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[oldtime dfl_er]

77. I started working at 16

My first job was a summer job in a wiping cloth factory. Yes, we made wiping cloths. I worked the back side of the mangle - a giant roller style ironing machine. I stood all day, feeding the hot, wet rags into the mangle. My friend worked the other side. She got to sit down. It was sweltering, the building was dilapidated and filthy, and I made $1.60 an hour. But I was lucky. Another employee, a woman who was handicapped, made half what I made, and her job was to scramble around on the dirty wooden floor and pick up loose buttons. We got a 15 minute break in the mornings and afternoons and a half hour for lunch. During our breaks, we managed to smoke 3 full cigarettes while we cursed the owners. But unemployment in my town in 1968 was more than 20%. My brother remembers going to apply for a part time shelf stocking job at Woolworths, but leaving when he saw the line was around the block.

I'm female, and I'm still working.

Yes, boomers know how to work.