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Investigative Journalist @FullMeasureNews *Note* RTs not=endorsement; RTs may be interesting, silly, wrong, outrageous. Question authority. Think for yourself.

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    Sharyl Attkisson‏Verified account @SharylAttkisson 23 Dec 2017

    Sharyl Attkisson Retweeted Larry Johnson

    In college we could sell a story to Associated Press for $4 a line. The average story was about four lines. $16 made me feel in-the-money!https://twitter.com/lbjp73/status/944605320621576193 …

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    Larry Johnson @lbjp73
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    I can remember my first 5 dollar pay check for a weeks work.
    8:29 AM - 23 Dec 2017
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    • Timothy Bigler CPP Russell Wariner 🇺🇸 Fonzi Steven Travis Terri Marsh Sheryl {Doc and Wyatt’s mom} 🙏🏻🇺🇸✝️ 🐾🐾 Walker Philadelphia  Freedom Margo Owchar
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      2. spongeworthy‏ @spongeworthy2 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SharylAttkisson

        Do you remember what the first one you sold was about?

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      3. Sharyl Attkisson‏Verified account @SharylAttkisson 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @spongeworthy2

        no but I bet I have it in a scrapbook aomewhere

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      1. Geepa‏ @1geepa 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SharylAttkisson

        I would walk about 3/4 mile from school to my father's newspaper business to carry the papers from the folder to the address-o-graph machine to be addressed. I got 50 cents for an afternoon of work. I was about 12 years old. Good ol' days.

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      1. E. Morelock‏ @UpinCT 23 Dec 2017
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        I financed a trip to CA by going along the interstate & collecting empty bottles, then turning them in for the deposit money.

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      1. Jim Gymbeaux Brown‏ @gymbeaux143 23 Dec 2017
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        I started out working for 60 cents an hour as a stockboy at the corner drug store 1957

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      1. Edmund Amorosi‏ @EdmundAmorosi 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SharylAttkisson

        First job was pumping gas in the summer of 1979 during the gas crisis; about $3/hour; long lines; only open 1/2 day; unhappy customers; even-odd on license plate determined if u could get gas any given day

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      1. D. Burroughs‏ @DBLovesIOP 23 Dec 2017
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        My first pay as a nurse was $4.55/hour but I loved it!

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      1. D. Burroughs‏ @DBLovesIOP 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SharylAttkisson

        I typed term papers for 50 cents a page in college. Before that babysat for 50 cents/hour.

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      1. KeeKeDee  🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇮🇱‏ @kr_romm 23 Dec 2017
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        I will never forget the years when I was elated to make minimum wage, which was $4.90/hr. And even more memorable, the day I got a $.25/hr raise. $5.15/hr was unheard of amongst my peers!

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      1. Red State Meme War  🇺🇸‏ @RedStateMemeWar 23 Dec 2017
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        I worked in a department store, and at the end of my second year there, I got a ten cent raise. I felt it was so unfair, it motivated me to find a better job.

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      1. Fonzi‏ @DrunkJedi1 23 Dec 2017
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        My first job as a lifeguard I made $1.25 an hour. Worked very hard and loved when i got my first check for about $65. Felt good to earn my own money and get experience working in my teens. Could not get that job at same age now due to restrictive laws.

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      1. Jay Phillip‏ @xmasjjay 23 Dec 2017
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        Sold blood plasma every week for a year. $10.00

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      1. Geoff Caldwell‏ @geoffcaldwell 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SharylAttkisson

        Thanks to a mother making me take typing class, got first FT job at a hospital for $7.25/hr in '79..Pute through college! Thanks Mom!

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      1. Sig Ruman‏ @SigRuman 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SharylAttkisson

        First paid gig - ran the projector in grammar school- showed cartoon Gullivers Travels ('non-satire version?' - The Futon)

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      1. don holles‏ @donholles 23 Dec 2017
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        I opened a retail store and made $9.32 my first week - thought we were going t starve to death

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      1. Staah Pit‏ @RickyLeePrice1 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SharylAttkisson

        Heck yeah, that was probably 5 or 6 fast food meals.

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      1. Paul Ladd‏ @PaulLadd1 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SharylAttkisson

        $4 a line? Nice! When I was in college, I sent stories to UPI and got $5 a pop. Ditto for the ones I pitched as a stringer for a TV station.

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