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When I was 14 I worked the summer trimming Christmas trees. With a razor sharp 3 foot machete in each hand, baseball knee guards and steel toe work boots, down the rows we went. Definitely helpful to get into a rhythm as you swing each arm left then right then left as you circled the tree. I only cut myself once - 5 stitches. $1.85 an hour. I bought a 10-speed bike with my earnings that summer.
My other gig was delivering newspapers. 85 customers on my route. Canvas bag wrapped around my butterfly handlebars. Man, Sundays were a bitch. Then there was 'collect' when I accepted payment for the previous month. Can you believe some cheap a-holes trying to stiff the paperboy for a measly couple of bucks?!
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