cachsux
Wah
Every year at the Xmas open house they would give kids rides on locomotives on the test track.
Every year at the Xmas open house they would give kids rides on locomotives on the test track.
I worked for my dad Fred S but I didnt like purple!!!lol
LongTimeComing
Air Ops Pro
No, I didn't actually. Just wanted to see how quickly people would call me out with that. I tried to just slip it in real quick and see if they noticed. I conclude that either 1. That is normal to everyone, or 2. They don't know how to address it.
But I agree, twas a good film.
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serenity now
Guest
No, I didn't actually. Just wanted to see how quickly people would call me out with that. I tried to just slip it in real quick and see if they noticed. I conclude that either 1. That is normal to everyone, or 2. They don't know how to address it.
But I agree, twas a good film.
I wanted to be a porn star, but my resume wasn't long enough.
My first job during high school was running a bridgeport machine in a tool factory. During college, I managed the school's hockey team (UMaine). Back home again, I worked for Gander Mountain and Target while on the local sort at UPS. Then I got a full time job in shipping and rec at a local hospital while doing local sort at night. Finally I went full time driving, oh and I was air driving during the whole time I was on the local sort also.
BSWALKS
Fugitive From Reality
I hear their always looking for catchersI wanted to be a porn star, but my resume wasn't long enough.
pretender
Well-Known Member
Baling hay and weeding beans--I am guessing one was the hardest and one was the most boring job you had, for the least amount of money. I believe you are a few years older than me, so you probaly didn't make over $1.00 per hour?
BSWALKS
Fugitive From Reality
i forgot about baling hay! How could I forget that!? Maybe because i tried to bury it down deep & forget it?
My grandparents had a small 120 acre farm. I enjoyed working the farm stand on school vacations, but haying was the worst! Back then it was all manual labor. I was a "buncher". Gathering the bales together so another crew could come along & throw them on the trailer.
raceanoncr
Well-Known Member
Yeah, that probably had to be about '62. I woulda been 13, I think...let's see..born in '47...
$? Don't remember that. It was all money to me. One harder, one more boring? The baling hay kicked my arse. I was all of 110 lbs with severe asthma (severe enought I thot it would keep me outta the army. It didn't. Got drafted in '67). Had to pick up those, sometimes 120 lb, bales off the ground and hurl them onto a rack like pictured while someone else stacked. Then into the barn where we had to unload and stack INSIDE with no air moving!
Weeding beans? Well, easier but all day bent over.
I would never do that again but, at the same time, I'm glad I DID do it. I think it made me a better laborer and appreciated the good jobs (are there such?) when they came along.
Not to be preachy but I can't see ANY of todays youth doing what we did back then...for ANY wage. YEah, I know there are some but as a whole, it ain't gonna happen.
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
haaaah haaah good one. I tried to just slip it in real quick
But I agree, twas a good film.
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
I started working summers and school vacations at my Grampahs trucking company,was also working for my father fixing the old mechanical cash registers ! pat time at UPS at 23, hired as driver at 24! UPS is the only job I had outside of the family...My dream of taking Yastrzremskis place in left field died long ago !!!!! Cardboard was my calling !!!
pretender
Well-Known Member
I was about the same age when I started in '68 for $1.25 an hour. I am glad I did it too--It was good preparation for working at UPS.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
That's about the way I remember it too.
I was a newspaper delivery person, grocery bagger, and a butcher before going off to college.
I also cut yards on the side as well as working in the fields - picking cotton, cutting sugar cane and working in tobacco.
Good motivation so that when I started at UPS, giving up never entered my mind.
And like you, I did it all for the money. There was no other motivation.
It is somewhat different after retirement but I still try to get involved in things that pay money and they have to be photography related.
I do pro bono work for "causes" but again, photography related.
S
serenity now
Guest
i wouldn't think of bumping you from that position
BSWALKS
Fugitive From Reality
Wow. A month old post & that's your best?
S
serenity now
Guest
didn't see it till just now; had to shoot from the hip
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