spartacus53
Banned
- Jul 5, 2009
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- Detector(s) used
- Ace 250
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I was lucky to learn the value of earning money at a young age. If there was something I wanted to buy, I would normally have to come up with 1/2 the funds and my parents would cover he rest. I know that I was already working and hustling to make money since the age of eight. I remember in the summertime getting up early every morning to make the "bottle run". I would comb the neighborhood looking for soda bottles, the small 12oz would get you $0.02 each and if your were lucky you hit the "mother lode" by finding the family size 32oz bottle that would earn you $0.05. You could work all morning and make $0.50 cents upwards to $0.75 on a good day.
By the time I turned 9 I was big enough to deliver groceries for the local A&P. I tell you I felt like a big man peddling their tri-carts. The bike portion was the size of a normal bicycle, but the front had 2 wheels on the side of a large container that held the orders. The store I worked for had 3 of these carts, so you had to get there early in order to get one. I guess it was akin to the shape-ups on the piers. Anyway, the faster you worked the more you made. The tough part was the actual delivery, not one person that I remember lived below the 4th floor.. There were plenty of times you would have to make 2-3 trips up 5 flights of stairs to make anywhere from a dime to a quarter. The summer you would sweat and feel wiped out by noon, and in the winter you had the problem of trying to navigate the streets in the snow. Your take for a mornings work ran between 1-2 dollars.
In the early teens you made money doing odd jobs, shoveling snow and sometimes helping stores load their stock. Putting out the garbage cans for the supper was another good money maker. Even though they were heavy you would make a dollar, maybe two moving the full cans up to the street for pick-up. It made no difference what I was doing so long as I was earning some cash.
I think I was 16 when I was finally able to get my working papers and find a real part time job. That 1st real job was a page at the library and I worked 3 hours every day after school and 1/2 a day on Saturday. In High school I held a job in a local "head shop", selling posters, records, and incense. My weekend was spent working for the local German deli, cutting meat, and filling soda and beer cases.
Then again everything was cheap when I was 8 you had penny candy, 10, or 15 cent sodas, 5 or 10 cent chips and movies were only 50 cents for a double feature.
what did you do to make a buck
By the time I turned 9 I was big enough to deliver groceries for the local A&P. I tell you I felt like a big man peddling their tri-carts. The bike portion was the size of a normal bicycle, but the front had 2 wheels on the side of a large container that held the orders. The store I worked for had 3 of these carts, so you had to get there early in order to get one. I guess it was akin to the shape-ups on the piers. Anyway, the faster you worked the more you made. The tough part was the actual delivery, not one person that I remember lived below the 4th floor.. There were plenty of times you would have to make 2-3 trips up 5 flights of stairs to make anywhere from a dime to a quarter. The summer you would sweat and feel wiped out by noon, and in the winter you had the problem of trying to navigate the streets in the snow. Your take for a mornings work ran between 1-2 dollars.
In the early teens you made money doing odd jobs, shoveling snow and sometimes helping stores load their stock. Putting out the garbage cans for the supper was another good money maker. Even though they were heavy you would make a dollar, maybe two moving the full cans up to the street for pick-up. It made no difference what I was doing so long as I was earning some cash.
I think I was 16 when I was finally able to get my working papers and find a real part time job. That 1st real job was a page at the library and I worked 3 hours every day after school and 1/2 a day on Saturday. In High school I held a job in a local "head shop", selling posters, records, and incense. My weekend was spent working for the local German deli, cutting meat, and filling soda and beer cases.
Then again everything was cheap when I was 8 you had penny candy, 10, or 15 cent sodas, 5 or 10 cent chips and movies were only 50 cents for a double feature.
what did you do to make a buck
