Good Day DU (September 6, 2021)

[EarlG]

Today in History: September 6

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Question of the Day: What was your first job?

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Today's milestones: Congratulations to the following active DU members!

Anniversaries
LawDem (20 years), quaker bill (18 years), Tesha (18 years), democrank (18 years), lostnfound (18 years), babylonsister (17 years), IowaGuy (17 years), Fiendish Thingy (17 years), msongs (17 years), bmichaelh (17 years), SaveOurDemocracy (15 years), akbacchus_BC (14 years), Emrys (12 years), Ruby the Liberal (12 years), moniss (12 years), AmericanMan1958 (11 years), Boyrask (11 years), ripcord (9 years), Lulu KC (7 years), Beachnutt (1 year)

Posting milestones
None today

New members who posted for the first time
DemTaker, H2Oart, Dunsterville

[secondwind]

1. Cashier at retail shop around the corner from our apartment.. I was 15 yrs old. lasted two weeks.

[Walleye]

2. Dairy Queen. Made extra thick milkshakes for all my friends

[multigraincracker]

3. 12 years old I was delivering

the Lansing State Journal after school. Snow, wing or rain, I had to do it. No mom or dad around to drive me. About 85 homes. When I drive around there now, I remember where I was suppose to leave the paper. 1961.

[underpants]

4. Bagging groceries at Winn-Dixie

Other than cutting grass and odd jobs.

[Hoyt]

5. Besides cutting grass, working in grocery store bagging, stocking, cleaning restrooms, mopping, etc.

[Glorfindel]

6. My first job was delivering dry cleaning and laundry

My parents owned and operated a dry cleaners and laundry. I was delivering just as soon as I could keep the long bags from dragging on the ground. About 10 years old. I received the magnificent sum of $5.00 per week!

[ms liberty]

7. Cashier at Kash & Karry, a grocery store in Tampa. Hated it. n/t

[2naSalit]

8. Picking strawberries...

at 25 cents a flat/8 qt baskets mounded so it was more like 10 or 12.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Shining shoes and selling newspapers at the corner of Fifth and High.

[central scrutinizer]

10. Detasseling corn

(Not counting my paper route from age 12-15) To create hybrids for the next year’s planting, seed companies would plant four rows of one variety, then one row of the other variety. The four rows were the females and to prevent them fertilizing themselves, their tops had to be pulled out so only the male rows produced pollen. $.90/hour.

[Aristus]

11. Delivering the Seattle morning newspaper.

From ninth grade to Senior year.

Perfect fit for an early riser like me. Got up, completed my route. Came back with enough time to nap for a couple of hours. Had breakfast and coffee while reading my own copy of the paper front to back, then went to school.

Solidified my work ethic and put some spending money in my pocket.

Any Republican who says Democrats don’t like to work for a living better be willing to listen to me talk about working three jobs throughout high school. Newspaper delivery in the mornings, McDonald’s after school, and caddying golf on the weekends.

It’s because I know the value of work, and never had a trust fund that I’m a Democrat and not a Republican…

[Fla Dem]

12. Happy Labor Day back at you EarlG!!!

[Nittersing]

13. First job - was a gopher for a Datsun dealership

Cleaned off the stuff they put on chrome to protect it from the salty water during transport. Removed plastic from all the seats. Kept the show floor cars clean... got to drive a 240z occasionally.

[Coventina]

14. Answering service. Before the advent of cell phones and pagers were rare.

That was a cool job for a college student.

[hfojvt]

15. shovelling snow, later a paper route when I was 12

nice to see some old timers