High school jobs. What was yours?

1. a restaurant as a dishwasher.
2.in the meat department of a Food Giant supermarket, as a clean up guy.
3. at Angela's Italian Restaurant as a dishwasher/pizza maker.

For my senior year I figured I was just "too smart" already so I dropped out and joined the Army. :shrug:
 
tnthomas said:
1. a restaurant as a dishwasher.
2.in the meat department of a Food Giant supermarket, as a clean up guy.
3. at Angela's Italian Restaurant as a dishwasher/pizza maker.

For my senior year I figured I was just "too smart" already so I dropped out and joined the Army. :shrug:
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Ahhhhh.... a fellow former dough flipper.

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In my Junior year I delivered the morning newspaper and then worked in a Hardee's Hamburger joint in the afternoon. This allowed me to save money to travel to Brazil. The Hardee's job paid minimum wage, $1.60/hour at the time. After we moved in my junior year I took a job working in an ice cream parlor for a few months and in my senior year I sold shoes in the mall. The sales job was really beneficial for my future career as it taught me to deal with a wide range of people.
 
i worked in a laundry after school dropped out of school in 11 th grade-- moved out to the boone docks got a job in a restaurant as dish washer then as a waitress
i had to walk about 3 miles to that job--got another job in a laundry-left home at 17 got a job at the hecht co. in wash.dc then got married
 
Never worked a job for wages until I left home. We worked the farm as part of a communal family effort. We received a few dollars when ever the spirit moved the elders, but for the most part we worked for our keep.
I made my own money by running a trap line and selling fur.
 
WheatenLover said:
I babysat and had a thriving $1/hour business doing that. At the time, the going rate was $0.50/hour, but I advertised heavily in our apartment complex, the kids liked me, and I taught them reading and arithmetic when I got tired of playing with them.

I also worked at Burger King, and at a clothing store at the mall.
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$1 an hour, wow, what I would have given to make $1 an hour back in my babysitting days.

When I started babysitting... early 70's, .25¢ an hour was the going rate, and it wasn't until I was in my later senior high years that I started seeing .50¢ an hour.

The only time I seen more than the standard going rate was typically around Christmas time and on New Years Eve.
 
Aunt Marg said:
$1 an hour, wow, what I would have given to make $1 an hour back in my babysitting days.

When I started babysitting... early 70's, .25¢ an hour was the going rate, and it wasn't until I was in my later senior high years that I started seeing .50¢ an hour.

The only time I seen more than the standard going rate was typically around Christmas time and on New Years Eve.
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When I was 12 years old, 25 cents an hour is what I made. The mother was also a bible study teacher and for memorizing psalm 23, I got a Donny Osmond album.

I HAD to have a job in high school since I was living on my own and supporting myself but I finished.
 
Apprentice retail butcher. 5 hours a day & 10 on Saturday. School began a new concept of D E or Distributive Education. Mornings in school afternoons at a job leading to a skill. Wage was good didn't take long to be able to buy a car. A 1954 red with white interior Ford Fairlane convertible.
 
Pecos said:
I worked on a cotton farm with the laborers who came up from Mexico. I had to start paying room and board when I was 15 to help support my parents drinking.
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Translation, and because of the fact you were left with little to no spending money for yourself.
 
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