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I think minimum wage then was .95 an hour. Remember when it got bumped to 1.10, like that was big money back then.

 

Holy crap, I wasn't even a twinkle in my father's eye!!! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

 

My dad had a twinkle in his eye then. And it was of me walking out the door and getting a place of my own.

 

Sure was fun being 16 ini 1977 when the used car lots had nothing but GTO's, Roadrunners, 65 Mustangs like candy, all for $1500 and down, with under 100K on the odometer. 49 cent gas in Washington back then too, if you could scrape up 4 or 5 bucks between a few guys you could go cruisin' Riverside in Spokane all night and watch the street racing.

Them days is gone for good. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

 

I still have my '70 Mustang from HS! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img]

 

No fancy car for me. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] 71 Capri that I bought for 280 dollars. Ran the pee pee out of that thing till I finally blew up the motor 2 years later. Who'd have thought those thing need oil changes?

Can't even buy a total junker for that today.

 

Does hand count? (not including your own)

 

Grew up on a farm so I can't remember when I didn't have chores to do. I think the first paying job I had was when Dad gave me "A man's wages for doing a man's job". $1.00 an hour for driving tractor 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. Think I was 9 or 10 then. Course he made me put all but $10.00 a week in the bank "to buy your own place one day". It worked. That would have been 1950 or 51. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] Bought my first vehicle in 1956, a new Ford F350. Still have it too.

 

Yup.. started out on the farm. so soon as i could hold a bottle i was feeding the calf's. According to Social security I started payin taxes in 1991 wich was a grounds maintaince at a resort. I made around $6.50 and had the bonus of the girls traveling with their parents[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] I could show them a good time after work [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

well my first job was working with my dad..... but my first job working without him starts tomorow!!!!! im workign at my freind farm driving Loader, ill be loading the big *** round bails onto the flat bed wile my freind takes the bails back to the farm! im gunna make like 9 an hour wich aint bad for sittin on a tractor all day... wich i do every day anyway LOL


Night i gotta be at his place by 6.......... Cya