On 8/14/11 2:27 PM, I am Tosk wrote:
On 8/14/2011 1:51 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:21:44 -0600,
wrote:

On 14/08/2011 7:31 AM, BAR wrote:
In ,
says...

On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:17:40 -0400, X ~
wrote:

Under Governor Perry, Texas ranks:

while it ranks 1st in number of jobs created, it also ranks 1st in
percentage of minimum wage jobs

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...mum-wage-jobs/



My kid would like to get a minimum wage job. The problem is that there
aren't any available in our area.

Bull****. There wasn't many in my area as a kid and I made my own at
11. After that I rarely worked part time for a wage. Mom with 4 kids
and delinquent dad, we needed to innovate or do without. On the way to
school (no bus) I even delivered morning papers.

I sent out fliers of my own making for snow removal, lawn cutting, and
once of legal age even baby sitting. In the summer I would routinely
clock out $50/week, circa late 60's and early-mid 70's that was big
bucks for a kid. Paid for the lawn mower and gas too.

That taught me how to manage money well from 11-16 an was better than
many 40 year olds today.

Fact is people today are soft and lazy.

Mind you, some liberal looser ass hole would call that invaluable lesson
child exploitation today. Rather see the kids hang out at the mall
looking for people dropping money.

Wow! A self made man at 11 years old. Did you own a zimmermanlike
lobster boat, too?

Lot's of us started helping the family finances before we got out of
school Harry. Just because you sat on your ass playing footsie while
your pood daddy worked his ass off in the yard doesn't mean everybody
did...


I think I'll respond, even though your response was mistakenly directed
at me.

I got working papers at 14 and had an after school job at a pharmacy on
Legion Avenue in New Haven, a very tough neighborhood at that time. In
fact, the area was so bad most of it was later demolished for
redevelopment. A little **** like you would have been stabbed to death.
My job ostensibly was to work the soda fountain, but, in reality, I sold
liquor to whomever wanted it, typically half-pint and pint bottles,
mostly bloody awful wines. I also delivered prescriptions -on foot- and
sometimes bottles of booze. Selling booze, of course, was illegal, as
was my delivering it.

I worked full time there in the summers until I was 16, then I got
another after school job that was a little closer to home.

I kept a small amount of what I earned, and put the rest in a savings
account for college. Yes, even at 14, I knew that I'd want to help pay
for my college education.

What after school jobs does your motorbiking daughter have?

I also worked for my father on weekends during the spring, fall and
winter, especially the winter, when his seasonal employees weren't there.

I had grown man's industrial jobs in the summers while I was about to or
was going to college - at Detroit Steel, Shick Razor, Hull's Brewery.
The Detroit Steel job sucked, and I quit it halfway through summer for
another job at Bigelow Boiler, where I was taught how to solder and weld
and clean out boilers trucked or railed in for refurbishing. The summer
after my junior year I was hired as a reporter by the Kansas City Star,
and I kept that job while completing my senior year of college.

I probably worked more jobs in those years than you have ever held in
your life.



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