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Other than delivering the Philadelphia Inquirer for a couple years, my first job was a summer job in high school when I turned 16, at Edward's Shoes on 12th & Vine downtown Philly. I was moving stock around the factory/warehouse. The minimum wage at that time was $1.10/hr so that's what they paid us.
The most interesting thing was getting to meet a few strange adults. Like Moe, who told us he drives over to South Jersey most weekends to fuck sheep at a farm...his stories sounded true to us; and Angel the short PR guy who rolled up the Daily News and stuffed it down his pants with a string tied to the end to make it move and look like he had a giant penis and all the women would giggle. One of the other high school guys I worked with was a champion level swimmer until the day he crushed his foot between the elevator and the floor and couldn't be on his swim team for a year. The place across the street on 12th made fantastic, large hoagies and sandwiches.
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