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tangled up in BLUE Prowler Junkie Posts: 11086 |
posted 12-11-2002 12:43 PM
I have been going thru lots of old pix etc. etc. trying to get my life in order....found some old pix of me at my first job.....just wondered what jobs some of us had in our early days....at the age of 10 I got a job at a local drive-in rest as a dish washer for .25 cents per hour...a full 40 hour work week netted me $10. Man, did I think I was rich !!! I traded bicycles 2 times that summer(remember the Stingrays)...first for a 3-spd drag slick equipped Stingray(gold), then for a new 5-spd Stingray (blue)with the shifter on the bar, looked like a Hurst to me  ..... was later PROMOTED to a car hop ..worked there till I was 14-15, was the assistant manager and made .60 cents per hour....quit for a grocery job(meat counter) and got a raise to .65 cents per hour....shortly there after minimum wage law went into effect and I was jumped up to $1.30 overnight....more money than I had ever seen...that summer I bought a new 68 GTO.....was rollin in the cash [img]http://www.prowleronline.com/ubb/image_uploads/OLDIES 6.jpg[/img]...times were good, "Born To Be Wild" was on the radio 24 hours a day and I was considerably younger/thinner...... |
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tangled up in BLUE Prowler Junkie Posts: 11086 |
posted 12-11-2002 12:46 PM
 messed up the first time |
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ed monahan Prowler Junkie Posts: 33595 |
posted 12-11-2002 12:48 PM
I caddied and I delivered papers one or two days a week and then the day I got out of the 7th grade (1957) I started delivering groceries on Tue, Thurs, Fri and Sat. afternoons. I got $ 6 a week and about $ 5 or $ 6 a week in tips. I was rich. I was also pretty darn happy to quit caddying and delivering papers. I was 13 and worked there until I was 16 and got my license and then I worked in a drug store as a clerk and delivery driver. |
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Gary C Prowler Junkie Posts: 12017 |
posted 12-11-2002 12:49 PM
Washing toilets at Cleverley Cadillac, present job, washing toilets at Lockhart Cadillac..........LOL |
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tangled up in BLUE Prowler Junkie Posts: 11086 |
posted 12-11-2002 12:51 PM
Ed... I was looking thru your old 1957 yearbook (the stone pages are quite cumbersome) and saw your picture carved next to Fred and Barney.... ....hey, I'm just glad SOMEONE here is older than me |
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CJ Prowler Junkie Posts: 18860 |
posted 12-11-2002 01:14 PM
My first job was babysitting at 12 years old for 50 cents an hour. When I was still babysitting at 17, I made 75 cents an hour and $1.00 an hour after midnight (that was sitting for a family with 4 kids.....I had to make dinner, do dishes and put the kids to bed three nights a week and sometimes all weekend. When I graduated from high school at 17, I worked as a secretary for the Social Security Administration.........Got married at 18...still working secretarial jobs and then got my most important job at 21.. a mother!  Have worked for a car dealership and motorports company among other things after my kids were in high school. Now I work hard at being "retired" and being the Prowler Personal Shopper! This message has been edited by CJ on 12-11-2002 at 01:16 PM |
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Gary C Prowler Junkie Posts: 12017 |
posted 12-11-2002 01:16 PM
Oh, yea, I had to walk from scholl(ehhehe) through 4 fet of snow... |
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Todd Cameron unregistered Posts: 12017 |
posted 12-11-2002 01:19 PM
my 1st paying job was out mowing lawns for neighbors. I made from $5 - $6 a lawn at 13. By 14... since lawns are not green in fall in Virginia (got stuck there for 6 years, even though I'm a So Cal Native), I was hired for a short time washing dishes. |
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BeWare Prowler Junkie Posts: 18511 |
posted 12-11-2002 01:32 PM
My first job was a newspaper route. I was in JR High and probably about 13. When I left High school I worked in my Uncles Western Auto store for about 6 months and then went into the Air Force. Gary, I'll bet your walk was also up hill both ways This message has been edited by BeWare on 12-11-2002 at 01:32 PM |
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tangled up in BLUE Prowler Junkie Posts: 11086 |
posted 12-11-2002 01:35 PM
just found a pix of my first car.....in the 60's owning a 55-57 Chevy was sort of a right of passage.....paid $600, it was a one owner car....threw the fenderskirts and hubcaps in the trash, had the whitewalls turned in and chrome wheels installed, chrome exhaust tips...found out about 10 years ago the '55 went thru the auto crusher...tried to track down the 68 GTO(pix above) and found out it was torn in half in an accident a few months after I traded it in....  |
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tangled up in BLUE Prowler Junkie Posts: 11086 |
posted 12-11-2002 01:42 PM
.....the snow was especially deep those 3 years Gary was in the fourth grade |
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MeanGene Prowler Junkie Posts: 2407 |
posted 12-11-2002 01:47 PM
Best three years of his life |
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Marty Usher Prowler Junkie Posts: 13833 |
posted 12-11-2002 02:45 PM
Cutting neighbor's lawns at 10. Selling newspapers on busy corner at 13 then delivery route at 14. First job where I worked at someone's business place and got weekly paycheck was at a carwash at age 17 - $1.70 per hour.
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Richard Jackson Prowler Junkie Posts: 1417 |
posted 12-11-2002 05:56 PM
Walked 2 miles to Gray Drugs to clean the toilets and sweep the store on Saturdays at age 15. Official title was porter and I made .45 cents an hour. Later I ran the cash register. Shoveled snow at age 10, wrapped plastic bread bags around my feet to keep the cold and wet out. Richard Jackson |
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Howler Cat Prowler Junkie Posts: 733 |
posted 12-11-2002 07:21 PM
I've never seen a W-2 til last June when I put myself on the payroll of my Corp. ------------------ |
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Dave Mills Prowler Junkie Posts: 5419 |
posted 12-11-2002 08:12 PM
My first experience was a paper route. Six days a week with 105 papers per day. I made $9.80 per week. That was from 1961 until 1966. |
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JUST JP Prowler Junkie Posts: 1023 |
posted 12-12-2002 05:29 AM
Hmmm, Cut lawns as a kid, first real job...I can't remember. I remember working for my ex-brother-in-law for the summer before my junior year. That's how I paid for my first vehicle. It was an '80 Datsun pick-up truck. It was rusted out, but was one of the quickest stock pick-ups made. I worked for a restaurant during my senior year and a mail order warehouse that sold restaurant equipment. After graduation, I worked for Hess Oil Company. Painted pipes at a storage facility. Then, I joined the Air Force. That was over 15 years ago. I'm still in. At work as I type this. This message has been edited by JUST JP on 12-12-2002 at 05:30 AM |
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Randy Cobb Prowler Junkie Posts: 4070 |
posted 12-12-2002 09:20 AM
Worked on my grandfather's tobacco farm from the time I could walk until I was 16. Worst and best experience of my life. I taught me the value of hard work and at the same time made me strive to find a better way of life. Mowed lawns, worked for a local weekly newspaper and detailed cars in High School. During the summers and at breaks in college I did bridge construction one summer and concrete finishing and construction the next 3 years. Taught accounting and marketing while I was in Grad school. After finishing school, a fraternity brother's dad got me into the oil business and after 25 years, I'm still doing that. ------------------ |
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DR PROWLER Prowler Junkie Posts: 4079 |
posted 12-12-2002 10:58 AM
Other than odd jobs as a kid,I started bartending and continued it all through University(great memories). |
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Dead End Don Prowler Junkie Posts: 631 |
posted 12-12-2002 01:29 PM
Pumped gas and changed oil at Jerry's Phillips 66 in West L.A. on Westholme and Santa Monica all through high school and my first year of college. Best job and best education I ever had... But I still don't know #*@%^ about cars!!!!!!! |
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lavka Prowler Junkie Posts: 884 |
posted 12-12-2002 02:20 PM
I worked for my step-dad at his auto repair shop, for less than minimum wage of course. Finally when I was 16 I got a job sacking groceries and got a pay raise to minimum wage. |
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MarineGuns Prowler Junkie Posts: 72 |
posted 12-12-2002 03:02 PM
I grew up on a farm in central Indiana so I guess my first job was farming. I made money by bailing hay for other farmers from about 10 to 15 years old. Bought my first car at 13 so I could get around (it was a 66 Dodge Charger). At 15 I got a job at the Veedersberg Steel Foundary shifting weights and was later promoted to the core room. Got fired after working there almost a year when they found out I was underage. After that I worked at a beef house until I joined the Marine Corps at 17. Howard ------------------
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