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re: What were your lowest paid jobs as a kid
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:58 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:58 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Kept score at the little league field. 10 dollars a game plus a burger or chicken fingers if I scored both games.
Worked at my grandmothers flower shop and got .03 cents for every water pick I filled up.
Worked at my grandmothers flower shop and got .03 cents for every water pick I filled up.
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Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:59 am to Harry Rex Vonner
$2/hr cash, plus tips. Bag boy at store
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:59 am to Topwater Trout
never had to work minimum wage in my life. Buddy of mine's father had a construction business and he hired me in the summer paid me $5.50/hr I thought i was rolling in the money at the time
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:01 am to Harry Rex Vonner
$4/hr washing dishes in a pizza shop in 1993
$5.25/hr bagging groceries in Winn Dixie ‘95-‘96
$5.25/hr bagging groceries in Winn Dixie ‘95-‘96
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:03 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Hauling hay. I think two of us got .04 cents a bale. A 12 hour day might get a guy $20.
This. Looking back, it's funny that as a 14 - 16 year old chunking hay onto a trailer in the middle of July, the heat wasn't even a thing.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:05 am to Harry Rex Vonner
$5.15 an hour, minimum wage at the time.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:06 am to Rize
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Kenny Shoes in the mall.
Was this the place that sold the Stadia Band shoes? They had like a whale looking emblem on the side. I got some once and loved them. Got to school and caught hell for wearing "welfare shoes".
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:07 am to Billy Blanks
5.15 an hour taking groceries out to the car at the Piggly Wiggly back in high school and college.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:08 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Lowest paid was probably at 14 being a paper boy. You had deliver the paper daily and then once a month go around door to door to do collections. Your pay was basically being rounding up their bill or tipping you.
In college had a job making $4/hr + tips. Felt wealthy at the time
First job out of college was $22,000/yr.
In college had a job making $4/hr + tips. Felt wealthy at the time
First job out of college was $22,000/yr.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:11 am to Harry Rex Vonner
My dad's friend had a business machine company, when I was 13, he paid me $1.50 an hour to clean check writing machines, lasted about a month.
Those who don't know what a check writing machine was this is it. It basically embossed checks so you couldn't forge the amount of the check.
Those who don't know what a check writing machine was this is it. It basically embossed checks so you couldn't forge the amount of the check.
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 9:15 am
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:12 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Caddie at a local public 9-hole course. Only paid tips, which was usually only a few bucks.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:13 am to Hangover Haven
4.25 an hour putting skirting on mobile homes around 95. 40hr work week was 144.25 check. Seemed like it lasted longer than my checks now.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:13 am to Harry Rex Vonner
I checked cotton in high school. Hours work vs paid dollars came out to $3.10/hr. This was summer of 98.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:13 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Putting in pools and working at an alligator farm.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:19 am to Harry Rex Vonner
My cheapest yard I mowed was $4. 
Working at Fun Fair Park was $2/hr., when minimum was $2.10. It was 72 hours per week which was great money for a kid. No OT was paid.
Working at Fun Fair Park was $2/hr., when minimum was $2.10. It was 72 hours per week which was great money for a kid. No OT was paid.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:23 am to Harry Rex Vonner
On Saturdays during high school in the 1950s, I worked for a pest exterminator. My job was to crawl under houses with a medal rake and rake every square inch under the house. You can imagine the crap I had to handle - we'd usually do two houses on each Saturday and I got $5 for the day's work.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:24 am to soccerfüt
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Those of us who could actually spell got $8.00/hr. there.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:25 am to blueridgeTiger
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On Saturdays during high school in the 1950s, I worked for a pest exterminator. My job was to crawl under houses with a medal rake and rake every square inch under the house. You can imagine the crap I had to handle - we'd usually do two houses on each Saturday and I got $5 for the day's work.
Sounds like my worst nightmare. Under a house in the South in summertime. The spiders and other critters would freak me out.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:25 am to terriblegreen
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Was this the place that sold the Stadia Band shoes? They had like a whale looking emblem on the side. I got some once and loved them. Got to school and caught hell for wearing "welfare shoes".
Not sure this was back in 97 or 98 so my memory is a little fuzzy.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:27 am to Rize
1973 electricians helper. 50.00 per week.
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