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Offline blitzkrieg_17

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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2010, 02:01:56 PM »
Quote from: debk on August 09, 2010, 01:11:43 PM
Babysitting for the next door neighbor's baby when I was about 10.5. She'd put the baby down and have me come over as long as my mother was next door. As I got a bit older, I also stayed with the 4 kids across the street. Got 50 cents an hour and was thrilled.

First real paying job, a week after I turned 16...going to work in a huge grocery store in Rockford IL....owned by Sicilians. Made $1.60 an hour. Started out checking groceries, to working in the deli/bakery ( :drool: ) to running the customer service desk at night and on Saturdays. Stayed there for a little over year and a half, until I went off to college. I sooooo loved that job!!

I had a similar job at 16 too, and stayed there until I finished high school and moved out of state. They also had very good deli and bakery. Too bad they are no longer there.
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2010, 02:13:41 PM »
Anyone do any corn detasselling ?
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2010, 02:17:04 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on August 09, 2010, 02:13:41 PM
Anyone do any corn detasselling ?

Nope, but Running Buddy's husband would go up to IL in the summers from down here, to de-tassel corn when he was in high school and first summer after college. He's 67 now, so that was a looong time ago. He went up near Bloomington, to work for DelMonte.
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #28 on: August 09, 2010, 02:25:31 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on August 09, 2010, 02:13:41 PM
Anyone do any corn detasselling ?

Yup, all over Henry County, IL
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #29 on: August 09, 2010, 02:30:08 PM »
Quote from: RobJohnson on August 09, 2010, 02:25:31 PM
Yup, all over Henry County, IL

Hot and nasty work.
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #30 on: August 09, 2010, 02:58:51 PM »
Don't get me started!

I think I was collectin' the eggs at my Uncles place right after I learned to walk! Frikkin' slave driver! Started driving the '63 Kenworth when I was 8, long haul with Dad! Got some pretty strange looks at the truckstop when he sent me to fuel it up by myself when I was 14! It's been all downhill since!

Picked green Beans for 3 cents a lb, strawberries for 70 cents a crate and cucumbers for 50 cents a bushel. Made good money in those cukes!

I've got an old JD 3010 we just rebuilt and a Kabota 5030 that the Ranch just sunk 20 grand into.

I prefer the Kabota as it's 4 wheel drive and a hydrostatic tranny. Since we do a lot of "bucket" work, it's nice not having to change gears every time ya need reverse.
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #31 on: August 09, 2010, 04:42:59 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on August 09, 2010, 02:30:08 PM
Hot and nasty work.

Never done that, but gathering pine needles at one area, to transport to another area just to spread them out over gads of flower beds, a hill of pine needles 10 feet up. 

That would be some hot and nasty work too. 

I heard it built character.  I am not so sure. 
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #32 on: August 09, 2010, 06:02:42 PM »
Quote from: debk on August 09, 2010, 01:40:00 PM
The grocery store is still there, I know under different ownership, and I'm not sure if the name is the same (it was The Highlander) . The Castrogiovanni's owned it, and 2 smaller ones. The father started the smallest store, the two sons built the one I worked in. One of the son's son, was my age, I think he owns an Italian restaurant in Rockford now, from what I have been able to find out on line.

Hilander was still there on Alpine as of the end of June, but they were pretty slow.
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #33 on: August 09, 2010, 06:07:37 PM »
Quote from: docstew on August 09, 2010, 06:02:42 PM
Hilander was still there on Alpine as of the end of June, but they were pretty slow.


That's the one I worked at!!! Back in the 60's that store was unlike anything in town. Fresh fish and seafood flown in on Thursdays. Incredible deli and bakery.

We lived about just one street E of Alpine. My dad and stepmother moved down to Springfield between Thanksgiving and Christmas of my freshman year in college. 
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #34 on: August 09, 2010, 06:33:49 PM »
Is it no surprise that most of us grew up doing hard work on a farm or other venues and have been or become conservatives?

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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #35 on: August 10, 2010, 01:36:37 AM »
Quote from: Carl on August 09, 2010, 06:33:49 PM
Is it no surprise that most of us grew up doing hard work on a farm or other venues and have been or become conservatives?



If you want a good lesson in the "virtues" of government regulations, living/working/owning a Grade A dairy farm is a real good classroom.  I was about 12 or 13 when I came to the conclusion that whoever came up with some of those regs didn't know which end of the cow to put hay in front of and which end to put a shovel under.  And THAT was back in the 70's!
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #36 on: August 10, 2010, 01:39:57 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on August 09, 2010, 02:13:41 PM
Anyone do any corn detasselling ?


Isn't that done for hybrid corn breeding?

We let ours mature, because we were either chopping it to put in the silo or shelling it for grain.

Either way, the cows got it.   :-)
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Re: primitives discuss their first job
« Reply #37 on: August 10, 2010, 01:49:58 PM »
Quote from: diesel driver on August 10, 2010, 01:39:57 AM


Isn't that done for hybrid corn breeding?

We let ours mature, because we were either chopping it to put in the silo or shelling it for grain.

Either way, the cows got it.   :-)

My friend that did it in IL, did it for DelMonte. I assume it was going to be canned corn for people consumption.

As far as I know, being a kid in IA, corn for animals was not detasselled.
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Just hand over the chocolate...back away slowly...far away....and you won't get hurt....

Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.

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A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.
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