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Ripped off as a teen taking photos at an affluent Super Bowl event.

I lived in Miami and once got an odd job taking Polaroids of people at a pre-Super Bowl event. The pictures were of people posing with past Super Bowl winners and Miami Dolphin’s cheerleaders. Everyone at this thing was very wealthy and it was held at a lavish hotel ballroom. I was 15 years old and they hired us for 2 hours and we would be paid $50 (under the table of course). People really liked getting their pictures with these sports legends and cheerleaders so what was supposed to be 2 hours turned into 4 hours. At the end of the night the guy in charge hands us $50 each. I looked at it and said, “If 2 hours was $50 shouldn’t 4 hours be $100?” He looked at me like I was absolutely crazy and the friend that had hooked me up with the job was mortified that…


I lived in Miami and once got an odd job taking Polaroids of people at a pre-Super Bowl event. The pictures were of people posing with past Super Bowl winners and Miami Dolphin’s cheerleaders. Everyone at this thing was very wealthy and it was held at a lavish hotel ballroom. I was 15 years old and they hired us for 2 hours and we would be paid $50 (under the table of course). People really liked getting their pictures with these sports legends and cheerleaders so what was supposed to be 2 hours turned into 4 hours. At the end of the night the guy in charge hands us $50 each. I looked at it and said, “If 2 hours was $50 shouldn’t 4 hours be $100?” He looked at me like I was absolutely crazy and the friend that had hooked me up with the job was mortified that I would ask such a thing. I can’t even imagine how much money was generated at that event. I still think about it almost 30 years later.

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