$2.40 an hour and lessons learned
Buley
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Growing up, my first paying job was as a janitor at a Catholic high school in Seattle. I earned, as I recall, $2.40 an hour to vacuum, sweep, clean blackboards, empty trash, and, in general, pick up garbage after everyone else had gone home.
There was no time for messing around. The head janitor, who went by the name of Arnie, was a taskmaster with no tolerance for nonsense from a teenager. If you weren’t working pretty much every minute to earn your money, you were considered lazy and sent home.
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