Re: First job you remember?
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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 !!! You had a chain saw !!! I had a double bitted axe and a buck saw.You were spoiled.
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Re: First job you remember?
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Right out of high school, I got a job working in a Pepsi bottling plant. I was paid $1.00 an hour.
Most in this country have things people in other countries only dream about. Yet, they want America to be more like those other countries.
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Re: First job you remember?
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During high school in summer I seined minnows with my dad who wholesaled them to various bait shops. During the winter months we trapped suckers and fatheads in ponds he had leased for that purpose.
Most in this country have things people in other countries only dream about. Yet, they want America to be more like those other countries.
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Re: First job you remember?
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First steady job starting 14 through 19. Farm I could bike to, a friend's family ran the farm. Summer was haying, growing and harvesting sweet corn, moving cows and sheep around, castrating, firewood processing, odd projects. Winters processing and delivering firewood after school, sugaring.
I was real lucky. The farm, huntjng and fishing kept me out of trouble. I wouldn't have traded it for any of my peers' jobs scooping ice cream or bagging groceries, that's for certain.
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Re: First job you remember?
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Farm work for $1 hr. Then room board in summer on farm, $25 a week , not hard work, an several times during summer went out town an eat out bishops or someplace an went something , county Fair somewhere, 13 years old , forgot about paper boy job in between 2 farm jobs.
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Re: First job you remember?
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Pulling tassels for Pfister Hybrid Corn Co. in Woodford County, Illinois for 40 cents an hour. That was in the late 1940's.
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Re: First job you remember?
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First work that I did.. that I received any money for ....was walking beans on the farm I grew up on....got a penny for every cucklebur that was pulled up by the roots....that might explain some of my back issues to this day...lol
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson
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Re: First job you remember?
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I didn't get paid for working at home(firewood,gardening,mowing,putting up hay etc.) Everyone was expected to help out. Dad did pay 5 cents a piece for pocket gophers that I trapped. I remember picking rock for an entire afternoon for my great grandfather. When I was done he told me I did a great job and handed me a quarter, he was a very frugal man. My first real paid job was bucking hay bales for a neighbor, three of us split 6 cents a bale. I was the biggest so I bucked and the other two stacked and drove the truck. We were in the sixth grade.
"They Say Nothing is Impossible, But, I Do Nothing Every Day."
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