1st job

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.

Summer job at the golf course doing maintenance 6 days a week. I'm guessing I earned about $4.50/hr. Fun job until it hit the 100's.

Started at $3.50/ hour helping my grandpa farm and ranch. Got bumped to $5 hour the next summer, paid for my first boat that cost $3250 in one summer at $5/ hour. I think I was 12 or 13 when they finally started paying me.

I was a silent film dancer back in 1907. First gig was called “Dancing Pig” and I was humiliated.

Jk, dry cleaners with my parents. I think like $10/hr back when I was 14.

1st job was pushing a lawnmower around the trailer park. Not a great venture.
2nd job was busting tables and washing dishes at Pizza Getti I was 14. Minimum wage was 4.25 I think.

Summer job mowing for the school district at $7.25 an hour. It really was a good summer job for a kid.10 hour days Monday - Thursday 6:00 - 4:30.

Depending on how you look at it, either feeding bottle calves or operating golf course grounds maintenance equipment.

2nd to 4th grade, Feeding bottle calves for the dairyman across the road when there was some to be fed twice a day 7 days a week, cleaned their pens Saturday took all day, $1.00 - $2.00 per week plus a quart of chocolate raw milk.

4th grade to 7th bottle calves plus drove tractor pulling wagons older boys loaded with alfalfa hauled to barn helped unload & stack, also drove tractor pulling chopped silage wagon from field to silo, adult always unloaded. Drove tractor with manure spreader, loaded & spread manure. Started operating tractors when I had to stand on the clutch pedal with both feet so body weight would depress clutch. Made $4.00 - $12.00 per week depending on work load, plus a quart of chocolate raw milk.

First paycheck type job was during high school, worked on 2 golf courses operating grounds maintenance equipment, irrigation, then equipment maintenance & repair.
Started $1.90 per hour in 9th grade worked my way up to $4.15 by 12th.
When school was out during summer break went to SoCal worked for an uncle doing all sorts of dirt work / excavation, operated all sorts of heavy equipment building avocado & citrus groves, roads & bridges, built a bunch of greenhouses, barns a few houses also irrigation, drilling water wells, etc..
$150 - $250 per week plus room & board.

Windy's at whatever minimum wage was in 1975

Age 13. Dad was a tile contractor. I was day labor. 5 bucks a day plus room and board.
Age 15. Pump jockey at a service station. Salary plus commission, so about a $1.5 an hour.

Kens pizza. I was 14. $2.65/hr.

Busboy 13

Picking tobacco at 14 $1.10 hr.

From the brown cows?

First real job? 12 yrs old, worked a Summer at a tire shop in Beeville. Worked me from dawn to dusk, earned $10.00/day and I earned every cent of that pay. I was 12 yrs old swinging a hammer busting split rims hot off the road. Lol. If not working on tires I was chopping and weed eating the acreage out back. It was hot, but I wasn’t allowed to take breaks.

No, he had Holstein,,, that dairyman made the best chocolate milk I've ever had, raw as in unpasteurized whole milk.
Let it sit for a while and the top third or so of the bottle separated out pure cream, had to shake it before you took a drink.

Yep, we took a big glass jar of it hunting. Set it outside the trailer every night. In the morning the older men would spoon the cream off for their coffee then we would shake it up and pour on our cereal...

Stacking grass on the back of a sod harvested in 1995 as an 8th grader. I think we got $1.50 a pallet and would stack up 20 to 40 a day after school. 40 a day on weekends and summer and took 3 or 4 hours depending on smoke breaks.

SO freakin dangerous! I hate me some Dayton’s.

Started working in the family chicken houses (breeder hens) gathering eggs some time before I was 10. It paid room and board and all the eggs you could eat. By 5th grade I could pretty much run them and knew how to fix most things there, even if I wasn't physically capable. My dad had to have back surgery that year and I got home from school one day and both set of grandparents and a couple uncles were waiting on me to tell them how to fix one of the conveyor belts that brought eggs out.

First regular job I had was at a steakhouse owned by my best friends parents. I got a job pouring water and tea and busing tables every friday and saturday night for $40 a night cash. I stayed there til I was a senior in high school. I didn't work through football season.

In the same years I also hauled lots of hay, built swimming pools, work for a contractor doing insurance repaires, and worked in an antique store. Summer before my senior year I did all of the above.

Delivered furniture through high school at .75 cents / hour .

Worked at fast food burger place .95 cents a hour

Pumping gas and cleaning boats at Big Cypress Marina on Lake of The Pines when I was 14. Fifty cents an hour.

My dad had a meat packing company in Dallas. My first job was sweeping floors, pulling weeds and cleaning the parking lot and riding with delivery drivers to help them with their deliveries.
He paid my brother and me exactly zero. We worked every Saturday, holidays and all summer. We finally started getting paid in year three - minimum wage - which was about $1.50 an hour then.

When I was a Senior in high school he made me the foreman of the night time clean up crew. We washed the entire plant down six days a week after production ended.
He did give me his old Ford LTD so I could get to work everyday after school.

I worked at the Ford house in Stephenville my senior year in high school, I had worked before then but that was my first “real” job. I think I made 6.25 an hour.

My grandad told me he took folks catfishing on pines when it first flooded out of a row boat for a dollar a day

Ranch and farm work but I don't remember how much I made. Not much. Started when I was in sixth grade.

Did field to barn hay when I was 14(in the year 2000). $0.25 a bale... sounds like a lot compared to the $0.025 cents or $0.05 a bale, but im sure with inflation it doesn't add up to chit! Used a borrowed trailer and a buddies company truck.

First real job with taxes etc. taken was cart boy etc. at a retail store for $6.00 an hour in 2002. I made more money throwing hay, but the retail was a lot easier on the body!

Hoeing cotton, $3.35 an hour.

First job was helping out the cleaning lady that cleaned our church. 13 years old i think i was. It was for minimum wage and only ONE hour per week, no more no less. But that did lead me to my next job and my first as an independant contractor. Mowing the church yard. $40 to mow, edge, weedeat and blow the sidewalk.

Mowed our church cemetery a few times... talk about a nightmare all the head stones to mow and edge around ugh hated that. Didn't get paid though just did it with my dad when the guy who the church hired to do it flaked out on us again.

12 yrs old. Lied about my age and height. I was 4' 11" and got paid $1.80/hr detassling corn, which I couldn't reach, had to jump up all day.
Then, moved out of parents and on to a dairy farm at 14, got paid $2/hr plus room and board all summer. Milking 90 head, hand carrying 6 gallon jugs, stacking hay in the barn. Rough work for a kid but built character.

My first "official" job working for someone else was when I was 14. I lived in Vaihingen, Germany and bagged groceries for tips at the commissary on Patch Barracks.
Man I could make some cash on a Saturday. I bagged for General Ford and General Huyser. Both were big tippers. I got $2 for loading a large cart full for General Huyser's wife, man i was talk of the store that day.

Mowing and installing yards for a landscaping company. $2+ hour. And was also bucking alfalfa bales for a neighbor at .05 each. Was 12 years old.

Worked at Polar Bear Ice Cream in Dallas - $1.50 an hour 1974

JR

First paying job was removing and re-installing business radios. Mostly police cars, fire trucks, and taxis. Paid $25 a day. Also had the solid brag that I had been in the back of every cop car in four counties.

Cleaning golf carts and doing whatever else needed done around the golf course. $5.15/hr

Stocking shelves in my dad's/Uncle's grocery store in 4th grade. $1 a day.

Paper route when I was 12. My first route covered 4 different apartment complexes and I made about $55 a month. It sucked. Going up and down stairs, people moving out in the middle of the night and stiffing you for the paper. About a year later, I scored a subdivision route and thought I had died and went to Heaven. Pay went from $55ish to about $100 per month. I had to throw almost twice as many papers, but the route took less than 1/2 the time.

My first real job was when I was 16 at Furs cafeteria. I think I made $3.25 an hour. Washed a lot of dishes before I moved up the ladder and started baking/cooking. I worked with some great people and learned a life skill that still serves me today.

Bicycle paper route, Houston Chronicle, 10 years old.

hauling hay for $.10 bale in the late 80's and early 90's. first city job was a bus boy at Denny's. 4.35 per hour. that didn't last long. made more money throwing hay.

Seven or eight years old. I shoveled manure from Mr Green’s mule drawn wagon and spread it on Mom’s new front yard. Fifty cents a load.

Day I turned 16, which was July 16th 2001, I entered the workforce. Had a job lined up a few weeks before at the jack in the box in pearland on the corner of 518 and Dixie Farm road, which was the place anyone who was anyone worked at at PHS. All my older friends did a stint there.Started on my birthday. All I did was run the register. Never flipped a burger one. Had to quit a month later when we relocated to the Canyon Lake Area.

Made $5.25/hr and got my meals 1/2 off

1st job was paper route. can't remember how much.
next was hoeing cotton in the hot sun for $1.10 an hour
Quit that and went to work at Piggly Wiggly working in an air conditioned store for $2.25/hr.
doubled my pay and got to work in AC. I was pretty happy about that!
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First job was flipping burgers second was a Glazer Apprentice I stayed in the glass biz I was a Part Time Bouncer at our Local T-D Bar until I joined the Navy in 80 man I Loved that job, "The T-D Bar Job" Navy was fun but I really liked The T-D Bar job..

Pouring concrete for 5 bucks an hour, all the warm water I could drink was included though.

At 15 it was pumping gas and washing cars for $.50 an hour, when I turned 16 it was sacker at Safeway for $1.25 an hour.

Chicken express, $7.25 an hour, 16 years old. I had a lot of fun and enjoyed my time there.

Delivering packages with my grandfather for a summer at 13.

Normal pay for a farm kid just after the depression,,,,,,nothing, however the food was good.
First Regular paying job: USMC (14 yrs old) $87.00 per month.

Loading cotton seed into a semi......pitchforking it into an auger then packing it down in the truck. All the time the truck driver was bitching because we were not packing it down tight enough. All day for 5 bucks.

Late 90’s, I did the same for the same dam price!

Teal was high rolling for the late 80s hay market.

Picked cotton, 6 cents a pound. Paper route, Memphis Press Scimitar. Hit the big time working produce at local grocery store for 59 cents per hour.

My last summer off was when I was 11 years. I worked pushing a Lawnmower at Onion Creek Golf course and condos 10 hour days mower shut off at lunch and at the end of the day with the occasional pause to fill the gas tank. $20.00 a day and the year was 1977