Jobs you had as a "kid" ??

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:58 pm

I remember when I asked my Dad about an "allowence". Not an option !
I got a paper route. Delivered the Syracuse Post-Standard in about a 3 block area
on The North Side of Syracuse. The P-S was the morning newspaper at the time.
The neighborhood was working class family and they wanted a paper to read while
eating breakfast-or to take to work. That meant getting up at 4 AM when the papers
were dropped off by a delivery guy from the paper. I had about 85-90 regular
customers for weekly and sunday papers and netted about $15 a week. I also
ordered extra Sunday papers and would sell them to the folks leaving Sunday Mass
at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church that was across from my pick up site.
On weekdays, I'd be done around 6 AM and go back home for a bit of sack time before
I had to go to school. Summers were cool as I had the afternoon and evening free.
It sucked to deliver the rival evening newspaper, The Syracuse Herald -Journal.
Even when I had summer jobs. I kept my paper route as it was such good spending money.
When I went off to college, I passed my route on to my brother.
I tried other things on the side--pin setting--farm work during the day or night;
and of course in winter--shoveling sidewalks and drive-ways for cash.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:00 pm

Wolfman wrote:I remember when I asked my Dad about an "allowence".

Did he reply "Son, when you can learn to spell it, I might think about giving you one"?

Nice work, Teacher.

Uncle Fester · Post by **Uncle Fester** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:04 pm

Corn detasseling
Paper route
Dishwashing
Painting

That was back when those jobs were done by teenagers, not Messicans.

YD · Post by YD » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:06 pm

spelling smack?

I tried working my way up at a historic restaurant when I was 15...got "let go" because I "wasn't cut out for being a dishwasher"

worked at a record store last 2 yrs of HS then went to work for the big cleveland paint grinder

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:18 pm

As a kid I shined shoes at my grandfather's shoe repair shop during summer vacation.
25 cents for a pair of shoes, 35 cents for boots. Did a damn good job, too. Made a killing off of tips.
It was at a small town in Ohio. Simple days. Save your Goodfellas resets.

Blitzen · Post by **Blitzen** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:34 pm

Mowed and fertilized the fat man's lawn.

Shoalzie · Post by **Shoalzie** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:35 pm

Uncle Fester wrote:Corn detasseling

I did that one summer during middle school. Over this past summer I saw several local school buses parked by cornfields near my house...that brought me back.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:39 pm

Back in the 70s, I was a Paperboy delivering the Evening Bulletin for the Providence Journal! I made $40.00/week. At Christmas, I made about $300 in tips.
I kept the job until I was 16!!

It was probably the best job I ever had!!

From that spawned - mowing jobs, raking jobs, shovelling jobs.

after that I got real jobs....

Mopping floors, working at McDonald's, "Fry guy" at The Weiner Man,
ambulance driver for the State Mental Hospital..

but nothing could top Paper Boy!!
- okay, the ambualnce driver thing was also a hoot!!

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:48 pm

it's fun here setting traps for Dinsdale !
He probably worked for the English teacher
grading papers !!

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:53 pm

Wolfman wrote:it's fun here setting traps for Dinsdale !

Oh, lovely. The old "I'm not really an idiot, I was just trolling!"

It gets even more effective when you claim it was "trolling" for the particular poster who called you out for being stupid.

It's the battle cry of the tard.

Tard.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:59 pm

Jack---
ambulance driver at a mentla (oops I didn't type mental correctly) hospital ??
man --oh man--
you must have some tales to tell !!

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:59 pm

Wolfie.

You're as wrong as you can be. Dins never graded papers.
He spent most of his time in the principal's office..awaiting the paddle.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:59 pm

If you ever had a job pin setting, you are old. Really, really fukking old.

Tiny · Post by **Tiny** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:11 am

Wolfman,

When I opened this thread, I couldn't help it, but I got an image in my mind of your job as a kid....actually it was a scene. It was a scene from "Little House on the Prairie", where the brother dude helps deliver ice blocks to houses (for their primitive fridges) for a yob to help support the family.

When I was a little tyke, we only had 1 TV in the house, so we had to bargain to watch shows that we liked. My older sis traded me the Cubs games that I wanted to watch, so she could watch her stupid "Little House" episodes.
As a kid I always hoped they would all get smallpox and die, and thus, it would be the end of the show....god I hated that shit. Talk about your "long suffering Cubs fan"...

As a kid, my brother and I cleaned the local union hall, after their meetings. It was only like $25.00 a pop, but back then that was a lot of cashe, even after the split. I also did the yard mowing thing for a couple of my mom's co-workers.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:16 am

Tiny wrote:Wolfman,

When I opened this thread, I couldn't help it, but I got an image in my mind of your job as a kid....actually it was a scene. It was a scene from "Little House on the Prairie", where the brother dude helps deliver ice blocks to houses (for their primitive fridges) for a yob to help support the family.

When I was a little tyke, we only had 1 TV in the house, so we had to bargain to watch shows that we liked. My older sis traded me the Cubs games that I wanted to watch, so she could watch her stupid "Little House" episodes.
As a kid I always hoped they would all get smallpox and die, and thus, it would be the end of the show....god I hated that shit. Talk about your "long suffering Cubs fan"...

As a kid, my brother and I cleaned the local union hall, after their meetings. It was only like $25.00 a pop, but back then that was a lot of cashe, even after the split. I also did the yard mowing thing for a couple of my mom's co-workers.

I pictured him working at a mill. Not sure what kinda mill. Just that it had a huge smokestack and he carried his lunch to work in a pail. Yes, a fukking metal pail just like on the prairie. His paw worked there too.

Husker4ever · Post by **Husker4ever** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:32 am

Bobby42 wrote:As a kid I shined shoes at my grandfather's shoe repair shop during summer vacation.
25 cents for a pair of shoes, 35 cents for boots. Did a damn good job, too. Made a killing off of tips.
It was at a small town in Ohio. Simple days. Save your Goodfellas resets.

Now go home and get your fucking shinebox! Rack that whole exchange in Goodfellas.

-paper route (cleared 80 bucks a month and had to do my own collecting....soon discovered customers who lived in trailer houses sucked at paying on time and wet newspapers never did shit as an incentive to pay up)

-detasseled (some of the hardest and monotonous work I've ever done....300 dollar checks back then to a kid would be comparable to 5 large checks now to you or me)

-mowed lawns/shoveled snow/painted (all menial jobs that payed well for a kid looking to get some quick cash)

-rented out parking spots in our driveway to fans at the College World Series (quickest and easiest money I ever made....people would pay 10 to 20 bucks to park close to Rosenblatt in a secure place....and my brother and I even offered to wash their cars for an extra fee if they trusted 2 kids to do it. Most did and tipped the hell out of us for a job we took pride in)

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:47 am

I had the coolest yob evah for the last few months of hs till I flunked out of UConn. Valet at the Hartford club. The hartford club is this stuffy olde rich white dudes private club down town. Anybody who was anybody in the hartford area was a member there. Had famous dudes there regularly. Used to park Al Haigs MB before he went to work for ronnie. They had an underground parking garage behind the club, so when somebody pulled up and handed you the keys, you disapeared with their rig and they had no clue where you might go. We had regular customers who's routine never changed, so, when things slowed down around 8 or so, we'd jump into their cars and cruise around downtown. We used to beat the fukking shit oughtta folks' cars. To bring up the cars we exited the garage and took the long way around the block, quite often racing each other. This one kid sat at a light in a 7 series bimmer power braked that thing till one of the tires blew. He hopped out, changed it, and brought it up. The poor sap that owned the car gave him 20 bucks for going thropugh the trouble of changing the tire. Too bad he didn't notice the fukking molten rubber on his quarter panels. The powerbraking champ, btw, was an early 70s grandprix with dual exhaust. What a fukking beast.

Tiny · Post by **Tiny** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:48 am

PAW....

I laughed. HARD.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:57 am

Funny thing is that I did work a couple summers in the same place that my Dad worked in the foundry at Crouse-Hinds Co.--made lighting/electrical fixtures.
I worked operating multi-spindle drill presses on a night shift and one other time in the plating of the cast iron
condulets. All IBEW jobs that paid very good wages at the time--enough for me to continue my college education.

patsy stone · Post by **patsy stone** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:22 am

I decorated cakes at Publix Supermarkets for a few years. Then I started developing carpal tunnel, so I became the official "signmaker" and just drew the signs for the displays for multiple stores. Continued doing that through college and a little bit after college for easy extra money on the side.

I have kick-ass penmanship. When I finally quit, they were very upset! Other chicks tried to write like me but they couldn't. :)

I never like to brag but that's something I'm proud of! Exciting, huh?

PrimeX · Post by **PrimeX** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:26 am

I asked my parents for money and they gave it to me. War having control.

Losers.

Blitzen · Post by **Blitzen** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:29 am

PrimeX wrote:I asked my parents for money and they gave it to me. War having control.

Losers.

And look where it's gotten you. Mom and dad must be so proud when the show the bridge club that framed screen shot of your T1B profile. "Look at it, Harry! Just look at it! Three thousand posts!" That's one of those rare payoff moments for a parent when they can let out a sigh of relief and say "We did good, honey. We raised him right."

PrimeX · Post by **PrimeX** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:41 am

See, it ain't that hard Wolfie. Tell us again, how long have you been around? How have you not become a skilled castman?

War getting pwnd by a deer to prove how much another doesn't get it.

I rule at the message boards.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:37 am

Wolfman wrote:Jack---
ambulance driver at a mentla (oops I didn't type mental correctly) hospital ??
man --oh man--
you must have some tales to tell !!

let's see..

the guy with the jar of peanut butter stuck in his ass..

is one I'll never forget!!

Don't ask me how, what brand, what size jar, etc...

They just told me that was his problem..

and away I went in an ambulance that looked kind of like this..

I had no special license and definitely lacked any formal training..

It was a summer job and they asked..

"who likes to drive?"

that was all they needed back then!

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:41 am

Paper Route
K-Mart Shoe Guy
Convenience Store Worker
Dishwasher
Baker
Bartender
Line Cook
Waiter
Things Computer.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:24 pm

When I was about 14 I got a job picking up balls on the driving range at the golf course up the street. Didn't have one of those caged-in tractors that drives around scooping up balls, though. This was at a private club so the range wasn't used by hundreds of people every day. It closed at 5:00 pm, or earlier in the winter. It was on a steep hill and I had a regular cart with a barrel in the back. I used one of those red canvas ball pickeruppers with an aluminum tube sticking down. I was supposed to park the cart get out and pick up balls and empty them into the barrel. In reality, I drove around picking them up.

There was a small spring near the bottom of the hill that always kept the ground wet there. It was a blast gunning the cart downhill at full speed and slamming on the breaks in the wet spot. My parents weren't members of the club at the time, but I got to play as much as I wanted after I finished and before dark. Also the club was closed on Mondays and empolyees got free run of the course all day long. That was sweet in the summer. I also helped out around the pro shop during the summer, retrieving members' clubs from storage and putting them on the carts and cleaning when done. Occasional caddying gig, too.

Eventually I was also working part time as a busboy in the dining room for special occasions. My parents had a swimming and tennis membership and, since I knew all the kitchen crew, I was the only kid around the pool in the summer that could go into the kitchen and make myself a shake.

Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:34 pm

I was lucky enough to not have to work until my first summer after College. I worked at GNC.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:08 pm

I was lucky enough to not have to work until my first summer after College.

Whose luck are you talking about? The luck of the folks who would have otherwise employed you, however intermittently?

BTW, I'm simply SHOCKED that you never worked until after college. What a surprise.

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:28 pm

Cicero wrote:I was lucky enough to not have to work until my first summer after College. I worked at GNC.

Let me get this straight. Your "degree" from Duke was good enough to net you a job in retail?

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:29 pm

PSUFAN wrote:
I was lucky enough to not have to work until my first summer after College.
Whose luck are you talking about? The luck of the folks who would have otherwise employed you, however intermittently?

BTW, I'm simply SHOCKED that you never worked until after college. What a surprise.

no fucking shit. [larrydavid]ahhh, well. now it all makes perfect sense.[/larrydavid] only someone with the ignorance and ineptitude of sissytard (and the silver spoon) wouldn't have to work until after college. good fucking lord.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:30 pm

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:
Cicero wrote:I was lucky enough to not have to work until my first summer after College. I worked at GNC.
Let me get this straight. Your "degree" from Duke was good enough to net you a job in retail?

thank you very fucking much.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:33 pm

Yes, this expains some of Sissy's countless shortcomings.

Hell, I was working on the road in another state on weekends during high school.

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:45 pm

Paper Route
Grocery Store

Luther · Post by **Luther** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:04 pm

One year I had a job on the "night" watering crew at the Air Force Base's golf course at Offutt (Omaha). We'd start work around dinner time and proceed to hand water the greens. Huge hoses with a lot of pressure and we had to make sure we covered the entire green. Then when the golfers stopped playing and it got dark, then the fun started. Each of us had one of those green 3 wheeled carts that had 3 on the tree. We drove those like we had stolen them.

I remember once I pulled one of those "Mikey" moves and slammed on my breaks just before I got to those fairway sprinklers. It was so wet that I hydroplaned and then drove over and snapped off the sprinkler head. A huge surge of water shot into the sky from the hole that I caused, and I thought I'd get fired on the spot. Well my supervisor was only 18 and he said he'd cover for me. We got the other three guys and we then proceeded to dig up around the snapped off pipe...and replaced that section of pipe. It took several hours, but the big boss never really heard the full story. Good times...driving as fast as those carts would go in the pitch black was fun as hell.

Once, I got my buddy and we planned to raid the golf courses water ponds for golf balls. I worked there so I knew they had planned to "rake" the ponds in the next day or so, ...so we had to get the plan in action. My dad was even in on it...more of a consultant per se. The plan was to wear the worst and darkest clothes we could...carrying about two burlap bags each. We left our shoes in the car as we'd use our feet/toes to feel for the balls in the mud/water. All was going pretty well until we saw the night security guy driving along the levee shining his light on the course. We dropped our mud darkened faces down so that just our eyes were above the surface, ala Cape Fear.

Then when we finished close to sunrise, we had to book back to my car. We drove out of the neighborhood and back to my house where my dad had opened the garage door. We pulled in, the door went down and we all laughed like little kids. I think we divided it up and we each got about a hundred balls a piece. Funny thing, ...I got selected by the boss to be on the "rake" crew for later that week. They just couldn't understand why they only fetched about fifty balls.

Rip City

Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:15 pm

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:
Cicero wrote:I was lucky enough to not have to work until my first summer after College. I worked at GNC.
Let me get this straight. Your "degree" from Duke was good enough to net you a job in retail?

Actually, that should have read " summer after my Freshman Year." I was 19 at the time. I could see how some of you anke biters would have read that wrong. My mistake.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:16 pm

Luther,

I didn't think featheries were worth salvaging from the pond.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:28 pm

Cicero wrote:
ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:
Cicero wrote:I was lucky enough to not have to work until my first summer after College. I worked at GNC.
Let me get this straight. Your "degree" from Duke was good enough to net you a job in retail?

Actually, that should have read " summer after my Freshman Year." I was 19 at the time. I could see how some of you anke biters would have read that wrong. My mistake.

actually, shithead, i can see how an idiot like you would fail to express that thought properly the first time around. we didn't read anything wrong. just because you slam your mongoloid hands on the keyboard and then hit submit doesn't mean we can't read.

duke degree.

Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:01 pm

I apologize for being busy at work and not fully explaining myself.

WolverineSteve · Post by **WolverineSteve** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:10 am

Paper route
Score keeper for Bowling tournies
Usher-Joe Louis Arena
Security-Boblo Boats
Beer stand-Cedar Pointe

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:21 pm

Cicero wrote:I apologize for being busy at work and not fully explaining myself.

BOGO on Metamucil at GNC?

Do you really think we're sitting here waiting for you to weigh in on every God-damned topic? Take your time. Formulate a cogent take. Wait a day or two. Type up that one sentence you struggled so hard with... then mash the submit button. Put that Master's from Duke to good use.

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