@filmfann It was pretty hard work, and I was paid $1.85 an hour to start. My boss told me I wasn’t worth it. I worked there for 2½ years.
You actually stayed that long when he told you that? Did he believe you were worth the money after 2 ½ years, or that is why you quit?
@Adirondackwannabe We unloaded and put away hay bales all day, in hot miserable conditions for the princely sum of $5.00 a day. And we thought we were on top of the world.
Hopefully that was a summer job, did they squeeze mucking the stalls out of you too?
@Judi And the reason I have made more money over the years and am able to be retired in my early 50’s has had more to do with good connections and lucky breaks than with hard work and smarts.
Chalk up one more for it is not what you know, it is who you know.
@Pachy Being Jewish, I actually was a Hebrew slave!
Had to lurve that, had me ROLLING!