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> I started at $1.65 too, in a construction company, but man the double
> overtime after 35 hours was great!


I started at $.50 and then my mom told me I had to pay rent on my room
-- we got over that. Then I delivered newspapers all year round for a
5-mile trek for $7.50 a week, or less.

Memorable wages... at the salt mine they had 'danger pay' and you could
make $4.00 per hour. The job consisted of putting on a rain suit then
getting in a cage that was lowered into the vertical shaft. They had to
have someone small hold the pneumatic drill steady while two big old
guys took a 2 x 4 through the handle and pushed the shit out of it in
order to anchor metal sheets as a lining to the shaft. I don't remember
their names, but I remember they both liked to smoke cigars. It was
always raining and it was tight and close. No such thing as safety
lines, harnesses, or goggles let alone face shields. The sheets would be
lowered down to us from overhead and we would position then screw them
into the oak shoring with lag bolts. This was for Cargill. It was NOT a
summer job, it was my life.

Eventually I got w/ CTB's help onto the electrical crew. Things slowed
down on the project and eventually I got caught hiding up in the rafters
of an industrial shed reading Alan Ginsberg's Kaddish and was
subsequently considered expendable and layed off.

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