re: Worse job you ever worked

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Knocking mortor off old solid clay bricks from a torn down factory with a hatchet and then stacking them on pallets. I was 14 years old in 100 degree Georgia heat in the wide open. I got paid .05/brick.

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When I was 12, we had a house in the neighborhood that burned down, a total loss.

It was old folks who just walked away from it.

I went there every day for weeks and salvaged bricks like you’re describing.

I made the same $0.05 per brick cleaned. A neighbor would pick up everything I cleaned each afternoon and pay me then. I got good at cleaning them, made a frick ton of money in 1974.

Amongst the shite I bought with the loot-