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What is the cheapest hourly wage you remember working for??
Agreed 0kie. JWs (journeymen) like that were 0rdained by GOD. My first paying job was in high school driving a school bus
State of South Carolina paid us drivers a whopping $36 a month. Stall High booster club paid us $5 a game to haul the team to a game. l remember one trip to George Town to play the Winyah Gators. Going across the OLD COOPER RIVER BRIDGE (two lane, 25 ft wide) on the down side we heard a loud long SCRAPE. All those hoodlums suddenly got QUIET😲 After the game l told Coach Weed we were taking the long way home down 17A thru MONCKS CORNER. Coach Weed protested the extra hours time, but left it up to me. Never did find a scratch on the bus..🤩
Going back to my 1.10 dollar an hour dishwashing job. My girlfriend lived a county away and most of my earnings went to AT&T (Ma Bell) for long distance overpriced phone calls! The charges back then were highway robbery!
I blame my irresponsibility in money management on HORMONES!! 😁
I was a waitress for a short period of time in high school.....Dennys. It was horrible. The customers were always miserable...the management acted like they were in some high stress position and if you gave people too many rolls the floor would open up and swallow the entire building. I didn't return after the first paycheck. It was something like $2 per hour, but "you get tips"....which is stupid and I don't understand why this is still an ongoing thing with the food industry. The whole idea that a business has employees that the customers are responsible for paying is something I'll never understand.
At the other end of the spectrum from my $1.65/hr was the rate I got doing voiceovers for radio commercials, where I pulled down $300 per minute. (That's a minute of air time, but as I often did my work in one take, that turned out to be net.)
If memory serves, it was $4.15 per hour, washing dishes at a cafe. My first car was an old Ranchero with a 460, so a good portion of it went right back in the tank.
I spent my summers during high school living & working at a Bible Camp in Wisconsin. It was an unpaid job but the food was good and housing was included. I did everything from being a camp counselor, to maintenance worker, dish crew in the kitchen, and leading horseback rides.
Before heading off to camp, I would work as a Caddy at a Private Country Club to make bank for early part of the spring / summer. It was a good paying cash job that I started doing at age 12. When I got laid off after 9/11/2001 I went and Caddied a summer at age 27. Also made good cash $.
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Agreed 0kie. JWs (journeymen) like that were 0rdained by GOD. My first paying job was in high school driving a school bus
State of South Carolina paid us drivers a whopping $36 a month. Stall High booster club paid us $5 a game to haul the team to a game. l remember one trip to George Town to play the Winyah Gators. Going across the OLD COOPER RIVER BRIDGE (two lane, 25 ft wide) on the down side we heard a loud long SCRAPE. All those hoodlums suddenly got QUIET😲 After the game l told Coach Weed we were taking the long way home down 17A thru MONCKS CORNER. Coach Weed protested the extra hours time, but left it up to me. Never did find a scratch on the bus..🤩
Going back to my 1.10 dollar an hour dishwashing job. My girlfriend lived a county away and most of my earnings went to AT&T (Ma Bell) for long distance overpriced phone calls! The charges back then were highway robbery!
I blame my irresponsibility in money management on HORMONES!! 😁
Worked on the farm with dad my early years and pay was my room and board. Dad did buy me a nice car while I was in HS.
I was a waitress for a short period of time in high school.....Dennys. It was horrible. The customers were always miserable...the management acted like they were in some high stress position and if you gave people too many rolls the floor would open up and swallow the entire building. I didn't return after the first paycheck. It was something like $2 per hour, but "you get tips"....which is stupid and I don't understand why this is still an ongoing thing with the food industry. The whole idea that a business has employees that the customers are responsible for paying is something I'll never understand.
Look at these 2 old check stubs of mine.
This was just out of high school at one of my high-end paying jobs at a metal shop.
Raises were 5 cents at a time and the $10 deduction on each check was for your tools you had to buy.
Welding, cutting, riveting/etc. Still have my tools and box. If I could go back, I'd still do it all over again.
At the other end of the spectrum from my $1.65/hr was the rate I got doing voiceovers for radio commercials, where I pulled down $300 per minute. (That's a minute of air time, but as I often did my work in one take, that turned out to be net.)
If memory serves, it was $4.15 per hour, washing dishes at a cafe. My first car was an old Ranchero with a 460, so a good portion of it went right back in the tank.
I busted my * on the family farm for a roof over my head and at least 2 meals a day.
$1.50 an hour unloading trucks. It was in 1972. Boss said I was apprentice. Had to put in 200 hours to get to $1.85. I think he was fleecing me.
I was born in 1975.
I spent my summers during high school living & working at a Bible Camp in Wisconsin. It was an unpaid job but the food was good and housing was included. I did everything from being a camp counselor, to maintenance worker, dish crew in the kitchen, and leading horseback rides.
Before heading off to camp, I would work as a Caddy at a Private Country Club to make bank for early part of the spring / summer. It was a good paying cash job that I started doing at age 12. When I got laid off after 9/11/2001 I went and Caddied a summer at age 27. Also made good cash $.