Re: First job you remember?
[Re: Finster]
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04/15/20 07:07 AM
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jeff karsten
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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
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Re: First job you remember?
[Re: Finster]
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04/15/20 07:21 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 13,196 Central Pennsylvania
Nittany Lion
Don't call me Mister, Mister
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Don't call me Mister, Mister
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Central Pennsylvania
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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.
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Re: First job you remember?
[Re: Finster]
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04/15/20 07:52 AM
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rendezvous
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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!
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 08:13 AM
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strike2x
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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....
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Re: First job you remember?
[Re: Finster]
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04/15/20 08:15 AM
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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
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 08:53 AM
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GROUSEWIT
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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
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 10:25 AM
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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!
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 10:37 AM
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pcr2
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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."
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 10:45 AM
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Posts: 20,351 The Hill Country of Texas
Leftlane
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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
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Re: First job you remember?
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04/15/20 10:50 AM
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Dillrod
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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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