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    How much did you make?

    At your first job? I was just reading an article where a guy said he was paid once a month and brought home $275 a month.

    My first job in high school was at a Lawson's (similar to UDF). I made $1.65 and hour.

    My first job out of college I made $4.65 an hour working on a Psych inpatient unit at a hospital.

    I don't remember my hourly rate at my second job, which was at a domestic abuse shelter, but we were paid montly and I brought home $711 a month. I had a knife pulled on me, a gun aimed at me, and a bomb wired to my car in that job. All that for 700 bucks.
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    Re: How much did you make?

    Quote Originally Posted by creek14
    I had a knife pulled on me, a gun aimed at me, and a bomb wired to my car in that job.

    And NONE of that ugliness would have been necessary had you just agreed to go out with me, dammit.


    I made $1 an hour on my first job, in the summer between my sophomore and junior year in high school. I ran a roto-tiller, busting up very hard soil. It nearly shook me to death the three weeks I worked for this guy.

    But, it enabled me to buy those new spikes from Sears, the ones Ted Williams endorsed, 'cause he was on their advisory board, you know. Bought a cool fly rod too.
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    Re: How much did you make?

    My first job was at the Mariemont Theater - $2.25 an hour, 30 hours a week.

    Once I delivered Auto Parts and made $4.00 an hour... after a year I got a 25 cent raise.

    I quit.

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    Re: How much did you make?

    $2.50/hour in 1979. (still have my tax returns) I worked as a receptionist/secretary in a non-profit counseling agency. I remember my oldest sister making $5/hour doing the same job for the county Board of Elections and then quiting before the year was up because she couldn't take the stress.... :thumbdown

    I don't remember my hourly rate at my second job, which was at a domestic abuse shelter, but we were paid montly and I brought home $711 a month. I had a knife pulled on me, a gun aimed at me, and a bomb wired to my car in that job. All that for 700 bucks.
    Never had any of that but would get some wild looking husbands wanting to know where their wives were (if the wives went to the women's shelter) - I remember one wearing a heavy wool coat and never taking his hands out of his pockets. I called security, but he had already left when they arrived. The office building was opened in the morning around 5:30 but the office didn't open until 8 - so anyone could come in - mostly what we got was homeless people coming in out of the cold/heat.
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    Re: How much did you make?

    I made $3.50 an hour working at Ayer Electric on Duck Creek Road.

    Once the Summer was over I took a pay cut to work for Sporty's Pilot Shop
    at the Clermont County Airport: $3.44/hour.

    This was 1985, I believe.

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    Re: How much did you make?

    I was a caddy and made about $30-$35 a round. Around $8 an hour. Then started carrying doubles and would make $60-$70 a round. Cash. It's the way to go.

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    Re: How much did you make?

    in high school, i worked very briefly as a dishwasher at a local restaurant for about 3 bucks an hour, at most.
    thing was, they had me punching out under some other guy's timecard. thought that was kind of fishy and left.
    oh...i never DID get paid for that job. but, i'm betting the other guy did

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    Re: How much did you make?

    I had a paper route, and made $30 a week. If that doesn't count, then my first actual non-paper route job was unloading trucks at Meijer for $5.50 an hour.
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    Re: How much did you make?

    My first job was this past summer, about a month before 2-a-days started, i worked for my neighbors construction company and made $10/hr.
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    Re: How much did you make?

    1986, McDonalds, $3.35/hr.

    I quit 6 months later to umpire Little League Games at $10/game.
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    Re: How much did you make?

    Quote Originally Posted by creek14
    My first job in high school was at a Lawson's (similar to UDF). I made $1.65 and hour.
    And for the record, we had a Lawson's in Piqua when I was growing up. It became a Dairy Mart though, sometime around 1990-1992.
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    Re: How much did you make?

    Quote Originally Posted by savafan
    And for the record, we had a Lawson's in Piqua when I was growing up. It became a Dairy Mart though, sometime around 1990-1992.

    I started out working as a delivery guy in a non-chain drug store in 1976. I made $1.87 an hour. I drove around alot, and the drug store had a tremendous liquor business. I spent alot of time delivering liquor. I would drive around with cases of liquor iin the back of a hatchback to all the rich folks houses. Never once did a cop pull me over with all that booze in the car. That had to be illegal as heck!

    This store (in Rushville, In) was back then (in pre-Ticketmaster days) a Reds ticket outlet. Gordy Coleman would stop in occaisionally and chat while making his rounds. He was a really jovial guy.
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    Re: How much did you make?

    My first regularly paying job was at a local movie theatre in Northern Virginia, making $6.50/hr. When I moved back to Cincinnati, I worked summers in college at another movie theatre here, eventually "retiring" from the summer job biz at $9.75/hr.

    Not bad, considering all I did was stand around and order kids younger than me to do work.
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    Re: How much did you make?

    Quote Originally Posted by Caveat Emperor
    My first regularly paying job was at a local movie theatre in Northern Virginia
    Hey, so was mine, Circle Theater in Fairfax. $3.35/hour.

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    Re: How much did you make?

    Quote Originally Posted by Rojo
    Hey, so was mine, Circle Theater in Fairfax. $3.35/hour.
    Reston Multiplex, Reston Town Center.
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