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re: What were your lowest paid jobs as a kid
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:52 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:52 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Worked at two gas stations 2 hours at each one. Cleaning pumps, bagging ice, stocking the cooler, and cleaning the bathrooms 7 days a week in the summers as a kid . Got paid $40.00 for the week or a $1.43 an hour in the early 1990s. It was under the table. Damn I was ripped off.
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Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:53 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
At age 15 in 1967 I pumped gas at my uncle's Shell station. I made eighty cents an hour, 10 hour day, six days a week.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:58 pm to Homesick Tiger
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At age 15 in 1967 I pumped gas at my uncle's Shell station. I made eighty cents an hour, 10 hour day, six days a week.
really not that bad, $2400 for 52 weeks, national average wage was around $3500
Posted on 2/17/25 at 2:04 pm to 777Tiger
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really not that bad
For a 10 hour 6 day a week job? Anyway, it was just summer work.Three years later I worked summer help for a railroad making $44 a day.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 2:07 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Dog -n- Suds
Kansas City, MO
$1.25 hr
Kansas City, MO
$1.25 hr
Posted on 2/17/25 at 3:31 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
75 cents a day digging a bomb shelter for a neighbor.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 3:40 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Min wage $3.35 per hour. Bagging groceries at Winn Dixie when I turned 16.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 3:43 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
I worked at Sonic for a month when I was 15. I think it was $5.45 an hour. Quit that job to go work on a lady's farm for $7 an hour. I thought I was rich.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 4:21 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Cut a lot of grass for cheap when I was a kid but my first real paying job was when I was 13 working in the summer at Pontchartrain Beach in the milk bottle booth on the midway. Paid the grand sum of $1.25 an hour in 65.
Next job was working at a boat launch on the old Violet Canal off St. Bernard Hwy. launching boats from 5:30 a.m. and until the last showed back up for pickup, usually around 6 p.m. if we were lucky. Those were LONG days in the sun all day long launching boats with a hoist, selling ice, gas/oil, bait, fishing supplies etc. Another $1.25 an hour job. I did that on weekends and in the summer for a couple years.
Next job was working at a boat launch on the old Violet Canal off St. Bernard Hwy. launching boats from 5:30 a.m. and until the last showed back up for pickup, usually around 6 p.m. if we were lucky. Those were LONG days in the sun all day long launching boats with a hoist, selling ice, gas/oil, bait, fishing supplies etc. Another $1.25 an hour job. I did that on weekends and in the summer for a couple years.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 4:36 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Bicycle delivery of meds from Drury's Pharmacy in Chickasaw, AL in 82, 83.
For about 12-14 hours of work, I made about $15.00 a week.
For about 12-14 hours of work, I made about $15.00 a week.
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 2/17/25 at 5:12 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Between my senior year in High School and during my freshman year of college I was paid $3.35 per hour at New Generation on Florida Blvd in 1982 - 1984. I probably got a raise or two before I moved on. Irwin was the best owner of a business that I have ever worked for. Before that cutting grass for about 10 customers in the Denham Springs area.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 5:15 pm to Born to be a Tiger1
Joe was pretty cool
Posted on 2/17/25 at 6:39 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
There was a very overgrown lot in my neighborhood roughly an acre big. The owners eventually enlisted a real estate agent to list it. Just so happen that while he was putting up the sign I was cutting grass on our very old craftsman riding mower. He came down and offered me $100 to clean up the yard.
After a week I had managed to completely kill our riding mower, ruined the weed eater, and find several ground hornet nest. I ended up using a double sides grass cutter to finish it up. I earned my $100, but had to give it to my grandfather for busting all his lawn equipment.
After a week I had managed to completely kill our riding mower, ruined the weed eater, and find several ground hornet nest. I ended up using a double sides grass cutter to finish it up. I earned my $100, but had to give it to my grandfather for busting all his lawn equipment.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 6:41 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
used to clean stables at jefferson downs for 5 bucks each…
Posted on 2/17/25 at 7:02 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Washing dishes and chasing rats out of the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant for $1.60/hr in the late ‘60s while in high school. The owner’s son set me up with my first girlfriend, who was half Chinese. Spent at least half my pay on her.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 7:16 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Stock boy at grocery store $2.14 hr
(Sophomore Year ‘76-‘77)
Gas Station attendant $4.00 hr
(Junior/Senior Years ‘77-‘79)
That’s when I pumped gas, cleaned windshields, checked oil levels and checked tire pressures. Changed oil, repaired flats, mounted new tires. Those darn 18 wheeler tires were hell to change and replace the tubes.
This is also when we had those Jimmy Carter gas lines. I always had gas because I worked at the station. Would drive a different family car to work two to three times a week. I can remember driving my dad’s ‘57 Ford F100 with three on a tree once a week to work.
(Sophomore Year ‘76-‘77)
Gas Station attendant $4.00 hr
(Junior/Senior Years ‘77-‘79)
That’s when I pumped gas, cleaned windshields, checked oil levels and checked tire pressures. Changed oil, repaired flats, mounted new tires. Those darn 18 wheeler tires were hell to change and replace the tubes.
This is also when we had those Jimmy Carter gas lines. I always had gas because I worked at the station. Would drive a different family car to work two to three times a week. I can remember driving my dad’s ‘57 Ford F100 with three on a tree once a week to work.
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 2/17/25 at 7:36 pm to LSU Delts
In 1987, age 15, my dad had a welding and machine shop. Got paid $1/hr..for welder helper. And rode my 10-speed to work.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 7:44 pm to Fencepimp
Yes, Joe was pretty cool also but he never let me drive his car(s) like Erwin and Ester.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:06 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
I had a paper route from age 11 to 15 (ca. 1976-1980). I started out delivering about 30 papers a day. I made about $1/customer per month. It was a 365-day-per year job. I spent about 2 hrs per day (except Sundays) rolling the papers and delivering them on my bicycle. On Sunday, the papers were so big I had to make multiple trips to the office to reload. Sunday took about 4 hours. So I made $30/month for about 68 hours of work ($0.44/hr).
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:25 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
I worked as a soda jerk in a drug store after school & weekends in 1961 - 63. Made a ripping $0.60 per hour (take home about $10 a week if I didn't eat too much). It wasn't bad money considering a single dip ice cream cone was $0.06, a double dip was $0.12 and a banana split was $0.42.
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