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Sold ice cream and popsicles from a three wheeled bike cart in the summertime.

Worked as a stockboy in a Jewel Tea supermarket.

Delivered newspapers.

Sold produce door to door from a converted 1940 International Laundry Panel Truck - Bought the produce at the central market in Chgo at 3 AM.

Cut lawns.

During college: Worked at the Argo Corn Starch Plant using an air hose to blast the corn dust off the equipment and building. My friend worked in the same plant but in the Bosco Chocolate Syrup Dept.

Worked in a steel mill doing scrap inventory reports and comparisons to furnace usage and output. A large rail shipment of scrap during the Big snow of 1967 was later found to contain about $100K of snow instead of scrap steel - they paid for the scrap by weight.

Worked at Washington and Arlington Park Race Tracks in the food service dept doing payroll and cash register readings. They hired about 300 union workers on Friday and let them go on Saturday night and they were paid with cash at the end of the Saturday shift. They made about $10 to $30 for the two days depending on the type of work they did (most of their income came from tips).

Worked at a large (7 story) woman's department store in the Loop on State St in the cashier's dept locked in a small back room counting the 50 or so money bags from the cash registers sales from the previous day. (They used straight pins to fasten papers together instead of staples.)


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