re: What was your first real job in high school? Like where you had to clock in, etc.

Around age 10, I worked at our family grocery store. I swept the parking lot, mopped the floors stocked the shelves and ran the cash register. The hard liquor and cigs were on big shelves behind the counter. We would keep the popular booze like Jack Daniel's or MD 2020 on the lower shelves near the cartons of cigarettes so I could reach them.

Behind each row of liquor, Dad kept loaded pistols tucked away. On top of every beer cooler, we kept probably a dozen long handle guns.

Thankfully we never had to grab one of the guns. But, I was taught where all the guns were and what to do if I needed one.

"You never pull out a gun unless you plan to shoot and you shoot to kill"

McDonalds back when we gave a damn, made actual burgers, and the staff was polite and friendly.

Sophmore year in high school. At Fun Fair Park working the birthday parties (room set up and clean up).

Was not old enough to operate the rides

During high school summers at 15-16 worked with a plumber who specialized in construction doing rough ins.
That worked sucked but I made $8 an hour cash when minimum wage was $5.50.
My dad loved getting me crappy, outside jobs in my youth.
It worked bc I stayed in school and got a cushy office job.

Piggly Wiggly in Bogalusa back in the 70s.

I mowed a few lawns and edged several others. I quickly learned that to edge a lawn where the grass has overgrown the sidewalks, burns through a lot of blades which cost more than I was getting paid. Weed eaters weren't around then.

Right out of high school I worked in a construction crew at a nursing home for the insane. Most of those there had been chained to walls at the state hospital in Jackson, LA before this.

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overgrown the sidewalks, burns through a lot of blades which cost more than I was getting paid.

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supposed to edge the grass baw, not the concrete

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Luther's BBQ in high school

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I was a Luther’s kid too. 1982-84 in Lafayette.

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Mine was Winn Dixie as a freshmen in high school. Usually worked 3 days a week after school 6-7 hours each shift and then both Saturday and Sunday for 8-9 years each day.

Solid 30+ hours per week as a 14 year old.

Child Labor Laws were a lot different back in 1995, I think.

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Same, except it was Kroger and I was 16. Every other detail is identical.

Cash money from tips for bagging groceries made me feel rich. You could make $60 on a busy Saturday. Cash money, not including your bi-weekly paycheck of minimum wage ($4.25).

Never had a shortage of money at the Mall on Friday nights procuring extracurricular things and a CD or two from the music store.

Bus boy.

Made it up to short order cook by the end of the Summer. While still bussing and dish washing.