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   ->   Re: Re: food and family  was:   
   ->   By: Janis Kracht to Will Milberger on Wed Dec 04 2019 07:53 pm   
      
   ->  > Even though I worked every summer, my mom insisted because I was working   
   I   
   ->  > had to give her something like 25 bux a week out of my paycheck... which   
   ->  > back in the late 60's that was a bit of $$ to me, since minimum wage is   
   all   
   ->  > you ever got in High School.   
      
   -> I feel your pain. I'm a little later than you were, but $2.15 an hour in the   
   -> late 70's didn't go far when you had a souped up Camaro. Luckily I lived in   
   a   
   -> small town (then) in Texas.   
      
   -> Grease   
   -> darmatt.synchro.net   
      
      
   Janis, I went through same thing.  I had just finishd 8th grade and was   
   looking forward to summer, when my mom announced I had a job.  That job   
   was a dishwasher at a hotel that my Uncle worked in as a butcher.  I   
   made 7 dollars for an 8 hour shift.  Long story short I cashed in my   
   first pay check (guys at work told me where to get it cashed).  I was   
   feeling good about it until I got home and my mom asked me where was my   
   pay check.  I had a confused look about me as how did she know I got   
   paid.  Well I told her I had cashed it, she reprimanded for doing so and   
   told me to give me the cash I had left.  She said I was to hand over my   
   check each time.   
      
   I later found out that she was using the money to help pay for a private   
   high school I was enrolled in (didn't know that I was).  So every summer   
   and every job I had that is what I did, hand over my pay check.  All my   
   brothers did the same.  We were a family of 8 kids and 7 were boys, but   
   we all did the same until we graduated from high school.   
      
   Though as a 14 year old boy I didn't like it, I learned that it was good   
   training for me to understand that my paycheck was just not for me, that   
   other people could be depending on me for it.   
      
   I appreciate my mom in training me that way.  She said it is always my   
   duty to help my family and others.   
      
   My mom passed away this past January at 97 and her love and toughness   
   made us boys and girl into men and women of a resonsibility.  So we owe   
   her and my Dad a lot.  He taught us to appreciate the company that hired   
   us because we are able to support our families.  That our loyalty and   
   trust should go to them to better help the company and as a possible   
   result benefit ourselves.  My dad weathered my layoffs because of his   
   willingness to work hard and get done whatever his bosses needed done   
   whether it was a part of his job or not.   
      
   So this is somewhat a tribute to my parents who barely got a middle   
   school equivalent education and raised 8 succesful children in various   
   professions and we have raised our children who are now grown men and   
   women with their own family and the traditions we were taught continue.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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