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re: What were your lowest paid jobs as a kid
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:29 am to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:29 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:goodness was this 100 years ago
mowing yards. My brother and I would split $2.50.
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Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:29 am to Harry Rex Vonner
$2.20/hr as a farm hand in the late ‘70s
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:32 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Fluffed pillows and made beds for a famous rapper when he would hosted parties.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:32 am to Deek
$1.00 an hour packing tomatoes, high school summer job. Migrants picked them and I worked in the packing shed boxing them.
Used to tell people I spent one summer as a boxer.
Used to tell people I spent one summer as a boxer.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:32 am to Harry Rex Vonner
$5.15/hr. This would've been in 2000. I was a Clay Pigeon loader at a skeet shoot and gun shop.
Then I was making $5.15 as a bag boy at a grocery store during high school but worked my way up to $7.25. Had to join the union though.
Then I was making $5.15 as a bag boy at a grocery store during high school but worked my way up to $7.25. Had to join the union though.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:33 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Bagboy at Albertsons, paid $3.35 per hour in high school. Got my 2 week check for around $85 and thought, what am I gong to do with all this money? 
I'd usually buy gas for my car and then go to the mall on the weekends and blow it at the arcade and food court with my friends.
I'd usually buy gas for my car and then go to the mall on the weekends and blow it at the arcade and food court with my friends. 
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:35 am to Harry Rex Vonner
$1.25 an hour sweeping floors
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:35 am to Harry Rex Vonner
quote:
What were your lowest paid jobs as a kid
Working for my grandfather's business. He paid me below minimum wage ($5 instead of $5.15), but he didn't tax me.
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 9:36 am
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:37 am to Harry Rex Vonner
worked summers with my uncle in 7th and 8th grade in the 90s. he'd pay me 30 dollars day. Sounds ok for that age until you consider the hours and type of work.
We built storage units/cottages in the Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama areas. I'd get picked up at 5 am and we would drive to the assignment office and pick up our job and supplies. Drive to site and do the job, usually finishing around 3-6 depending on size of job. Then usually a 1-2 hour drive back "home". So somewhere in range of 2.30 -2.50 hour. Not nearly worth it for the job. Uncle was not an easy man to work for. Would chain smoke all day and bark orders at you like a dog. Hot as hell. Also learned people back yards are disgusting most time. Remember worse yard in mobile, AL. Was a near 100 degree day, high humidity. Grass wasnt cut so everything just stuck to your legs up to your knees. Lady who owned house had 2 german shepherds and there was dog shite all over. Smell was oppressive.
Built character i guess.
We built storage units/cottages in the Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama areas. I'd get picked up at 5 am and we would drive to the assignment office and pick up our job and supplies. Drive to site and do the job, usually finishing around 3-6 depending on size of job. Then usually a 1-2 hour drive back "home". So somewhere in range of 2.30 -2.50 hour. Not nearly worth it for the job. Uncle was not an easy man to work for. Would chain smoke all day and bark orders at you like a dog. Hot as hell. Also learned people back yards are disgusting most time. Remember worse yard in mobile, AL. Was a near 100 degree day, high humidity. Grass wasnt cut so everything just stuck to your legs up to your knees. Lady who owned house had 2 german shepherds and there was dog shite all over. Smell was oppressive.
Built character i guess.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:43 am to Harry Rex Vonner
$3.35/hr sacking groceries at Randall's when bagboys brought the sacks to your car. The tips were nice after a 3-4hr afternoon.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:48 am to Harry Rex Vonner
This was back in the late 80s.
I got paid $60 to push broom a big arse parking lot at a pharmacy. I divided the lot into sections to clean. Lots of sand accumulated.
Took me 13 hours. Worked out there all day. Got paid $60.
I got paid $60 to push broom a big arse parking lot at a pharmacy. I divided the lot into sections to clean. Lots of sand accumulated.
Took me 13 hours. Worked out there all day. Got paid $60.
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 9:50 am
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:50 am to jizzle6609
quote:
Got paid dick.
And you took it like a champ
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:51 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Peeling shrimp over the summers. I got paid $50 a week, but probably worked 35 hours, not counting the hour bike ride to and from. But I was 10, and felt like an absolute baller.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:52 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Scrubbing toilets for 3.35 an hour while I was in college
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:55 am to Harry Rex Vonner
$3.10 an hour working at James Brown grocery store. A one and done add read live on air on the local AM station was "you can't beat James Brown meat!".
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:58 am to Harry Rex Vonner
My first job in 2006 I made 6.50 an hour. I was 15. I thought I was big balling with no bills.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 10:05 am to Harry Rex Vonner
As a 14 year old, I worked in a sweatshop one summer. Friend's mom owned a screen printing business. To cure the ink from the printer, it has to run through a 700 degree oven. My job was to pull shirts from the conveyor oven and fold them for the customer.
Back warehouse routinely was in the 130s in the summertime.
Made enough money to buy what I wanted, but can't tell you it was fun.
Back warehouse routinely was in the 130s in the summertime.
Made enough money to buy what I wanted, but can't tell you it was fun.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 10:17 am to Hangit
quote:
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.
I couldn't remember if it was $2 or 2.10. I know I got a pay bump to work in concessions the 2nd summer I worked there.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 10:19 am to Harry Rex Vonner
first actual job at 15,sacking groceries at Brookshires, $1.65 hr
Posted on 2/17/25 at 10:23 am to CSATiger
probably the lowest hourly rate for me was working at the Bengal while at LSU in the 70s but we made pretty good tips, all of the free booze we could drink, and the womenz were a good perk, they loved us 
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