1. During my adolescent years, my first job, was as most kids of my generation was Lawn mowing. I for 2-5 bucks would mow peoples lawns, weed. The usual.
2. Baby sitting. Mostly for the neighbors across the street. They $1/hr. 2 kids. One of them a baby. And yes. I changed diapers. The old fashioned way. With cloth and safety pins.
3. As I noted in past posts, I would set the clock an hour or so ahead to get the kids to bed earlier, so I could watch Star Trek. Kids never caught on :).
4. I also painted houses in the neighborhood. Some interior and some exterior jobs.
5. Then in my freshman year in High School, I got an after school job at a recreational center in Atherton. Mostly setting up for meetings, parties, weddings. This also involved cleaning after meetings, parties, and weddings. I actually did not mind it. It paid OK. I bought my first car quite quickly (Austin Healy Sprite), and later a Toyota Corona.
6. Then in my senior year of High School, through the first year of University, I landed a great summer job, though a neighbor friend, at the Del Monte Pickle Plant in San Jose. The plant had been in operation since 1900. And I don't think the building had changed since. Jobs included, monitoring the jars on the conveyor tracks (like Lavern and Shirley (lol)), stacking the heavy boxes filled with of pickle jars onto the pallets, which were then delivered to the stores. 8-10 hours of lifting boxes? Now I know why my back is always sore.
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