I remember on my 18th birthday, I was at work and my boss starts joking with me, telling me about how now that I'm 18 I'm a certified adult and can do just about anything I please: vote, join the military, kill and die for my country, but don't even think about walking into a liquor store and trying to buy alcohol.
Not really related, just a funny memory that popped back into my head.
18? By the time I was 18 I already had 10 years of working experience under my belt.
I started mowing grass and shoveling snow when I was 8. Picked up a paper route after that. Started helping my buddy run a snow blower and shovel snow off roofs during heavy winters as we got older.
I had my first payroll job at 14 and never worked fewer than two jobs at a time from that point on all the way up until earlier this year when I finally dropped my side gig as a hockey referee because I got married in the fall and moved about an hour away from the nearest rink. But I expect that to be temporary and will probably go back to it next year.
Heck, I even worked two jobs during college while going to school full time. And I managed to fit in plenty of time for partying.
I never worked around any mannequins at that age but if I would have. You know the rest. Jim.I started working at 13 in a Kress department store in Texas blowing up helium balloons. I came back from lunch one day and caught the freak working with me feeling up one of the mannequins. Weird.
Growing up ag you pretty much worked as soon as you could walk.
Point of order! You CAN'T spend too many hours on a John Deere 4020.Started in single digit years weeding gardens. Mowed yards later and made some pretty good money doing it. Baled hay, spent way too many hours on a 4020 tractor, cut and delivered firewood, had a job at druthers restaurant, cleared brush for people. The great part about the outdoor jobs was that I was, well, outdoors and I found a lot a great places to hunt doing them.
Point taken. I humbly retract ”too many” and replace it with “a lot”. I will not edit my error so that others may learn from my mistake.Point of order! You CAN'T spend too many hours on a John Deere 4020.
A John Deere B or a Farmall H? Those you could spend too many hours on!Point taken. I humbly retract ”too many” and replace it with “a lot”. I will not edit my error so that others may learn from my mistake.