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Blogs > stilwantmore > "Sexy Swamp Lady"

As a  

stilwantmore 78F
9354 posts
6/23/2013 6:39 am
As a

What kinda job did you have as a ? Or did you stay home
and do nothing but get in trouble?

Well, living out here in my swampy place, the teenagers in my
area were expected to crawl down the muddy space between strawberry
rows and pick berries for $0.05 a quart; hit the hot sand in a blueberry field to pick berries; walk between the hot humid rows of tobacco in the fields, either topping or cropping tobacco; work the dry smelly tobacco readying it for market, all to make a few dollars to buy school clothes and<b> supplies </font></b>in the fall.

On Saturdays you might get a chance to go to town and spend $0.10 for
a movie (favorite place, since you could stay in the theater all day if
you didn't go out the front door).

What a life, hard but enjoyable to get the opportunity to work and
associate with your family and friends.

Everybody share with us what you did as a ????
stilwantmore 78F
11892 posts
6/23/2013 4:48 pm
    Quoting notsure1949:
    as a teen,my main job was cutting grass, then there was also scouts and a youth group, of course there was a ymca and a ywca, plus three movie theaters thay you could walk, bike, or bus to, and two big parks nearby
Sounded like fun times!!!


stilwantmore 78F
11892 posts
6/23/2013 4:47 pm
    Quoting Furbal1972:
    The "legal" work that teenagers did around here was de-tassling corn. Very hard work from what I hear, so I never did it.

    I did have a paper route for a time and also mowed lawns. But mostly I worked "under the table" at a bar, stocking the cooler and cleaning up. Then I helped the bar owner remodel a house for about $20/day. (plus free soda)

    When I turned 16, I bought a car and had to get a "real job" to pay for it, so I started doing telemarketing.
Interesting, what we were able to find to do in the different
areas of the country. Thanks for sharing.


Furbal1972 51M
18571 posts
6/23/2013 2:12 pm

 The "legal" work that teenagers did around here was de-tassling corn. Very hard work from what I hear, so I never did it.

I did have a paper route for a time and also mowed lawns. But mostly I worked "under the table" at a bar, stocking the cooler and cleaning up. Then I helped the bar owner remodel a house for about $20/day. (plus free soda)

When I turned 16, I bought a car and had to get a "real job" to pay for it, so I started doing telemarketing.
Read my diary Journal of a Taxi Driver for taxi stories and pictures of flowers and trees.


notsure1949 75M
10657 posts
6/23/2013 9:29 am

 as a teen,my main job was cutting grass, then there was also scouts and a youth group, of course there was a ymca and a ywca, plus three movie theaters thay you could walk, bike, or bus to, and two big parks nearby


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