My first job was bagging groceries for $2.60 an hour after school. With my hours limited, I brought home about $60 a week. I was promised a nickel an hour raise every thousand hours, which coincided with a similar raise in minimum wage, so after two thousand hours, I was still at minimum wage. After I mentioned that to my boss; who shrugged his shoulders, I gave him two weeks notice and started at a competitor for a dollar more. I stayed there until I graduated high school and enlisted in the Marine Corps, which paid about $600 a month, plus food and a bed.