What was your minimum wage?
Feb 26, 2022 16:41:22 #
plumbob wrote:
Trying to lighten the mood again today, we can only talk Russia so much.
So maybe you will get a chuckle or an Oh Wow with the post to follow.
What was minimum wage when you started that 1st job or raking leaves for the neighbor?
For me it was.
50 cents for sidewalk snow shoveling as a kid.
$ 1.60 at 16 years of age being a plumbers helper.
So maybe you will get a chuckle or an Oh Wow with the post to follow.
What was minimum wage when you started that 1st job or raking leaves for the neighbor?
For me it was.
50 cents for sidewalk snow shoveling as a kid.
$ 1.60 at 16 years of age being a plumbers helper.
Can't remember the $ I made as a kid, but as a graduate Engineer I started working for the DOD in 1965 at $2.82 an hour.
Feb 26, 2022 17:13:12 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Harris T. Fudpucker wrote:
I sometimes shock people on my first job, or first way to get money. I trapped when I was only 9 yrs old, and although it might not sound like a lot, I had money to buy new rod and reels, camping gear, and fishing gear. My pelts brought only $0.50 cents or less, but in the fifty's that was good. I changed to catching 'crawfish', and that would bring in about $300 a weekend, not bad at 14
¿We're those "Nutria pelts", Harris T.?... I know prices were down to 35¢, when a neighbor of mine was killing them; y THAT was in the mid-1970's... Could be, that my "CRS" is "fooling with me" again... I helped a guy run his crawfish traps one year, outta Belle River, but; I was nowhere near "desperate", and he didn't really NEED the help; so, no money changed hands outta that; got free room and board and ate like a Cajun King, for a couple of weeks.
Feb 26, 2022 17:28:06 #
I just remembered as a kid we lived next to a small chicken ranch and he would give me a dollar to catch them so that he could band a leg.
Dollar for the whole day.
I remember that I bought a bag of green army men with that dollar at the grocery store.
Dollar for the whole day.
I remember that I bought a bag of green army men with that dollar at the grocery store.
Feb 26, 2022 17:32:17 #
$1.35 per hour as a janitor cleaning restrooms and emptying garbage cans was my first real job. That was 1968.
Paper route was not per hour. Nor was lawn mowing for neighbors.
Paper route was not per hour. Nor was lawn mowing for neighbors.
Feb 26, 2022 17:37:24 #
gbcreed45
Loc: Florida, Gulf Coast
I made $18.00/ week as pool life guard at my College pool. I worked 12 hrs/ week so $1.50/ hr.
I also cut lawns at $3.00/ lawn regardless of size or time it took.
When I was making $18/wk, I was a Freshman in College and took my girlfriend to lunch at Hardee’s 3-4 times a week. Hamburgers were $0.15 and a drink was $.010. So I could feed her for $0.25 (no taxes on food in those days).
I use to pray she didn’t want french fries.
SIMPLER TIMES
I also cut lawns at $3.00/ lawn regardless of size or time it took.
When I was making $18/wk, I was a Freshman in College and took my girlfriend to lunch at Hardee’s 3-4 times a week. Hamburgers were $0.15 and a drink was $.010. So I could feed her for $0.25 (no taxes on food in those days).
I use to pray she didn’t want french fries.
SIMPLER TIMES
Feb 26, 2022 17:59:30 #
Jer
Loc: N. Illinois 🇺🇸
I’m really enjoying reading all of these stories. We sure didn’t make much money, but we grew up valuing what we had and made the most of it. Four of us stacked alfalfa bales on the wagon for the local farmer. He gave each of us a quarter. That was 5 cokes (the 6oz. bottle) at the Sinclair gas station about a half mile away. The machine was outside between the two repair bays. We thought it was a good deal.
Feb 26, 2022 18:06:23 #
Now that makes you think of another question - what did you spend your money on?
I do recall that bottles of coke were $.10 at the Eggers Nursery across the street from our school. They had a vending machine - probably for their employees - and you had to leave a $.01 deposit, or just drink it there and leave the bottle in the wooden case next to the vending machine.
Our local burger place was called "Eat and Run" and burgers were $.15, a Cheeseburger was $.20, fries $.10 and $.10 for drinks.
This was all during the paperboy days - before driving a car and buying gas - so my bicycle was the transportation mode. There were eskimo pies (ice-cream bars on a stick) for $.10 at Colonial Liquors around the corner from the Eat and Run.
Shoot - baseball cards were a nickel a pack, and the big hunk candy bar was also a nickel.
I do remember that sometimes - in fact, often - I didn't have a nickel.
I do recall that bottles of coke were $.10 at the Eggers Nursery across the street from our school. They had a vending machine - probably for their employees - and you had to leave a $.01 deposit, or just drink it there and leave the bottle in the wooden case next to the vending machine.
Our local burger place was called "Eat and Run" and burgers were $.15, a Cheeseburger was $.20, fries $.10 and $.10 for drinks.
This was all during the paperboy days - before driving a car and buying gas - so my bicycle was the transportation mode. There were eskimo pies (ice-cream bars on a stick) for $.10 at Colonial Liquors around the corner from the Eat and Run.
Shoot - baseball cards were a nickel a pack, and the big hunk candy bar was also a nickel.
I do remember that sometimes - in fact, often - I didn't have a nickel.
Feb 26, 2022 19:02:55 #
Larry M wrote:
Would that be like ABC bubble gum?
That it would be Larry. A real spit swapper that brand was.
Feb 26, 2022 19:08:23 #
Larry M wrote:
I just remembered as a kid we lived next to a small chicken ranch and he would give me a dollar to catch them so that he could band a leg.
Dollar for the whole day.
I remember that I bought a bag of green army men with that dollar at the grocery store.
Dollar for the whole day.
I remember that I bought a bag of green army men with that dollar at the grocery store.
" army men " Now you're talking.
Would set them up on the pool table and stand away and shoot down with my Daisy until i shot out the basement window. Woops!!!!
Feb 26, 2022 19:13:47 #
Americanman28 wrote:
Now that makes you think of another question - wha... (show quote)
I would spend my soda bottle collecting money on buying pinkie balls to play step ball with and treat my self to a sprite out of the machine next to the apartment building. When they took it away i thought the world was going to end. LOL
Feb 26, 2022 19:14:14 #
plumbob wrote:
" army men " Now you're talking.
Would set them up on the pool table and stand away and shoot down with my Daisy until i shot out the basement window. Woops!!!!
Would set them up on the pool table and stand away and shoot down with my Daisy until i shot out the basement window. Woops!!!!
We did have fun back then.
Feb 26, 2022 19:15:47 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
plumbob wrote:
" army men " Now you're talking.
Would set them up on the pool table and stand away and shoot down with my Daisy until i shot out the basement window. Woops!!!!
Would set them up on the pool table and stand away and shoot down with my Daisy until i shot out the basement window. Woops!!!!
¡Man, I don't envy you, THAT experience! (I probably wouldn't have been capable of sitting down, for a WEEK!!!)
Feb 26, 2022 19:23:49 #
Able Man wrote:
¡Man, I don't envy you, THAT experience! (I probably wouldn't have been capable of sitting down, for a WEEK!!!)
Able, i graduated from shooting army men to throwing darts from one end of the basement to the other.
Forgot about the water line. And did you know when you pull it out, the pipe pees all over the place.
Mommmmm there's a leak down stairs.
Feb 26, 2022 19:29:50 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
plumbob wrote:
Able, i graduated from shooting army men to throwi... (show quote)
¡¡Dammit MAN!!... AGAIN; I'd'a been limping and paying for the parts (¿&/or labor?) if I had pulled THAT one!
Feb 26, 2022 19:33:17 #
Able Man wrote:
¡¡Dammit MAN!!... AGAIN; I'd'a been limping and paying for the parts (¿&/or labor?) if I had pulled THAT one!
Funny part is step dad was a plumbing estimator at work. He sent a plumber from the office.
Let's just say i didn't get the station wagon for awhile.
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