Hard to believe granny, but I worked in a laundry for ten cents an hour, picked strawberries for two cents a box!!!<<<
Well it did push us to get out and learn something more.
Some of those better jobs, were not really better.
I was a good waitress, but after a few years, decided that I should have a better job, and found one in the office of an airplane factory.
Then I figured out how much I would have left at the end of the month and decided to stay a waitress.
The better wardrobe, snacks, parking, the list was long and left little money at the end of the month.
The one thing about teaching our kids to be waitresses, is no matter where they are, there will be a job open for them and at least they will eat.
I, too waited tables at a local Ho-Jo’s. Again at ten cents an hour, nine hours a day, six days a week, but at least tips made it fairly lucrative for those times. I always encouraged my children to waitress summers in this tourist community as that was the best way to make money for colege. The local restaurants have put many children through college. The same is true of the paper companies up north. My son-in-law put himself through college working at the local paper mill. Both jobs are hard work but pay off in the end.