re: Schools out for summer. What was your first summer job?

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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.

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Heck yeah, we didnt get paid for it

Family worked for free

First paid job? Pipeline laborer

Bowling Alley.

I worked at a summer camp for girls that was on the same lake as our families cabin. Did mostly odd jobs to start but eventually graduated to boat driver and waterski instructor. Worked there with my brother and friends from the lake. It didn’t suck

worked with a carpenter at a small college (Springhill).

little did I know when I started, but I'd be loading up and carrying a lot of doors into dorm halls.

Worked in an outdoor botanical garden doing general maintenance and labor: sweeping, raking, watering, trimming, hauling trash. You know, "duties as assigned". Basically whatever the groundskeeper wanted done that day.

Worked at a plant nursery . They bought out a nursery in Florida so three days a week there would be a semi pull up loaded to the max with potted plants . Grab 4 at a time and walk to back of semi and place on a pallet . So hot and humid in that truck we thought we would die. Awful

Washed the trucks at Kleinpeters.

Launching boats with an electric hoist on the Violet Canal right off St. Bernard Hwy. Get there at 4:30 a.m. to get things set up, started launching around 5 a.m. and tried to close no later than 7 p.m. but there was always one or two assholes that didn't make that time.

Long days and for the grand sum of $1.25 an hour back in 65.

Commercial roofing. Flat roofs. Hot. Hard. Dirty.
Dad was in the business supplying materials to contractors.
Got me on with one of his clients. Summer of 10th grade and every Summer (and many holidays) thereafter through high school and my Junior year of college.