Subj : Re: food and family  was:
To   : Will Milberger
From : RUBEN FIGUEROA
Date : Fri Dec 06 2019 08:17:08

->   Re: Re: food and family  was:
->   By: Janis Kracht to Will Milberger on Wed Dec 04 2019 07:53 pm

->  > Even though I worked every summer, my mom insisted because I was working
I
->  > had to give her something like 25 bux a week out of my paycheck... which
->  > back in the late 60's that was a bit of $$ to me, since minimum wage is
all
->  > you ever got in High School.

-> I feel your pain. I'm a little later than you were, but $2.15 an hour in the
-> late 70's didn't go far when you had a souped up Camaro. Luckily I lived in
a
-> small town (then) in Texas.

-> Grease
-> darmatt.synchro.net


Janis, I went through same thing.  I had just finishd 8th grade and was
looking forward to summer, when my mom announced I had a job.  That job
was a dishwasher at a hotel that my Uncle worked in as a butcher.  I
made 7 dollars for an 8 hour shift.  Long story short I cashed in my
first pay check (guys at work told me where to get it cashed).  I was
feeling good about it until I got home and my mom asked me where was my
pay check.  I had a confused look about me as how did she know I got
paid.  Well I told her I had cashed it, she reprimanded for doing so and
told me to give me the cash I had left.  She said I was to hand over my
check each time.

I later found out that she was using the money to help pay for a private
high school I was enrolled in (didn't know that I was).  So every summer
and every job I had that is what I did, hand over my pay check.  All my
brothers did the same.  We were a family of 8 kids and 7 were boys, but
we all did the same until we graduated from high school.

Though as a 14 year old boy I didn't like it, I learned that it was good
training for me to understand that my paycheck was just not for me, that
other people could be depending on me for it.

I appreciate my mom in training me that way.  She said it is always my
duty to help my family and others.

My mom passed away this past January at 97 and her love and toughness
made us boys and girl into men and women of a resonsibility.  So we owe
her and my Dad a lot.  He taught us to appreciate the company that hired
us because we are able to support our families.  That our loyalty and
trust should go to them to better help the company and as a possible
result benefit ourselves.  My dad weathered my layoffs because of his
willingness to work hard and get done whatever his bosses needed done
whether it was a part of his job or not.

So this is somewhat a tribute to my parents who barely got a middle
school equivalent education and raised 8 succesful children in various
professions and we have raised our children who are now grown men and
women with their own family and the traditions we were taught continue.






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