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nonothing

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Just for fun I thought I would ask you all ...What job did you have during your highschool years or college years....What was your first vechile you owned...what kind of car did you first make out in.. :oops: ...And what car did you get your first speeding ticket in...lol.....



I worked for a catering company starting in grade nine right through to grade 12....My first car was a 1971 chevelle,I spent more money fixing it up that I probably could of bought a house for the same amout,but it was fast and looked good...lol..First ticket I got was in my parents four door Grand torino..The thing could move ...lol..and it had a bench seat in the front so it was very well set up for making out in.....I miss that old torino.. :lol:
 

IL Rancher

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MY first real job in highschool was being a stripper.... Well,a paint stripper.. Had a job with a bunch of other guys from school at an old Elgin WATch Copany Manchine near the fox river in Elgin Illiois. The owerns were renovating it and we had to remove all the old paint.. Must have been 6-10 layers of paint.. Pain in the arse but I would bring home 400+ a week so it was worth it..

first car would have been a 1987 Chevy Celebrity Eurosport Wagon.. Started driving that in 91 or 92... beater, lemon of a car, rusting out already.. Called it Hector because it only worked when it wanted too :lol: :lol:


I have never got a speeding ticket although I got warned in Montana once in my 99 Silverado and once in a 96 Jeep that I was driving around... Both times right near the college.. Just didn't notice I was going a little over and I think the cop just wanted to say hi, lol.
 

Goodpasture

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I first started working in a barbershop when I was 6, shining shoes. Fifteen cents a shine and on a good Saturday I would make $8-10. At 8 I picked up a couple of weekly paper routes. Took four hours each to deliver and paid $5.00 each. After I turned 13 we moved from Tulsa to Roswell where dad bought the Overhead Door company. I worked mornings before school and after school and weekends getting doors prepared for installation. Attached hinges, installed locks, glazed them, decorated them. Dad's franchise extended from Clovis to Carlsbad, from Alamogordo to Hobbs. He was on the road 6 days a week. I had to have a pickup to get from work to school and then to work after school. My only time off was my junior year when I worked a couple of months for a rancher near Hondo. I started doing service work and installations when I was 15 (in New Mexico at that point you could get a license at 15).

From 15 till I went to Nam I drove the pickup truck. My first car I bought when I was 17. I wanted something sexier than a half ton. So I got a high mileage TR-3. Took me two months to wreck it.......that was the last car I owned until I was over 30. All the rest have been pickups. I guess the TR-3 was the first make out car, although I always managed to have a lot of fun in the pickup.
 
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Anonymous

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First job, besides working on the home place- or riding day money for local ranchs, was at the Stockyards-- loading out railroad cattlecars all afternoon and nights for 3 days straight a week-- which in the winter meant chipping frozen cowsh*t and loading on the fight bulls at 20 below at 3 or 4 in the morning....An impression that will stay with me til I die...We'd take up a collection and send someone of age in to get a bottle of whiskey- so we could keep the chill off all night.

First car was a 1951 Chevy with a 216 engine--cost less than $2000 brand new...Got so many tickets with that thing that I couldn't even remember what the first was....Senior year in shop, I rebuilt the engine- and fixed the back seat and trunk so you could stick a keg in the trunk with the tap sticking out of the back seat -- And that back seat was good for everything... :wink:
 

Denny

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My first job was working for a local ranch I lived there and got paid $20 a day with room and board I had to cook and clean for the room and board (bachlor pad).My first vehicle was a 1970 11 passenger van that only had the front seats was all shag carpet.It was nick named the shaggen wagon :wink: My girlfriend who happens to be my wife now,her Dad would call it the "SIN BIN".

We just bought a piece of land in march and on that land is where that old van sits yet today sure glad it can't talk.
 

jigs

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my first job was scooping grain for a guy who was too fat to get into the bin. then in 1986 (my freshman in high school year)I began a job with a guy, who I still am somewhat employed with today.

first wheels I bought cost me $40.00, plus another $20.00 to get it ruinning! a 1963 F-250. named it Sebastian ! a pile of junk, but it got me where I wanted to go.

first ticket and make out car were the same ones, 1986 Firebird ! man, that thing would run like a raped ape, and corner like she was on rails!
 

Jassy

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I didn't have to work in highschool...busy with sports,,and horses but in college I worked parttime at a pharmacy delivering prescriptions...met lots of nice people with that job.

First car was a vega hatchback...it only lasted a short while cause a spark caused the gas tank to blowup...hated that car anyway...lol

Next car was an Apollo....V-8 auto on the floor...fun fun car...also the same car I got my first ticket in...lol Oh those were the days!
 

flrooster

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in high school i worked for my daddy,we ran produce packing sheds bell pepper,squash,cucumbers mostly. we would start in S.Fl and follow the crops north winding up on the eastern shore of Va.by high school i was running crews and traveling alot so school was kinda hit and miss.my first car was a 69 El Camino SS.i still miss that car but it was the last chevy or non pickup i owned till i was about 40. i was lucky thought everything had 2 speeds wide open and off. :D i've never had a speeding ticket or a wreck {knock on wood}these days nothing but ford pickups and life in the slow lane,makes it easier to watch whats in the pastures. :D
 

Rambo

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First job was hauling square bales, got paid room and board.

Firt car was a '63 Mercury station wagon. Engine was wore out, top speed about 45. Good learner car.

First speeding ticket with a '68 Olds Cutlass. 85 in a 55. That was spendy. :cry:
 

ranchwife

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ILRancher----your reply ("stripper") definitely got a chuckle outta me...made me look twice!! :lol: :lol:

As for me, I was a typical teenage girl....babysat EVERY chance I got!! Dad was a correctional officer and we were so danged dirt poor that our "yearly school clothes shopping" consisted of ONE pair of Levi 501's (if you remember, they were the cheapest jeans in the mid-80's..cost about $9 a pair)...if last years shoes, shirts and jacket fit, then so be it!! Anything else, I had to earn my own way!! The summer before my senior year, I went to work in Virginia City (little touristy/mining/ghost/frontier town) and saved every penny for clothes, senior pictures, cap and gown for graduation and gas on my 1974 Ford Pinto Station Wagon.....car only cost $40, but she ran like a champ!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

IL Rancher

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That was the first summer that I was dating Sandy... We went ot dinner once with her mom and some friends and they asked me what I was doing for work that summe and I told them I was a Stripper... Future Mom in laws guest that night was the pastor at their church and I let it hang for about 4-5 seconds just watching his face and than my future mother in law busted out laughing and told him that I was a paint stripper.... Man, I was glad when they switched churches becuase everytime I ran into the guy (My mother in law had a lot of church functions at her house) he gave me a bit of a dirty look..

By the way, I was probably al of 5 foot 10 and weighed 135 pounds soaking wet... Still recovering from the Giardia bout I had the fall before...
 

ranchwife

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IL Rancher said:
That was the first summer that I was dating Sandy... We went ot dinner once with her mom and some friends and they asked me what I was doing for work that summe and I told them I was a Stripper... Future Mom in laws guest that night was the pastor at their church and I let it hang for about 4-5 seconds just watching his face and than my future mother in law busted out laughing and told him that I was a paint stripper.... Man, I was glad when they switched churches becuase everytime I ran into the guy (My mother in law had a lot of church functions at her house) he gave me a bit of a dirty look..

By the way, I was probably al of 5 foot 10 and weighed 135 pounds soaking wet... Still recovering from the Giardia bout I had the fall before...

What a way to impress the future in-laws, IL!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: Reminds me of the first time cowboyup met my folks.....................Showed up at the folks' house for dinner and to introduce Jesse to my dad. Knocked on the door....dad answers....now, at that time, Jesse wore a belt buckle that could have substituted for a satellite dish or a turkey platter...I mean, this thing was HUGE!!!! Anyway, there stands my Jesse, hat in hand, smile on face...my dad looks at the belt buckle and his very first words to his future son in law were "Nice belt buckle!!"....my future hubby's very first words to his future father-in-law were......."Well, sir....my daddy always told me that is you have a nice set of tools, then you'd better have a nice shed over 'em!".......................at this point, silence...........then my dad started to laugh and said "okay...you got me...come on in, son!!"...they have been very close friends since!!! :roll:
 

IL Rancher

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My mother in law led a wild and crazy youth/first 40 years of her life before finding Jesus and has some stories that would make a sailor blush.. She has a terriffic sense of humour as do her kids and if anything it probably did endear me to the family.. Actually, she has some stories that will make you want to cry too, starting off with her father dieing in his first training exercise in England in a bomber in May of 45, 3 months before she was born.

Now, doing that in front of her ex husband, my father i law.... Not going to happen...Different sense of humour..
 

Kato

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My first job was as a swimming instructor and lifeguard. It was just in the summers though. One of the best jobs you can have as a teenager.

First car was a VW beetle. 1965 model. It cost less than five bucks to fill the tank, and that would last for a couple of weeks. It had no heater, and we had to put frost shields on the windshield to drive it in the winter. Twice I had to have it towed to a garage to spend the night inside so the ice buildup under the gas, clutch and brake could melt down and I could drive it again. :lol: :lol: :lol: One time it stalled out on me at a very busy intersection in Winnipeg, so my sister, her friend, and me got out, pushed it, and then jumped in on a roll, popped the clutch, and took off. It was about twenty below that day too, so we did it in parkas and boots. :lol: :lol: :lol: I bet that story was at a hundred water coolers the next day. The audience was huge!
 

Shelly

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My first job was babysitting, just so I made enough money to buy my own clothes. Then when I moved in with my hubby (even though we weren't married), I worked here on the farm till I got a job slinging beer in the local bar.

First car was a 1981 Monte Carlo. Father-in-law loaned me the money and I worked it off working on the farm and doing his accounting books. BTW, her name was Peppy (all cars are female, dontcha know!) :)
 

Doug Thorson

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My first job was painting the High School buildings on a Government cost share summer work program. It taught me that life wasn't fair. 2 of us guys applied but his Dad made too much money for him to qualify so I was cost shared and he was just hired. The next year I was cost shared again at minimum wage and he got a raise!
My first car was a 78 Granada 4 door, no radio, no AC, but it ran. I was a senior in High School. I bought it from a guy at the shop I worked in, went and got a friend to show him. We took off and 2 blocks later I was explaining to the cop about the speedometer not being right. I got off with a warning. I tried several times to fix the speedo, but it never worked right for over a week the whole time I owned it.
 

cowwrangler

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my first job was at an salebarn when i was 12,when they had horse sales i used to get 2 dollars a horse to brush them,prolly took 2 hours to get close to the mustangs,lol then had to be very careful,first truck was a 78 chevy,must have been a good one since i am still driving it,ole brownie will always start and hey its paid for,lol new one sits in the shed lol
 

Sundancer

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Grew up working on the farm, raking hay and stacking bales. Also did the usual Iowa thing of walking beans and detasselling corn. Was a crew chief and really didn't have a lot of mercy on the little tykes that thought it was "too hot", "too wet". or "too itchy" :p
My first car was a 1979 Chev. Chevette 2 door hatchback. Can't beleive I hauled my sister and a classmate and myself to college in that thing. I think we probably had 3 or 4 bags apeice! Now it looks like everything goes to college including the kitchen sink! I don't think I got a ticket in that car but I do very distinctly remember doing a 360 (not on purpose) one slick night going up a hill on my way to High school choir rehearsal!
 
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