March 12, 2008 Archive Entries: Gas at an all time high..., Jobs I've Had,

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Jobs I've Had

I've had a lot of jobs in my life, even since I was little. Not that Mom didn't buy me stuff, but I always had some hobby that needed ca$h so I often had jobs. Beside maybe shoveling show or leaves and stuff like that I've started pretty early. I was thinking about this since I saw Miss. Britt do a section like this for her 100 things list so I started thinking about it.

I delivered the shopping news once a week (maybe every other week), a local ad newspaper, it didn't pay much but it got me some money. I know I was pretty young but I really don't know.

The little bookstore down the street gave me stuff to do here and there. The wonderful lady who ran it gave me cash or credit for books.

I had some paper routes for the regular newspaper too, The Detroit Free Press, but I hated the mornings. I think I gave it up for a while and then got it back a few years later (the money was pretty good). I quit the second time because the Lions club (or some other organization) did a fundraiser by selling subscriptions and they tripled my route size. I couldn't get it done in the morning and the manager wouldn't shrink my route (the assumption was after the 20 week promo ran out, many would drop, but I didn't have three hours every day before school for the larger route).

I baby sat for my younger cousins pretty regularly in the ninth grade for a while.

I worked at the local bowling alley, Hartfield Lanes, in the evenings just picking up bottles and stuff as the leagues drank their way through their frames.

Eventually, I started working at the snack bar. This was a much better job and George pretty much let us run the place so it was a great job.

These were most of my jobs up to the time that I started getting computer jobs (not that there weren't some non-computer jobs later on too). So I think I'll wrap this up for now and make that a second (or third) part, this gets me through age 15...

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Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 6:39 PM on March 12, 2008.
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Gas at an all time high...

I can't believe these prices. I only paid $3.23 yesterday but I paid $3.25 on Friday. I think that's the highest I've ever paid. And "they" say it's going to keep going up...

I'm so glad I don't drive far. Generally, less than a tank gets me through the week.