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hunter

(38,311 posts)

12. The first time I made more than $100 in a day was moving furniture.

Reply to irisblue (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 11:04 PM

Jul 2020

I worked my ass off into triple overtime, but still, $100.

That was four decades ago.

Gasoline was cheap. Rents were low. I graduated from college without loans.

That's not the world my children grew up in and they are not nearly so lazy or as crazy as I am.

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