OT: What was your hourly pay at the first W2 job you held?
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50 cents per hour at a service station in 1963 and I had to pay for uniforms.
Ahhhh...Tiak. I was there several years before you. Our troop always stayed in Shawnee. I had my first go at entrepreneurship there and it went pretty well. My dad had a large aluminum cooler so I took a chain off of my swing set, got a padlock to secure it then filled the cooler with cokes, candy bars and nabs before I left home. By the middle of the week, I was selling everything for $1 each back in '79/'80. Either pay me a dollar or walk your happy *** a mile up the trail to the trading post. It was also easy to spot the newbies. Us crusty old 13 year old veterans knew that when you thought you heard thunder at 2 in the morning, it was really the artillery from Camp Shelby. The newbies would get up expecting a storm and drop their tent flaps and sides and spend the rest of the night in an absolute sweatbox.
I remember them - we got a nice chrome percolator as well as a chrome breadbox. Probably some other things but those stand out. I believe you got one stamp for very 10 cents spent.
$1.25 as an Electrician Helper with the Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg.... converting electrical system on Dredge Jadwin. Summer job after high school graduation for the summer...entered Hinds Jr. College that fall.
4.25 /hr plus tip outs bussing tables and washing dishes under the hill in Natchez. Ballin. 1992.
Carpenter’s helper during the summer in 1975. I was 13. $90/week or $2.25/hour. I was fabulously wealthy!
As he walked off to the cage, my first thought was no way. I did the math with the union scale, he was not exaggerating.
Was an interesting place. I was walking behind a mechanical engineer to break when he said "I smell trichlor. I shouldn't smell trichlor here". Turned in to this. Not all the facts are exactly correct. https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0403684
$1.70 an hour at McDonald's in high school....then 2.35 at MSU as an RA
I have been in that plant many times. I work for the company that supplies corrugated packaging to them for past 15 years or so.
I had heard about this for years. I appreciate the link.
$15/00 per week at Boy Scout camp teaching canoeing and working as a lifeguard. Plus a tent and meals.
in 78, $2.35 an hour pumping gas for Tom Miller and his Gulf Station.
in 78, $2.35 an hour pumping gas for Tom Miller and his Gulf Station.
That I did for free because the damn engineer made me. He was my dad. After sack n save he paid me the $3.35