Thread: My boy

Work ethic today amoungst the young is almost extinct (sadley).
Back when I was young I would do anything to make an honest buck,I cut cots at 50 cents a tray (took maybe an hour) I picked beans at 3 cents a lb,also cherrys and prunes.
I cut grapes in dinuba Calif for 9 bux a day,I bagged spuds in Kermin Calif for about the same money.This was in the earley 60s,I did this because my parents were poor.I had to work to buy my school cloths for an entire school year (9 mos.) gas for my 40 ford,a movie now and then.
In retrospect,I liked growing up as a poor white kid,made me a better person,I learned from my Dad, any work is good work,has been my credo all my life.

I guess I grew up poor too. I didn't realize it at the time though. Didn't hurt me any that I can tell.

I've worked all my life. Chopped cotton, and pushed it back in the stripper trailers for 10 cents an hour when I was 10. Drove a tractor breaking wheat stubble for a quarter an hour when I was 12. I also drove a 5 axle rig hauling wheat to the elevator. They had to blocks on the pedals so I could drive the damn thing. Drove combines and everything else around the farm. Dad raised horses and I had to ride 3 horses every day after school for at least an hour each.

When I got older like 16 I had three jobs in high school. Worked at a wrecking yard cutting old cars ( classics nowadays) into short iron for $2.50 a car. Did 4 every evening. Got done with that, grabbed a burger and worked at a gun shop for two hours from 7P to 9P. Went home cleaned up did homework and went to bed. Saturdays and Sundays worked as a trap boy at trap and skeet range. Friday night and Saturday night was street racing in my old '57 Belaire.

Joined the Navy out of high school because Dad was going broke putting my sister through college. He'd have done the same for me, but I didn't want him to. Got out of the Navy, worked and went to school and worked at a warehouse. Got tired of school and drove trucks. Been working my old ass off ever since. His mom works her ass off and we get by.

That boy's sperm donor of a father hasn't ever had a job that he kept for over a month. His oldest brother is a waste of skin just like the sperm donor. He thinks as long as he has money for smokes he's doing good. He has no car, no place to stay other than where he can mooch from his dope headed friends.

This boy will do OK if he doesn't mess up and end up with a kid on the ground before he gets his education. LOL

Wullie, I'm sure with your support and the integrity and work ethic you're instilling in him, he'll turn into a fine young man.

Yep, started off in the melon fields at 14, then to ranches, then to oilfields, then to the army. Don't regret anything. Honest days work for labor. Not a bad ethos.

Many, many years ago I worked seasonal farm work for the company that my father worked for. On occasion, he was my direct ‘Boss’ I had to get up earlier, work harder, longer, take shorter breaks just so that no one would be able of accusing either of us of favoritism!

Jump to the future! My wife and I worked at the same store and on occasion I was her direct supervisor!!! One day I overheard a fellow employee complaining to the manager because I was on occasion my wife’s ‘Boss’ he told her that he had no problem with the situation because he knew for a fact that I was harder on her than any other employee that I was supervising!!

I find such life lessons invaluable!!!

Wullie, That means you and the Mrs did somethings very right. Bravo. You've every right to be proud.

My first job out of college was playing for the Hampton Roads Admirals (ECHL) for a paltry $50k/per annum. That was chicken feed!

A paltry 50K? I realize you were getting teeth knocked loose and out etc. 50K might be insignificant in that industry but it sure ain't chicken feed in my book.

I got a lot of teeth knocked loose for free by bashing my face into guys fists. LOL Too old for that now. Takes too long to heal and clothes cost too much.

I have operated an asphalt rake. Its hot, missirable, and back braking work ( I sures heck couldnt do it now). And with the job I do now I have days I would pay to be on a road crew operating a shovel or rake. Less stressful and less responsibility. You did a great job with that one Wullie and even better if he gets an education so he can tell the road crew where to put the road.

Good on him, Wullie!
I drive past those guys in the middle of summer, and even though I've done it hard in the army, I always think that THAT'S a hard job!