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Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:47 am to L1C4
First summer job was a cashier at a music store. It sucked.
Second summer job was working on a farm. I still think to this day (22 years later) that it was the best job I ever had. Up and out at sunrise to enjoy and work with nature. Home early enough to enjoy the evenings. Hard, physical work but I loved it.
Second summer job was working on a farm. I still think to this day (22 years later) that it was the best job I ever had. Up and out at sunrise to enjoy and work with nature. Home early enough to enjoy the evenings. Hard, physical work but I loved it.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:48 am to L1C4
First real job was digging ditches for the county.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:51 am to L1C4
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Square baled hay
lots and lots of it
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:51 am to L1C4
Washing dishes at a small locally owned restaurant.
Best summer job ever was lifeguard at the local country club.
Best summer job ever was lifeguard at the local country club.
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 11:52 am
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:57 am to L1C4
Cutting grass in the Louisiana heat with a push mower. Good times
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:01 pm to Jim Rockford
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I worked for two brothers in their sixties. I had just been through spring football practice, thought I was in shape and was going to show these old men how it's done. I was wrong. Very wrong.
I thought the same thing when a took a summer job with a masonry company when I was 15.
The company won a huge bid to build a local high school. So we were working with block instead of brick.
Hauling block and wheelbarrows full of mud all day long in Deep South middle of the summer without a speck of shade for any relief...whooped my arse every single day
Put some pipes on me though
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:01 pm to High C
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Curious as to what that entailed.
So this was back in the 90s, so they didn't typically use harvesters. You had to walk through the field, cut down the stalk, and spear it so when you went back through with the tractor/trailer/wagon you can easily pick the bundle up. They wouldn't let us cut because that's typically where you end up getting tobacco poisoning. But we rode the wagon to pick up bundles.
Once we brought it back to the barn, you hang the tobacco from the rafters in a barn that is heated with stoves to reduce the humidity (too humid and it won't cure correctly). They had coke stoves at the time so it was constantly maintaining the fire and heat. We would help hang but the adults typically dealt with the fire/heat process.
After they were cured, you'd bring them down and inspect for any spoilage (we helped with this). Bundle the good leaf to take to market.
Hardest I've ever worked in my life and we had the "lighter" load of the job to be honest. Below is a UK Ag article that gets into more detail (some things I can't remember as well).
UK Ag website on harvesting and curing Burley tobacco
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:01 pm to Sterling Archer
Picked cucumbers...on a machine bent over all day throwing small cukes (pickles) into bins. Still hate cucumbers to this day :) moved into picking tobacco during HS, great money at the time, another shi##y job tho.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:02 pm to L1C4
Lifeguard and farm work.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:17 pm to L1C4
Playing ssshhhh with my uncle. Made enough money to buy a bike... couldn't ride it for a while though.
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 12:17 pm
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:23 pm to L1C4
Working at an ice plant.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:25 pm to drjett
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Working at an ice plant.
sounds like a cool job
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:33 pm to StringedInstruments
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Up and out at sunrise to enjoy and work with nature
My second summer job at age 16 was working nights cleaning floors and doing a little stocking at a grocery store. It was always pretty cool to get home around sunrise and go fish a little bit or go jogging at the park.
Later that summer and for some summers after I worked at a golf course and was working as the sun was coming up most days. I miss that kind of stuff.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:37 pm to PlanoPrivateer
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We called it chopping cotton.
Same here, but I knew there would likely be those who would misunderstand it.
We chopped everything but johnson grass (the sesbania was kind of fun though once it got big enough to throw like a spear
).
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:43 pm to L1C4
Busboy at Outback in Metairie. It sucked. I loved it.
I also worked at Abercrombie in Lakeside at the same time but they hired 8,000 people at a time so the shifts were few and far between.
I also worked at Abercrombie in Lakeside at the same time but they hired 8,000 people at a time so the shifts were few and far between.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 1:00 pm to L1C4
Worked on a survey crew. Surveying sucked but got my friends jobs on the same crew so it made it fun. Killed many snakes, stepped on a couple ground hornet nests, and got lots of poison ivy.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 1:05 pm to L1C4
Camp counselor
Posted on 6/1/23 at 1:13 pm to GruntbyAssociation
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Busboy and Oyster Shucker at the Bounty in West End Point, summer 1979. This supplemented my paper route and grass cutting jobs. I was a hustler.
Sound like a Lakeview inhabitant, or maybe Bucktown.
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 1:49 pm
Posted on 6/1/23 at 1:15 pm to L1C4
Cuttin' grass
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