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  • MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    First Job: Walking dogs.

    Last Job: Hopefully, walking dogs.

    Will this be the case for others? First the same as last?

    Miles
    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
  • numbersmannumbersman Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭✭
    Paper delivery boy for the Boca Raton News.I was 12 and don't know how much I was paid as all my paychecks went to my parents-I did get to keep all my x-mas tips though.
    Collector of numeral seals.That's the 1928 and 1928A series of FRNs with a number rather than a letter in the district seal. Owner/operator of Bottom Line Currency
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,405 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1) I don't understand the question in the context of US Coins, which is what this forum is.
    2) That is a great social engineering type of question to ask. Get the answer to that and then try some websites where you may know someone's email ID (facebook, hotmail, linkedin, etc), and see if this answers one of the questions to reset the password.

    I would not advise anyone to just post this type of information willy nilly.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    self employed 12 year-old grass cutter with a bicycle and a lawnmower on James Island, SC in 1965. During the summer and on weekends, push mowed four 3/4 acre yards a day for $3 a yard.

    The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong

  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    Peanuts! Popcorn! Seeds! Thats what I yelled at the crowd at Clovis Speedway working the stands. I graduated to Pepsi! Better money image
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,364 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My first job was trying to get a girl to pay for something.
  • OGDanOGDan Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Worked on a small farm moving irrigation pipes (similar to LindeDad) and packing peaches and apples in a shed. Made $4.25 an hour, minimum wage at the time which actually wasn't that long ago.

    Worst part about it, by the end of the day the peach fuzz had worked it's way under your collar or around your neck. Had to consciously not touch anything with your hands or you end up very itchy. That and getting up at 3 in the morning, and I'm not a morning person.
  • AmigoAmigo Posts: 966

    1967 selling donuts door to door for 5 cents each on the weekends

    1968 delivering newspapers. I cleared perhaps $6/week

    1969 got my big break when I was 12. Working as a carhop making .85 cents an hour. However, when winter came and business slowed down, we all got a pay cut. I made .75 cents for the next 6 mths. I still doubled my pay to around $15 /wk. That was important since my family didn't have the money to buy my school clothes or other expenses. I splurged on the finest tennis shoes made, $3 pair. Black with 3 white stripes. Between my shoes and leg muscles from car hopping, I was the fastest boy in town my age.
  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Deckhand on commercial fishing boats since middle school. Salmon, halibut and shrimp. Those were the fun days where you earned a percentage, not a wage. Now I earn a wage, hour after hour. Now I get benefits and retirement but its not as funimage
  • bosco5041bosco5041 Posts: 1,303
    Worked for a farmer that ran a produce stand on the highway, I did all the work and he took in all the money.imageI made $.50 an hour.
  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Assistant pantry boy in a Catskills hotel at $1.65

    LCoopie = Les
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,033 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dishwasher / line cook......35 years later, still in F&B, but now I own a place
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  • First job was working at a golf course when I was 16. Had to start at 4:00 a.m. to water the greens and fairways. Apparently the early birds who teed off before sunrise would get upset with a big sprinkler in the middle of the fairway. Had a 3-speed Cushman cart that was fast. After I was done watering, I would shovel sand in the sand traps while while my two co-workers who were in their 70's would watch. This was in 1979. Earned $2.35 per hour.
  • dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
    Wow, I didn't know the open forum was back?
  • Stock boy at Woolworth during High School summer break a long, long time ago.
    Ilikacoinsawholebuncha
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Normal kid job with a pay check = Package Technician (Bag Boy) for a grocery store at age 16.
    First job out of college = Stock Broker
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
    Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners. :smile:
  • icsoccericsoccer Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭
    Started as assistant press operator at local newspaper during senior year at high school. Sweet first job...no time clock...2 regular press guy's were great....and I worked with a college girl who needed rides home after getting off the late shift....a real looker..image
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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Paperboy for the Detroit News in the late 60's on my bike......... >>



    In the 70's I delivered the Detroit Free Press in the morning and the Detroit News after school. Some say I was the best that ever wasimage

    Also on my bike. Winters blew. I think that's why invented child labour laws were created. Brutal.

    My first paycheck job was on the line at Ford's for a summer.

    MJ
    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • nibannynibanny Posts: 2,761
    I was the "chaffeur" of a salesman for over one year. It changed my life. I learned how to drive, eat well, deal with people and more.
    Was making 800,000 Lire a month. (I was the richest and well dressed 20 years old in town!)
    The member formerly known as Ciccio / Posts: 1453 / Joined: Apr 2009
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 12,998 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Delivering Newsday by bike 1960-61.

    I know I've told this before but on Saturdays a friend with a route would show me what to look for in my collection money.
    He stuck with coins and is dealing to this day.

    I do still have 2-5c Liberty Nickels from those times.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,794 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Age 14 I had been "digging bottles" for two years and had a nice collection including several open pontil and three (dug) historic flasks. My Father at the time was making ships in bottles and doing the rounds at local antique shops etc. One place we visited also had extensive old bottles and the shop owner was blown away with my knowledge of these and hired me to work at the shop on weekends.
  • Age 14, 1975, Cropping tobacco for $15 a day. 6am start, work until the barn was full, however long that took (usually around 2-3pm). At the end of the season, I would work at the tobacco warehouses where it was auctioned off to the tobacco companies, sorting and stacking it into different areas for loading onto the trucks. I can't remember how much that paid, but I was happy to get it. Did that for 3 seasons during the summer. Long, hot summers.
  • okracerokracer Posts: 436

    When I was 15, I went to our local drug store to ask for a job there. The manager said they can't hire under 16 years old, so when I became 16 come give him a call.

    The day after my 16th birthday, I went in and told him I was old enough to work there.

    I got the job and worked after school for about 2 years there!


    ......I collect old stuff......
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,416 ✭✭✭✭✭
    all the stuff associated with the tobacco fields. im certainly glad them days are done
  • KoveKove Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭✭
    My first paycheck job was stock boy and weekend cashier at a shoe store. Minimum wage was $3.35/hr. I still remember on one of my first cashier transactions where a guy paid with a nice crisp uncirculated 1934 series $100 bill, which I bought out of the till and still have. I still found a decent amount of silver change go through the till in 1990.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,491 ✭✭✭✭
    I worked as a StockClerk at $2.22 per hour for a SemiConductor Company in Mtn View California. It was GREAT!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I learned how to tie trout and salmon flies from my father. When I was 14, I began selling to sporting goods stores in the Seattle area. I had a City of Seattle business license when I was 14, and my largest customer was Eddie Bauer, who started as an expedition outfitter. Used some of the money for some Morgan dollars, but used most for college.
    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • OnTheHuntOnTheHunt Posts: 200 ✭✭✭
    My first real job was setting pins at a bowling alley. I think I got 10 cents a line.

    Steve
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    Lifeguarding when I was about 15... $7.15/hr I think. But I've been selling coins since about 11 or 12, and I quickly realized it was far more fun and far more lucrative than workin' for the man.
  • StoneyPointStoneyPoint Posts: 48 ✭✭
    Page at Detroit Public LIbrary 1.10$ an hour.
    ANA 1106971 MSNS NBS
  • IrishMikeyIrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭
    I also had a first job delivering papers. Collecting every month gave me a LOT of
    coins to look through, which fueled my interest in collecting. I remember finding a
    decent (F-VF) 1923-S Lincoln cent in change once, as well as several other semi-key
    date cents. Nothing like a 1909-S VDB, 1914-D, or 1931-S, though.

    I found out later that many of my customers were older and retired, and at times
    they needed to raid their coin jars to pay me, which is why I kept finding better coins.
    When I got dimes and quarters I would see Barber coins routinely, with an occasional
    Seated piece (usually very well worn). Same with Liberty nickels and dateless Buffalo
    nickels.

    Unfortunately, the monetary demands of the time kept me from keeping the majority
    of the coins I encountered. When I think of all the Mercury dimes I spent at face value,
    I just sigh. However, I enjoyed all the movies I went to that only cost a dime for
    admission, as well as Cokes, candy, bowling, buying baseball cards for my bike, etc.
  • georgiacop50georgiacop50 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭✭
    Worked for $1.40 /hr at Brookfield Zoo.

    They used to have a miniature steam train carry passengers around the perimeter of the zoo. It had to pass thru a gated enclosure filled with free roaming bison and pronghorns.

    So I would sit on my ass reading and blowing doobs. Every 20-30 minutes I would have to get up and open the gates so the train could go thru.

    edit: Muhammed Ali was on the train one day!
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,270 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My first job was a day making burgers at Burger King. My second job was grading at PCGS. I was overqualified, of course.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I worked in a pool and patio store, putting together bbqs, unboxing outdoor furniture and pool toys, testing water, and selling chemicals, pool sweeps, and other pool equipment and toys
    It was 1984 made $3.50 an hour

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    I scooped ice-cream for $2.00/hour in the local mall.
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • NicNic Posts: 3,380 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My first and hardest jobs physically were when I didn't get a check. Cutting grass summer/ shovelling snow winter, delivering 320 unwrapped newspapers by foot , then roofing at age 12 (non-union) image

    My 11yo has no clue. Unfortunately IMHO it will be his loss.

    To keep this coin related... for coin crank and his repetitive older shooting buddies ...





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    K
  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    lemonade stand....

    I still remember the first dollar I have earned
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thats is one helluva MS dime Mr Nic!image
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 13,991 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Working the grill Jack in the Box, age 16.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    I was 8. I worked at my dad's gas station pumping gas. I made a quarter an hour.image
    Becky
  • I worked at a local theme park back in the late 70's. Me and my co-worker would find all sorts of change at the end of the day in the seats of the rides.
  • PoppeePoppee Posts: 154 ✭✭
    12 years old, worked as a "gas station attendant" at a Pure Oil service station.
  • TONEDDOLLARSTONEDDOLLARS Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭✭
    Paper route 1960-1965 learned a lot about money and time management. Had to deliver morning and afternoon papers six days and then deliver Sunday papers before mass. Then you had to collect your route and pay your bill and the rest was yours. Looking back on it now, a great education.
  • it was 1966-67 , delivering parts for NAPA .(national auto parts association)
    company still exists . about $3.xx per hour . it's where I learned to drive a standard ,
    with a flat-nosed econoline . also , all the free stickers and decals for STP , champion
    plugs , marvel mystery oil , perfect circle piston rings , and others .My dad did not appreciate
    the stickers on the bumper and windows of his 1959 Super 88 Olds .
    Home of quality widgets
  • TAMU15TAMU15 Posts: 577 ✭✭
    I had my own lawn mowing business from age 9-18 and worked in a coin shop under the table from 15-18 and now in a few weeks I will start my first ever paycheck earning job as an intern with Heritage image

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  • yellowkidyellowkid Posts: 5,486
    I was 17 when I went to work for the government, I got to carry a rifle and blow things up.image
  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    I was working at a grain mill in 1978, bagging feed all day long and running them thru the sewing machine. To this day i will not buy crimped oats to feed my animals. My eyes were red and swollen for months on end. I probably made 160 bucks a week, after 1 1/2 years i moved up to a fan blade shop. Ceiling fans were the hot ticket in the early 1980's. I made it thru that job without losing a finger or thumb, a lot of others were not that lucky. I hated the machine that sanded the edges of the blades, it would some time grab the blade and bring your knuckles into the grinding wheels or send the blade flying. LOL Hauling hay was like a vacation to me. Best job i had when young was working at the nuclear plant. 70 plus hours a week at 19 bucks an hour for the first 40 and time and half over that. I thought i was rich at the time.
    Mark
    NGC registry V-Nickel proof #6!!!!
    working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!

    RIP "BEAR"
  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,692 ✭✭✭✭✭
    working in a fast food place

    COINS FOR SALE, IN LINK BELOW
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  • michiganboymichiganboy Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭
    Dish washer $10.00 an hour, I was 14, I'm 31 now still in the restaurant business but I manage a store and 3 when the owner goes out of town.
    Positive BST transactions:michaeldixon,nibanny,
    type2,CCHunter.
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Worked at a retro 30's/50's atmosphere Ice Cream Parlor in the early 70's ("Sodajerk")
    plus we had a couple of showcases with 30's era stuff for sale, This was in Santa Barbara
    and had a lot of Antique Shops all over town, I found a antique shop that had 20 rolls of
    Walkers @ 11/roll, told the boss and he gave me $220 to buy em, and sold them the next
    day for $600 or 3X face in the showcases, we split itimage

    I also had a paper route but that was when I was 30, delivered the Los Angeles Herald Examinor
    till the day they shut the doors in 1989, throughout the San Fernando Valley from Van Nuys to Reseda
    to all the newsracks and 7/11's and a few markets and Jack in the Boxes, since theres so many others
    that had Paper routes

    Steve
    Promote the Hobby

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