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You never worked while you were young? Like deliver papers or McDonald’s or even tutoring?
by aynyc 4y ago
You never worked while you were young? Like deliver papers or McDonald’s or even tutoring?
- bookofjoe 4y agoWhen I started delivering the Milwaukee Sentinel in the winter of 1960 at age 12, carrying my papers in saddlebags on the back of my bike, I thought it wasn't all that bad considering I made about $5/7-day-week & my allowance was 25 cents. Looking back I'm amazed I didn't seem to think being out in heavy snow and below-zero weather in the dark was a terrible thing. Pushing that bike uphill a half mile to the paper drop depot at 4:30 am on school days and weekends didn't seem all that bad, nor did having to perfectly place each subscriber's paper so as to encourage them to give me a 10 cent tip when I went to collect each month. Bonus: I got home around 6:30 am, in time to get another hour's sleep before school.