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[markodochartaigh]

51. I've worked since I was 14

I started unloading trucks before school, then worked in produce at a grocery store, and as an orderly in a nursing home during high school. After high school I worked my only union job (the only local unskilled job that paid more than minimum wage) until the foreman found out that I was gay and fired me. But I had saved enough for college. Then in college I washed dishes and worked in a nursing home. After I got my nursing license I worked in a local hospital making $6/hr as an RN, until we got a family friendly administration and got fired again, the only two times I was ever fired. But my license allowed me to get a job in the big city at a public hospital where even if co-workers or patients didn't like gays, management wouldn't fire you for it. After thirty years there I retired and will hopefully start to draw Social Security (minus the "Windfall Provision", thanks Ronnie Raygun) next year at 67 and 6 months (thanks again Ronnie). And, of course, I will set aside a little every month to pay taxes on my Social Security (thanks again Ronnie).