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re: Jobs You Had as a Kid
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:57 am to FreeState
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:57 am to FreeState
Harvesting pecans and selling them door to door when I was 8 to 10 years old.
Paper boy for States Item in Metairie from 11 to 13. You had to be 12, but since my brother was there it was overlooked.
Plumber’s helper/Plumber (also did electrician work) from 14 to 17
Wendy’s employee from 16 to 17
Then did maintenance work and general labor for a campground all through college.
Paper boy for States Item in Metairie from 11 to 13. You had to be 12, but since my brother was there it was overlooked.
Plumber’s helper/Plumber (also did electrician work) from 14 to 17
Wendy’s employee from 16 to 17
Then did maintenance work and general labor for a campground all through college.
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Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:58 am to DonJuanDaMiles
Mowing yards, helped my dad as custodian at our church, wheeled patients around in a hospital and developed x-ray film, shoe store at the mall. First adult full time job was with National Cash Register (NCR). Then I joined the Navy.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:59 am to The Torch
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Jobs You Had as a Kid
The Torch
Worked at a peach orchard in North Louisiana freshman summer of high school, day one the owner told us all to eat as many peaches as we wanted.
I haven't eaten one since.
The old man knew how to cure stealing peaches
Also worked at a peach orchard in North Louisiana. I still love peaches. We got to take home the overripes. But the guy who owned it was not very nice. It was in a field outside a very old farmhouse, but the breeze always blew in those oak trees by the house. $2 per hour, paid cash every day.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:01 am to LaLadyinTx
mowing a few yards. mostly as a 12,13,14 y/o
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:02 am to FreeState
quote:This.
Mowing yards, weeding. No such thing as a weed eater back then.
I remember how long it took to trim St Augustine grass out of where a chain link fence met the ground.
Answer: about 10 running feet per hour for a 10 year-old me.
Think of having to manually cut all the grass shoots manually that you couldn’t get with a push mower with these types of clippers:
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:12 am to FreeState
Worked on a Doctor's hobby farm for $7 an hour from 13 until I graduated high school. It was part time. Worked at Sonic and McDonald's for $5.35 an hour the summer between 10th and 11th grade. Got fired from both pretty quickly.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:14 am to FreeState
Worked at my uncle's gas station/tire center when I was 15. Made eighty cents an hour, ten hours a day/six days a week. Pulled submersible water well motors for a hardware store when I was sixteen and worked for a traffic survey company when I was 17. From age 18 to 60 worked for the railroad as a conductor. Never had an indoor job my entire life. I was lucky in that regard.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:17 am to FreeState
Clean mud out from the tracks on heavy equipment.
Use a hand pump to fill up big tanks on heavy equipment with diesel
Hold up giant pieces of metal while dad fit the bolts in.
Clean the shop
Hold the lynchpin while dad swung a 20lb maul at it to drive it back in when the dozer threw a track.
Use a hand pump to fill up big tanks on heavy equipment with diesel
Hold up giant pieces of metal while dad fit the bolts in.
Clean the shop
Hold the lynchpin while dad swung a 20lb maul at it to drive it back in when the dozer threw a track.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:17 am to FreeState
Cut grass (ages 12-13), mopped auto show room floors (off the books ages 14-15, $3 per hour), Winn-Dixie (produce, ages 16-17), video store clerk (ages 17-19), Community Coffee merchandiser (stocked shelves, ages 20-23). While my grades were good, my first job out of college they noted my prior work history as a reason for hiring me. They knew I wasn't lazy and earned my way.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:22 am to FreeState
Worked at a fabric store, lumber yard, Boot Hill in Dodge City acting out gunfights, cleaning college dorm rooms
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:24 am to FreeState
Car hop at the A&W drive in, baled hay, caught chickens, cleaned out foot deep. compacted shavings and chicken crap out of chicken houses, and cleared land with a slash blade.
There's probably more but that's what comes to mind now.
Edit: forgot about mile of walking behind an 18 inch lawn mower for $3 or 4 bucks a yard.
There's probably more but that's what comes to mind now.
Edit: forgot about mile of walking behind an 18 inch lawn mower for $3 or 4 bucks a yard.
This post was edited on 5/26/26 at 9:26 am
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:24 am to FreeState
Mowing grass
Raking leaves
wheelbarrowing dirt/sand to fill sandbags to make a retaining wall along the banks of a lake-by far the hardest job i ever did
Worked in a pizza joint
Raking leaves
wheelbarrowing dirt/sand to fill sandbags to make a retaining wall along the banks of a lake-by far the hardest job i ever did
Worked in a pizza joint
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:26 am to FreeState
Reading tutor was my very first job
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:29 am to FreeState
In high school worked at a liquor store as a clerks helper. Discovered I had a lot of friends at that job. Also discovered, at 17 what it was like to have a gun jammed in your face during a robbery.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:30 am to Loup
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Got fired from both pretty quickly.
See? You could probably made your way up to assistant shift manager if you hadn't been such a troublemaker.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:34 am to FreeState
Wrapping French bread and cleaning dough mixer at our bakery at 13 yo. Delivered TV's big as a battleship and put up 40 ft antennas.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:35 am to F1y0n7h3W4LL
My dad had a welding and machine shop, so I was the gopher and welder helper during the summers.
Cut grass in the neighborhood
My uncle had a mini mart for a few years, so I was the stock boy.
Cut grass in the neighborhood
My uncle had a mini mart for a few years, so I was the stock boy.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:38 am to F1y0n7h3W4LL
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See? You could probably made your way up to assistant shift manager if you hadn't been such a troublemaker.
For sure, I might be a carhop by now if I had stayed at Sonic. I got fired from Sonic for not showing up and from McDonald's for mooning one of my buddies out of the drive through window. I've never been fired from any other job.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:05 am to lgtiger
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baling and stacking square bales in August in South LA was not fun.
I've always said if they'd take those young city thugs and make them follow a new holland bailer during July and August they would never commit another crime. What Dad did to me was borderline criminal
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:10 am to FreeState
Hauling hay working for Auburn University Extension. Got paid farm wages which was less than minimum wage. My 16- year old self loved it though.
Grew up working in the family supermarket. Did everything but cut meat in the meat market.
Grew up working in the family supermarket. Did everything but cut meat in the meat market.
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