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TCBY: My foray into the early 90’s yogurt craze
The job: Yogurt server / cashier My age: 16 Hourly Wage: Maybe $5.00? You had cravings for some soft-serve yogurt in the Hinsdale area in 1991? You might have came and saw me for some relief. TCBY, the country’s best yogurt, it was a think in the late 80’s and early 90’s – a real…
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Did you ever deliver the Yellow Pages? I did.
The job: Yellow Pages Delivery Person My age: 16 Hourly Wage: I can’t remember Raise your hand if you even remember the Yellow Pages. Back in the day, every house had a copy of the White Pages, and a Yellow Pages. The White Pages listed everyone in your town and city and their phone number.…
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Venture: the discount store you don’t remember.
The job: Stock boy – Venture My age: 16 Hourly wage: $4.50 Oh Venture. My time with you was short and not sweet . Venture was like a bad Walmart. There was a food court, and poorly lit aisles with all kinds of discounted items. This one of a few jobs that I held during…
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Working as a high school dropout.
The job: Cashier – Marshalls My age: 16 Hourly Wage: $4.25 an hour Marshalls, the haven for the bargain shopper. Last year’s styles at low low prices. No frills bargain hunting underneath heavy florescent lights. Also, after you find your golf shirt, you can also buy a candle you didn’t need and maybe a back…
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Local Cable – the last frontier of irrevance.
The job: Producer – Color TV Cable Show My age: 18? Hourly Wage: N/A – free labor From when I was in 7th grade, our town, Western Springs, IL, had a local cable access station and a program called, “Video Kids.” I was a video kid, and learned how to shoot video, edit videos, produce…
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Tax Evasion, Trust Funds and Video Rentals
The job: 55th Street Video – cashier My age: 14? Hourly Wage: $4.50 – cash 55th street video – the local video store, just a few minute walk from my house. It was one of my earliest jobs and really wasn’t the most taxing job at all. I think I somehow got this job because…
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My first ‘real’ job
The job: Tischler Finer Foods – stock boy My age: 13 Hourly wage: $3.35 This was my first paying job. My neighbor Mike worked at Tischlers and told me I could make some money being a ‘stock boy.’ Mike drove a Monte Carlo SS and I think half of why I signed onto this job…
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The family business
The job: Eagles Roost Campground, assistant to the Director My age: 11-18 Hourly wage: N/A In 1985, my Dad bought a campground in northern Wisconsin for the grand total of $100,000. This property came with a house, 40 acres, a beach on Mary lake, and a functioning campground with 51 sites. If you haven’t been…
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Knocking on doors: Unsupervised
I am not sure what year it started, but I was for sure a single digit kid – we will go with eight. On the back of some comic book had wonderful toys and chemistry sets. I wondered what this was all about. As I continued to read and pour over it – I realized…
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