OT: We all started somewhere- Your first job
My 14 year-old son begins his first "formal" job today. He will be working in a diner kitchen at a summer campground doing various chores and whatever gruntwork the new guy has to do. He's always been a good worker- I'm proud of him, and grateful he has this opportunity.
This got me thinking of my first "real" job. Working at a local vegetable farm. It was April - September, 7 AM - 5 PM (during the summer months- during school, 3:30 - 6 PM), and all manual labor. I was 12. It was hard work- but there was still plenty of time for dirtball fights, smoking cigarettes, listening to the radio, hot-rodding on the farm equiptment, teasing (and learning about) the girls that worked with you, and other various forms of mischief. I learned a lot and would not trade that experience for anything!
So just wondering, MGo community- what was your first job?
Go Blue!
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Wow on Sizzler commercial. Just wow. That is an incredible time capsule looking back 25 years.
woman at 2:17 is special. She seems hungry.
After watching that, is anyone else willing to die for Sizzler?
Over 2 million YouTube views???!!!
but then I caught the black dad with daughter on the Merry-Go-Round at 1:30. I had no idea they were so progressive. Or that Merry-Go-Rounds make you want to eat steak. You surprised me, Sizzler.
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I started at Mickey D's too. I was 16 though and fired before I turned 18. SMH.
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And to think at the time you had no idea how the lemon showers would prepare you for your enjoyment of your favorite blog later in life.
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if it wasn't going to be 100% extinct in the next few years, I would totally do it again when I become a retiree
Stores typically either have their cashiers bag groceries or they have the self-checkouts. Very few stores have dedicated baggers anymore
Wait so those jobs are supposed to be starting jobs? Huh, Ive been told they deserve $15/hr to fuck up my burger.
I was an illegal (underage,13 years old) dishboy that worked 10 hour days on Saturday and Sunday and only made $5 / hour 20 years ago. You know, when we weren't expecting hand outs. ;)
Then reduce the cost of everything else and it will be. They're trying to fix it on the wrong end.
You do realize if they pump the minimum wage up that much all the bills you pay and all the things you buy will raise in price as well? On top of that, the small businesses that employ workers will cut jobs to make up for the increase in overhead of payroll which will either cause mass layoffs and the remaining workers will have to increase their productivity by an exorbitant amount to make up for the workforce loss in said business or quite simply the small businesses will fold. As for large corporations, it will just be much cheaper to install automated workers (cashiers, line workers) than it will be to pay employees that price (in the long run) which also will result in a large layoff as well. UMxWolverines points out that they are fixing it on the wrong end, to which I agree. I wasn't saying they shouldn't raise the minimum wage, but to raise it to $15 a hour is not the fix.
Edit: Words and stuff.
I can envision the butcher being a master of profanity- but not so much a Don Juan.
But maybe a Fred Garvin...
Thinning apple trees for minimum wage with a couple guys that didn't speak English who acted like they were the most fortunate people on the planet. Yeah, learned a lot about hard work that summer.
My first informal job was mowing lawns at 13 or 14 - just up and down the street where I live, and as the lots were anything from 1 to 2 acres in size, the best part of the may have been driving a tractor up and down the street, much to the chagrin of drivers who would get stuck behind me. My first formal - as in, filled out the paperwork - job was somewhat related; I worked at a landscaping place (well, a couple over a few summers as I am not a good landscaper).
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Tomra machines are basically cockroach hotels located inside grocery stores with an unending buffet of half dried pop syrup.
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I had a similar experience reffing soccer. Parents at the games of young kids are the worst.
didn't have a "real" job until after college. spent 6 months working for AmeriCorps in Detroit as an middle school/high school tutor.
but i did earn pretty decent money in high school doing jazz gigs at places around town. made $25-50 bucks a pop, probably played at 2 shows every other week for 2 years. decent side money for a highschooler.
Spoiler alert - his dad dies.
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