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Where you working this summer? hard or easy jobs

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das
Posts: 66 - Karma: 151
I'm dish washing at a restaurant and might get another job working at a hot dog stand.
Jul 4 2006 2:16PM
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Kajex
Posts: 1069 - Karma: 178
12 an hour delivering pizza (pretty easy), 7.50 cooking at a bar (extremely easy), 8 stocking at toys r us (boring), and just about to start working construction
Jul 5 2006 9:19AM
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Rajna
Posts: 3824 - Karma: 90
caddy at a golf course,basically $35-55 for 18 holes(takes bout 3.5 hours) very easy
Jul 5 2006 12:14PM
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dgcarbs
Posts: 438 - Karma: 11
bussing tables- $6.50/hr
Jul 5 2006 1:17PM
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hylandrox
Posts: 558 - Karma: 15
mowing lawns and other yard work about 650+ a month i only work like 40 hrs a month
Jul 5 2006 2:02PM
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invader7
Posts: 5756 - Karma: 49
farm work
Jul 5 2006 2:13PM
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Kornn101
Posts: 3534 - Karma: 25
production assistant at nicktoons for mtv networks

JEA

30k+ till i move up to junior designer which is like 45k, cant effin wait for that
Jul 5 2006 2:26PM
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Leckett
Posts: 0 - Karma: 13
lifeguarding and instructing swimming lessons
Jul 5 2006 2:36PM
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.nafus.
Posts: 1298 - Karma: 10
$8 an hour landscaping. its easy
Jul 5 2006 2:38PM
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SkiCrzy
Posts: 1211 - Karma: 10
6$ baggin groceries, 30 hrs a week
Jul 5 2006 2:44PM
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das
Posts: 66 - Karma: 151
Holy shit you must be fuckin over worked
Jul 5 2006 2:53PM
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bp.lando
Posts: 9297 - Karma: 1,495
coding market resaerch data when my mom gets me a project it pays 30/hour avg project takes 12 hours
Jul 5 2006 2:57PM
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brennanmidwest
Posts: 925 - Karma: 13
same..but 9 bucks an hour is pretty nice
Jul 5 2006 5:10PM
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MattTweak
Posts: 234 - Karma: 10
washing dishes 7.50/hr 32 hours a week
Jul 5 2006 5:38PM
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plankster
Posts: 87 - Karma: 10
Beer distributor baby...we do all the Miller stuff (MGD/Lite/High Life, Milwaukee's Best/Light/Ice), plus Sam Adams, Guiness/Harp, Mike's, Smirnoff bitch drinks, and some other stuff that we only sell in the ghetto (cleveland, so legit ghetto, not like you guys in Lewiston maine or whatever). Sweet job, you meet crazy ass people, every once in a while a crackhead will wander into the warehouse, etc.
Jul 5 2006 6:13PM
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JazzyJ
Posts: 3233 - Karma: 18
mines pretty good. I work at CNA Insurance on 40 wall street. Im basically a paid intern, and when they have no papers for me to copy or file, i do some summer reading. btw, angela's ashes is a good book, though im no critic. oh and i get paid 12bucks an hour on average 25hour weeks.
Jul 5 2006 6:19PM
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Gtweaker
Posts: 1371 - Karma: 19
working at fairs...im not a carney,my grand[a owns a taco stand
Jul 5 2006 6:21PM
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mz2288
Posts: 630 - Karma: 10
dam that sounds liike a good deal i work at the USPS and its mad gay i only make 9 because im a mail handler and i dont get weekends or holidays off...
Jul 5 2006 7:24PM
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ATLANTASKI
Posts: 6009 - Karma: 11
i hope you know you basically have the same name as a pornstar infamous for her scenes with black dudes and a gigantic ass
Jul 5 2006 7:54PM
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gab_mori7
Posts: 1099 - Karma: 55
i get 25$ on construction site!
Jul 5 2006 8:09PM
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SkiFakie614
Posts: 541 - Karma: 10
I'm an Engineering Intern for a plastics company. With a bit of luck they will offer me a full-time job when I graduate next May.

The company is Ball Corp. (think glass mason jar, with Ball written in script)

... except I work for the plant that makes all the plastic bottles for Gatorade, Pepsi, Mtn Dew, Dr. Pepper, Mug Root Beer, etc...

We also put labels on the bottles, I'm in charge of improving a lot of machinery, doing drawings in AutoCAD and some other stuff.

It's great, I work 40 hours/wk and make $18/hr. If they hire me full time next spring they'll most likely offer somewhere between $45,000-$55,000 starting salary.

Engineering doesn't ALWAYS suck $$$
Jul 5 2006 8:12PM
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kbrando
Posts: 1207 - Karma: 890
landscaping/lawn care good money but really hot out
Jul 5 2006 8:34PM
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skifree919
Posts: 5842 - Karma: 35
I'm an assistant at Kessler Physical Therapy. It is a pretty sweet job, i have tuesdays and weekends off so i work like 20-23 hours a week, and I get $8 an hour. Pretty interesting except I'm on my feet all day. I work at a track camp for 2 weeks too, monday - friday 8-12 and I get 200 each week, so thats $10 an hour.
Jul 5 2006 8:44PM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
I work in a medical research lab that specializes in using a experimental kind of Ultrasound.


Basically, its like the kind that you can use to image things, like babies, but our stuff is many times more powerful and only lasts for under 1/2 a second. I've been working there for two full years now, and I'm now leading my own project, and get to boss some newer undergrads around.

I'm using our ultrasound to 'push' on tissue. Painful tissue 'hurts' when it is touched, as everyone knows. However, there are sources of pain in places that a doctor cant push on, like the spine. Our idea is that because our ultrasound can produce a push sensation under the skin, at about a centimeter in, we could use it to 'push', or tap, on the persons back. Doctors really need this, because pain in your back can come basically from anywhere, and right now the only solution is to do discographies (sticking a 4 inch needle into your back and taking out some tissue).

Right now I'm testing our idea out on rat models. We've shown that our ultrasound can push at a level that causes inflamed tissue to react, but not normal tissue. Now we're working on a neruopathic pain model, but we might actually be just going ahead with human trials, if all goes well this week. Hopefully we'll have our device clinically availible in a few years, probably around the time I graduate.

So yeah, I'm a scientist that experiments on rats. I'm paid on a scholarship, so I dont get a per hour. But its a lot of fun, and its going to be cool getting a paper published with my name on it.
Jul 5 2006 8:47PM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
Oh, and I get to make my own hours, which is really really nice.
Jul 5 2006 8:48PM
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GnarBurger
Posts: 3215 - Karma: 43
im working landscaping
Jul 5 2006 9:01PM
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cfveinot
Posts: 180 - Karma: 14
Dairy Queen flippin/making burgers, kinda hard during the rushes, but hey, i can eat pretty much whenever i want.
Jul 5 2006 9:15PM
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Sharpy
Posts: 7596 - Karma: 19
i make between 30 and 40 an hour treeplanting, 8500 in 38 days isnt too bad
Jul 5 2006 9:20PM
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das
Posts: 66 - Karma: 151
Holy shit!
Jul 8 2006 12:44AM
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jd_1260
Posts: 1192 - Karma: 293
I make about 9.50 an hour dishwashing. I also get 30% off at the resteraunt and a free meal whenever I work. Today I got mable cooked salmon.
Jul 8 2006 3:02AM
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bigbluedude
Posts: 152 - Karma: 10
$9/hr teaching sailing and its easy as hell
Jul 8 2006 8:17AM
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yojimbo
Posts: 3631 - Karma: 27
I work from home doing graphics desing work for dvd covers. 2 dollars a cover i can finish about 10 an hour so i make about 20 an hour
Jul 8 2006 9:00AM
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C-Burg
Posts: 4729 - Karma: 130
me too, i worked a 12 hr. day yesterday, 6 of which were bailing hay
Jul 8 2006 9:13AM
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tBatt
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 580
the ball plant is 2 mins away from my house.

i mow lawns. $20 per lawn. and right now i have 4 lawns i do 2x a month. i like it casue i get to make my own hrs and get decent money. i dont need to pay for a car or anyhtign either cause im 14
Jul 8 2006 9:26AM
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tBatt
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 580
but im at the one in saratoga, ny and i thikn they only do metal/glass at this one
Jul 8 2006 9:27AM
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frogger69
Posts: 664 - Karma: 16
i ride dirtbikes with a little six year old and get paid like 20 bucks a day
Jul 8 2006 9:39AM
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skifree919
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fuck all you guys with $15 an hour jobs or more. I'm jealous. I thought $8 was good. Make sure you specify if its canadian or american dollars too. What is minimum wage in both canada and american? US is like 6.50 right?
Jul 8 2006 11:35AM
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Capt.Flannel
Posts: 10928 - Karma: 36
baha that sucks wherever you're from. Vermont is 7.25
Jul 8 2006 1:25PM
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Sarah_eats_snow
Posts: 300 - Karma: 11
Selling bikes at sporting Life and working at a doctors office as a physio assistant
Jul 8 2006 2:48PM
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skifree919
Posts: 5842 - Karma: 35
dude, most states have minimum wage set at $5.15 per hour. I just checked. http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm

Thats pretty ridic if you get paid 5.15 per hour
Jul 8 2006 8:45PM
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M+M
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haard
Jul 8 2006 9:27PM
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boochronic13
Posts: 191 - Karma: 24
working at a wood plant stacking lumber from 7AM - 5PM monday through saturday.. 14.5 hours garunteed over time.. all the money goes toward my move to north cali, new ninthward skizzlers and most of all the dank dank bubba bubba kush kush!
Jul 8 2006 9:31PM
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4frntSkier
Posts: 4008 - Karma: 143
caddying at a wealthy country club sounds pearl
Jul 8 2006 9:31PM
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Ericpbp
Posts: 3161 - Karma: 24
7.65/hour
Linens N Things.  such an easy job. you talk to weird people all day and do nothing and since one of my best friends works there we fool around all day
Jul 8 2006 9:34PM
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babysteeze84
Posts: 720 - Karma: 285
I'm working at this lame hotel (for now, until I get a better job) doing catering, serving, and bartending. The bar is sweet but everything else blows, except the money.
Jul 8 2006 9:34PM
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Treestman
Posts: 3049 - Karma: 300

my job sucks, im a counselor for a rec. day camp for 4-5 year olds
and i get paid below min wage, 30 hrs/wk
ill have to ask about this, im making 5.50/hr, isnt that illegal or something?

Jul 8 2006 9:45PM
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JayDope
Posts: 6842 - Karma: 408
im a caddy its not an easy job and but it pays really good
Jul 8 2006 10:21PM
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mad_540_trix
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i work for bc parks. i get $9/hour, 40 hours/week and i drive around all day in a chevy pickup listening to the radio. it's nice.

for extra money i do farm work.  mostly haying, which pays between 20 and 25 bucks per hour, but some irrigation too every once in a while.  i wish i could hay 5 days a week, i'd be making so much money.  unfortunately, everyone's hay is ready at the same time :(.
Jul 8 2006 11:04PM
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nickmcnutt
Posts: 4396 - Karma: 2,965
$10.50 to $14.50 depending what shifts i work at a grocery store, and 16 bucks when i work construction.
Jul 8 2006 11:07PM
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skifree919
Posts: 5842 - Karma: 35
what state brosef?
Jul 9 2006 12:22AM
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CJHski
Posts: 2384 - Karma: 126
i work at a brewery, most of the time its pretty simple
Jul 9 2006 12:32AM
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