[Zipperfish]

fifeboy fifeboy:

martin14 martin14:

I just for the hell of it googled my old paper route.

7.2 km, 6 days a week.

Summer, bike. Winter, hitch.

Funny thing that! I remember, when I was about 16 or 17 and thinking about what I wanted to do at Uni. I asked a gentleman at my church, a successful business man what was the start of his success, he didn't hesitate at all. "Getting a paper route was the start of my career. Hard work, gotten done on time and in the manner expected was the first lesson I learned."

Yeah, well my first job was delivering papers, and I'm a big, fat loser. So much for that theory.

[Brenda]

fifeboy fifeboy:

martin14 martin14:

I just for the hell of it googled my old paper route.

7.2 km, 6 days a week.

Summer, bike. Winter, hitch.

Funny thing that! I remember, when I was about 16 or 17 and thinking about what I wanted to do at Uni. I asked a gentleman at my church, a successful business man what was the start of his success, he didn't hesitate at all. "Getting a paper route was the start of my career. Hard work, gotten done on time and in the manner expected was the first lesson I learned."

Oh, don't start me on the paper route. I had one as well.
Week after week, I got a complaint from the same people who claimed they hadn't gotten their (FREE) paper. (row houses, why would I skip theirs??) Even when I knocked on the door and handed it personally to the home owner, I STILL got a complaint.

[Thanos]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

fifeboy fifeboy:

martin14 martin14:

I just for the hell of it googled my old paper route.

7.2 km, 6 days a week.

Summer, bike. Winter, hitch.

Funny thing that! I remember, when I was about 16 or 17 and thinking about what I wanted to do at Uni. I asked a gentleman at my church, a successful business man what was the start of his success, he didn't hesitate at all. "Getting a paper route was the start of my career. Hard work, gotten done on time and in the manner expected was the first lesson I learned."

Yeah, well my first job was delivering papers, and I'm a big, fat loser. So much for that theory.

Same, including the paper route. We were clearly separated at birth. Hey, look at me, I'm a big fat fuck!

The paper route was an eye-opener. Learned enough during it to never have anything to do with customer service or retail jobs ever again. Thanks, Calgary Herald subscribers circa 1980 to 1982! This one's for you!

[2Cdo]

Young kids have it easy today. In my day we had to walk 20 miles to school, uphill both ways, in snow over our heads, and we had to go home for lunch!

[Gunnair]

Brenda Brenda:

fifeboy fifeboy:

martin14 martin14:

I just for the hell of it googled my old paper route.

7.2 km, 6 days a week.

Summer, bike. Winter, hitch.

Funny thing that! I remember, when I was about 16 or 17 and thinking about what I wanted to do at Uni. I asked a gentleman at my church, a successful business man what was the start of his success, he didn't hesitate at all. "Getting a paper route was the start of my career. Hard work, gotten done on time and in the manner expected was the first lesson I learned."

Oh, don't start me on the paper route. I had one as well.
Week after week, I got a complaint from the same people who claimed they hadn't gotten their (FREE) paper. (row houses, why would I skip theirs??) Even when I knocked on the door and handed it personally to the home owner, I STILL got a complaint.

Must have been hard on your feet in those clogs.

[martin14]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

Young kids have it easy today. In my day we had to walk 20 miles to school, uphill both ways, in snow over our heads, and we had to go home for lunch!

You got lunch ?


You rich bastard, I had to eat what I could find on the side of the road !

[martin14]

Thanos Thanos:

The paper route was an eye-opener. Learned enough during it to never have anything to do with customer service or retail jobs ever again. Thanks, Calgary Herald subscribers circa 1980 to 1982! This one's for you!

Actually, that starting experience of customer service was very valuable for me;
at some point, everyone is your customer.. even your boss at your job.

Most people just don't look at it that way.

[2Cdo]

I find it strange that most paper routes today are done by adults driving cars.

It was an excellent way to learn responsibility and make money before you could get a "real" job.

[Brenda]

Gunnair Gunnair:

Brenda Brenda:

Oh, don't start me on the paper route. I had one as well.
Week after week, I got a complaint from the same people who claimed they hadn't gotten their (FREE) paper. (row houses, why would I skip theirs??) Even when I knocked on the door and handed it personally to the home owner, I STILL got a complaint.

Must have been hard on your feet in those clogs.

Actually, they are VERY comfy, once you get over the hard part on the top of your foot. My kids used to wear them day in, day out in the yard (even on the wrong foot, as kids do )
What sucked tho was that tiny little skirt and bending over to reach the mail slot.

[Zipperfish]

I used to have to get up at 10:30 at night, half an hour before I went to bed.

[Gunnair]

Brenda Brenda:

What sucked tho was that tiny little skirt and bending over to reach the mail slot.

Yeah....you just gotta tell us about your day....

[westmanguy]

I lucked out. My dad was a teacher at my school, and my was a TA there as well. I got rides most mornings. And I either walked or biked home on other days (which was only 3km).

But then, as most kids in the prairies do, you get a car at 16 and then drive yourself to school for Gr. 11 & 12.

BC Driver's Licensing (ICBC) is the most strict I've ever heard for age requirements. I was driving alone with no requirements the summer after Grade 10.

But yah, kids are lazy, but don't you all worry. Vanity is the catch 22 saving grace of it all. I truly feel the pressure on young woman and men to be the hot "tens" these days is more than enough pressure on kids to hit the gym....even if they never feel comfortable in their own skin.

[Prof_Chomsky]

As long as we live in a society where the 1 in 14 million chance a stranger will steal you kids is viewed as more dangerous than the 1 in 2 chance they'll be obese, and 1 in 3-5 chance they get heart disease, this will never change.

[Nuggie77]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I used to have to get up at 10:30 at night, half an hour before I went to bed.

But did you have to "Lick road clean wit tongue"?

[Zipperfish]

Nuggie77 Nuggie77:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I used to have to get up at 10:30 at night, half an hour before I went to bed.

But did you have to "Lick road clean wit tongue"?

Aye. There were 24 of us living in shoebox in middle o' road.