110 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 29 Jun freebie \ parent \ on: An Interview with Ek meta
I was paid nearly $6 $7 a month in the year 1999 (just 11 years old) for that part time work. It was a good amount here for me considering I just had to work two to three hours.
You only had to deliver once per month?
how was that experience? How old were you back then?
It was cool to earn some money as a kid. I must have been around 15 years old at the time. I think I earned ~100€ per month for a delivery once a week.1
But in hindsight, the pay was miserable per hour. They paid by piece and I only earned ~25€ per delivery with everything included. Sometimes, I would get a ton of advertisements that I had to include in the newspaper by hand before going out but we usually did that as a family. Maybe even with four people that took 1-2 hours? I don't really remember except that your hands were already dirty at that point with all the printing ink. Then the delivery itself added 2-4 hours based on weather conditions.
So I earned between 4€ and 8€ per hour. But I get that delivering newspaper is not the hardest thing in the world.
Just like my experience with Burger King (where I consistently earned minimum wage which was 8€ per hour at the time), I am glad that I did this but in hindsight, it sucked really hard. But it was also definitely an invaluable experience that prepared me for life in their own unique ways.
How did it affect your education?
Not at all, I delivered during the weekend or in the evening.

Footnotes
  1. However, I didn't get to keep most of the money since I had to support my parents (according to what they said). ↩
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 29 Jun
Thanks for the reply!! Yours and mine had been much the same experience!!! I didn't let my education got effected at all.
You only had to deliver once per month?
No, daily 2 or three hours, paid 6 or 7 dollars monthly.
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