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I was a sophomore in High School and it was a dishwasher at the Whitehall Inn in Camden, Maine. I was making a $1.50/hour.
Worked as a gas station attendant at 16 years of age.
I was 21 and worked part time at the junior college career placement office in NW Fort Worth. And I was making $5 an hour (minimum wage)
My first paid job was coal-oiling mesquite trees in West Texas - to kill them and clear pastures. I was 15.
My first job was actually something my parents paid for - I went to a summer camp in Virginia and spent the summer mucking out stables and helping a farrier and doing other farm chores - that was a great gig for the camp owner - he got p[aid to have kids doing the chores on his horse farm and summer camp.
It was either teaching Swimming Lessons with my grandmother in her pool ... a summer job which I eventually took over completely from her ... I started when I was in 7th or 8th grade ...
Or it was detasseling corn which I did in 8th grade, I think. That job paid really well ... like $8/hr ... unimaginable back in 1974.
When I finally took over the swimming lessons, my sister and I charged $30 for 10 lessons ... and often taught 100 kids a Summer ... it was a good job!!
This was an ongoing battle with my Dad and me as I really wanted to work and he really didn't want me to work (other than staying home and cleaning!) So, other than babysitting or working part time for him in the summers, my first real job was working at Spencer Gifts in the local Mall when I was 19 and a Sophmore in College(and I was really good at it too! LOL)
WOW Cin! 100 kids in the summer? That was a good job? LOL
Steve,
I was 16 and worked for a moving company for $2 an hour. Good work outs for fall football.
14yrs old. I use to go to the local "nursing home" and hang out with the older people. They were so nice. I went back every day and just visited. Then they ended up hiring me to work in the kitchen. That kind of ruined the experience for me. It was a fairly good long term elderly facility.
This is where I leaned compassion for the elderly.
I think I made 1.25hr.
Well .... my grandmother had been teaching swimming lessons since 1964 and had established quite a reputation in the area ... so when my sister and I took over the job in 1974, we took over an established business with a good reputation.
I think that may have been where I got my first taste of teaching ...
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