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re: Schools out for summer. What was your first summer job?
Posted on 6/1/23 at 2:47 pm to Bard
Posted on 6/1/23 at 2:47 pm to Bard
quote:
We called it chopping cotton.
Same here, but I knew there would likely be those who would misunderstand it.
I guess I thought everyone knew what it was.
But where I grew up in the 70s, the main teen jobs were chopping cotton, picking peaches, hauling hay, or mowing yards. It really did suck, but made you appreciate things.
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Posted on 6/1/23 at 2:53 pm to L1C4
Gas station attendant at Billups. Anybody remember Billups?
Posted on 6/1/23 at 3:25 pm to L1C4
Cut yards for a local home builder. Had ten houses he was in the process of building and for sale that I had to cut every week. Did that for about a month, then my high school sweetheart’s dad hired me to work in the trucking terminal he managed washing trucks and cleaning the shop.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 3:27 pm to L1C4
Marketing director at Bud Light but it didn't go too well. I guess the world just wasn't ready for my new ideas.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 3:32 pm to L1C4
Baling hay, worst job ever
Mowing
Upholstery work
Mowing
Upholstery work
Posted on 6/1/23 at 3:35 pm to L1C4
We had a levee mowing crew in NE Arkansas. I got to fill up the tractors and grease the bush hogs and keep the truck pulled up. I was 8. I made $10/day. I only asked for $10 a week and thought pop was gonna bust me for asking for that much. I mainly drank Cokes and ate candy bars, did a little fishing on the bar ditches.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 3:47 pm to chinhoyang
quote:You didn't have a father to teach you about the World.
We hoed cotton for $1.25 an hour. There were six of us, all 15. The farmer also had a black family that was hoeing cotton. He told us that the family got $1.75 per hour because they worked twice as hard as we did.
One day, the family and my group were both hoeing cotton in close proximity. A man comes over and says "you don't work twice as hard as we do and I don't know why you get $1.75 per hour."
We told him the truth. Apparently the wily farmer was telling both groups that the other group made more money because they worked harder.
Mowed lawns around the neighborhood for a couple of years.
First real job was running the parts locker and tool shed at a fiberglass boat production yard (age 15).
Didn't have an "in", just went and applied.
Worked there two Summers & Christmas breaks in High School.
I was good at it.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:01 pm to L1C4
Keeping score at softball games, I may have been 12-13 and was paid ten bucks a game, three games every Saturday morning. Not bad money in 1977
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:16 pm to LSUtoBOOT
quote:
Sound like a Lakeview inhabitant, or maybe Bucktown.
Metairie near Oaklawn and Vets but I spent a lot of time in Bucktown and Lakeview. When I did a semester at UNO I valet parked cars at Masson’s.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:30 pm to L1C4
Family business
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:36 pm to L1C4
Waterslide
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:37 pm to L1C4
Lifeguard. Awesome job.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:42 pm to elprez00
Cut grass until got a real job making minimum wage, haha. Was a lifeguard at University Pool
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:49 pm to L1C4
Mowed
Hay
Toted stuff in a warehouse.
Hay
Toted stuff in a warehouse.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:51 pm to L1C4
Truck farming with my Paw Paw and Uncle. Best shape I've ever been in my life, but picking bushels and bushels of corn, pea's, and truckloads of watermelons, then having to sell it in 100 degree heat was soul crushing.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:54 pm to L1C4
Bussing tables and washing dishes at a pizza buffet. But I started it 15-20 hours a week during the school year so it wasn't just in the summer.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:56 pm to L1C4
Maintaining vending machines
Was pretty fun outside of a couple sketchy locations
Was pretty fun outside of a couple sketchy locations
Posted on 6/1/23 at 5:16 pm to L1C4
Did groundskeeping at a good-sized campground.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 5:16 pm to L1C4
Baby sitting
Posted on 6/1/23 at 5:19 pm to L1C4
frick a summer job, didn't go to school all year to then get up and go to work.
Wasn't trying to get old at 14
If I couldn't afford it I just went without
Wasn't trying to get old at 14
If I couldn't afford it I just went without
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 5:22 pm
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