Nickolai wrote:
My first job was selling news papers next to a corner bar when I was 9 years old and have had some kind of way of earning my own spending money. The only thing I ever asked my parents for was a bicycle when I was 10 years old I chopped weeds in a nursery, sanded s**t off chicken eggs and fed chickens on a chicken ranch. Directed traffic on Saturdays at an auto parts store. delivered news papers. Bought papers for wholesale four cents and sold them for a Nickle to the cars in the big drive in Restaurant. Became a drywall finisher, Started my own drywall business and had 80 employees at the peak, Grossed one and a half million in sales for 20 years
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Can surely identify with the HAY thing. Farm life with all the usual goodies including milking a cow at 5 years old with the other stuff, feeding critters. forking manure, gardening and weeding flower beds, carrying water from the spring to the house, carrying wood in for the cook stove, taking ashes out,shucking and shelling corn for the chickens, suckering tobacco, gathering fruit, peaches, eggs, apples, blackberries, etc. All this in addition to attending school 5 days a week, where a failing report card was not an option,catching the bus at 0715, home on the bus about 4 pm just in time to round up the cows, feed the critters, milk mine, eat supper, wash up, hit the sack, repeat. Summer time was a blast since there were no girls in the family, I was elected to do the dusting, help hang clothes outside, peel and slice apples, peaches preparing grapes for canning or drying plus many other tasks. When did I get time for varsity sports, you ask? Oh yeah, that's right never a game of anything at anytime during school years 1939-1951. Also in 1951, I was invited to leave home after graduation (age 16 and 7 months) and have earned every penny spent and paid for everything I have used, consumed,driven including my first bicycle, a beautiful Schwinn Panther two tone green with white walls for 'only' $72.34. Also enlisted in the Navy that year and spent the next 14 involved in that both regular and reserve. Retired from an electrical utility in 1994 after 32 years.
Do you think the millennials have a soft spot in my thought process? How about the punks that don't know why they are attending school or the older punks kneeling on the sideline during the Anthem?
You could guess I don't do movies or TV, and now, not even football.
Oh well, I don't suppose I'll live long enough to see Islam take over our country.