[Singerlady]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).

2) Your first "real full-time" job.


Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr

1st Job: $1.60/hr
2nd Job: $10,718/yr

[GoRedSox!]

My brothers and I had a grass cutting business when we were teens which was actually decent income. We had 9 lawns, my mother drove us to homes not within walking distance, God Bless her. My first real job was restocking the huge shopping bag vending machines in Read's Department store. 25 cents for a huge shopping bag. Lots of people bought them. $2.31 per hour, 1977-78, then it went up to $2.66 per hour.

My first real full-time job out of college was staff accountant for a Big 8 public accounting firm. Now it's the Big 4 due to mergers. 1983, $19,200 per year.

[Justputt]

$1.25/hr working at the Fox Foods cannery in Queen Anne, MD as a summer job during HS and college. Worked 12-13 hours a day/7 days a week so made tons of money on OT! After the first year I became a supervisor of about 1/4 of the personnel, bumped to around $2/hr and was rolling in money, lol!

[bobw123]

I'm a retired Chiropractor, but have a side hustle to simply return phone calls and give out the presentation website that does all the heavy lifting.
Generated 40k in the last 18 weeks. Listen to the 5 min overview at 518-444-0047 and leave me a message if interested.

Originally Posted by Jim1mack

Age 11: walking horses between checkers at the polo field. $20
Age 16: mowing lawn a funeral home $3.00/hr. Once a week
Age 16-17: making pizzas and washing dishes. $1.65/hr
Age 18: usher at Milwaukee Braves stadium
Age 18: loading UPS trucks during Christmas rush $3.59/hr pt time
Age 20: meat packing plant after taking off a year from school to earn future tuition. 3.50/hr plus Saturdays at time and a half
Age 23: freight forwarding company full time. Don’t recall wage
Age 34: corporate office for a freight forwarding company. Made 44k/ after 10 years there then downsized.
Age 50: teacher$34,267 first year. Don’t recall what I was paid after 11 years when I retired at age 60 but it wasn’t much more

Point is I did what I could do to make any money as you can see.

[Lancer]

First job $1.75/hr 1969
First real job Teacher $8,300/yr 1973

[psjordan]

You all had it easy. We had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox in the middle of the night, and lick road clean with tongues! We had to eat half a handful of freezing-cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at that mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home... our dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

[LarryFitz]

1964-1968 Mowing lawns for neighbors/relatives @ $3-5/job
1968 Bag boy at grocery store in MI @ $1.62/hr
1973 Cashier at same store @ $3.65/hr
1974-1977 Cashier at liquor store in Detroit @ $2.50/hr (cash, no deductions!)
1974-1979 Graduate teaching assistant at Wayne State Univ @ $4,300 avg/yr
1979-1982 Postdoc, Univ FL @ $12,000-$15,000/yr
1982-1988 Research scientist in CA @ $22,000-$45,000/yr
1988-1990 Biotech researcher @ $52,000-$55,000/yr
1990-1995 Research appointment, Univ Utah @ $65,000-$72,000/yr
1996 Bus driver, Salt Lake City, UT @ $9.50/hr
1996-2011 Research administrator, Univ CA @ $42,000-$91,000/yr
2012 -present Retired w/ pensions, SS @ $6,500/mo = $78,000/yr (2023)

Total periods of unemployed from 1968 to retirement in 2011 was about 6 months or 1% of my adult life from ages 17-60 yo.

[Joe Mack]

First part time job was as an usher in a movie theater, 63 cents an hour. I also delivered papers to supplement it, I was about 16, this was 1962-63

First full time job after the military was as a chemical operator in a refinery, 3.63 an hour. I was 21 at the time

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by bobw123

I'm a retired Chiropractor, but have a side hustle to simply return phone calls and give out the presentation website that does all the heavy lifting.
Generated 40k in the last 18 weeks. Listen to the 5 min overview at 518-444-0047 and leave me a message if interested.

Wow that is amazing. Maybe you can help me, I have a bridge that we recently purchased in great condition but need to sell it. Think you could handle that for a commission?

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by psjordan

You all had it easy. We had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox in the middle of the night, and lick road clean with tongues! We had to eat half a handful of freezing-cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at that mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home... our dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

You had a shoebox?
You don't know what hard is!
There were 24 of us................................................ .

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).

2) Your first "real full-time" job.


Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr

Freshman in high school 1966. .60 cent hour working in grocery store and was glad to get it.
Graduated to farm hand junior year at 1.15 hour minimum at time thought I was in clams…

[nn0wheremann]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).

2) Your first "real full-time" job.


Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr

First part time job $1.60/hr. First out of college $135/week, back in the Dark Ages. To get to that $1.60 per hour job I bought a used VW for $50 and had it painted at Earl Scheib’s for $29.95.

[Direwolf]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).

2) Your first "real full-time" job.


Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr

My first job was as a paperboy when I was 12. Not sure how much that paid an hour...when I turned 16 I worked at McDonald's for $3.35 an hour. My first full time job was $8 an hour making windows.

[Ecuadog]

1) $60.00 (+ room & board) for the whole summer as a dishwasher in a summer camp, 1961
2) ~$87.90 a month as an E-1 in the US Army, 1966

[JMintzer]

When I was 12 (1969), I had my own lawn mowing business. I mowed 5-6 lawns;/week, charging $4-$6/lawn...

Always had money for my model rockets and cars...

My first paying part time job was about 1974, working in a deli, behind the counter. Pretty sure I started at about $3.50/hr... I worked there (and at another deli) all thru college, ending up close to $5.00/hr...

In med school (1980), I worked part time, evenings in a transfusion lab. Typing and crossmatching blood. I made $8.00/hr, but on weekends, when I did the overnights (once, maybe twice a month,15 hrs straight), I would get evening shift pay for the first 8 hrs, plus time and a half for the last 7 hrs...

It paid for my beer money and date nights... And about half my rent...

My residency paid $9,500/yr, with a raise to $9750 for the 2nd 6 months...

My first year in private practice (1986), I netted $25K... 2nd year, $50K...