- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
re: How old were you when you got your first paying job?
Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:46 pm to MorbidTheClown
Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:46 pm to MorbidTheClown
quote:
what time frame ?
Around 1965.
1
Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:48 pm to Lsupimp
quote:
It seems like yesterday. USC message Board. November 2003. They mocked the very idea that LSU would get to play for a championship. LSU had a crappy coach. LSU played in a crappy league. Etc Etc ad nauseaum:
USC fan: You should go pimp that LSU shite on Tigerdroppings.
Me: What's Tigerdroppings ?
I never claimed to be a Pimp. I'm an LSUPimp. Big difference.
I realize, but it was just funny.
I do remember that argument USC tried to make. It pretty much lasted until USC got busted / Pete Carrol left USC.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:45 am to gumbo2176
quote:
Around 1965.
yeah, that may have been a bit early. my uncle owned the boat launch at one time but, i think that was closer to 1970 or so. he also owned the gulf station right there by the launch.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:01 am to MorbidTheClown
quote:
yeah, that may have been a bit early. my uncle owned the boat launch at one time but, i think that was closer to 1970 or so. he also owned the gulf station right there by the launch.
The guy that owned it back then was Harry Hafers. He and his wife, son and 2 of his 5 daughters worked there along with me and another guy a couple years older.
We'd get there about 4:30 a.m. on weekends to get ready and launch boats starting around 5 and stay busy for 2-3 hours putting them in the water, fueling them, selling bait, ice, etc. The women would be in the store selling snacks, licenses, sodas/beer, and a bit of fishing tackle if needed.
We wouldn't get out of there until 6:30 p.m. most weekend nights.
Since they put in the diversion canal from the river there the launch is no longer in business but there is a bar on the site that is open. I was just down that way a month or so ago and stopped in for a beer.
From what I understand, a guy named Lividais (sp?) and then a guy named DePope have owned it since Harry sold it and moved to Jackson, Ms. to run a marina on the Ross Barnett Reservoir--------which is now long out of business and gone.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:02 am to HECM62
13.. Bus boy at Fontana's seafood restaurant in West End..
My paycheck averaged 40 bucks, I thought I was rich...
Come to think about it.. Those old lady waitresses didn't even tip out.. Cheap asses..
My paycheck averaged 40 bucks, I thought I was rich...
Come to think about it.. Those old lady waitresses didn't even tip out.. Cheap asses..
This post was edited on 6/7/18 at 9:10 am
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:03 am to HECM62
Working as a stock boy. 14years old
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:04 am to gumbo2176
my uncle's last name was Alphonso.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:08 am to HECM62
About 15, worked for my dad at his paint store. He paid me minimum wage. $1.60 an hour.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:10 am to doublecutter
12-13
washed dishes/busboy at a restaurant a few days a week in the summer
washed dishes/busboy at a restaurant a few days a week in the summer
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:14 am to MorbidTheClown
quote:
my uncle's last name was Alphonso.
Now that you mention it, I do remember that name as one of the owners after Harry sold out.
I moved to Jackson to work for Harry in the summer of 70 not long after he bought that marina.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:17 am to HECM62
15....cook at McDonald's...the things that job taught me... 
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:17 am to HECM62
14, working on a maintenance crew for a baseball complex.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:18 am to gumbo2176
the timeline is kind of fuzzy. but, i remember him selling it, having a deal in place and had to sweat it out during a hurricane. maybe that was camille in 69?
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:20 am to HECM62
15 chopping cotton on my uncles cotton farm in Ida, LA
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:23 am to HECM62
17 as a tire repair and oil change technician and full service gas attendant.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:28 am to HECM62
I had so many jobs when I was young and in high school. Like already mentioned, I launched boats at a local boat launch.
I also worked one summer in a game booth on the midway of Pontchartrain Beach. Knock over the 3 milk bottles with a softball and win a prize. LOL
I had a job at a local cold storage facility that dealt with a lot of processed chickens and often had to cut up case after case of whole chickens into individual pieces or halved. To this day I can cut a chicken into 10 individual pieces in under 1 minute.
One year I had a job at a trucking warehouse at the end of St. Maurice St. in the lower 9th Ward. Highway Express had a loading dock right next to the river and I'd load and unload trailers all day long, and a lot of it by hand. Cold in the winter and hot in the summer is how I remember it.
I also worked one summer in a game booth on the midway of Pontchartrain Beach. Knock over the 3 milk bottles with a softball and win a prize. LOL
I had a job at a local cold storage facility that dealt with a lot of processed chickens and often had to cut up case after case of whole chickens into individual pieces or halved. To this day I can cut a chicken into 10 individual pieces in under 1 minute.
One year I had a job at a trucking warehouse at the end of St. Maurice St. in the lower 9th Ward. Highway Express had a loading dock right next to the river and I'd load and unload trailers all day long, and a lot of it by hand. Cold in the winter and hot in the summer is how I remember it.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:32 am to MorbidTheClown
quote:
the timeline is kind of fuzzy. but, i remember him selling it, having a deal in place and had to sweat it out during a hurricane. maybe that was camille in 69?
That sounds about right then. If I remember right, Harry bought that marina in Jackson around 68 or 69 and asked me to come up to work with him when I got out of high school in 70. Not wanting to live at home any longer than I already had, I jumped at the chance.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:42 am to HECM62
Age 13 paid off book by a music store to help with delivery of pianos and organs. Weekend, Summer and holidays.
Dad got me on doing commercial flat roofing for one of his roofing contractor customers. Age 15 Summers and holidays it carried on through high school and college. Made two a days a piece of cake when August rolled around. Paid for college, vehicles, insurance and so forth as well as funding active social life. By then though I had my own crews to run so not as physically tough as being the 15 year old white boy grunt.
Dad got me on doing commercial flat roofing for one of his roofing contractor customers. Age 15 Summers and holidays it carried on through high school and college. Made two a days a piece of cake when August rolled around. Paid for college, vehicles, insurance and so forth as well as funding active social life. By then though I had my own crews to run so not as physically tough as being the 15 year old white boy grunt.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 10:02 am to HECM62
Start of the 7th grade,so 12. Worked after school at my local branch library, $1/day (so 40 cents/hour), thought I was rich.
Page 6 of 7
Popular
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News