What was your first job?

[Oldgringo]

Did I mention that neither my Mother nor any of my friends' Mothers worked outside the home and I walked to and from work and school?

Uphill, both ways, in the snow?

Yes.

My HS graduation present was a hardshell Samosonite suitcase. I was on a towboat pushing a string of barges down the Cumberland River at 0500 hrs the day after HS graduation (Dad got me the job). I got my first car in 1962, a 1960 Austin-Healy 3000, when I could pay for it myself at age 20.

I ain't really got a whole lot of sympathy for today's whiners. Never had any use for losers...

[MadMonkey]

I was a "rodman" for a survey company for my first real job. I was about 20ish... everything from cutting lines between property markers to running the survey instrument. Great outdoor job with lots of varied scenery... never know what you'd find. Did that for a year then went to WalMart.

Honestly, I miss the simpler times.

[jimlongley]

The last time I was at Astro World, the power went out while we were in line at Popeye's. The kids there were all used to the registers that are marked "small fries", "med soda", etc. There were 4 kids and 2 calculators, but no one behind the counter could figure out how to total an order. We all had to wait an hour for the power to come back up.

Now I'm beginning to sound like one of those old people who talk about the old days, I suppose.

Looking back, what other people perceive as the hard times, really were the best times.

In the old days we did that with a slide rule and pencil and paper.

[RPBrown]

The last time I was at Astro World, the power went out while we were in line at Popeye's. The kids there were all used to the registers that are marked "small fries", "med soda", etc. There were 4 kids and 2 calculators, but no one behind the counter could figure out how to total an order. We all had to wait an hour for the power to come back up.

Now I'm beginning to sound like one of those old people who talk about the old days, I suppose.

Looking back, what other people perceive as the hard times, really were the best times.

In the old days we did that with a slide rule and pencil and paper.

Or an abacus (sp).

Wish we had the "old days back when a handshake was a mans word and you could leave your doors unlocke cause everybody knew everybody

[teri]

I ain't really got a whole lot of sympathy for today's whiners. Never had any use for losers...

Looking back, what other people perceive as the hard times, really were the best times.

Amen! I didn't realize my family had been poor until I was 30ish. But looking back I think I should have been clued in when there were 4 kids and 2 matchbox cars to play with in the dirt roadways we built. The 2 that didn't get cars used rocks to "drive". We would play for hours in the dirt.

Sorry off topic...moving along now...