Previous Next
What’s the best summer job you’ve ever had?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on June 3, 2011
“It doesn’t exist anymore, but Red’s Conoco at Ninth and New Hampshire. I worked there in high school. It was the best job I ever had.”
“I’d say nannying.”
“Lifeguard. You just sit and watch people swim.”
“Nannying. Little kids are fun.”
Related story
Marketplace
Arts & Entertainment · Bars · Theatres · Restaurants · Coffeehouses · Libraries · Antiques · Services
- Mass Street Mile -- 06/30/13 at Downtown Lawrence 1 comment
- “Finding The Political Will To Reverse Climate Change” -- 04/25/13 at Woodruff Auditorium 18 comments
- A LifeStar helicopter leaves the scene of a multiple-injury accident as emergency response personnel June 15, 2013 · 2 comments
- Summer music camp 1 comment
- "Why I Left the Republican Party" -- 03/16/13 at Lawrence Arts Center 46 comments
- Loads of Hound Dogs w/ Darrell Lea -- 06/15/13 at Jackpot Music Hall 2 comments
- Pallbearers carry Kansas’ casket from Plymouth Congregational Church to South Park on Saturday. June 8, 2013 · 5 comments
- From left, Chaeyoung Park, piano; Emily Shehi, violin; Dana Rath, cello, make up Trio Aër, a Lawrenc June 16, 2013 · 1 comment
- 2013 Rock Chalk Roundball Classic 1 comment
- Lawrence High graduation 5 comments
- Freshman Frankamp brings hot shot to KU June 18, 2013
- New TV deal expands KU athletics coverage, access June 18, 2013
- Newton company to benefit from state budget proviso after 'Read to Succeed' initiative not approved June 17, 2013
- Report says schools underfunded $657 million in FY 2015 June 17, 2013
- Residents irate over quarry blasting June 18, 2013
- Editorial: Arts decline June 18, 2013
- Clinton Lake resort discussions resurface September 6, 2012
- Diabetics, weight watchers can make jam at home July 20, 2005
- Opinion: Latin America courts U.S. startups June 18, 2013
- Regents to consider bonds for new engineering building June 18, 2013
Comments
RoeDapple 2 years ago
Worked at the Apco station on 6th street years ago when you were expected to clean windows, check oil, clean windows, check tire pressure, clean windows, . . clean windows. Did I mention cleaning windows? There's a reason for that. Some things you see through the windshield are best seen from the outside . . .
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years ago
Bean walker and corn castrator.
salem58 2 years ago
Hallmark Cards Inc. during my highschool summers, it opened my eyes to a world that I didnt want to be in for the rest of my life.
RoeDapple 2 years ago
Hey! I did work on a hay crew in '63 & '64! $.02/bale, start at sun up and work some times til 10PM. Sometimes made over $40/day! Hey, whaddayathinkboutdat?
charliejohnson 2 years ago
Ha! do you even have anything to talk about.
RoeDapple 2 years ago
I applied for night shift mattress tester but they said I seemed to have trouble maintaining my focus. I said 'that ain't no focus it's a escort'
beatrice 2 years ago
So you were with an "escort" testing out mattresses?
I'm pretty sure that is illegal in the state of Kansas.
RoeDapple 2 years ago
I really like the 'twist' you put to my posts bea! (Not like I don't set myself up for it . . )
;-)
beatrice 2 years ago
I appreciate that you are someone who can take a joke better than most.
LadyJ 2 years ago
Didn't have a "summer job" since it was all year long. Started working when I was 13. Labor laws weren't enforced much back then. My mom worked for the same place and made sure I worked lots of hours. Didn't do much for my grades though. One of the reasons I had a rule that my kids only worked on weekends.
LadyJ 2 years ago
My daughter and I worked together cleaning stalls to help pay for her horse's board in the evenings, that I enjoyed much more than my day job.
trinity 2 years ago
ugh, detassling corn was the WORST...being a scorekeeper for my lil' town's adult softball leagues ROCKED, at the ball diamonds every night!! made pretty decent $$ for a high school kid! 3, 4 summers of that.
BruceWayne 2 years ago
Wet Willy's waterslide on Ferguson Road. Working the bottom pool, many tops came off those two summers.
RoeDapple 2 years ago
Well my top never came off but I hit Wet Willy's many times with the kids. Still getting plenty of sun?
grammaddy 2 years ago
Worked in the Washburn U. law library. Minimum wage was $1.65. I worked all summer long and saved up for a $200 ten-speed to ride back to school.
riverdrifter 2 years ago
Worked the wheat harvest from Turkey, Texas to Edmonton, Alberta. Best thing I ever did!
ToteAlongShaker 2 years ago
Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico.
CWGOKU 2 years ago
Worst Summer job, Ed Asner's lotion boy
scopi_guy 2 years ago
Worst was definately hauling hay. That was in addition to the regular farm chores. One summer my brother and I were shoveling some sort of grain or feed from the truck bed into the barn. There must have been something in it because later that afternoon, our whole chest and stomachs and arms were covered in bites that itched like heck and made me sick to my stomach. Will never forget that.
Best was working at KU dispatching the facilities trucks. That was pretty fun and the people in the office were nice, but a bit wacky. So, it was a good fit.
K_Verses_The_World 2 years ago
I had a job in the great north woods Working as a cook for a spell But I never did like it all that much And one day the ax just fell
wissmo 2 years ago
K, I bet you really were blue.
geekin_topekan 2 years ago
Hay fields in Nebraska. .10/bale and all the bean/leftovers tacos and Coca-Cola I could want. My Spanish has never been as good as that year and I was built like a steel wedge.
Colorado RenFaire. Worked for an artisan for many summers. Half naked hippy chicks by day--Fully naked hippy chicks by night (your experience may vary if you go). But the Ren Faire was only part of his season. The really fun part was when we'd hit the road and the mountain towns' street festivals. Boulder, Durango, Flagstaff and all over southern California. Hippy chicks love Native American-artists' assistants.
CWGOKU 2 years ago
More invasion of bug eyes
RugerLCP 2 years ago
Fireworks stand
Kontum1972 2 years ago
Mary Whittaker u look like a test-pilot...lol....
Kontum1972 2 years ago
cluster-bomb assembler KAAP...Parsons, Ks...
LadyJ 2 years ago
Knew a guy that left to drive a nitroglycerin truck. Insisted it was safe, yeah, he didn't make it back.
charliejohnson 2 years ago
Does anyone remember when being a nanny was "babysitting".
LadyJ 2 years ago
LOL, had the same thought the other day. But calling yourself a babysitter does not make you feel good about yourself. And we all know that with kids now days it's all about feeling good about yourself, you are special and everyone else, not so much.
Commenting has been disabled for this item.