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My first job was as a paper boy, I think I was around age 10 when I started delivering the Toronto Sun newspaper 1 day a week on Sunday mornings.
I can't remember how much I earned. I do remember having to collect from customers and was always chasing certain customers around to get paid.
After delivering the Sun for a while I got the chance to buy a Toronto Star route off my neighbor, delivery 6 days a week.
My route was a senior citizen home Kipling Acres. I used to borrow a wheelchair, stack my papers on it and make my rounds in the seniors home room to room.
My first real gig was working at Rexdale Bowlerama around the corner from my house. I made $2.15 an hour and worked 10-15 hours per week. Job duties were fixing the bowling machines (both 5 and 10 pin), returning rental shoes to the counter, emptying ashtrays, making sure there were sharpened pencils and scoresheets on each lane before league play started. Also had to clean the washrooms.
It was a cool job for a kid, after a few months Ontario raised the minimum wage for students to $2.45 from $2.15. I worked with at least a dozen of my friends from school at that job. I earned $20 - $30 a week.
In highschool my buddy got me a job on the dock of a trucking company, his step father owned the company.
$5.10 per hour when minimum wage for students was $2.45 so the money was very good (this was 1981). We would get out of school at 3:10PM and take the bus to work, usually start on the dock at 4PM and go til 7PM, 5 days a week. Some days one of the company trucks would be making deliveries on his route near our school and the driver would be driving by as we were getting out of school so he would stop and pick me and my buddy up and take us to the dock in his truck. He later told us the main reason for driving by at 3:10 pm was to look at all the highschool girls in their tight jeans. I made $75 - $120 a week depending on my hours. Not bad for a highschool job. I was a spender, smoked alot of pot and went to movies and concerts. My buddy that was also working had $10k saved by the time we were in grade 12, he bought a new Honda. I bought a $500 Ford.
In late November and early December we would work the weekends as security guards at the trucking company because there was millions of dollars of booze in the trailers in our yard. I would finish on the dock Friday night at 7 pm and then sit in the dispatch office watching TV until 7AM when I was relieved by my buddy, we alternated AM/PM, he had an old Dodge Dart and I would drive it home Sat morning and drive it back Sat night at 7PM to relieve him. This was a sweet gig, when I was bored at 2am I would take a set of keys and fire up one of the tractors and drive it around the yard, one time I drove it down North Queen St and got stuck.
One of the biggest perks working with truck drivers was learning how to swear properly. Also learned about women from those guys, no wonder I use hookers nowadays.
My student jobs were fun. What did you do as a kid?
I can't remember how much I earned. I do remember having to collect from customers and was always chasing certain customers around to get paid.
After delivering the Sun for a while I got the chance to buy a Toronto Star route off my neighbor, delivery 6 days a week.
My route was a senior citizen home Kipling Acres. I used to borrow a wheelchair, stack my papers on it and make my rounds in the seniors home room to room.
My first real gig was working at Rexdale Bowlerama around the corner from my house. I made $2.15 an hour and worked 10-15 hours per week. Job duties were fixing the bowling machines (both 5 and 10 pin), returning rental shoes to the counter, emptying ashtrays, making sure there were sharpened pencils and scoresheets on each lane before league play started. Also had to clean the washrooms.
It was a cool job for a kid, after a few months Ontario raised the minimum wage for students to $2.45 from $2.15. I worked with at least a dozen of my friends from school at that job. I earned $20 - $30 a week.
In highschool my buddy got me a job on the dock of a trucking company, his step father owned the company.
$5.10 per hour when minimum wage for students was $2.45 so the money was very good (this was 1981). We would get out of school at 3:10PM and take the bus to work, usually start on the dock at 4PM and go til 7PM, 5 days a week. Some days one of the company trucks would be making deliveries on his route near our school and the driver would be driving by as we were getting out of school so he would stop and pick me and my buddy up and take us to the dock in his truck. He later told us the main reason for driving by at 3:10 pm was to look at all the highschool girls in their tight jeans. I made $75 - $120 a week depending on my hours. Not bad for a highschool job. I was a spender, smoked alot of pot and went to movies and concerts. My buddy that was also working had $10k saved by the time we were in grade 12, he bought a new Honda. I bought a $500 Ford.
In late November and early December we would work the weekends as security guards at the trucking company because there was millions of dollars of booze in the trailers in our yard. I would finish on the dock Friday night at 7 pm and then sit in the dispatch office watching TV until 7AM when I was relieved by my buddy, we alternated AM/PM, he had an old Dodge Dart and I would drive it home Sat morning and drive it back Sat night at 7PM to relieve him. This was a sweet gig, when I was bored at 2am I would take a set of keys and fire up one of the tractors and drive it around the yard, one time I drove it down North Queen St and got stuck.
One of the biggest perks working with truck drivers was learning how to swear properly. Also learned about women from those guys, no wonder I use hookers nowadays.
My student jobs were fun. What did you do as a kid?
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