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Originally Posted by unluky
$1.65!!! Wow! I go back to my first REAL job (father was a farmer, so I ALWAYS worked) I made $3.35 per hour AND got the "privilege" of paying union dues out of it! Even at 15 I remember the optics of a group of men in suits with Caddies parked at the fire lane curb walking in every 3 months or so to shake everyone's hand, call us "brothers", and thank us for keeping the union strong. LOL
I can also remember my first paycheck that was over $100 - I was amazed!
If we only knew then..............
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I remember as a kid going down to the school with my hoe to walk beans. Farmers would pull up and tell X number of kids to hop in the back of the pickup. Go out to the farm and head for the shed. He would sharpen your hoe and then head out to the fields. Some weeds you could chop and some had to be pulled and stood up against the bean row root side up. Some of those mustard patches, ugh! Sometimes the farmer would go to 75 cents an hour for the really bad fields.