On 2017-09-02 8:26 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>

>>
>> My first real summer job was in 1965 when I worked as a labourer for
>> a construction company. I worked my ass off making basements for $1
>> an hour. I was only 14 and I only lasted a month.
>
> I think some child labor laws kicked in a bit after that. I vaguely
> recall some serious limits a decade later.
>

It was 1965. I was a big kid and I don't think he even asked my age.
It was hard work, we would show up at recently excavated lots. The pros
would lay out the framework for the footings. We would lug big
wheelbarrows full of gravel for the bottom layer an later fill in the
forms with cement. A day or two latter were removed the forms and then
more gravel, lay the weeping tiles, cover them with gravel and then a
layer of gravel to the top of the footings.

It was hot, dusty and very heavy work and I made as much in an hour or
two as I used to earn that paper route.