I worked at a car dealership in the afternoons as a grease monkey ,
and I worked at Baskins Robins ice cream in the evening, (with all the hot chicks from school.

Farm work
Washed cow/pig shit out of trailers
McDonalds
Night Club
Punching little holes in reams of paper for a paper company

dishwasher at a bowling alley
theater concessions
paper route
yard work

One summer in college I worked as a treadmill tester. 30 minutes on, 10 minutes off. We quickly learned how to burn up the motors when we couldn't run anymore

When I was 14 I worked the summer at the local swimming pool concession stand selling popcorn, roasted peanuts and snow cones. 85 cents and hour.
Worked after school and Saturdays at a Toro lawnmower shop doing repairs and blade sharpening.
Then on to a body shop for a while.
When I was a Senior I got out of school at 10:30am and worked at the J I Case dealer painting used equipment as a self employed sub contractor. I got paid by the piece. $115 for a combine, $80 for a backhoe. Case were all two tone. That included pressure washing, sanding the sheet metal and new decals. Case provided all materials and the paint booth.

Baled hay in the summer, cut fuel wood in the winter.

I worked for a Mom & Pop medium to low-end furniture store. I did everything from sales to deliveries to in-store maintenance & cleaning.

Mucking out horse stalls, 25 cents for every one.

one summer as a lackey for my Grandfather
he was a carpenter/Mr. Fixit in the area, and I was his driver/ tool guy,
as in I would load the truck, unload the truck, tote lumber, and general carpentry stuff,

also included minor tile work, painting, cement work etc

found out years after he passed he had lost his drivers license that summer, and I had a learners,, so not exactly legal for me to be driving him around, but maybe good that at least one of us had some kind of permit,,,,



next summer I was a lackey for a construction guy, he did general excavation work,

tree cutting, road building, seed/fertilize/straw right of ways, lay rock (rip rap) in ditches ,,,by hand, that sucked) , graded yards and driveways etc etc,


after that I got a job in the grocery business and stayed for 35 yrs

Set pins -- pay by the line...over $1/hr, big buck

Sort bottles -- miserable job at bottling plant

Pumped gas at gas station; fixed tires, grease job, brakes, mufflers, balance tires

Hardly "odd" jobs, but when you're a high-schooler, you take what you can get.

Dishwasher/soda jerk at a drug store (when they still had snack bars).
Gas station attendant (when they still had gas station attendants [n.b. New Jersey!]).
Newspaper delivery.

paper route
shoveled snow
mowed lawns
picked up trash

first year in high school I worked for a local cable tv company climbing telephone poles and tagging drops

last two years I was a full time military reservist for 12 weeks each summer

Landscaping. Well not really, more like slave labor cutting huge fields with a 22" Snapper and clearing forest-sized back yards by hand, with occasional tasks raking areas the size of the moon.

Painting, staining, whatever, including what turned into a hand-rubbed stained ceiling on an outdoor porch.

Carpentry for the apparent cousin of the slave-driver noted above. I learned a lot of new words and shit talking from Mr. Frith, but not much carpentry other than "SHUT UP AND DRIVE THE FUCKING NAIL!"

30-50 hours a week at a golf course in pro shop, moving carts, picking up range balls, again whatever. This was a sunup to sundown+1 job in summers and weekends, with only occasional early morning duty during school and 5-6 days a week after school.

All of this at the same time with overlap as jobs came available, from age 12-18.

That shit will make you work at college I'll tell ya.

Worked in a bicycle store, main task was building skateboards. Also worked in a home improvement center loading customer customer's vehicles at will call. Did a lot of odd jobs; mowing lawns, painting fences, scraping bricks, etc.

Moving irrigation pipe. A nickel a pipe.

Picking up hay bales. Can't remember what we made doing that, but it wasn't enough.

Other than that, I had a real job. Washing dishes at a greasy spoon.

Mowed lawns, sold scrap metal, bagged groceries, picked tobacco

I was the loader for clay pidgeon throwers as a skeet and trap range. Never wore hearing protection.

I worked several summers as a life guard at scout camp. Great tan. Also worked two summers at a Department of Interior beach as a lifeguard.

I worked one summer as the guy who crawled into crawl spaces under homes to hand trowel a small 4” by 4” ditch next to the walls so they could be filled with termite poison. Lots of spiders.

I worked one summer for a moving van company. That one caused me to study harder.

Delivered office supplies by bicycle.
Stock clerk/bag boy at A&P store; also helped unload trucks two nights a week when we got supplies delivered from warehouse.

I cut grass for a few neighbors, but my main job was in the local grocery store. I'm from a very small town, and about 4 or 5 of us high school kids practically ran the entire store. We all did everything...unloaded trucks, stocked shelves, cut/ground/packaged the meats, ran the register, cleaned, opened, closed, etc.

During my college summers, I worked in various mills in our area...Pirelli Cable, Flexible Tubing, JP Stevens cotton mill. The summer in the cotton mill made me want to go back to college a few weeks early!

Worked for the city mowing public parks/weed eating and fixing pot holes. Also changed the oil in the PD cruisers.

Worked at a pharmacy where I did everything from running the old fashioned soda fountain, assembling various Sunday newspapers before opening time, to helping count pills for Rx under the pharmacist's supervision.

Also filled in delivering morning newspapers on a route for a friend when he was sick or out of town.