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legion- I am not surprised! 😉
“Very weird that three plusas have twins.”
Thank goodness it’s not more.
They let you drive the skidder after crashing the dump truck?
rf- so what? People charter buses to go to Atlantic City to gamble away their money.
“Back in the day my twin and I each got $3-5/week to clean the house and cook the weekday dinners.”
Cook the weekday dinners? I would have orphaned myself in no time if I cooked back then 🙂
My first job was in a department store on LI where I made $1.25/hour, the minimum wage at the time. I was 15.
“Why? Do you not think you have a responsibility to take care of the basic needs of the humans that you decided to create?”
Jessi, where did you get such radical and off-base opinions? You’ve obviously watched one too many documentaries by leftist propagandists!!!
” Do you not think you have a responsibility to take care of the basic needs of the humans that you decided to create?”
Well, OK OK you’re right on this one. Biff too. Obviously it’s my duty to feed and house and clothe them. But I don’t have to give them money. They they have to earn.
My second job (after the chicken coop) was picking rocks out of a field we cleared in the woods.
After that I started helping my dad build roads on a property he owned. I was 11. That job ended when I crashed the dump truck.
Then I started logging when I was 12. I think I was earning $2.75 an our but wouldn’t swear to it. I didn’t operate the chainsaw or anything (I wasn’t allowed to touch the chainsaw until I was 15 or 16) but I drove the skidder.
…for a very brief period growing up in East New York,
I inadvertantly made money as the leader of a gang of 8 year old thieves. I was about 10.