JOBS

WORK

JOURNAL ENTRY, 10/08/2016. 13:54 hrs., PDT, Wednesday, my place, 21ºC partially cloudy, MOOD 50/50

Carol Read listed all the paying jobs she ever had and I decided to emulate her and list the jobs I have had and what they paid.

My first job was delivering the Vancouver Herald prior to it becoming the Vancouver Province. For about $30.00 a week in Harrison Hot Springs before it was even a village in 1946 when I was ten years old.

Then delivering the Vancouver Sun in 1949 when we lived in the Fraser view project at 8287 Victoria Drive in Vancouver.

My first real job was in 1950 when I worked at camp 2 on the Kemano project as a flunky 12 hour rotating shifts seven days a week serving the road crews bringing supplies from the harbor to support the 5000 miners boring the tunnel to reverse the flow of the rivers to provide power for the aluminum plant a Kitamat .

It was also my first airplane ride in a Junkers triplane sea plane in an airline called PWA. I earned $2500 dollars for my summer holidays which my parents took off me to pay for my school year. In those days when you finished grade six, it was, get a job you bum.

The next year I worked on the DEW line at Puntzi Lake about 200 miles west of Williams Lake towards Bella Coola again as a flunky and earned another $2500 to support my second year at Gladstone Jnr. High,

Then we moved to Kamloops where Dads company was building the Royalite oil refinery in North Kamloops and at the end of the school year I worked construction where I earned enough money to buy a Robin's egg blue Chevy with white accents and worked at the oil refinery as a lab tester at $390.00 a month and then in August of 1955 joined the Army for $89.00 a month with room and board and uniforms included and basic training at Currie Barack in Calgary before shipping out to Germany for a two year stretch and then back to Canada and Work Point barracks in Esquimalt.

This is getting rather long and beyond the 500 word limit, will fill in the blanks tomorrow.

Ciao, JWL