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Old Jun 5, 2007 | 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by mad-sciontist
Walmart started me out at 6.75 an hour, i left a year later for Disney... Then Universal, currently still at Universal but I work in the magic shop inside Universal..
Wow, my friend Evan works down at Universal Orlando. Not sure if he's still there, but I know he was working last Halloween.
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 04:24 PM
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@14
sorting plastics outta a garbage dump - $2 an hour
fry cook at Checkers-$3?/minimum wage, whatever that was in '93-94
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 04:26 PM
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El Pollo Loco. $6.75 an hour. Don't get anything with shredded meat!!!
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 04:27 PM
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I worked at a Doughnut Shop.....I was incharge of punching out the holes in doughnuts....I could do several at one time..............
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 04:43 PM
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LOL^^^^^^^^^^
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 04:45 PM
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First real job was a bagboy at grocery store, then worked for staples for a month, then Mechanical Engineer at Land Rover :D got lucky on that
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 04:52 PM
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at albertsons.... minimum wage.... i quit cuz the pay wasnt enough for having to clean the dairy bow... EWWWWWW

now i start at in-n-out (for cali only cuz its family owned) for 9.50 and hour
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 04:56 PM
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My first job..cutting grass around the neighborhood..
Then at 15, I worked at a carwash...I would bring home around 100-150 bucks in tips on weekends plus my normal minimum wage

Then I played from job to job...McDonalds, Scholtzskys, James Coney Island
Igloo...yes the Ice Chests....I was an electrician for 5 years and now..I rest behind a desk for DHL
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 05:01 PM
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You forgot one thing...you make bacon.
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 05:11 PM
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I worked at Jack n the Box. I got a job there because my friend worked there. I was fired after about a month. They said I did not smile enough when at the register. wuteva!
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by tC4italy
You forgot one thing...you make bacon.
I make Bacon like a man..NO SHIRT.....I dont consider that a job C....more of a Hobby
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 05:24 PM
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at 14 I made $1000 plus room and board working on a chicken farm for the summer in Arkansas. But not everyone is willing to travel.
I didn't eat Chicken for a few years but to have a grand at 14 was awesome.
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 05:28 PM
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Guidos Pizza - 6.75 to start.. + Free food. HAd nothing but good times there!
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 05:39 PM
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Started out as a bagger at Food Lion when I was 16...stayed there until I graduated college. By that time I was quite abit higher on the totam pole. I hated that place though. All I can say though is, thank God for that college degree.
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Frosty355
at 14 I made $1000 plus room and board working on a chicken farm for the summer in Arkansas. But not everyone is willing to travel.
I didn't eat Chicken for a few years but to have a grand at 14 was awesome.
Was it like the chicken farm scene on Napoleon Dynamite?
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 06:09 PM
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^LOL... that was so gross when they were drinking the eggs raw.
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 06:14 PM
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My first job was with L.A county in the parks and Rec. got paid 10 bucks an hour. Bomb job, did nothing but watch people play basketball all day
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by krustytheclown
Originally Posted by Frosty355
at 14 I made $1000 plus room and board working on a chicken farm for the summer in Arkansas. But not everyone is willing to travel.
I didn't eat Chicken for a few years but to have a grand at 14 was awesome.
Was it like the chicken farm scene on Napoleon Dynamite?
Na. We had them from when they hatched to just before they were to lay eggs or to be cooked. So from baby to pre-teen chickens... (that sounds odd)
I took care of 3 chicken houses that were the size of football fields each. The sucky part is when I had to weld something in the houses. It was almost 100 degrees and the chickens would peck you while you were working. But work was only a few house a day at most. The rest of the time we were shooting pop bottles rockets at each other or running stuff over with the tractor.
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 07:47 PM
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First job was at the mall, in the arcades. I was in charge of the mini-golf course, and some of the arcade stuff. $5.50/hr.
Old Jun 5, 2007 | 07:53 PM
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Burger King at 16 making 5.50 an hour, The king rules!! there is nothing like a custom made whopper hot of the broiler!!!



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