Was Your First Job at Minimum Wage?
Grew up on a dairy farm. Pay? What pay?
Wanted to get a job and earn some pocket money, Dad said okay as long as it didn't interfere with my chores.
Went to work at a nursery up the road, weeding pots for a buck an hour. A couple hours a day after my chores, a couple hours on Saturday, they (and everyone else) were closed on Sundays. They bumped it up to a buck fifty when a customer brought in a lawnmower that didn't run, and I fixed it. Thought I was rollin' in money... I was ten.
Spent half my earnings at the downtown pharmacy buying "Odd Rod" bubble gum trading cards and them cool new "Hot Wheels" cars... my parents made me put the other half in the bank.