Jobs You Had as a Kid

Worked for my Dad every summer starting around 12 or 13 on construction sites, starting just as bitch boy fetching things and/or cleaning the sites, to helping with lower level construction tasks as I got older and more capable.

Washed cars, bagged groceries, stocked shelves, bussed tables.

Shoveled snow off people’s driveways & had a paper route.

birthday parties at fun fair park
broom engineering at construction sites

I tell friends that the summer after tenth grade I boxed for two months.

(boxed tomatoes)

Started working part time at the A&P in eleventh grade as a bag boy ,

Worked at a small fish market cleaning catfish and boiling lots of crawfish
Did a lot of grass cutting and window cleaning in the neighborhood

Worked at my dad’s animal clinic starting around 10 cleaning kennels, walking dogs, bathing dogs/ cats.

Became a lifeguard/ swim teacher in high school.

Worked at a landscape company laying sod, laying irrigation, general lawn maintenance, drawing landscape plans.

Not a kid, but during college and before law school, I worked as a tax preparer during the tax season.

Cut lawns first, then when came of age to legally work I was a porter at a hotel (running towels to rooms, etc). Main job was cleaning up after weekly cocktail parties for business travelers. After that was Pizza Hut for 2 years, then working at a golf course while in college to continue to work on my game until I turned professional after graduation.

Grew up on a farm...so there were a ton of jobs that I had to do that I didn't get paid for. First real job was selling cokes at UT football games in Neyland Stadium. They would give us racks that would hold 20 large cokes in them and we would walk up and down selling them in the stands for $1.00 (went up to $1.50 by the time I finished working there). We would get $0.10 for each coke we would sell...I would typically leave making around $20.00 each game from commission...and typically another $10 or so from tips, and it wasn't uncommon to go to one section and sell out a rack on a single row (just look for people sneaking in Whiskey).

They made us stop selling at the start of the 4th quarter...an added bonus was that I got in free and sold cokes at the Jackson 5 concert there in 1984. We could only sell up until the opening act started, then we got to sit or stand wherever we could find a place and watch the show.