2022-10-14 at 5:55 PM UTC
Lots of successful people started out on less than minimum wage. They didn't even have a fucking minimum wage when I started working
£2.35 a week for doing a paper round...delivering on my bike in morning before school.
You got an extra 50P if you delivered the Sunday papers because no one wanted to do it due to the weight of them.
My brother would then steal half of it from me...character building.
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2022-10-14 at 6:02 PM UTC
Speedy Parker
Black Hole
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I was 12 and was paid 1 dollar per hour for 16 hours on the weekends at my Dad's car wash. I never made minimum wage until I was 15. Even thenit was only $2.25 an hour. But in 4byears I saved enough to pay $3000 for my 1st car. It was a sweet 3 year old 75 Camaro. I learned the value of working towards a goal and delaying gratification that has served me well for the last 46 years and will till the day I die.
2022-10-14 at 6:47 PM UTC
There’s a reason my mum’s family is fucked up and I avoid them, they had an aloof brain damaged father and a selfish mother who was quite uncaring/nasty. They’re all crazy now. My mum was p nasty to me growing up and she mentioned to someone she was acting like her mum. The examples I wanted to talk about:
My aunt was saving for a motorbike and gave all the money she earned to her mother to mind it until she could buy one. When the time came it wasn’t there, she had spent all her daughters savings. Even as an old lady she would steal furniture from their houses if she wanted it, without telling them. It wasn’t because she needed furniture she was just obsessed with antiques. When my mum worked as a child all her money had to go to her mother.
What I don’t understand is why I can see these things as wrong, why I have an outline of what good parenting is when I never really had a mum. If it’s biological from my dad’s side.
2022-10-14 at 9:50 PM UTC
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2022-10-14 at 11:07 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker
I was 12 and was paid 1 dollar per hour for 16 hours on the weekends at my Dad's car wash. I never made minimum wage until I was 15. Even thenit was only $2.25 an hour. But in 4byears I saved enough to pay $3000 for my 1st car. It was a sweet 3 year old 75 Camaro. I learned the value of working towards a goal and delaying gratification that has served me well for the last 46 years and will till the day I die.
Very close to my situation. I didn't get my first car until I was 19. Mom didn't have money to just buy me one. and even if she did, most kids parents didn't buy them a new car, they may of pitched in half in order for their rich kids to take on the responsibility of having a Job. My mom wasn't even middle-class wealth being a single mom for so long.
My first car was a 72 SAAB and the tranny went out in a week. the people accepted it back. and gave me credit I saw a 73 square back Mustang BOSS 302 and let me pay another 1500 difference over a few months (owned by their friend selling it on the lot). I had a job working at a gas station and then got a call from my ROP teacher from Highschool who taught me lineman skills and cable installer. and got me a Job with an underground cable company that same week I purchased the car and I paid the car off and started pouring money into that baby. it was a sweet ass ride. had tan leather, a hard top white exterior with black side stripes and the seats were in great condition. the carb had issues though when it was a cold start.
Middle age crisis. Mac Boi wants to buy one now.
imgage is a 71 that was similar in paint style not color. this was black on white.
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2022-10-14 at 11:10 PM UTC
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does she have supple breasts
2022-10-14 at 11:11 PM UTC
Speedy Parker
Black Hole
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That is nothing like working from age 12 to 16 and saving to buy your own 1st car FFS.
2022-10-14 at 11:20 PM UTC
Didn't have family business to hire me. I had to save several years before I bought that piece of shit SAAB then was able to get a decent car.
Bought a Motorcycle though when I was 18. so I had to save even longer for the car.
