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> "Viva" privacy.net> wrote in message
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>> My first paying job was babysitting and I was paid 50 cents an
>> hour...which I spent on lipstick and movie magazines.

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> My first job was babysitting too. I started at the age of 12 @ $0.50 per
> hour but by the time I was 16 I was making $5.00 per hour and had a
> waiting list. If I could not personally do the job, I had two sisters and
> a brother well qualified but at a lower rate of $2.50 per hour. This was a
> lot of dosh for the mid-60s. I've run into grown former charges at the
> grocery and other places around town. It can be rather humourous when that
> happens.
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