How Hard Did You Work Growing Up

Used2befast said:
See, after what seemed like a billion rows i could have only wished to be allergic to corn tassels.

All for just north of $3.35 an hour:cool: no pay till season was done.
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I must be a little older, I remember it being $2.65-2.85 range. Heck my pharmacy job started at $3.10 and then I got a raise to 3.35 when minimum wage went up.
 
Pops paid me a crisp 20 dollar bill for chopping 110 acres of cotton in the summer of 76.

And 77

And 78

And....
 
auminer said:
Pops paid me a crisp 20 dollar bill for chopping 110 acres of cotton in the summer of 76.

And 77

And 78

And....
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I may have told this before? 20 years ago when I first bought Active Forklift we owned all the rags and Cintas would wash them and charge us xx per rag. We had to bag them up in bags of 500 as I recall. So over the summer I got Tyler in here and paid him .01 a rag to count them up. We had a few thousand. He didn't really dig that job too much.

At some point they wouldn't use our rags anymore so they could crank the rates.
 
pickled egg said:
How many bails was that? ;)
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I dunno.

We didn't bell it there on the farm. o_O

Pops would drag the trailer behind the cottonpicker while my narrow ass would stomp the cotton down so we could get more in the trailer, this fewer trips to the gin.
 
I just did stuff helping dad up until I was 16. This was super valuable experience on equipment and equipment repair.

The summer I turned 16, I got a job at a Suzuki shop uncrating bikes and bolting stuff on them then taking a short ride around the parking lot. I will never forget that my dad was proud of me for getting a separate job for the summer.
 
Boman Forklift said:
I may have told this before? 20 years ago when I first bought Active Forklift we owned all the rags and Cintas would wash them and charge us xx per rag. We had to bag them up in bags of 500 as I recall. So over the summer I got Tyler in here and paid him .01 a rag to count them up. We had a few thousand. He didn't really dig that job too much.

At some point they wouldn't use our rags anymore so they could crank the rates.
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Cintas is really good at that. They do my uniforms, jackets, and smocks. The rate they charge just to put a damn name on a shirt is robbery. 2000 plus shirts it adds up.
 
Hyperdyne said:
Cintas is really good at that. They do my uniforms, jackets, and smocks. The rate they charge just to put a damn name on a shirt is robbery. 2000 plus shirts it adds up.
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Dafuq you mean?

They don’t have a big-ass carousel of shirts with every possible name on them, like the keychain displays at the convenience stores on the turnpike?

Besides, why even bother? It’s not like anyone stays at a job long enough to recoup any value out of knowing what the fuck his name is.
 
I'm sure there are still a lot of hard working kids out there, but I suspect most of the young doughboys out there would die if they had to do any real labor.

Personally, I started out mowing lawns and shoveling snow at around age 9 or 10, then started punching a time clock for real at age 12. Montana's child labor laws were interesting way back in the day.
 
Started mowing lawns in the neighborhood at 11 yo. At thirteen started working at a hardware and farm supply store. Spring and summer loaded tons of fertilizer in 50/100 lbs bags. Fall was the worst. We would get 50 tons of coal. People around here burned the shit out of it during the winters. We would bag it, 100 lbs, and haul it from the coal yard to the store in a 1975 Ford Courier PU. By the end of winter it would be gone. It's a wonder I don't have black lung disease. Worked there through high school. During college I turned wrenches part time at a small garage not far from the college. During the summer when I was at home turned more wrenches at a shop that did general mechanic work but specialized in frontend repair and alignment from cars, RV's and semi trucks. Looking back, I would not trade those experiences for anything.
 
At 16 years of age I was using a 2-stroke Craftsman string trimmer 40 hours a week at a mountain resort. Perched precariously on super-steep hills above the road with left foot up high on the embankment, and right foot down low for balance. Sweep back and forth, hour after hour, slicing the weeds.

What a cool job for a kid, and the pay was twice what I would've earned flipping burgers or bagging groceries. Hard sweaty work but actually kinda fun.
 
1st job was pulling weeds and restacking broken skids of bricks in a small brickyard a couple doors over when I was in grade 7 and 8, for $1.50 an hour. In High school worked a at farm equipment dealership after school and during summer. Cutting grass, cleaning and painting old equipment, cleaning the shop and offices. The worst was when the wanted used pieces, especially combines, buff and polished. The bitch part was the boss refused to buy a polisher, so all done my hand, wax on,wax off Miyagi style. And Case/IH red faded something fierce, so it would take forever. There was a TON of surface area to do.
 
I didnt work a farm or anything but I worked harder than other kids my age. Im 40 for reference.

I had chores as a kid, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, dishes, folding clothes, etc...starting in elementary school.

Also elementary school time I owned the yard work; cutting grass, edging the yard (manual edger), trimming the hedges, raking up grass and leaves.

I also washed and detailed the family car. Scrubbing the white walls with bleach white and brillo pads, tire shine, vacuuming, armor all, quick spray and wipe paint detail...

By 6th grade I had a paper route for a short while but I made more money cutting grass. So I recruited a friend and we spent our weekends cutting grass. As a 12 yr old I was making $300 a weekend. It was glorious. Coming from a poor upbringing it felt great to earn my own money.

Got my first on the books job at a retailer at 15 yrs old. The pay was less than cutting grass but I needed to build an employment history to help with college applications.

Similar to someone else, I was taught to do it right if you're going to do it. My wording is "the way you do anything is the way you do everything".

That carried through high school where I learned to do my own vehicle maintenance after I bought my first car. Learned to do home remodel work, electrical work, carpentry, fencing...all in high school.

I also helped my uncle with a backyard garden and breeding and hand rearing cockatiels.

It all pays benefits now as an adult, a homeowner, husband and father. Im able to take care of ao much myself and save from spending money for someone else to do it, and teach my kids how it.
 
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lopitt85 said:
I disnt work a farm or anything but I worked harder than other kids my age. Im 40 for reference.

I had chores as a kid, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, dishes, folding clothes, etc...starting in elementary school.

Also elementary school time I owned the yard work; cutting grass, edging the yard (manual edger), trimming the hedges, making up grass and leaves.

I also washed and detailed the family car. Scrubbing the white walls with bleach white and brillo pads, tire shine, vacuuming, armor all, quick spray and wipe paint detail...

By 6th grade I had a paper route for a short while but I made more money cutting grass. So I recruited a friend and we spent our weekends cutting grass. As a 12 yr old I was raking $300 a weekend. It was glorious. Coming from a poor upbringing it felt great to earn my own money.

Got my first on the books job at a retailer at 15 yrs old. The pay was less than curting grass but I needed to build an employment history to help with college applications.

Similar to someone else, I was taught to do it right if you're going to do it. My wording is the way you do anything is the way you do everything.

Thay carried through high school where I I learned to do my own vehicle maintenance after I bought my first car. Learned to do home remodel work, electrical work, carpentry, fencing...all in high school.

It all pays benefits now as an adult, a homeowner, husband and father. Im able to take care of ao much myself and save from spending money for someone else to do it, and teach my kids how it.
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Let me guess…

You’re not a copywriter or proofreader. :D
 
I didn't do sh*t until I was 17 when I embarked on a series of getting fired from minimum wage jobs for genius moves like smoking weed behind the dumpster, calling in sick then riding my dirt bike in the field right behind the building, or trying the bang the mid-twenties manager chick. I was a lazy, irresponsible turd.

Thank goodness I grew up at some point.
 
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