AM
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Our next door neighbor owned the farms across the creek and at the end of our road. We picked tomatoes and sweet corn for his truck stand. After that I washed dishes at a large restaurant.

Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843171
04/15/20 10:36 AM
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Trapped rabbits for local rabbit clubs. Never caught a ton and cant remember what I got paid.

Re: First job you remember? [Re: CoonsBane] #6843173
04/15/20 10:37 AM
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potter co. p.a.
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Originally Posted by CoonsBane
I worked in a pepper factory. My job was to separate the pepper from fly poop. The only way to do it was by taste.

hard to deny it when someone says"i think there is somethin in the water in PA." grin









Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843175
04/15/20 10:39 AM
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McGrath, AK
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I was 8 years old and worked for my uncle packaging bacon.

10 hour days, six days a week (summer). I was paid $2.00 per day plus lunch.


Mean As Nails
Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843184
04/15/20 10:45 AM
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The Hill Country of Texas
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The Hill Country of Texas

I was in grade school when I started hustling up lawn mowing, brush trimming, fence painting type jobs. Deep snows Id shovel out sidewalks and driveways. I worked for what ever was offered on these jobs. There was a steady flow of traffic in and out of the Coop elevator and by the time I was in middle school some of the old farmers would pick me up and pay me to chop weeds out of their soybean fields. I got $3/hr and figured to get rich LOL. About the time I got to HS the local cowpokes kidnapped me from the bean fields and took me with them to build fence, work cattle, and put up hay bales. I don't remember exactly how much it figured out to an hour but I think it usually averaged out to better than double what walkin' beans paid.

To this day I still day wage when claims are slow.


“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers


Re: First job you remember? [Re: Finster] #6843191
04/15/20 10:50 AM
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S/W Mich.
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S/W Mich.
I was 12-13 yrs old

Hand trimmed Christmas trees , in the spring.
Uncles dairy farm all summer ( 60# round bales).
Bailed and loaded boxcars with x-mas trees , Nov - early Dec

Spent the next spring in the UP.
Peeled and stacked Pulpwood. ( We got 15 cents a stick piled and ready for the loaders)
Fished brook trout on the rainy days, camped and fished northern pike on the weekends.
Beat the crap out of all the pine pitch from the spring before.


"Some Domestication Required "



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