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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 1sum41 on October 18, 2009, 08:33:32 PM
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I picked 1100 lbs of pecans this weekend. got payed 150$ and being 16 thats enough money for two weeks! :banana: :banana:
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:huh
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Gotta learn to be conservative. $150 could last me a day. Oh wait, that's not conservative...
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it was alot of hard work. you would understand if you had to harvest pecans off the trees.
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You doin it by hand? You'd be a little underpayed if that was the case :headscratch:
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You doin it by hand? You'd be a little underpayed if that was the case :headscratch:
A LOT underpaid :huh
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WTG Sum! Getting out there and making a few honest bucks is always rewarding. I used to make some of my money that way too when I was a kid. :salute
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it was alot of hard work. you would understand if you had to harvest pecans off the trees.
Why would you harvest them OFF of trees instead of picking them up after they fall? I realize it was a lot of hard work, as last year was a bumper crop for pecans in our area (which also made for some great Crow hunting). We harvested a few hundred pounds off one tree. And please, don't pull the "you would understand" thing :)
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nice job! I hope you buy something nice for yourself. :)
We have our kids pick them off the ground... not off the trees... and they usually don't get paid other than their 'regular' chore money.
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nice job! I hope you buy something nice for yourself. :)
We have our kids pick them off the ground... not off the trees... and they usually don't get paid other than their 'regular' chore money.
This is going to sound weird, because I'm 17, but I don't believe in "chore money." Getting paid for something you're supposed to do. The food and clothing parents provide should be enough "payment." But, I can see where giving them the money could creative somewhat of an incentive to work and create a work ethic. My parents did it the hard way--if I wanted money I had to make it doing odd jobs here and there.
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A LOT underpaid :huh
looks like a decent wage for dumb labour to me.
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Roughly 13.6 cents/pound...
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This is going to sound weird, because I'm 17, but I don't believe in "chore money." Getting paid for something you're supposed to do. The food and clothing parents provide should be enough "payment." But, I can see where giving them the money could creative somewhat of an incentive to work and create a work ethic. My parents did it the hard way--if I wanted money I had to make it doing odd jobs here and there.
At least you HAD a way to make money in your family, I could rebuild the house and all I would get would be a wtg or ty,lol. But I got other ways, I can cut grass, fix stuff,build PCs,etc...
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At least you HAD a way to make money in your family, I could rebuild the house and all I would get would be a wtg or ty,lol. But I got other ways, I can cut grass, fix stuff,build PCs,etc...
That's basically what I was saying. I never got any money from my parents. They paid me with food, shelter, etc... The odd jobs I had to do were for other people.
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Roughly 13.6 cents/pound...
or around 10 bucks a hour tax free, assuming a standard 8 hour day with 30 minute lunch breaks...
so yeah, i'd say its a decent wage for a highschool kid.
1100 pounds ain't much, maybe 13 - 14 sheets of 3/4 inch form ply...i've moved more than that in a hour and only got $14 to show for it...
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when i was a kid, we had chores. there was only me and my brother. we basically rotated who did what.
if i did list A this week, my brother did that list next week, and i did his list.
we got a small allowance, and that was it. it wasn't taken away from us if we faltered on our chores. we lost privileges, till the chores got done.
since these started relatively young, it was no big deal to us really.
like i mentioned in another thread.....we used to go out in the summer, raking and mowing yards, and in the winter shoveling driveways(we "appropriated" grandpops snow blower too). that's how we earned extra money for the things we wanted.
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or around 10 bucks a hour tax free, assuming a standard 8 hour day with 30 minute lunch breaks...
so yeah, i'd say its a decent wage for a highschool kid.
1100 pounds ain't much, maybe 13 - 14 sheets of 3/4 inch form ply...i've moved more than that in a hour and only got $14 to show for it...
now imagine that those 13-14 sheets were cut into small pieces about the size of a pecan......... and you had to pick up each one individually
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Wtg Sum,
Good to earn money isnt it. Sounds like you did a good days work, and got paid for it. Disregard what other say, if you were happy with the outcome, that is all that matters.
Man a half a ton of pecans, picked one at a time. Good job
Now go take a break :salute
Mbailey
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You could get a job at a grocery store or be a waiter....both better than picking pecans :banana: Or you could say daddyyy can I have 500$ like hilary on fresh prince of bel-aire.
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Oh yea...I moved 8000 lb of wood flooring twice in about 3 hours. :neener:
Then I had to pay a helper. No body paid me anything. I will get paid later :devil
Banshee your 17 and your already telling the story about 2 feet of snow and it was uphill both ways.
Can't wait to hear about life after 25 :aok
BTW good job on getting out there and earning a buck. Just think about ...if I could have gotten 2400lb I woulda earned $300.00 assuming your paid by the pound. If not.... get paid by the pound and bump the trees with truck or rent a shaker. Then pay your friends to work for you. It's easier that way. Also you'll earn more money. :D
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Congrats on the harvest!
A neighbor across the street had a grove of pecan trees and we would get paid to harvest them every year. Seems like the crops were cyclical. One year so-so, next year bumper, then so-so..etc.
We had a few trees in our yard.
Some days were perfect for harvesting.. sweatshirt, jacket, clear sky.. and dry. Those few days when the majority of nuts were falling out of the husks ( pealing the husks off wet ones always sucked ) we'd take a football out and 'coerce' the ones hanging out to come raining down in torrents. Especially if we knew rain was coming.
Miss those days..
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This is going to sound weird, because I'm 17, but I don't believe in "chore money." Getting paid for something you're supposed to do. The food and clothing parents provide should be enough "payment." But, I can see where giving them the money could creative somewhat of an incentive to work and create a work ethic. My parents did it the hard way--if I wanted money I had to make it doing odd jobs here and there.
Hey i like your attitude for being 17 :salute, Wish more kids had your attitude towards there Parents as you do towards yours, I was raised very similar in the "you want it you earn it days" which i feel made me a better person. Started working at 12 im 49 now and a single dad of a 16yr old boy who's building a good work ethic to, Trying to raise him to realize if you want something bad enough find a way to earn it, in turn youll treat it better than if it was just giving to you.
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Banshee your 17 and your already telling the story about 2 feet of snow and it was uphill both ways.
I'm from Tennessee, we're lucky to get 6" :) I'm sure life after 25 will have it's challenges, but hopefully I will be prepared for it. Plus I will most likely have my Masters Degree :aok
Hey i like your attitude for being 17 :salute, Wish more kids had your attitude towards there Parents as you do towards yours, I was raised very similar in the "you want it you earn it days" which i feel made me a better person. Started working at 12 im 49 now and a single dad of a 16yr old boy who's building a good work ethic to, Trying to raise him to realize if you want something bad enough find a way to earn it, in turn youll treat it better than if it was just giving to you.
I get so irritated when I see another kid my age or younger, or even older, disrepsecting their parents. All I can think about is "if I did that my mom would..." It also ticks me off when my friends just ask their parents for money, and even worse when they get it! I have already come to the realization that I won't always be a dependent child, and one day I'll have to support myself and a family. Might as well start early and get used to it. :)
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Banshee, youve got a good head on your shoulders sir
Big :salute to you
Mbailey
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Nice to see you gettin' "sum" money. ;)
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now imagine that those 13-14 sheets were cut into small pieces about the size of a pecan......... and you had to pick up each one individually
sounds boring as diddly but...thats never paid well either ;)
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Banshee, youve got a good head on your shoulders sir
Big :salute to you
Mbailey
Glad someone thinks so :lol :salute sir. And Sum, idk if I've said this, but wtg on making the money. You earned it :aok
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You going to claim that on your taxes?! hehe Uh don't answer.
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don't forget to enjoy being a child, it only happens once.
:salute
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You going to claim that on your taxes?! hehe Uh don't answer.
I thought taxes were a bad thing until I got my money back :lol
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You doin it by hand? You'd be a little underpayed if that was the case :headscratch:
no we have a harvester... but we have to weedeat a 5ft. radius circle around every frickin tree
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Why would you harvest them OFF of trees instead of picking them up after they fall? I realize it was a lot of hard work, as last year was a bumper crop for pecans in our area (which also made for some great Crow hunting). We harvested a few hundred pounds off one tree. And please, don't pull the "you would understand" thing :)
we shake the tree with a shaker that hooks up to the back of the tractor and then pickem up with the harvester.
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we shake the tree with a shaker that hooks up to the back of the tractor and then pickem up with the harvester.
Doesn't that knock off some premature pecans?