Posted on 06/20/2020 2:00:26 PM PDT by ransomnote
I did my stoop labor in the 60’s, from picking strawberries to commercial clam digging (not recommended) to planting trees for Weyerhauser then moved up to commercial fishing from California to Alaska - deckhand to owner/operator eventually.
Tuna, salmon, halibut - many thousands of each hauled in. Ended up spending 23 years working for the State of Alaska, retired in 2005 at age 53. A little luck and a lot of hard work.
It was probably at least seven ounces then. Looked at a can in WalMart yesterday - the size of a catfood tin (5 oz) and ran 85c.
I found an article from May 2017 where Bumble Bee was charged with price fixing. I’m curious is this is related to the same case, or something new.
Genova yellowfin tuna in olive oil is the tuna of choice in this house. A bit more costly but worth it.
Alaska huh...
I knew a dude that went to Alaska as a skinny little dude and came back a husky f....r
His first job was on a fishing boat and he started as a junior baiter and within a month he was a master baiter.
As to other ‘stoop labor’, always nice to be invited to a classmates house that lived on a farm, we went out for a few days and best I recall a GREAT meal was about all the pay was but the farm got cleaned up and the hay was brought in.
I will never forget the first time when we went out there to ‘get a tan’ and work off the summer fat while the ‘old timers’ were buttoning their collars and rolling down their sleeves.
I swear some 65 years later I am still ‘picking burrs’ and we thought the ‘old guys’ were crazy...
(I think the coach benefitted from OUR working the fields) <: <: <:
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