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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
This thread points out that lots of us did really shitty (literally) jobs that kids today wouldn't touch. And lots of the jobs taught skills for life.

IMO, many kids today are too lazy to work, as parents give them a generous weekly allowance.

Walked beans, cut thistles out of pastures, detasseled corn, painted roofs with tar.

Poop scooper, flea dipper, and surgeon at Dad's hospital

I mowed the lawn for a friend of my mother and took care of her canary when she went on vacation.

I assembled new bikes and repaired bikes in a friend's shop.

Reading through the posts jogged my memory about delivering phone books... yes, I remember that job well, now.

This thread also reminds me about the side jobs I had while working full time, once I was on my own.

Farm work
Painting crew
Gunstore

Farm work was soup-to-nuts, did everything as well as run the farm for a year before college.

Painting crew was a fast quick high pressure experience, paint houses, interior/exterior hang wallpaper, before new owners move in.
Made more money in a week at the job than 2 months!

Gunstore was a great job, got to handle everything and was responsible for running the shipping aspect of the mail-order business.

Worked with a couple of wild Vietnam vets and had a ball.

A&P Armonk, NY. Ran register, stocked shelves & corralled carts. Then moved up to plum job in the butcher dept (2 union butchers & me). $3.35/hr tax free.

Bagger at grocery store
Pump jockey
Assistant anything on construction site with my Dad, Uncle and Grandfather.

Aircraft mechanic, worked in a book store, and made pizza's.

I started a welding business making horse feeders, saddle racks and various supplies, but ultimately lost my hat at auction before the end of high school.

I owned three of my own businesses, but took a job my senior year as part of my marketing class as a jewelry buyer for a local pawn shop.

Never worked in High School. I didn't get my first job until after High School the summer before college. My odd jobs in no particular order:

Kings Dominion (theme park food service)
Worked in two campus dining establishments in college
Delivered departmental mail on campus (by far my favorite odd job)
Secretary assistant while in college
Temp Secretary/Admin while on break during the summers at home
Worked at the local Office Depot (summers)
IT assistant to HR IT guy for the VA National Guard (summers and winter break)
Ski lift operator (for about two days, the manager was HUGE ass)
Worked for the school social calendar doing layout and design in college

That's about all I can remember. I'm currently working on 22 years on my second job out of college. First job lasted only about 1.5 years.

I cut grass and did yard work, cleaned a few gutters also shoveled snow. Picked up returnable bottles. I also delivered news papers 7 days a week. My dad had a friend who was a brick mason and during the summer I would help him if needed.
At 16 went to work at IHOP working Fridays 5-11pm and Sat night 11-7am.

Anything that paid $10 per hour... anything.

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Originally posted by heavyd:
Anything that paid $10 per hour... anything.

TEN bucks an HOUR!

Back in 1963 as an 8th grader I worked on a farm for $5 a DAY! Ten an HOUR was unimaginable.

Walked beans, detassled corn,caddie,stock/bagger at grocery store,puller and setter of skeet/trap at the gun club,retail at Radio Shack, dishwasher in a restaurant, mowed yards and baled hay.

Unloaded tractor trailers full of watermelon at the produce center overnights.

I used to hoe cotton and I was a disc jockey at a local radio station.

Picked up Gravenstein apples
Clerked in fruit market

Also worked my way through college
In charge of language lab
Worked for home developers putting together blueprint packages for financing
Worked at Boys’ Club summer camp

I had a regular part-time job in high school.
Most of my odd jobs were in grade school and jr. high.
I did park cars at a private New Years Eve party two years. Made about 80$. Of course that was in 1966. I got to drive some really fine cars.
The party giver had a Rolls. Maserati and a Ferrari.

I was a car jumper (I think that's what we were called) for an auto auction.

We would be directed to go pick up a car from somewhere on the lot, drive it through the arena as folks bid on it, and then go park it again. Occasionally, we got to drive some pretty hot cars and so it was a pretty fun job for a kid in high school.

Picked strawberries (I see 2 others on this thread)

Delivered newspapers

Ski instructor

Flipped burgers at Jack-in-the-box

Silent