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Re: Deception

Postby Spence » Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:24 am

It just isn't something you forget. No even at 80. :wink:
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Re: Deception

Postby WoVeU » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:31 pm

Howdy wrote:My first job was with the city parks dept.
Mowing grass during the summer months.
I was 14 at the time and the pay was $.50 an hour.
My first job on the Railroad was $.66 an hours 7 days a week.
I was 16 then.


Was that during the Lincoln or Johnson Administration?
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Re: Deception

Postby donovan » Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:04 am

I worked for my Dad. 10.00 buck a week....he took out taxes..$7.52 per week. Half had to go into a savings account....he took care of stuff...but good memories. I college my job at the school Dairy was 65 cents an hour. All worked out.
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Re: Deception

Postby Spence » Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:18 am

My first job was on a dairy farm. I started at $1.75 and hour and worked my way up to mimimum wage - $2.90. I hated that job at the time, but it taught be to work. It also taught me that cows do not take days off for anything. :lol: :lol: You have to milk twice a day, every day - and that is the easy part.
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Re: Deception

Postby WoVeU » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:02 am

Spence wrote:My first job was on a dairy farm. I started at $1.75 and hour and worked my way up to mimimum wage - $2.90. I hated that job at the time, but it taught be to work. It also taught me that cows do not take days off for anything. :lol: :lol: You have to milk twice a day, every day - and that is the easy part.


Haaa! "Worked your way up to minimum" wage did you?

Did you learn your way around a shovel?
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Re: Deception

Postby Spence » Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:49 pm

I learned my way around just about everything on that farm. I actually learned to drive in an old pickup on that farm, among other things. I also learned that the work day started at 4:30AM and was finished when I was done. :lol:
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Re: Deception

Postby WoVeU » Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:49 pm

Finishing when your done is the best of jobs...and the worst of jobs! Likely not the best for you in that situation. I like it when somebody gives me "a days work" as that is what it took on average for the people who came beofre me. (Knowing people I figure they squeeze in some more work here.) Within a week people want to renegotiate with me what a days work means! I've went through this everywhere I've been.
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Re: Deception

Postby Spence » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:06 pm

Yeah, on the farm your list grew every time you completed a task. In the late spring (after school was out) we could hit 18 hours for some stretches. My dad said that would keep me out of trouble. He was wrong. :oops:
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Re: Deception

Postby WoVeU » Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:44 pm

Spence wrote:Yeah, on the farm your list grew every time you completed a task. In the late spring (after school was out) we could hit 18 hours for some stretches. My dad said that would keep me out of trouble. He was wrong. :oops:


Haaaa!!! Image That cracked me up! ImageLOL!Image

Imagine if you had not worked!
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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