primitive discuss first actual job

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022734785

Oh my.

Fumesucker (30,977 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 12:47 PM

When was your first actual job and how much did you make?

And how much would it be in today's dollars?

You can find out what your pay would have been here.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

For me it was 1969 and I made $4.00 an hour which would be $25.37 today.

Big campfire, so only the PoP (primitives of prominence) quoted here.

Lugnut (8,661 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 12:53 PM

8. I wairessed in high school and was paid $.50 an hour.

That's worth $3.89 today.

^^^primitive forgot to mention the tips, which probably more than doubled the pay, though.

TwilightGardener (39,612 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:13 PM

24. $3.35/hr, McDonald's.

madokie (36,140 posts)   Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:23 PM

37. Summer of '62

I was paid 65 cents an hour. Driving nails behind drywall hangers.

The next summer I got 85 cents and hour, same job

The next summer I went to work in a gas station making 50 bucks a week. 6 day 10 to 12 hour days.

The next summer I still worked at the gas station making 70 bucks a week, same 10 to 12 hour days. Bought my first new car that summer, 67 Plymouth belvedere 2, 2 door hard top. Paid $2267.00 for it. Right off the show room floor.

September that year I went into the navy, winding up in country vietnam where I spent 15 months before I was honorably discharged in oct. '70 after serving 37 months and one day. Early out due to nixons starting to bring us home. I was in the first plane load of GI coming home in that program.

KurtNYC (11,987 posts)   Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:28 PM

41. Paperboy -- about $12 a week and it took 10 hours so that's $1.20 / hour.

Cleita (64,186 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:30 PM

45. Picking boysenberries when I was fifteen.

I got 35 cents a box. It took me two hours to pick one box because the bushes are thorny and the farmer wouldn't allow us to use gloves. The experienced braceros whom we worked alongside back then could pick a box in half an hour. Even with speed picking it didn't amount to minimum wage which was 90 cents an hour back then. I don't know what it would be in today's dollars but a guess would be $5 a box. We also got FICA deducted from our checks. I averaged $5 a week, which back then to me was a fortune.

^^^in case one doesn't know, one of the most ancient primitives; even more hoary than the CalPig primitive.

kestrel91316 (45,015 posts)   Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:45 PM

54. P/T cashier at a fast food burger place in 1973 - probably $1.50/hr.

Tierra_y_Libertad (35,983 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 02:22 PM

68. Dishwasher in a deli. 1960. $1 per hour. 1961. Marine. $79 a month.

Bennyboy (8,938 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 02:23 PM

70. GEEZeeeeee Products.

$ according to this http://www.dof.ca.gov/HTML/FS_DATA/STAT-ABS/documents/D23.pdf 2 dollars an hour. I thought it was $1.65 but I could be wrong there.
 
May of 1974 I worked for family off and on after High School (June of 73 grad) and didn't really have a job like before that...
 
They made fiberglass products, mostly grommets for bombs. Baja Buggie bodies and the very beginning of the hot tub industry.
 
My friends all worked there so I applied. fresh out of school and deciding i gotta have a job.
 
I was in my interview and a foreman told the boss that (Whateverhisnamewasdidn'tcare) quit. the boss turns to me as says "can you drive a forklift?" I had driven plenty of them working as teenager for my Dad's shop so I relied "yeah" and he hired me on the spot. "take these to here, these to here, come back and do it all over again" was what he said and off I went. Stacks of boxes of finished grommets. from the line to the loading dock. Every trip I made there was a guy giving me the evil eye,the evilest of evil eyes. His job was to wipe the grommets, fresh from being glassed, and hanging from a rack. The absolute shittiest job ever IMO (that assumption would prove to be incorrect a week or so later).
 
I did that for a week and everyone of us went to Reno to see the Grateful Dead. Everyone at the plant and all of the Fair Oaks hippie crew. (that story is right here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/ben-baity/reno-1974/383356354123)
 
When I came back on Monday (the show was Sunday) I saw the guy that I thought had the shittiest job ever in the boss's office. I clocked in, (still kinda high from the show after sleeping in the lot with everyone that night so we wouldn't miss work) and the Boss called me over and told me that do0o0o0d, was gonna start driving the forklift (he had been there for 11 years, wiping grommets). He told me to go over to the OD machine. the aptly named OD machine.
 
The big slab of grommets that the guy wiped for 11 years moved down the line,got cut into ten pieces, put on a conveyor and I put them on this wheel, pushed a button, and the Outer Diameter was sanded (OD). I took it off and put it on the line to go the next stop (and you already know this right) was the ID machine which did the same thing. (yes, inside diameter).
 
Sounds easy huh? Well it was like Lucy in the candy shop. They kept coming, and try as I might, i could not possibly keep up. No ****ing way. the other OD operator couldn't either and we kept stopping the line, but that didn't stop nothing......
 
I worked until lunch and my friends were all "The OD machine, that's too bad" and saying that was the worst job ever (and right they were... I was thinking "grommet wiper" was looking pretty good to me then).. I go back to the OD machine after lunch and here they come again, more freaking grommets. All of a sudden I notice the station across from me is vacant. The other guy, without telling me anything, just up and goes to the bathroom. I gotta cover his grommets and I can't keep up with my own. I am freaking out thinking the entire shop is going to collapse because of the huge stack of grommets I have backlogged. I was Freaking out.
 
The guy came back, I dropped my gloves and walked out. That'll show em, **** this.
 
Went to get my check on payday and they didn't even know I left.

^^^BennyBoy

The skidmarked underwear primitive, the disconsolate farmwife in eastern Iowa:

Skidmore (28,855 posts)   Mon Apr 22, 2013, 03:39 PM

77. My first job paid $1.75/hr. and my 17 year old self thought I was making a fortune. It was 1971 and today that job would pull in $10.06 per that calculator.

MineralMan (52,996 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 03:48 PM

80. 1962. I was a milk route delivery person.

$1.25/hr. I was 16. I did that for two years, 5-8AM, five days a week, and 8 hours on Saturday. Good money for a high school kid at the time, and didn't interfere with school or afternoons.

SoCalDem (99,462 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 04:37 PM

93. 1962..working in my Aunt's dress shop...fifty cents an hour

and yes.. she took taxes/SS/FICA out..

[BattleHymn]

37. Summer of '62

1962:I was paid 65 cents an hour. Driving nails behind drywall hangers.

1963:The next summer I got 85 cents and hour, same job

1964:The next summer I went to work in a gas station making 50 bucks a week. 6 day 10 to 12 hour days.

1965:The next summer I still worked at the gas station making 70 bucks a week, same 10 to 12 hour days. Bought my first new car that summer, 67 Plymouth belvedere 2, 2 door hard top. Paid $2267.00 for it. Right off the show room floor.

DUmmies lie, DUmmies lie all the time.

[Firekrakka]

[BattleHymn]

Looking at that picture, I'd say it is more likely the bennyboy primitive had a bad case of the munchies and ate most of the grommets that came his way:

[Firekrakka]

The absolute shittiest job ever IMO

Actually, no. My youngest boy had a small and large bowel transplant. Talk about your shitty jobs.

Bennyboy has no clue if he thinks grommets are a shitty job. 

[GOBUCKS]

So  now the grommet job is the worst. A couple of weeks ago it was laying tile.

DUmmy Bennyboy's suicidal diabetic hunger strike just isn't having the expected effect.

Surely he should be dead by now.

I'm still keeping him on my Dead Pool, though.

I'm banking on the Squeamish Carcinoma.

[USA4ME]

Looking at the dates, way too many of these idiots are still going to be alive in 10 years. What a shame.

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[jukin]

For me it was 1969 and I made $4.00 an hour which would be $25.37 today.

I find that real hard to believe. I was deciding on what to become after my vision  got out of the range for a commercial pilot. I decided on becoming an aviation engineer and researched it. In 1973 the starting pay was on average a salaried $7000/yr. I'm confidant that the DUchebag was not in the category of skilled professional with a Bachelor of Science.

[Karin]

How on earth could Bennyboy possibly think that interminable post would be interesting to anybody? 

[NHSparky]

$1.50 an hour as a 13-year old busboy.  Few years later I was making the kingly sum of $695.10 a month as an E-3.  Suffice to say I've more than increased my station in life.

[DumbAss Tanker]

$1.50 an hour as a 13-year old busboy.  Few years later I was making the kingly sum of $695.10 a month as an E-3.  Suffice to say I've more than increased my station in life.

I made about $2 an hour doing various odd summer jobs and a whole summer of farm labor, around my senior year in high school.  I do remember, a few years later, that one year my W2 as an Army buck sergeant was for a whopping $7500, and the SOBs who came up with the statement that came with it about what my benefits, "Lodging," and "Food" were worth had apparently never served as an enlisted soldier in a combat arms battalion overseas during their entire misbegotten rat-bastard little lives.  It was around then I finally I decided that as much fun as being a tank NCO could be, it was time to move on to something that paid a whole lot better even though less fun to do, so I got out and went to law school.

[JohnnyReb]

From the age of 10 years old to getting married at 22, I did so many different things to earn money I can't list them all.

[67 Rover]

First summer job for me was in Cherryfield Maine "Blueberry capital of the world" picking Blueberry's at age 15.

I do not remember the pay (priceless) but I can still vividly remember the many topless Canadian Indian women working right along side of me. Also the trips to the swimming hole after working in the fields with them were even more epic.

That was an awesome summer! 

[ColonelCarrots]

First job? I helped an electrician. Made $20 a day, $100 if it was a big job.

[marv]

My first real job, in '62 after a tour in the USAF, was as an insurance casualty underwriter for the old Home Indemnity for $5400/yr. I was a school dropout and the only one in the training class w/o a degree. Just shows what the military, some ambition and showing up on time for the interview in a suit and tie can do for you.

After shifting gears to computers, I retired in '92 at 54 at $62k/yr.

[AprilRazz]

Semen collection specialist?
Peep show window washer?
Come on DUmmies I know those were some of your dream jobs.