Got that beat




But anyways back on topic. When I was 16-18 I worked 2 jobs because I needed to. Then when I turned 18 I got my GED and started as a cook at a steakhouse. Starting pay was $7.50 but I quickly moved up to $11 an hour. Stayed there for around 5 years then it grew old and I wanted a more career type of job so I started working for a construction company in a really big industrial plant in my town. I started talking with and helping people with the main company and I moved from being a general laborer for the construction company to being a safty coordinator/adviser and I was upto around $50,000 a year then(around $24 an hour). One thing led to another and I lost my job there but had saved a good bit of money. I started installing Direct TV making around $40k a year but I had taken alot of the money I made before and invested it in like 2-4 year cd's, bonds, and low level stocks. Needless to say a couple of the "low level" stocks peaked really high and I cashed out.

I had not worked for nearly a year up untill about a month and a half ago when I got a job auditing/inspecting a/b piller, rubber on glass parts, and other misc. parts for Lincoln, GM, and Ford. But now I am about to go back to the company I worked for before being a dispatcher/cordinator for all the rail service in the plant I used to work for.

It just takes determaination, I am a highschool drop out(got my GED though) with no college at all and over the past 5 years my average income has been around $50k a year w/o including the stocks and bonds I made money from.

 

 

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worked on a farm ever since I was tall enough to drive a tractor, meaning if they could strap blocks to the peddles and I could opperate it I was driving it. So did that since I was 10 then when I turned 18 I got a winter job working at Big 5 sporting goods. This winter though I am working both jobs, Big 5 and a farm cleaning grass seed. And I am a full time student as well. And I am also a very good mechanic for 4-wheelers so all the local farmers and ranchers pay me a bit to fix there utility ATV's when they break down.

 

worked at some gift store last year, $7/hr but didnt work too much, was decent. worked at a Honda dealership for the past 9 months, today was my last day there. almost full time for 7 months, ~35hrs a week and the past 2 months have been working weekends because of school. was making $7/hr there with some awesome connections and discounts. ill be working ata Toyota dealership starting this monday as sort of an apprentice or w/e. will be working ~45hrs a week for the next 2 months untill school starts again in Janurary. will be making $8.50/hr and will get more connections

now that im done with major mods on my car for a while i'll be able to save this money up for the Jim Russell school in Cali in 2 years

 

Haha, so many replies... It's really interesting to find out that there are so many people in the exact same situation as I am in. The process of modding on a budget is very tedious, as you save up for each individual part. I think in the long run though my ride will be more legit than some punk sponsored by mom and dad, and I won't have to sacrifice my pride for it either. Hurray for the working class, mates.