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How is it pronounced, though? *
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Posted by Tuscy
on May 19, 2022, 10:01:24, in reply to "
Trick question: Quality is Job 1.*
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Trying to explain corn detasseling to someone not from the Midwest is weird.
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I just got asked what my first job was
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 13:54:34
My parents met Detassling. There isn't a more Midwest thing than that.*
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eta
May 19, 2022, 9:53:58
"Ope, just gonna sneak by ya and drop off these tassels there"*
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Sammich
May 19, 2022, 9:59:42
i assume you follow this account?
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illiniranger
May 19, 2022, 10:02:20
This is a favorite of mine
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Sounder
May 19, 2022, 16:55:18
I didn't, but I do now*
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Sammich
May 19, 2022, 10:58:41
Cashier at parent's gas/service station selling cigerettes at 9*
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Savoy
May 19, 2022, 9:51:30
Trick question: Quality is Job 1.*
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DT
May 19, 2022, 9:00:59
How is it pronounced, though? *
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Tuscy
May 19, 2022, 10:01:24
Washing dishes at my parents' restaurant starting at 14. Got to help cook after I turned 15. McD's
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ATL
May 19, 2022, 8:57:31
Depends what you consider a job.
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larue33
May 19, 2022, 8:22:54
South Suburban Star Newspaper delivery boy. First that came with a W-2 form was McDonald's*
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timmer
May 19, 2022, 8:09:10
walking beans, hometown grocery store *
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Jersey
May 19, 2022, 8:06:08
Did that for 3 days but it wasn’t worth the money. First I stuck with was a paper route.*
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DT
May 19, 2022, 7:24:28
I lived in ECI for four years and my company is big in ag and I am not quite sure what it is*
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ATL
May 19, 2022, 7:23:47
1st cash job was working on a pecan tree farm. 1st paycheck job was harvesting german status*
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illinilosch
May 19, 2022, 7:11:35
busboy then clerk at a big box store*
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biclops
May 18, 2022, 19:00:50
Lawn mowing > little league umpire > kitchen staff > TIS Bookstore*
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Dilbert
May 18, 2022, 17:19:50
Walking beans, then a fried chicken place, then retail*
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PapaDels
May 18, 2022, 17:15:09
First cash jobs were bucking bales and weeding beans. First “real” job was working at IGA stocking
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harb
May 18, 2022, 16:51:06
My second job was IGA. My hardest job was probably working the docks at Kraft...
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Tuscy
May 19, 2022, 6:48:42
Being a pizza delivery driver was an amazing job growing up*
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reggiedunlop
May 18, 2022, 16:44:20
Maybe the most fun job I ever had
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 16:45:10
Open gym/field supervisor for wheeling park district
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Mrap24
May 18, 2022, 16:42:00
Machining and painting roof bolts that were sold to coal mines. It wasn’t bad. *
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illiniranger
May 18, 2022, 16:33:48
Speaking of nostalgia, lunch was fried spam and velveeta
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 15:20:40
Outside of delivering newspapers, it was Ponderosa Steakhouse $2.26/hour!*
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RSMBob
May 18, 2022, 15:18:48
$13/hr?!?!? Sign me up!!!!
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timmer
May 18, 2022, 15:16:19
Breadeaux pizza @ 15. I couldn't use the big pizza slicer until 16.*
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DiamondDazzle
May 18, 2022, 15:06:46
other than mowing lawns, caddying*
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gvibes
May 18, 2022, 14:45:35
"I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it.
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Kajagoogoo
May 18, 2022, 14:53:14
Yes, it was super annoying that every golfer assumed every caddy had caddy shack memorized*
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gvibes
May 19, 2022, 8:41:27
I figured that was a prerequisite for the job.
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Kajagoogoo
May 19, 2022, 9:58:10
Monical's*
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Tuscy
May 18, 2022, 14:34:52
Godfathers (1st tax witheld). *
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memyselfandillini
May 18, 2022, 14:40:39
a pizza you can't refuse (do it)*
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:42:24
I urge you to refuse. kitchen mantra was reuse reduce recycle; and not environmenalists*
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memyselfandillini
May 18, 2022, 14:58:48
I worked in a small independent pizza place, I've seen terrible things*
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 15:00:26
Go on ...*
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complainant
May 18, 2022, 15:11:54
say no more*
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memyselfandillini
May 18, 2022, 15:04:02
My cousin worked at Monical's in college. It was quite wonderful. For me, not for them
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longsnapper
May 18, 2022, 14:36:34
We used to show up and eat for free at Alexander's
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:43:29
My first job was amazing. Summer job before my senior year of HS working at a billing office
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Jackie
May 18, 2022, 14:21:34
I spent two summers working as a drive through bank teller
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:39:36
did they give you a uniform to wear?*
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bbonb
May 18, 2022, 14:24:53
It was 1987, so all forms of pegged acid-wash jeans were acceptable
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Jackie
May 18, 2022, 14:28:22
The Decade of Hair*
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bbonb
May 18, 2022, 14:38:05
We needed a whole decade to make room for all of it*
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Jackie
May 18, 2022, 14:42:03
My wife has glamour shots from the 80's
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:52:55
the first apply filter app?*
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bbonb
May 18, 2022, 16:44:44
Did that shit fall in the summer humidity? I just vaguely remember tall bangs...
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haighter
May 18, 2022, 14:43:44
Probably somewhat, but we had some pretty powerful hairspray*
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Jackie
May 18, 2022, 14:50:17
To this day, the smell of hairspray takes me directly to a specific high school crush*
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:53:41
I'm not sure when I last smelled hairspray? *
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haighter
May 18, 2022, 14:55:15
A few hours ago*
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Jackie
May 18, 2022, 15:00:29
For sure, it's been a while*
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:56:29
I remember watching a Motley Crue doc where they talked about the cases...
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haighter
May 18, 2022, 14:51:47
Mowing lawns, walking beans, pollinating corn*
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opey8
May 18, 2022, 14:21:31
Same. What a hot, humid, terrible job. But, I got $$$*
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bbonb
May 18, 2022, 14:17:03
did you have to walk? the place i worked at had "rigs" with baskets to ride in
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lcubed
May 18, 2022, 14:14:05
yes we walked*
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:43:49
We rented those rigs and drove them when I contracted with Pioneer once the corn got too high for...
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MtHoodIllini
May 18, 2022, 14:20:36
I worked for pioneer in baskets. I lasted a week.
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BoCool
May 18, 2022, 15:07:49
We were bussed out and had to walk the field*
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longsnapper
May 18, 2022, 14:18:26
this operation had to be a walking osha violation
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lcubed
May 19, 2022, 10:00:03
This
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:44:49
it was a different time back then*
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bbonb
May 18, 2022, 14:38:58
My first regular job was selling hats on Maxwell Street on the weekends in Chicago. I doubt if
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MtHoodIllini
May 18, 2022, 14:13:36
I spent many hours there at Maxwell Street....my mom taught at a school
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TarheelIllini
May 19, 2022, 7:13:19
It was a pretty wild neighborhood. I once walked a pimp and two of his girls to his Cadillac........
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MtHoodIllini
May 19, 2022, 16:38:00
If only you'd worked at a place where you could smell onions grilling...
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osklister
May 18, 2022, 16:29:30
I'd eat a Maxwell Street Polish sausage with onions for breakfast. Old black dudes with 40 foot.....
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MtHoodIllini
May 18, 2022, 18:53:14
LOLOL... lotta cash transactions.
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osklister
May 19, 2022, 9:31:13
Cash was king!*
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MtHoodIllini
May 19, 2022, 16:53:42
Baling hay, walking beans, detassling, mowing,roofing, sporting goods store, building grain silos,
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longsnapper
May 18, 2022, 14:11:05
Stockboy at K-Mart*
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bjl63
May 18, 2022, 14:10:43
Pours one out for Venture.
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osklister
May 18, 2022, 14:23:00
K's Merchandise was best in class*
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longsnapper
May 18, 2022, 14:36:57
Not just becase you could go play Atari in the electronics room*
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memyselfandillini
May 18, 2022, 15:03:02
It's all a charade, right?
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RangerDanger
May 18, 2022, 14:08:44
farmers weren't the ones doing it - it was seed companies.*
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eta
May 19, 2022, 9:53:32
Oh, and roguing>>>>>>detasseling*
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RangerDanger
May 18, 2022, 14:26:10
(our boss was the basketball coach/athletic director)*
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:10:59
I assume that these jobs are done by migrant labor now?*
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:09:44
Machines plus migrants to catch anything missed*
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opey8
May 18, 2022, 14:20:45
Machines & Migrants has a great burger*
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longsnapper
May 18, 2022, 15:02:08
I hate you. *
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haighter
May 18, 2022, 17:23:31
Acknowledged *
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PapaDels
May 18, 2022, 17:13:50
Three of my friends and I ran a crew of about 50 kids for Pioneer Seed & Grain the summer after.....
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MtHoodIllini
May 18, 2022, 14:06:06
I was a hockey referee*
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KCWildcat
May 18, 2022, 14:05:06
Babysitting and detassling. I was really good at detassling, too*
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Taz
May 18, 2022, 14:01:26
I'm glad I did it because it taught me what hard work is really about
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:03:24
My son keeps asking me if he gets to work for my company when he gets "grown up"...
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haighter
May 18, 2022, 14:05:38
My wife is functionally the operations manager of a cider company
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 14:07:58
Stupid paper route
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Stu
May 18, 2022, 13:59:13
I delivered papers for my brothers when they were at camp.
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Memlie
May 18, 2022, 14:19:00
Yeh the paper route was full of BS like this
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Stu
May 18, 2022, 14:41:01
summer maintenance crew at an apartment complex
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IlliniSax05
May 18, 2022, 13:56:25
Mine was mowing lawns...my first post college job was working for a conservative Jewish...
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haighter
May 18, 2022, 13:56:14
I guess mine was technically mowing lawns as well
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Sounder
May 18, 2022, 13:57:28
I worked at IUB and 02 Main in college. *
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haighter
May 18, 2022, 14:03:59
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