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Makes me think of my Dad after the war. Stationed in Alaska. He started working for his buddy as a pin steer for 5 cents a game. About 1946. Soon after his buddy left, Dad figured it all out and took over at 3 alleys and all the guys worked for him. Found out his buddy had been getting 8 cents a game, pocketing 3 for himself without doing a dame thing. Dad ended up with about 15 guys working in total and once he had all his guys in place at all 3 alleys, he raised his price to 10. Still gave the guys 5 cents but now he took 5 too.4 bucks a bag. WOW. When I caddied at Weequahic Golf Course,in Newark,we got FORTY CENTS for nine holes.Circa 1940-42.
What product did they make at Dupont in Sayreville?I worked in a coat factory one summer where my Mother worked. It was in the mid 60's and I made something around 35 to 50 cents an hour.
Around 1964 after HS I got my first full time job at Dupont in Sayreville and made approx. $1.10 or $1.25 an hour.
In 1967 I was hired as a Computer Programmer Trainee at Prudential in Newark for $90 a week. Two years later on 9/27/69 I got married and
the following week started a new job in Edison NJ as Computer Programmer at $115 a week. In the next 11 years we rented 2 apartments and
then purchased 4 different houses by age 34.
Lol. My second paycheck job was at a Shell station in Chatham. Sometimes a few cans of oil cash never made it to the register, but somehow ended up at the pizzaria up the street.Petroleum engineer (pumped gas) at a Sunoco in Mercer Cty for something like $3.35/hour. If you put in more than the customer asked for, and they wouldn't pay, it came out of your paycheck. Meter checked at the end of each shift to match the register.
Most of you are all youngsters. In 1957 at twelve I delivered newspapers, 120 of them of 20 different papers for Sunnyside News in Linden and received $ 3.75 a week. In 1963 I worked for the record & audio department at National Family Store on route 22 in Union which became a Rickles. I received $1,10 an hour or $ 44 a week. In 1967 I started as a teacher in Edison Township at $ 5,850 a year and received an extra $ 300 for coaching the track team. 36 years later I was doing pretty well. Edison was the highest paying district in the state when I retired. They treated me well and I loved teaching and coaching.
Worked at a Grand Union during HS.
I used to live right around the corner in Darien. My brother attended Hinsdale South.First paying job: McDonald's in Downers Grove, Illinois. 95 cents an hour.
1975, after 5th grade. Dozer operator for dad. $6.00/hr and time and a half after 40 which was never an issue. Made big money for a kid that age then.
Sadly Strawberry Blossom closed a few years back, and there's now a QuickChek there.The next summer, I went legit, still for $3.35 an hour, down the road a bit at Strawberry Blossom Garden Center. That job was great, and I worked there on and off and seasonally until I was probably 23 - the last couple years just to sell Christmas trees, where the tips were pretty good. I also worked as their Santa Claus for two Christmases, and that was a primo job: $10 an hour to wave at people and give candy canes to little kids.
Haha cool story. My Dad was a butcher at GU for years...GU as my second job in HS. Turned 18 and got to spend a summer loading the GU warehouse meat trucks at night. Got paid 7.50 hr but it was not much fun pushing sides of beef on rails into dark, manky trucks with some crazed Teamsters doing Rocky impressions on the beef ("You're gonna break the ribs!" lol). One guy was a bit "simple" between the ears, and the guys would terrorize him with lamb's heads with cigarettes hanging from their mouths. I went off to college very grateful to escape
My first paycheck job was at a Friendly's restaurant for about three months. I can't recall how much the hourly pay was. But it wasn't enough.
I wound up quitting because every pay period, I'd wind up owing them money due to all the food I'd eat. Oops.
Haha cool story. My Dad was a butcher at GU for years...
Working at the store in Poughkeepsie, store manager was an ass but everyone else cool
You told them you were eating the food? I worked at Friendly's on Stelton Road, and as with all restaurants at which I worked, the world was my oyster. My. Unpaid. Oyster.My first paycheck job was at a Friendly's restaurant for about three months. I can't recall how much the hourly pay was. But it wasn't enough.
I wound up quitting because every pay period, I'd wind up owing them money due to all the food I'd eat. Oops.
[roll][roll][roll]My dad died when I was 14. My brother was a scumbag and my mom was sick so I went off the books at Cohen's Knishes in Highland Park. Summer 1968 Maybe 2 bucks an hour?On my first day I burned an oven full of Knishes and served a hot tea to go without s teabag. The job was short lived. But knishes live on.
Captain Good Times- indoor amusement park in Turnersville, NJ $4.75 an hour
First under the table- Washington Township Seafood, dressed up as a 5’5 fish and waived at traffic for $5 an hour
I ate way too much to hide. Also, I am way too honest for my own good. Or so I’ve been told. [winking]You told them you were eating the food? I worked at Friendly's on Stelton Road, and as with all restaurants at which I worked, the world was my oyster. My. Unpaid. Oyster.
Captain Good Times is the name of my H&B business.Captain Good Times- indoor amusement park in Turnersville, NJ $4.75 an hour
First under the table- Washington Township Seafood, dressed up as a 5’5 fish and waived at traffic for $5 an hour