I started working at a cheese factory when I was 15. They made bulk cheese in 45lb blocks. Worked about 60 hours a week in the summers thru high school and weekends during the school year. I made minimum wage at the time of a whopping $3.35/hr. And I thought I was rich! Seems so long ago nearly 18 years.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

 

worked on a farm transplanting in a green house at 12yrs old piecemeal came out to about $4 hr. though I was rich! LOL..that was 18yrs ago

 

My frist job was mowing lawns. $5.00 an hour. Now i'm back where I started from...Mowing lawns....And I love it. I worked for another company for 6 years, and I have been in business for my self for 5 years

 

Made pizzas and subs and salads at a Westside Deli

 

Fresh outa High School I started working at a logging outfit in a huge 6-bay garage. I got to work on the big rigs mostly, changing oil and filters, brakes, tires, springs, and **** work. Then the foreman taught me a little welding, motor and tranny teardowns, working on the hydraulics on cranes and skidders, and all kinds of fun stuff. But, everyday I'd be covered in grease and mud, and got sick off it after a year or so. But, I learned alot and beats asking "Do you want fries with that?"

 

I started working around the age of 13 on a farm making $10 an hour. Too bad I was stupid and only worked 3 days a week, 2-4 hours a day. I hated working out there as a kid, but now I wish I was working out there and making that money (he also paid under the table). Now I'm stuck working in a check factory making $9.15 an hour. Not a bad place to work, but I'd rather be outside.

 

frst job 1984 until 1988 part time and summers
HOG FARM! Oh yes do I rmember those days. washing hog houses, giving shots, casteration of baby pigs, fixing hernias. if youve ever hog farmed youll know.
Man I was glad to graduate and join the navy! Thank god for that movie TOP GUN It made me want to join.

 

When I was old enough to lift a Hoe I started chopping cotton, then Hauling hay(.32 a bail) also I worked at oilfield warehouses doing pretty much what everybody else didnt want to do,and then bagging grocery's, and then on the Pipe line crew for a year. I put myself in a trade school, and starting woring for a cellular company at 19yrs old Installed Phones in cars. 11 years later I still work for the same company as thier Netwrk/Traffic engineer. Tons of responsibility and no time to take the 10 weeks payed vacation I get every year. But Its a challeging job, and it pays the bills.



Bigger.

 

My first job was renovations, followed by piling lumber for $10 an hour. Lonnng days when the 16' 6X8's started coming down the line. Bought my first car, '72 Dodge Duster[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Threw hay a few times, that was hard work, but one of my first jobs back in the 70's was at a chicken ranch picking eggs. Push a cart up the row in the endless stinky house pulling two eggs in each hand and putting them into the egg flats on the cart (points down!) Picked about 20,000 a day. Worked Christmas Morning and New Years morning, them chickens just kept layin' even on holidays. About $2.35 an hour.

I had to leave my clothes outside when I got home it was so bad. But we did have a couple of world class egg fights.

Everybody should do something like that once, gives you some real incentive.