First Jobs

[Dr. Blackheart]

Scoop pulled itself up by its bootstraps. 
#AmericanDream
#largestcollectionofmillionaires

[Dr. Blackheart]

I know you looked familiar

It's a cash business, bro!

[4everwarriors]

Janitor at our local hospital during the summers (about 800 dollars for the summer).

At MU:

Worked the lower level desk at the Memorial Library on Saturday and Sunday evenings (20 dollars/weekend). Not a bad gig. No too many there on Saturdays so I essentially got paid to study.

Sang Tenor at the Presbyterian Church on 10th and West Wisconsin (40 dollars per month).

not bad money for the 60s.



Yeah, that $800 would pay for a semester at MU, back in the day. Impossible, now, for students to make anywhere near tuition for the semester, at their summer job, hey?

[lawdog77]

Age 16.  Delivered drugs

I noticed you didn't say you sold them, just delivered them? Latex balloons?

[Dr. Blackheart]

I noticed you didn't say you sold them, just delivered them? Latex balloons?

🫏

[Lennys Tap]

Coal mines in W Virginia age 14-17

Chain gang age17-19

Steel mills in Gary, In age 19-35

CEO age 35-present

[mu_hilltopper]

Now everyone should post the jobs (or lack thereof) of their children. 

It kills me that my kids, and probably most, aren't working crappy jobs these days, building character.

My kid works at a bike shop and loves it, which grinds my gears.

[tower912]

Great pun.  My kid started working the meat counter at a local boutique market two months before his 16th birthday.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Great pun.  My kid started working the meat counter at a local boutique market two months before his 16th birthday.

Stubby?

[MU82]

Coal mines in W Virginia age 14-17

Chain gang age17-19

Steel mills in Gary, In age 19-35

CEO age 35-present

See? Anybody can make it in 'Murica!

[Sir Lawrence]

Milwaukee Journal route age 12-14
Janitor at a high school during summers age 16-18
Road/bridge crew summers in college while nights at the janitor gig during the school year.

[The Sultan]

Now everyone should post the jobs (or lack thereof) of their children. 

It kills me that my kids, and probably most, aren't working crappy jobs these days, building character.

My kid works at a bike shop and loves it, which grinds my gears.

All my kids worked in high school. One was even fired! He got his degree, worked throughout college and is gainfully employed as an adult though.

[Lennys Tap]

See? Anybody can make it in 'Murica!

Learned more in 2 years on that chain gang than you guys did in your 6 years in college.

[lawdog77]

Learned more in 2 years on that chain gang than you guys did in your 6 years in college.

What did it sound like?

[Lennys Tap]

What did it sound like?

Sam Cooke said it all.

[Scoop Snoop]

Sam Cooke said it all.

Yep.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Delivered the afternoon edition of the New Haven Register on my bicycle 12-14.  Thankfully my dad drove me around on Sunday morning and I sat in the back of the station wagon with the gate open.

Supermarket from 15 - 22.  Started out bagging and carriages weekends only in high school and summer and winter breaks in college.  In year 2 at the supermarket some kid in Produce got fired on a 4th of July weekend for smoking weed in the Produce backroom.  I volunteered to fill his position the next day so no more carriages.  When I graduated Marquette in 1991 at least I had a job.  Supermarket offered before I graduated if I was coming back.  Since no one was getting engineering jobs it held me over for the next 10 months until I landed my first engineering job.  Made for a funny conversation when my fellow Marquette friends were shocked I had a job and they were still looking.  Then I prefaced it wasn't engineering.

[HowardsWorld]

Caddy at Tuckaway country club in Franklin,WI

[ATL MU Warrior]

Before college:
1.  Detassled corn/rogued bean fields for three or four summers
2.  General labor at a lumber yard one summer
3.  Had a paper route one summer
4.  Worked in kitchen of local hospital.  Primary duty was to help assemble meals, load them into big carts, and then push the full carts to the floors where the meals were distributed.  Then, back to pick up the empty carts, return them to the kitchen where they would be unloaded and cleaned. Also washed pans, took out garbage, etc.  Carts was the best gig. 

College:
1.  Worked in computer lab in Straz Hall. Easiest job ever.
2.  Worked one summer on building maintenance crew cleaning and refinishing floors in various campus buildings. Hardest job since detassling.  Did a few floors of McCormick, might never recover. 
3.  Worked at front desk of Federal Plaza Athletic Club checking people in and washing/folding towels.  Side benefit of working out whenever I wanted.  Also easiest job ever. 

[tower912]

ATL MU, my summer job in college was in a hospital kitchen.  I can totally relate to your story.

[HouWarrior]

12 to 15 Mowed lawns and shoveled snow in Cooper Park area
15-16 Dishwasher/line pizza maker at Mama Mia's on Burleigh
16-20 Gas pumper/light mechanic at NW Mobil on Capitol
17 Sold ice cream on the Milw. streets in the 3 wheeled motor carts/ clanging bell of Happy Day Ice Cream
19 Interned at Sen Wm Proxmires office
18-23 started on 3 man set up crew on buildout of 3 of the first four ever Pick N Saves. Worked at stocking, forklift, frozen/ dairy, nearly full time, as it paid much of my cost of MU. By senior year 1978 I was an eve manager of the Natl Ave location. Stayed with this for a year plus after college to save more $ for law school.
23-25 In Houston, law school, came in as a weekend manager at Gerland's grocery and only left halfway through to chase law clerkships, associate job etc

Almost every job was by word-of-mouth/ acquaintances, never read the classifieds.

From high school on I aggressively chased a heavy work schedule, but with very good pay. As child no 3, family college resources were depleted.  I paid for most of MU college, (including junior year in Madrid), and all of law school at UH. My parents, those jobs and the help of extended family and friends will always be greatly appreciated.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Now everyone should post the jobs (or lack thereof) of their children. 

It kills me that my kids, and probably most, aren't working crappy jobs these days, building character.

My kid works at a bike shop and loves it, which grinds my gears.

One has to pick up after herself and has her own set brooms, dusters,  and a vacuum to help with the tidying.

The other mostly eats his toes

[ATL MU Warrior]

Can't believe I left off my final college job starting the summer before and throughout senior year.  Mailroom in largest ad agency in Milwaukee.  Hired full-time starting day after graduation.  In my professional career I have only worked in ad agencies, not sure if that's good or bad, but fell in love with the creative environment that permeates all strong agencies. I am an example of the "worked his way up from the mailroom" stereotype. 

[Galway Eagle]

The other mostly eats his toes

"Content creator"

[Scoop Snoop]

Can't believe I left off my final college job starting the summer before and throughout senior year.  Mailroom in largest ad agency in Milwaukee.  Hired full-time starting day after graduation.  In my professional career I have only worked in ad agencies, not sure if that's good or bad, but fell in love with the creative environment that permeates all strong agencies. I am an example of the "worked his way up from the mailroom" stereotype.

Upon reading your post, some of the younger scoopers are probably asking themselves "what the Hell is a mailroom?".