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Toss up..landscaping and a Summer job at Wolverine tube back in the furnace..casting or whatever it was in the back.
I once mowed 15 yards in various sizes in one day with a pushmower. Other guy got the riding mower. This was early 90s.
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Cut 4 acres of okra daily for a farmer supposedly on halves when I was 11. Turns out, he was paying me about 10%. Did it for about a month, then said to heck with it. Never itched so bad in my life. Sounds like the guy I hoe'd cotton for. He'd drop me off at 6 AM and come get me at noon for lunch, then back out there until 3 PM. I would ride my Yamaha 80 motorcycle to his house at 5:30 every morning.
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Early 80's, hired as a Laborer at a Chemical Plant. Dug holes, and worked a Jackhammer every day of that job.
In the Summer, it would rain for about 15 minutes just about every day. Humid as hell after that.
Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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Toss up for me, when I was a teenager worked at a nursery moving potted plants into greenhouses, got 2 cents per pot for that. The other was shortly after graduating high school went to work for a pest control company. Didn't mind the company, but my route was in East Lake/Kingston, so needless to say, I never made a commission like the rest of the routes did.
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My very first job was at age 6, working for a farmer down the road picking cotton. My dad made me do it; said it was time for me to learn how to work for a living. I got .02/lb, and I could pick 50 pounds a day. So on a full day I could make $1. I also had to pick in the afternoons after school; usually made .30-.40 for an afternoon. I worked for him until about age 12 and then moved up to picking squash. I can remember the older cotton pickers moving so much faster than me that I was left alone in the middle of the field. I can remember crying and wishing I were dead. Can anyone top this? 
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Probably my first job out of high school working for my home town. It paid next to nothing. Lots of grass cutting in the hot sun with a push mower. Pine Hill had it's own trash truck back then so every Thursday was trash day. That was awful. Peoples dogs trying to eat your @$$ alive. Freezing cold in the winter hanging on the side of that truck. Stinking trash that had often been scattered all over hell by stray dogs. And the restaurants were the worst. I have smelled a lot of horrible things in my life; gut shot deer, backed up sewage lines; but nothing compares to the smell of rotten putrid lettuce in those restaurant trash bins. NOTHING!
The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
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My very first job was at age 6, working for a farmer down the road picking cotton. My dad made me do it; said it was time for me to learn how to work for a living. I got .02/lb, and I could pick 50 pounds a day. So on a full day I could make $1. I also had to pick in the afternoons after school; usually made .30-.40 for an afternoon. I worked for him until about age 12 and then moved up to picking squash. I can remember the older cotton pickers moving so much faster than me that I was left alone in the middle of the field. I can remember crying and wishing I were dead. Can anyone top this? be few in here that know what a pick shack is . lol they get heavy to drag . lol
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PCP, when you were 6YO wouldnt a dollar buy like a decent used car or something?
On the Eighth day God created flounder.
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When I was a kid on the farm, I was put to work for a $2 bill for all day in the summers: picking sweet corn and peas, digging post holes by hand, cleaning the hog houses, working in the grain bins, spraying johnson grass by hand, etc... Tough work for a kid.
But the worst paying job I ever had was collecting on deliquent mobile home accounts. I took it for 6 months and then quit. Worst job I ever had mentally.
"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever." Isaiah 40:8
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.� Samuel Adams
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[/quote] be few in here that know what a pick shack is . lol they get heavy to drag . lol [/quote] I know what a pick sack is.....what is a pick shack? wern't no shacks in the field where I was pickin.
"In time of war, send me all the Alabamians you can get, but in time of peace, for Lord's sake, send them to somebody else." General Edward H. Plummer
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PCP, when you were 6YO wouldnt a dollar buy like a decent used car or something? It wouldn't buy a car, but it would sure buy more than it will today. And another bad thing about all my farm work thru school was that I only got to spend half of it - my dad made me put half into a savings account for college. He said that I needed to learn how to save in addition to learning how to work. There was only about $500 in it when I went off to college and was finally able to draw it out of the bank. I was in to my rebellious stage by that time, and made sure that every cent of that money was spent on partying. That was one of my dad's lessons that backfired. I would have been a lot more industrious if I'd been allowed to do what I wanted with my money. And I'm by nature a saver anyway, and probably would have saved most of it without being made to do so.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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My very first job was at age 6, working for a farmer down the road picking cotton. My dad made me do it; said it was time for me to learn how to work for a living. I got .02/lb, and I could pick 50 pounds a day. So on a full day I could make $1. I also had to pick in the afternoons after school; usually made .30-.40 for an afternoon. I worked for him until about age 12 and then moved up to picking squash. I can remember the older cotton pickers moving so much faster than me that I was left alone in the middle of the field. I can remember crying and wishing I were dead. Can anyone top this? Not even going to try. Age 6. Dang!
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I repossessed furniture and electronics for Helig Myers furniture store when I was 19,me and my buddy got the jobs and it payed $7 and some change per hour,we stayed in the projects and bad parts of three counties,looking back I realize how stupid I was to take such a dangerous job but at the time I didn't care,you couldn't pay me $40/HR to do that job nowadays
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I worked as a roofer during my first years of college. Had a good tan but dang it was hot.
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be few in here that know what a pick shack is . lol they get heavy to drag . lol [/quote] I know what a pick sack is.....what is a pick shack? wern't no shacks in the field where I was pickin. [/quote lol , sorry
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When I was in High School I worked as a mechanic & parts deliverer for a trucking company that had a small fleet of asphalt tankers. One of them was involved in a crash & was left on it's side in a ditch overnight, then towed & so forth and the asphalt set up, so I got to go in through the top with an air chipper tool and try to clean it out enough that it could be driven & re-filled with hot asphalt. It took about a week and a half, in July of course. Asphalt dust goes through any clothes, masks, boots etc, no matter how much you tape up and all. You've just never lived until you take a bath in kerosene every night for a week and a half. I was raw for months after, and when two-a-days for football started I was in pure agony.
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Working at the Kingsford charcoal plant in Dothan, Alabama, summer of 1976. Worked on the bagging line tossing 10 lb or 20 lb bags of charcoal. Would come home from work too tired to take a shower and my mother would yell at me for trashing my bed. Had charcoal dust from head to toe even inside my ears. Shudder to think how much of that dust I breathed in.
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I hung sheet rock as a teenager, it taught me to study harder and I did.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
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I've hauled hay, picked corn, picked up potatoes, and worked in a potato shed where the potatoes were washed, sorted, bagged, and shipped. Every one of those were a walk in the park compared to working 12 hour night shifts in a factory that made nylon for use in carpet and rugs. I ran a machine that twisted nylon yarn together that had 150 stations going at one time and you were expected to keep them all running and those things didn't run like a cadillac if you know what I mean. Worked there during the summers while I was out of college. Hotter than 4 hells in between those machines after the blazing heat had been on that building all day. God bless the people who have to do that for a living!
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