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<blockquote data-quote="Arnold Ziffle" data-source="post: 49320" data-attributes="member: 43"><p>Sidney, keep in mind that $25 per day was a pretty fair wage back in those days, if it is as far back as I suspect, albeit for darn hard work. Heck, I can remember barely just getting a little over $2 per hour at my first job in a steel pipe manufacturing facility the summer I graduated from high school and that was as "recent" as 1969.</p><p></p><p>Earlier on I picked a lot of cotton for 2.5 cents per pound. It took real good cotton and/or a helluva man to pick 400 to 500 pounds in a long day.</p><p></p><p>I'll fondly admit to voluntarily taking on a real cruddy "job". Probably one of the most hair-brained ideas my cousins and I had was to dig a pond with shovels. We were young farts and none too wise, although we were pretty energetic. We had for some years lamented the fact that grandpa's pond dried up almost every summer and we really wanted a place to fish. Getting somebody out there with a dozer or scraper was out of the question. So in between chopping cotton, hauling hay, pulling corn, hauling more hay and finally picking cotton we all went out and started digging in a low spot, sort of like what they call a "playa lake" up in the panhandle. We did this for a fair amount of time but, needless to say, our efforts never resulted in much of a pond. But there's nothing like the enthusiasm (and foolishness) of youth!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arnold Ziffle, post: 49320, member: 43"] Sidney, keep in mind that $25 per day was a pretty fair wage back in those days, if it is as far back as I suspect, albeit for darn hard work. Heck, I can remember barely just getting a little over $2 per hour at my first job in a steel pipe manufacturing facility the summer I graduated from high school and that was as "recent" as 1969. Earlier on I picked a lot of cotton for 2.5 cents per pound. It took real good cotton and/or a helluva man to pick 400 to 500 pounds in a long day. I'll fondly admit to voluntarily taking on a real cruddy "job". Probably one of the most hair-brained ideas my cousins and I had was to dig a pond with shovels. We were young farts and none too wise, although we were pretty energetic. We had for some years lamented the fact that grandpa's pond dried up almost every summer and we really wanted a place to fish. Getting somebody out there with a dozer or scraper was out of the question. So in between chopping cotton, hauling hay, pulling corn, hauling more hay and finally picking cotton we all went out and started digging in a low spot, sort of like what they call a "playa lake" up in the panhandle. We did this for a fair amount of time but, needless to say, our efforts never resulted in much of a pond. But there's nothing like the enthusiasm (and foolishness) of youth! [/QUOTE]
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