I started out cutting grass with an old reel type push mower; $1.50 a
pop for 1/4 acre lots, included raking the cuttings & trimming around
the foundation. That was the summer of 1960 when I was 11 years old.
I earned enough that by the end of the summer I was able to invest in a
cheap power mower, so the next summer I made a whole lot more money for
less effort.
My first real job where I worked for someone else came in 1962, when I
turned 13 and could get a work permit from county social services. I got
a job operating the popcorn machine & taking tickets at a local theater
on weekends. It was the old fashion kind of kettle machine that all the
theaters now try to imitate.
The new machines just aren't the same ... automated and pre-measured &
you can't get the old kind of lard based congealed fat we used because
it's bad for your health. But the popcorn just doesn't taste as good as
I remember.
I had to make myself a little chart just now of school grades, school
years and my age at the time to figure out just when those jobs were,
and *that* is when you know you're getting old.
From: Paul Stenquist
My first job was cleaning the kitchen and mopping the floors at
Retlaws Diner on 87th and Vernon in Chicago. It was 1959, and I was
only 11 years old. I was paid $5 to do the cleanup every Saturday.
Took me about 5 hours. I had to wash out all the garbage cans, throw
away all the rotten produce and scrape grease off the wall behind the
grill. I apparently didn't do a good enough job, because a city
health inspector made them hire an adult. But I had saved some of my
money, and I used it to buy a newspaper stand in the telephone
company building. Sold papers at my stand and between lanes of
traffic on Ashland Avenue for several years. When I was old enough to
drive, I sold the paper stand, bought a car for fifty bucks, and took
to delivering pizzas in the Blackstone and Avalon Park neighborhoods
on Chicago's south side. That was good money for a kid.
Paul
On Dec 30, 2010, at 2:48 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Christine Aguila
<[email protected]> wrote:
When I got my 1st job (McDonalds) and minimum wage was $2.10
an hour; I felt very rich at 15. The non-computerized cash
registers rattled like machine guns, and we had to give
change without the help of a cash register--and we were good
at it too. Cheers, Christine
My first real job as a kid was delivery the Toronto Telegram
news paper. The Saturday edition was as thick as a phone book, I
forget what i made(1966)but i also worked at a dish washer,
1966-1969, at a curling club at a $1.00 and hour. I to felt rich.
I quit that job to work on the ice, 1096-1971, at $1.35 and hour,
which was adult minimum wage back then. They raised the price of
tobacco to $0.50 a tin, so i quit.
Dave
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