“I did a lot of cooking, for my siblings and bake sales.”
“My sister and I sold ears of corn from our grandpa’s farm.”
“We washed cars and sold lemonade.”
“We shoveled snow for money.”
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RoeDapple 1 year, 1 month ago
Maybe . . .
milkman_dan 1 year, 1 month ago
Did I! Thank God I did; Fr. Peter says I going to heaven when I die.
vertigo 1 year, 1 month ago
Nope. Just normal ones.
Pitt_Mackeson 1 year, 1 month ago
I did a lot of things I'm not proud of.
JackMcKee 1 year, 1 month ago
No kidding. I grew up in a Kansas farm family. My Grandfather paid me $1 per hour.
JackMcKee 1 year, 1 month ago
as soon as I hit 16 guess what I did. Hint the the min wage at that time was $3.65 per hour. It was an early lesson in economics. Although I still worked with gramps on weekends just for the heck of it and I'm glad I did. He was a great man. Looking back I'd have worked fir him for free.
jonas_opines 1 year, 1 month ago
No, but I did make my bowler hat into a weapon.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 1 month ago
This one night, I must have been 12, I got really stinking polluted.
I awoke on hottest day of the year, and of course was as sick as a dog, my father dropped me off at a landscape company where he had somehow arranged for me to unload half whiskey barrels from a 40' box trailer. The trailer was painted black.
Have never drank whiskey/bourbon since.
RoeDapple 1 year, 1 month ago
Got paid $.03/ea. for retrieving golf balls from a water hazard one summer. Made a cool $23.58 the first week. Not much after that. Still hate golf
jimjones 1 year, 1 month ago
We used to swim in one late at night. Years later, we realized there is no greater concentration of fertilizers, weedkillers, and pesticides than on a golf course water hazard.
grammaddy 1 year, 1 month ago
Didn't we all? Each one more odd than the next.
RoeDapple 1 year, 1 month ago
yup
CWGOKU 1 year, 1 month ago
I loved Odd Job in the James Bond movies
booyalab 1 year, 1 month ago
When I was 7, I sat on the corner of my block and tried to sell seashells that I had brought back to Minnesota from a Florida vacation. Then a policewoman came by and yelled at me to stop. It's all right though, she was just doing her job....
he_who_knows_all 1 year, 1 month ago
The neighbor lady always said she had some type of job for me if I came inside.
CWGOKU 1 year, 1 month ago
I was Ed Asner's lotion boy at the swimming pool
Frankie8 1 year, 1 month ago
I am going to take this seriously. What was Ed like? Did he tip you? Was it a resort swimming pool?
jonas_opines 1 year, 1 month ago
"I was a bouncer at Taste."
Gunshot wounds not festering, I hope.
LadyJ 1 year, 1 month ago
Didn't have to do odd jobs, started working full time during the summer at the Student Union at 13. Some weeks it was more like 60 hours a week. They told me tell everyone I was 14.
milkman_dan 1 year, 1 month ago
I remember you! Thanks for the hand towels and BTW, that gum tasted like rubber.
RoeDapple 1 year, 1 month ago
"I beat up people for money." BABBOY
I'd be disappointed if you hadn't . . .
kansasplains1 1 year, 1 month ago
I delivered The Hutchinson News, which was the best paper I had seen at the time. Eventually it led to my learning the Linotype at school and writing for the Hutchinson, Kansas, high school paper. The Hutchinson News is still a good paper today.
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