Why? Min Wage was a laughable $2/hr but I was too young to know that. They paid me $5.11 per Sunday, and it took me 4-5 hours to…
– roll and bag like 200-300 papers (my hands were black with ink after)
– load my basket and deliver on my bike around town, which required 5 or so trips home to reload
– to make it faster I’d throw the paper from the street and old ladies would come out and yell at me for banging the paper off their screen door, yes I know this sounds like the old video game Paper Boy, not nearly as fun in real life
Of course I bought the basket for my bike myself. I did that job for over two years until finally quitting after hearing my buddy who worked for another paper got paid $25 per Sunday AND the papers were pre-rolled for him!