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Alaskagal

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 02:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am sure this will get some laughs.
My first job was rougging beans in Nebraska. We got paid like $6.50/hour and thought we were rich. Then I got a real job at Dairy Queen for $4.15/hr (minimum wage)

Marysafan

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 02:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
In high school, my best friend and I worked at her Dad's drug store. The store was in the "Miracle Shopping Center" and yup...kids used to call us up and ask for "Miracle Drugs". It kept us busy in the summer and we made a whopping $1.00 per hour.

After graduation, I worked at the local hospital as a nurse's aide for what was then minimum wage at $1.10 per hour. The year was 1968.

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 02:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Clerk at W. T. Grant Co. (dimestore) 80 cents an hour, I think, but it soon went up to $1.00 an hour, and boy was I thrilled.

Alaskagal

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 03:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How times have changed... Wow $1/hr.

Tksoard

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 03:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
$.75 and hour plus tips (and singing "Live for Today while we work) at A&W Root Beer stand.

Willi

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 03:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Baskin-Robbins.
$3.50/hr

Sunshinemiss

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 04:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
McDonalds, $1.70 per hour (late '70s)

Thought I was rich beyond compare...

Bought my first car with it, a 1965 Corvair Convertible, for $230...(Nader's nemesis)

Gail

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 04:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My first job was babysitting. I also had a very nice neighbor who knew I needed money and she gave me a lot of odd jobs - raking, mowing, washing outside windows and babysitting. My first real job was working at a Travel Lodge hotel in Albuquerque a few summers while I was in high school. I think I made $1.65 an hour.

My next job was 22 years in the Air Force . . . .

Mygetaway

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 06:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My very first job was babysitting too.. about $1.00 an hour I think.
My next and only other job (for 20 years) was in Food Service and the Cafeteria of a hospital. Starting wage was really good, about $6. something an hour in 1980 I believe.

Egbok

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 07:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kentucky Fried Chicken and I worked way too hard for the $2.65/hr, but I was a teenager who wanted MONEY!!! My mom wouldn't let me into the house until I peeled off my "greasy shoes and socks". In those days, we made fresh potato salad and fresh coleslaw along with serving the customers. Oh yeah, let's not forget that we also cooked all that chicken and made the gravy from scratch.
Yup, definitely underpaid!!
Sorry Tk, it's the closest thing to a chicken - LOL!!

Nightcrawler

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 08:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
MY frist job is the same one I'v had for 14 years.
I started at Bethphage in 1988. We work with the mentaly hadycaped it was going to be a summer job. It's been a long summer, but I could not pass up the wopping $3.29 hr. I'm still there to day and I'm making all most $11.00 hr. I really like my job and the people I help. I don't do it for the money. :)

Misslibra

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 09:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My first job was around 14. It was a job through school for the summer. I was a helper with kids who were in day camp. The kids were between 6 to 9 years of age. I recieved minumum wage and at the time I think that was $3.35 or something like that.

Mssilhouette

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 11:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My first paying job was telemarketing at the Hearld Examiner. But technically my first paying job was really selling my home made chocolate chip cookies at high school.

It made for a nice amount of spending change. I never really did the math on exactly how much it costs per cookie but I figured it couldn't be more than 10cents considering each batch yielded about 5 doz cookies :)

Riviere

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 01:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My first job was the summer I was 15.. I was spending a couple weeks with my cousins and one was a waitress in a trendy saloon. She was going to leave for college and the boss was going to hire his niece to replace her, but there would be a 2 week wait so they needed a waitress to cover it. My cousin said I looked 18 and took me to meet her boss, who hired me on the spot. (gulp)!
I worked 7pm to 1am six nights a week being paid a princely $175 per week "under the table" plus tips which were great! The boss never knew my real age, and my mom thankfully never learned I'd made around $500 just visiting my cousins, since I had blown the whole wad on clothes and record albums, which conveniently my cousin going to college had "given" to me.. In fall going back to highschool my pals talked about babysitting and how much $ they made, a pittance for all the work they did, but I never said a word about my brief summer job!

Whoami

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Convenience store clerk @ $3.50/hr!

Teddybear

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My first job was babysitting @ $5.00 an hour (1990), then I worked at Contempo Casuals @ 4.75 and hour (1994)!! Crazy!

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 12:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, actually my first job was babysitting at 50 cents an hour. I hated it with a passion, but it beat a weekly allowance of 50 cents a week!

Karuuna

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 12:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Shoveling manure (why I do feel like I'm still doing that???), no pay, got free board for my horse ($75/month), and some free riding lessons.

Giddyup!

Tess

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My first job was babysitting for 50 cents/hour for 5 kids. I stayed 5 hours and thought I was rich with a whole $2.50! I was 12. The summer between my junior and senior year of highschool I had a full-time job babysitting for a different family of 5 (4 boys, one of whom was severely mentally handicapped, and 1 girl) but this job was for 12-14 hours a day for $125 per week. Halfway through the summer another family moved in so I had 7 kids instead of 5. Lousy job because the parents of the children were horrible but all the years of babysitting including this summer job paid my university tuition.

During college I worked in the university library but when the budget was cut I started working at a ladies clothing store downtown. I don't remember my starting wage when I was still part-time but while I was in grad school working full-time I remember getting $3.14 per hour. At nights all through college I still babysat for the whopping wage of 66 cents per hour. When I quit my job in San Francisco and moved to Minnesota the minimum wage was still $1.65 so I thought I was making huge money.

Imbewitched

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 12:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My Great Aunt ran the snack bar at a bowling alley. I worked for her on weekends and during the summer from the age of 12 until I was 16. I started at around $1.50 an hr. At 16 I went to work at Sommers Drug Store, after school and weekends at $2.50 hr. I loved having my own spending money!!

Lancecrossfire

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 12:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I had a summer job on a work crew when I was a sophmore in high school at OSU. Wage was $1.00/hr.

Before that I picked beans, and don't remember how mant cents a pound it was.

Lobster

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 03:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My first job was as a cashier at Star Market. I started at $3.35 an hour. I ended up going full time a few years later as a meat wrapper. I was there for 11 years.

Admin

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 05:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hahah...excellent!

I was a paperboy, made pretty good money.

Then I worked at Ponderosa for $3.20/hour. It sucked and I eventually got fired for stealing a case of beer! hahaha..

Egbok

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 05:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Lance, so your wallet has been filled with money since way back when! No wonder you can always pay for everything!

And Admin, Ponderosa...as in Hoss, Little Joe & Adam's home?

Mammyyokum

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 05:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Back in covered wagon days I got 50 cents an hour for babysitting. When I turned 16 I got a bigtime job at the local Dairy Queen for 90 cents an hour. I thought I was really in the money.