I am now 47,In summer of 1976 I was 17, worked at a Dari-twist(like dari queen) got paid a $1.50 per hour,no tips.
Minimum wage I think was $2.30 per hour(correct me if wrong).How could this employer get away with paying less ? anyway for 40 hours my take home was $48.00 per
week.
2007-02-15 11:53:54 · 7 answers · asked by doulasc 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
a beeper store selling beeper and giant cellfone :D
forgot how much i was getting paid but it's close to minimum wage im sure.
2007-02-15 12:09:35 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well..... I was in the 3rd grade when I started working. At my family's store. My pay was all the candy, soda, Italian Ice, Pizza, cookies and cake I could get my hands on. Then we would close up the store and go to City Island for fried shrimps.
Later on I went to waitress and I was getting $2.30 per hour plus tips. That was the way it was then.
But now look, they want you to work your tail off and not pay you what you are worth. Its a never ending battle...
Its better to take the less paying job, go home on time and spend with your family. The CORP world is a MONSTER and I couldn't care less about it anymore. It has ruin my family and my life. Alwasys sucking out your blood and never really paying your worth.
Take care
2007-02-23 19:31:14 · answer #2 · answered by italianbronxgirl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My first job was working in an office filinf patient files away. There were four young teens that did this job. The rest of the office was 99% female that would transcribe the patient records or do other tasks that he doctors would ask them to do. My wage was $4.25 which was the minumum wage about 15 years ago. It was an okay job- I remember they tried to have incentives for employees- one incentive being a birthday gift- You pulled a gift out of some items that ranged from hot air balloon ride to cd player, to gift certificates. I got a cd player. They stopped doing this incentive about 6 months later. Some people never got to choose anything.
As for your employer: Employers were allowed to pay full-time students 15% less than minumum wage - i think to keep you in school
2007-02-20 23:49:18 · answer #3 · answered by Turtle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I begged the owner of an A&W to give me a job when I was 14. After 3 months he gave in and I went to work for 80 cents an hour.
Worked my butt of for that man for 3 yrs and then was hired as a manager tranee for a Burger Chef. By the time I was 17 I was making $350 a week. in the early 1970's that was a fortune.
been wotking for myself since 19.
2007-02-21 13:37:52 · answer #4 · answered by br_foot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 49, my first job was loading flats of flowers from a greenhouse into trucks for deliveries, as well as rearranging the beds of flats, and some field farming. Paid about the same as your job. The migrants there made money by working in excess of a hundred hours a week, while i was working after school. That was in 73 and 74.
2007-02-15 20:14:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my freshman high school year I was sent to a New Mexico farm where I worked when not in school thirty miles away. In winter I shoveled snow, chipped ice, repaired fences, dug holes,
broke ice so stock could drink, pulled stock from mud, learned to drive a battered International. Summer was busier. I learned to handle firearms, find dance partners, drink coffee, and hike the
Pecos bottomlands. Bed and board was earned with sweat.
JFK died the following year.
2007-02-21 23:16:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am working my first job right now! i am 16 and i work in a pizza place. i take the orders and manage all the money.
its good cause they pay me $7 an hour plus tip,a nd they give me my money at the end of the day! i like where i work, for now anyway
2007-02-15 20:02:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋