mowing lawns... f-k i hated that. my pops paid well but he had me going on his frikken landscape from hell with all the curves and stones and flower beds. :shakes head: child labor to the fullest. :ugh:

i preferred to work in an office, warehouse. :D

from my childhood trauma :icon17: i dont mow lawns. i just use contractors. :icon17: hahaha.

yup these aren't yout Ego waffles lol , homemade! :yum:

In college, I was a deck hand on a Turkish freighter -- during summers...

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awesome! :yum: homemade is the way to go. :tup:


goodam!! :hello:

:tup: wow, that's a tuff job for sure. :D

im not saying working at a grocery store is bad, but the biggest lesson for me was working at this one particular grocery store... :ugh2: it taught me very quickly to study harder NOT to become one of them. :icon17:

imho, minimum wage should be used for kids to get a taste of real life... for learning experience. but that's just me. :D

that and taffyapples! :rofl2:

Michael!! How's the baby?

LOL @ child labor comment :rofl2: Mowing yards definitely sucked as a kid, but I truly enjoy taking care of my own lawn now. I've always likes being outside even if it's doing manual labor. Sitting inside an office all day gets old quickly for me. I just leave and go home sometimes if I'm not feeling it. But then I come into work several hours early fairly regularly, and I typically work some on the weekends. The joys of not having a boss :icon17:

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I hated not only the HUGE lawns, but I loathed the massive ones WITH the rolling hills landscape , frickin' bull! LOL

Sorry, but I was kidding. I never did that. I was a brick layer for a while during college. I was also a bookstore clerk, Christmas tree sorter, inventory control person, demolition guy (without explosives), prep cook, dishwasher and teacher/tutor of freshmen.

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my first job was on a work permit at the age of 14, worked at santas village, in there food service departments. made 3.15 an hour

my dads first job was working for a tree logging company for ( im not joking)

$1.00 an hour....

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he's awesome! little guy is getting big though and he's only 8 weeks old! 9 this monday…….

he has been gaining approx 1 lbs per week since birth! he's my little chubby buddy!

Cool! He's a little eat'n, sleep'n, and poop'n factory!

them taffyapples can :gtfo2: or go hamstermill and get their life in line.

if there's going to be a minimum wage increase, there should be a fat-check discount. healthy people get a tax break. :tup:
(btw, my posts are for entertainment only :icon17:).


:tup: that's cool. not everyone likes working in offices. the freedom you have with working on your own gig is :tup:

right now the skill sets i have (which is :postwhore: :rofl2:) keeps me on a salary and cosistent income (just quarters mostly) so that's where i like to be at this point in life while raising kids. :D them and their schools bring enough curve balls... :eekdance:

sounds great that you have a healthy baby! :tup: cherish every moment as you already are. :p


well, not sure if i'd cherish the poop diaper box cleaning, but ... :ugh: it gets worse when babies eat solids. :eekdance:

:tup: you started early!

:tup: no wonder your family is all muscle! :D

:icon17: very true! he is quite the pooper!

I think i started delivering newspapers around 10. did that through high school while working a job part time at night.

money has always been an interest of mine LOL

pooping is good. pooping highly recommended. :tup:



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Mustard factory

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he said it was hard labor , 8 hours a day too, all for a whopping $8.00 :ugh2:

you sound like me! I was working for an uncles landscaping company come 12years old! hard work and some summers I hated it but some how I always went back! got a taste for that $$$ and couldn't stop :icon17: I was making $10/hr when most of my buddy where making $5.xx (the minimum wage at the time)

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yep most days he's a little mustard seed! :roflpuke2:

:tup: hahaha!!

yah, mine too. but i kinda plateau'ed around late 30's... :ugh: i started realizing being a work acholic in my line of work is a big waste of my life. i work for a major corp so it's not like i make the biggest decisions at the top. i can do very well at my senior level, but the company can still f-k me if they start selling or watnot. :ugh:

been spending my time wisely. :icon08: :p middle class wins when you spend time wisely with family and stuff you like to do on your free time, i think. :tup: money is not everything..especially not at the nickels and dimes im making.

well said it is all about balance :tup:

but have the drive to go make it is also good:tup: better then those that expect the hand outs :shakes head:

but you strong, healthy, and happy! :tup: at the end, that's wat it all comes down to.

absolutely! :tup: i still drive hard, make revenue in the millions as i have been, but i attenuated the ramp rate. :icon17:

:iagree: physical work is good for you :tup:

back in those days though a dollar was actually worth something! now everything has inflated so much the wages just cannot keep up, thus making us all poorer :ugh2:

if you look at the cost of things (like cars or homes) vs the wage and take the same variables from 50 years ago you can see how we are all actually making less/hour then back in those days :ugh2:

:iagree: little by little the bottom of the middle class is crumbling :ugh:

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its like what my brother's friend told us " im not like you guys! my mother didn't raise 3 Spartans! " LOL

Kids would definitely throw a wrench into our current lives; we would be like :ugh: then :tup:

Thankfully, I can increase my salary any time I want :icon17:

:tup: I am the oldest of 3 boys too I dunno how our moms did it :icon17:


somehow I am the smallest 5'10" but my younger brothers buy 6 & 8 years are both bigger then me @ 6'2" & 6'4". I don't know what happened to me :ugh2: we all play lacrosse and are in good shape, spartans as you may call it!

I should have found some line of work like this :shakes head:

I know you work for yourself but what do you do?