re: Your first hourly paying job

Clearing a Right of Way through the swamp. Hardest $5 hour I’ve ever made. When I was 14-15 years old.

Burger King in Huntsville, AL. $4.25 an hour.
1992
It was teh suck

1975 14 yo in a gas station in Charleston SC making $2.00/hour. By the time I was 15 and old enough to drive I had saved up enough money to rebuild the front end and motor of a totalled 66 Fastback (which I still own today).
Didn't have the money yet to paint it so I drove it with yellow fender blue hood on a burgany car. People at the stoplight would laugh until I smoked their arse.

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1984 - $3.35/hour

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Very close to mine.

I remember washing dishes a few nights a week at Shoneys and getting a check for $40 after taxes.


I was stoked

Turning burgers at the Broadmoor McDonalds on Florida Blvd. in 1978. For some reason I remember $3.35 per hour but that is incorrect. Minimum wage was $2.65. Damn.

1978 Piggly Wiggly IGA...now Calvin's Market. I was 13. Did everything young kids do at a grocery store. Calvin and I both grew up in Old Goodwood. He was the assistant manager at that time. I watched him grow from bag boy to owner. Great story.

Worked construction on my dad’s job sites from 7-13 years old, but my first ‘real’ job , with an actual paycheck and taxes taken out- was at an old fast food restaurant called Rax Roast Beef.. it was a lot like Arby’s, and i was 14 yrs old.. a girl i was dating in high school got me the job, and at 14 i was too young to work the roast beef slicer (you had to be 15)- so they put me at the drive-thru.. spent most of the time on the job sneaking into the freezer to make out with the girlfriend, but then i got asked to homecoming by a girl who was a senior(!), so then i dumped the girlfriend and lost the job.. totally worth it all though.

Pulling weeds and loading trucks at my uncle's nursery. $3.35/hr, if I remember correctly. It was hot and miserable.

Cart boy at the Atchafalaya in Patterson