Nah mate, I don't want to work in like no cornfield

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
He could get around cans of Stella for an hour's work. He's prefer to use other people's work though.

I think this sentence is missing something.

[Dauphin]

It's how they speak.

[UnOrthOdOx]

I lied about my age to start (illegally) working on a farm when I was 8. Picking beans, I got $0.10/lb. I worked alongside many who may or may not have been legal workers at the time. And with that money, I managed to buy myself a bike (to make getting to the farm easier)a pair of jeans, a couple shirts, and a pair of shoes for school. I was tired of my mom making my clothes.

Stuck with it till I was 15. By the end, I was running most of the operation and making $6.00/hour plus a percentage at harvest. (min wage was $4.00 ish) Paid cash for a car. Deposit on the first apartment, and most the down payment on our first house all came from that job.

The only thing that stopped me working there when I was 16 was the owner died, the son decided to sell it, and they built houses over the land.

Yes, it was a hell of a downgrade in working conditions when I started working at the local Burger King instead. Longer hours, less pay, crappier schedule.

Even after I graduated Highschool and started a factory job, the conditions and pay were worse, but there was health insurance there. So I'ld say it was probably a wash.

I've never understood the stigma to "working in some cornfield somewhere". From planting on through harvest, it was a pretty enjoyable time, all things considered.

[Zoid]

Wow! Were your family poor, UnO?

[UnOrthOdOx]

Yes, for the first 12 years of my life, though not nearly as poor as some.

We had a house. And we always had SOME food on the table. Sometimes that may have been bread and milk, but there was always something. And mom made our clothes.

We qualified for welfare, but never applied for any, and mom often ridiculed the neighbor mother who refused to take a job because she made more on welfare than she would working. This definately has impacted my opinions on the whole system.

To my parent's credit, the money we kids made STAYED ours. Didn't get pooled into the grocery fund or anything. We all learned how to manage money very well as a result.

By the time I was 12, my dad had enough seniority on the railroad that he didn't get laid off anymore, so things got a lot easier, to where we were down right well off. Literally, one year we're scraping by, the next, dad has a 90k/year job. By 14, we added an expansion onto the house.

But, I kept working and buying my own clothes because by then, it was just the way things worked.

[Zoid]

Sounds like you grew up in the 30´s. But it can't be if your dad made 90k/year...

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I think this sentence is missing something.

Oops. I think "about eight" is what's missing.

[LordShiva]

Stealing jobs

Stealing buckets