My nephew is going to be a dead colonial soldier at Knott's Scary Farm

[Bertha Venation]

Aside from working at the collection center on election nights, this will be his first job. What a fun first job to have!!

What was your first job with a paycheck from which taxes were deducted?

[madinmaryland]

1. I went to Knotts Berry Farm when we went to California in the early 70's.

:shrug:

[Bertha Venation]

2. Same place.

Just spooked out for Halloween. :wooooooooooooooooooooooooooo:

:hi:

[madinmaryland]

3. It probably has no resemblance to the place I saw in 1973. I'll have to

at the pic's my dad took on that trip. He spent a couple of years digitizing all of his slides!

I know that at one time I had a little trinket of some sort from there which I am sure is long gone.

[Bertha Venation]

5. Well, let's see . . .

They still have the Log Ride, the Stagecoach, the train (complete with hold-ups) and the chicken dinner restaurant. Other than that, it little resembles the Knott's you visited. It's just another amusement park now.

I wonder if your trinket was a tiny vial of gold flakes. You could pan for gold. I did it and came away with a vial of gold flakes. I'm sure it wasn't real gold, but I sure thought it was. Panning for gold was fun for a little kid.

I would love to see what Knott's looked like back then. Treasure those pics!

[Brickbat]

4. I worked as an operator standing by for an inbound telemarketing firm. It was a great summer job.

No food service, no smelling like grease, and money that wasn't too bad, for a kid heading to college.

[foxfeet]

6. I was a county 4-H camp instructor employed by the Extension Service at WVU.

Did that for three summers. It was a good job; I enjoyed working with the kids. I went to a different county each week for several weeks. The downside? A right-wing asshole 4-H agent in Randolph County who freaked when I showed up with a bead choker (red, white and blue). He demanded that I remove it and not wear it again while there. I considered telling him to stuff it, but he was an aberration and I needed the money. Sadly, some of the kids I worked with in Logan County were lost in the Buffalo Creek Mine disaster, when a coal mine slag dam gave way sending a wall of water, rocks and slag rushing down the inhabited Buffalo Creek valley. I still thik about them.

[styersc]

7. First job was collecting cans by the highway and selling plasma

to try to support my clinically depressed mother and two younger siblings, living under a bridge after dad overdosed on heroin. Not much more that an 11 year old could get.

But that Knott's Farm thing sounds cool too.

[petronius]

8. Mine was at Disneyland (selling fast food), but I had friends at Knott's

Back in the day, my favorite part of KBF was Jungle Island (with the Woodniks) and the Lagoon with the pedal boats. We went there a lot when I was a little kid...

[Curmudgeoness]

9. First job, packing candy at a confectionary factory.

That was better than when I "moved up" to taking candy off the belt---if you ever saw that I Love Lucy skit, it is not quite as funny to me, it is my nightmare.

[trackfan]

10. My cousin has been playing in a country band there this

summer. He calculates that he's played the Bonanze theme 123 times.

My first real job was for Drewry Photocolor in Burbank, sorting negatives, in the summer of 1978. I worked the swing shift, and hated it.
I made $2.90/hr., but got an extra .10/per hour for the "shift differential".

[Dr Morbius]

11. Stocking shelves at a grocery.

I don't remember if taxes were deducted when I delivered papers.

Remember when delivering papers was a kid's job?

[Roon]

15. I delivered papers when I was 13-years-old

No taxes...you go collect, take your cut, and have your mother write a check to the newspaper. I LOVED christmas, I made good tips for a 13-year-old!

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Welcome to McDonalds, may I please take your order?

Drive-thru. Had to because my mom was the manager.

That is cool that your nephew is going to be a Screamster. My daughter works (all season) at Cedar Point (also owned by Cedar Fair) as a ride host and the screamsters they hire for Halloween have a blast.
I hope he has fun.

[Roon]

14. I worked at a McDonald's for a short bit a few years ago

I liked working the counter, taking orders, and filling them. I thought it was fun!

I quit because of the language barrier, I was basically the only one there that didn't speak spanish. Everyone knew english too, but they all talked spanish when not talking to a customer. It drove me bonkers one day and I walked out.

[Roon]

13. My first "payroll" job was at a brand new skipper's seafood restaurant

We trained for a few days before we opened. I was a cook. The night before the grand opening, the managers said we could invite our families to come and have a free seafood meal! I worked family night and for the grand opening.

To demonstrate how long ago this was,that following summer we had a company picnic. Employees from other stores covered our shifts so we could go to the picnic. When we arrived at the park in the mountains, the managers were already there,DRUNK off their asses and a large keg of budweiser tapped and ready to go. Everyone drank a LOT of beer that day! Although there were some adults in the crew there, the majority of us were under aged teens. We weren't even old enough to drink 3.2 beer, which at the time the time was legal to drink at 18-years-old.

One of the managers took a nasty spill and skinned up his elbows pretty good. Another manager was so trashed he just walked up to a tree, no privacy for himself, and just whipped out his dick in front of everyone and started peeing. We all got super drunk and at the end of the day we all piled back in our cars and started heading home.

I had the lunch shift the next day, but it was no biggie. (When you are young, you tolerate alcohol better than the older folks) so the only hangover symptom I got was I was very thirsty. No one mentioned the picnic that day and we never talked about it again. We all pretended like it didn't happen. Wild.

That one manager was walking around with skinned elbows but that was the only evidence of the day before.

Can you imagine if fast food managers today had a kegger with a bunch of minors drinking?

[Bertha Venation]

19. that is a pretty amazing tale, Roon

And I know exactly what would happen if that party took place in 2010:

* "good evening, welcome to the six o'clock news, our top story tonight ..."

* store GM fired

* all remaining store managers disciplined and counseled

* investigation into who issued the permit for the party site

* press release from HQ stating "we did not know," "responsible parties have been fired or otherwise disciplined," "this incident does not reflect the long-held values of (Store)," etc.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. Army. -nt

[joeybee12]

17. Does he start out dead, or does he die during some re-enactment? n/t

[Bertha Venation]

18. he'll start out dead

I wish I could be there to ride the Log Ride, which has to be the world's tamest water roller coaster, so I could have the pleasure of having the bejeepers scared out of me by my nephew.