1st job & how much

I will start, took one of the cow horse's, rode 5miles to work cattle for a neighbor, all day $10.

second was bucking alfalfa hay, day light to dard, $10.00 a day

Gown up job was the only one I ever had. Car , expenses, salary, and bonus. I maxed all the bones us for years.

Bussing tables and sometimes washing dishes at La Fonda Oak Hills Restaurant in San Antonio. I think I was 13. My parents drove me back and forth. I learned a lot about the restaurant business from an ancient, sweet little old lady waitress and an itty bitty little gay guy, he coulda been a jockey. I later waited tables and cooked in college. Never again.

"Watered down" martini my bohuncus.

Prep cook at 14 on weekends.
Pay was 4.55 an hour.

Hauling hay for 3 cents a bale!!!!

Working for my Grandfathers const. company, unloading material off truck and rail cars. $1.25 per hr.

Exactly! Thought I was rich when it went to 5 cents.

If you want to get technical, I picked cotton.

Hauling hay for a nickel a bale and waxing cars by hand for a dollar a unit at my dads dealership

Busboy in a mexi restaurant, since I was 13 he only payed 1.50/hr. Got promoted to dishwasher, $2/hr when I turned 14, I was killing it...

Lost Pines Boy Scout camp.

$50 a week.

Mopping plywood forms with diesel, and pigtailing rebar for a water tower... $2.50 per hour ...1967

first real job, cook at sonic, sorta. I made shakes/malts/fries and any other simple stuff. was 14 when I got hired, think it was around 50c and hr. and part of tips.

Worked as a laborer one summer at 15 for a one man foundation repair company. Don't remember how much it paid, First hourly job was a fry cook at 16, think I made $1.60 an hour.

Winchester Gun Club summers 1970 - 73
Trap Boy
$2.25 hour

Its Elm Fork now

Following the rowbinder and shocking the sheaves of milo. Chopping cotton and picking cotton. The picking cotton paid 2 cents a pound.

Hauling hay for 2.5 cents a bail.....

Regal Ranch in Stafford 1974. Corporate picnic place, worked in the kitchen. $1.25 an hour

Bailing hay for $1 an hour. Suuuuuuucccckkkked

I grubbed mesquite all summer with hoe when i was 15 for $100.

Next summer I painted all the public schools in Brady, TX for I believe about $8 and hour.

See the van thread. How I was almost molested at my first job.