re: What were your lowest paid jobs as a kid

Picking peas for like 5 cents a bushel

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Dad had me dragging a lawnmower and gas can all over the neighborhood from age 11 to 14

I had one account for $3

Mow the whole dang yard, get $3

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BluegrassBelle

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Checking cotton for bugs back in the 90s

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$3.35 an hour - excellent money!

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That’s good money now for a server - if you’re really bad at it.

Finding, washing and selling returnable soft drink bottles for $.01 each back in day, is going to be hard to beat in the lowest paid job competition.

$0.50 cents per hour helping a neighboring farmer pull cockleburrs in an oat stubble that was cover crop for newly planted alfalfa. Work was done pulling them by the fistfull on hands and knees in a huge field that was more cockleburr patches than oats. The problem was not the work but the damned sandburrs that were everywhere. My hands swelled up from all of the stickers embedded in them and my knees were just big gobs of puss for weeks afterwards. I was about 12 or 13 at the time and at least I got to drive the jeep to and from the job each day.

$3.50/hr cash working at the feed store circa 1988. Made it up to $4.25 before I dragged up.

My old man says he earned $0.60/hr (penny a minute) in the early 1960s working as a car washer at the local dealership.

Grocery store paid me $2.85/hour, which was below minimum wage. They justified the wage by saying it was a probationary period to see if I’d work out. 1983

I worked at a small, mom & pop grocery store that ran crawfish traps during the season. I cut bait for one day in the freezing cold back in 1996 for 9 hours, no break. I got paid $16. Was supposed to be paid $25 per day but they subtracted gloves and because they thought I broke the outside light.

Pixie dust spreader on the tilt-a-whirl.