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re: How much did you make per hour at your first job?
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:01 pm to texn
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:01 pm to texn
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Of course, at that time, community college tuition was $9 per credit hour and 4 year public university tuition was $27 per credit hour.
When I started college minimum wage was $2.15 hr, I worked 20 hours a week to pay my room and board with $50 a month beer money left over. Tuition and books was maybe 300 bucks a semester.
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:05 pm to Ace Midnight
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$3.35 per hour (but I was 13 years old )
That’s similar to what I was paid to pass out pizza flyers on doorknobs for my first job but it was only a handful of times and i don’t even think we filled out paperwork so weren’t ‘real’ employees.
$3.85/hour for my legit first job. I remember when minimum wage gave me my first raises to $4.15, then $4.85. I took a construction job in the Summer of 1994 for $6 hour to make the real bucks. I dug post holes for streetlights and pulled underground wires in new neighborhoods and hated every second of it.
I had a friend that was making twice as much as me waiting tables and always meeting hot girls he worked with. When school started back, I started waiting tables too and never looked back.
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:05 pm to Brisketeer
4.25/hour, while in high school, back when the goal of life was to not have a job that pays minimum wage.
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:16 pm to SEClint
$3.35 plus tips. 1984.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:17 pm to No Colors
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$3.35 an hour.
Same. Bussing tables at an old folks home. It was minimum wage back then. ALL of my money was spent on mind enhancers back then.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:17 pm to SEClint
$5.15 I believe.
Paid for the large popcorn for the high school girlfriend. It was good enough at the time.
Paid for the large popcorn for the high school girlfriend. It was good enough at the time.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:20 pm to SEClint
$3.90 per hour: Winn-Dixie (1984). 16 years old.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:20 pm to SEClint
$ 3.oo an hour,from the time I was picked up til I was dropped off. Toting shingles for a roofer. Early 70's.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:21 pm to SEClint
$5/hour (cash) cleaning up construction sites.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:21 pm to SEClint
$5.15 painting at my local parks and rec department.
God it sucked so bad. Painting curbs and parking spots (with a roller, not the machine that sprays as you walk) in the middle of summer in AL. Decided that summer that I would not be an idiot through the rest of school.
God it sucked so bad. Painting curbs and parking spots (with a roller, not the machine that sprays as you walk) in the middle of summer in AL. Decided that summer that I would not be an idiot through the rest of school.
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:22 pm to SEClint
Min wage with some sort of child labor exception at age 12.
I thought I was a total baller making $5/hr a couple years later.
I think min wage for wait staff was like $2.13 (maybe $2.31) when I got my first waiter job.
I thought I was a total baller making $5/hr a couple years later.
I think min wage for wait staff was like $2.13 (maybe $2.31) when I got my first waiter job.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:28 pm to SEClint
$1.50 after school job. Obviously I'm an old fart....
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:29 pm to SEClint
$5.15
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:35 pm to SEClint
$6 hour. Construction. Friends were working fast food at like $4.34 hour. I was killing it!
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:36 pm to SEClint
$2.68/hour
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:41 pm to SEClint
$5.15 an hour, 17 years old, 1997, Family Dollar store unloading trucks, stocking shelfs, breaking down boxes in afternoon and putting in trash bin out back.
I was the only boy so those ladies made me do allll the heavy lifting and trash work, hahahaha.
I was the only boy so those ladies made me do allll the heavy lifting and trash work, hahahaha.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:42 pm to SEClint
5.15 save a lot. frick you ebt mother frickers.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:43 pm to SEClint
I worked on a farm.. my uncle started me off at $8 an hour. Back in 1995.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:43 pm to fallguy_1978
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High school chicks man. A number of my friends worked there for that reason alone.
1. I was 15 and not many jobs for 15 yr olds. They hired me b/c my brother was a supervisor. Everyone else was 16.
2. See Above. I always say that was the Best Summer of My Life.
3. The parties and friends we made that summer were incredible. You met kids from schools you'd never hang out with during the school year. Belaire, East Ascension, Port Allen. They came from everywhere.
Was a great experience until I got fired for telling some kids "Bitch! Get the frick back in your tube"
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 2/3/21 at 5:43 pm to SEClint
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