What was your first paying job?

I was only 17 at the time. And money went further in '72 than it does today.

Happy B-Day late. At 17, I had just graduated high school and it was a full-time, 8-hour job. I had to go downtown and train for the job (1 day there), then start the next morning. I was there 18 months, then the company closed up.

Other than things like mowing lawns and babysitting....I was a counselor at a boy's summer camp during the summers when I was 17 and 18. It was in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, and I was one of the hiking counselors. To this day, I love hiking and camping in the woods.

I babysat, too, and had been since I was 11. My sister had two little ones ( 5 and 2). My next door neighbor had two toddlers. Most of the neighbors had small children, so that was good for pocket money.