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What was your wage while working during high school?
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:47 pm
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:47 pm
I was making $5/hr as a dishwasher for a Chinese buffet. I think it was called “Chinese Chef”. I was given a choice between this and $4.75 at Taco Bell. Well, the obvious choice was the buffet and you get to bring home some Chinese food. Little did I know, the Chinese would work you to death. Whenever I had free time, it was “peel the onions”, “remove the chicken leg skin”,” clean the oil filters”. I was making around $175 every two weeks and touching that cash on pay day was glorious.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:48 pm to PeteRose
Zero because I didn’t have a job
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:48 pm to PeteRose
I mowed lawns mostly, anywhere from $5 - $20 a lawn. Went and spent most of it on arcades after.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:48 pm to PeteRose
$8/hr working for a local men’s clothing store.
Ended up spending more time playing gin rummy than actually working
Ended up spending more time playing gin rummy than actually working
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:49 pm to PeteRose
$4.25 when I started working
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:49 pm to PeteRose
$3.25 at McDonald’s in the late 80s
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:50 pm to PeteRose
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I was making $5/hr as a dishwasher for a Chinese buffet
Don’t lie, how many cats you bring in.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:51 pm to PeteRose
Whatever min wage was in 1999.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:52 pm to PeteRose
My very first job when I was 15, paid $5/ hour cash. But it was in the CBD of NOLA and hard to get to by bus, so when a job across the street from my house became available for $4.25/ hour (plus more hours). I took that one.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:52 pm to PeteRose
$4.25 per hour hard labor, oilfield related
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:52 pm to PeteRose
$8.80 in Shipping/Receiving at a Marshall Field’s near Chicago.
was a pretty sweet gig tbh
was a pretty sweet gig tbh
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:53 pm to PeteRose
$5.25 working maintenance on a golf course
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:54 pm to PeteRose
quote:After you had a drum stick, did your brain stop tickin’?
I was making $5/hr as a dishwasher for a Chinese buffet.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:55 pm to PeteRose
350 selling dime and twenties
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:55 pm to PeteRose
$3.35/hour at my grocery store job. Also made $3/hour cash for hauling hay.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:55 pm to PeteRose
$15-20 per yard. $25-45 per car wash/wax. $200+ per car for paint correction.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:56 pm to PeteRose
During the school year I mowed yards with my old man once he got off work and I finished practice. I pushed yards while he weedwhacked, think we charged like $35-$50 a yard, so I'd get around $10 a yard. In the summer I made $7.25 during the day, and would push the yards in the afternoon.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 4:56 pm to beerJeep
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how many cats you bring in.
We had to let the cats be so they can take care of the rats
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