February 8, 201016 yr Gold Circle circa 1979 That was after I set tobacco ONCE. Setting is the easiest part!
February 8, 201016 yr During HS about five of us from the football team worked at Morrison's Cafeteria (Florence Mall). I didn't care too much for it and once Summer practice started I quit showing up. I pretty much thought I wasn't employed any longer, then after the season I'm in homeroom and my teammates told me I was back on the schedule so I went back. Nothing was worse than opening at 10am and seeing bus load after bus load of elderly people (bingo charter busses) lining up for their morning plate of liver and onions. The worst day ever was when I was chosen to peel potatoes for eight straight hours. Then on top of that it was pretty embarrasing to wear those paper hats while working the line. In all reality, $5.15 wasn't all too bad for 1990.
February 8, 201016 yr Setting is the easiest part! Not on the tractor I was on with the 1917 setting device. We had to stop after every row and walk back up and dig the holes with our hands.
February 8, 201016 yr Not on the tractor I was on with the 1917 setting device. We had to stop after every row and walk back up and dig the holes with our hands.Most times we used a tractor, but I had more than a few jobs that used a hand setter to do the whole patch, not just repair bad sets, including my grandfather's base.
February 8, 201016 yr Author Lifeguarding was a piece of cake. One summer at a community pool, one at a beach, and three at an outdoor education center on the Severn River where I taught swimming and (not whitewater) canoeing lessons. Only had to make three actual saves in five summers. The place is still there. http://www.arlingtonecho.org/
February 8, 201016 yr The first one Uncle Sam knows about was at a landscaping/garden center in NKY, but I'd done quite a bit before that off the books.
February 8, 201016 yr Got $10 a day for putting up hay and tobacco during the summer, stripping tobacco in the fall, and setting out tobacco in the spring. That starting when I was 13. My first job for a business, instead of a farmer, was for Pizza Hut in Corbin for $1.60 and hour in 1975. I have put up hay, weeded tobacco beds, set, striped, sprayed, topped and housed tobacco. I never did cut it, afraid I would get speared. Never got paid for it, per say, but it put food on the table and helped clothed me. All in our family had to help on the farm. I have also help butcher hogs and a beef. Remember frying sausage way in to the night and canning it. Man that was good eating.
February 8, 201016 yr Burger King for $2.25 an hour. I quit when they said they wouldn't let me off to go to basketball camp.
February 8, 201016 yr Worked as a grounds keeper at the Highlands Country Club golf course in Ft. Thomas. $7.25 / hr and free lunches! Not too shabby for a high school job.
February 8, 201016 yr Lived in Cherry Hill Subdivision, Erlanger in 1963 at the age of 12 I baby sat and also shoveled alot of snow. Baby sat for .50 cents per hour and shoveled snow for $2 or $3 bucks. Not bad for spending money back then. Beechwoodfan after Village In Pizza did you ever go to Waldo Peppers? JD
February 8, 201016 yr Lived in Cherry Hill Subdivision, Erlanger in 1963 at the age of 12 I baby sat and also shoveled alot of snow. Baby sat for .50 cents per hour and shoveled snow for $2 or $3 bucks. Not bad for spending money back then. Beechwoodfan after Village In Pizza did you ever go to Waldo Peppers? JD I did indeed visit Waldo Peppers! I didnt even think about babysitting. I too babysat for 50 cents per hour. Thought that was big money! Pizza making paid $1.35 if I recall correctly. Even bigger money! I was sixteen years old doing the books and making night deposits at the local bank after closing. Cant imagine allowing my daughter to do that.
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