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How much money did you make at your very first job?

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I made $20-$50 per week putting Sunday newspapers together on Saturday nights. The paper carriers would just pay me out of pocket, because they didn't want to have to do it themselves. The money depended on how many carriers wanted me to do it for them that week.
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I delivered newspapers on my bike before school when i was 12 and i think i made about $5 a week. Not sure how it'd equate to todays value.
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@SW-User Thanks! it was a great job and really healthy. Shame they've banned it now.
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@SW-User The paper went under here, before that it got delivered [i]by car[/i]. 🙄
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@SW-User They deliver by car here now. Apparently it's child abuse to have 12yolds working and riding their bikes around at 5am. You don't have a paper anymore where you live?
trackboy · 22-25, M
stripper work is my first job. average 100 a hour at it. 💪
BrokenWhiskeyGlass2 · 22-25, M
@trackboy 😂
trackboy · 22-25, M
@BrokenWhiskeyGlass2 you look like you would do very well at it. it sure beats flipping burgers or working retail. you would make a fortune at it. 🌈
dumpstermeow · 41-45, F
$6.25 as a grocery store cashier. Pretty sweet for a teenager with no expenses.
Around $4/hr, $3.75 I think. I was 16.
Sharky86 · 36-40, M
Idk. If being the dog of my asshole father was considered a job almost 0 or just a bit every week. Then I also did very short jobs like literally 1-2 days long.
What I can say is every job I did I always earned shit, just a bit more of minimum wage I suppose.
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
$18 per hour to unload a fishing trawler. It took 6 hours to unload just one. And if two or three showed up, well that was a long day. Still, not bad money for a fourteen year old.
Elegy · 46-50
Not including the paper route...
I think minimum was 3.65.
My first raise was a dime, I was offended.
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BrokenWhiskeyGlass2 · 22-25, M
@SW-User Are you serious?
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@BrokenWhiskeyGlass2 Yep.

However, I only worked one day a week.

Paper route. Weekly. 😁
Mona86 · C
Here paper routes are from $10 an hour@SW-User
$180 pw after tax
BrokenWhiskeyGlass2 · 22-25, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout That's a pretty good salary IMO.
@BrokenWhiskeyGlass2 like 1995. I was 16 and a half working as a pastry chef
$9k/year part-time when I was in high school.
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
£200 for a days work
BrokenWhiskeyGlass2 · 22-25, M
@Dlrannie WTF, was your first job somehow connected to the mob?
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@BrokenWhiskeyGlass2 Haha - No it was perfectly legitimate modelling for a kids clothing catalogue 🙂
Not enough, my ex boss was a right bastard.
TheShanachie · 61-69, M
$1.60 per hour, minimum WAGE
MarineBob · 56-60, M
I think it was $3.50 HOUR
PoizonApple · 41-45, F
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Groofydorkgerdo · 56-60, M
$3:35 and hour.
BrokenWhiskeyGlass2 · 22-25, M
@DarlingSelah That's a pretty good salary.
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$40 a week, playing the piano for a ballet class.
Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M
@bijouxbroussard What an awesome first job! I got $10 per lawn for neighborhood mowing.
caccoon · 36-40
$7 an hour.

 
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