I was eighteen at the moment when I first worked at a refinery plant as a scaffold builder helper. It was summer of 2001, hired for nine dollars an hour, and it was a whole new experience and I earned $3.85 above minimum wage. I lived in Splendora, Texas, located eighteen miles north from Humble, Texas on Highway 59. Basic Industries was the name of the contractor company that hired and stationed us in a refinery plant in Channelview. My cousin, Ramon Nieves, who was seventeen at the moment, managed to get hired on as well. However, he lied about his age and applied as if he were eighteen. Before getting hired, we had to take the Basic Plus; exams done by computer which first informed one about the possible dangers, surrounding environment, safety, and how to react in case of an emergency. And after viewing and hearing the videos, using headphones to listen individually, there were multiple choice exams that reviewed what had been viewed. The Basic Plus has to be renewed every year, and once a name entered the system shall it remain forever. Every plant also requires its individual...
During industrialization, many people had jobs, or tried to get a job with all the new factories being built. Even though people were working almost all day, there are many positive effects that would come out of this. A young 16 year old girl, named Mary Paul, worked in a textile factory during the year 1846. During her time there, she wrote a small excerpt showing others how much she enjoyed herself. “...I think that the factory is the best place for me and if any girl wants employment, I advise them to come to Lowell.” (Document1) This quote from her writing is perfect proof that working at such a young age is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Mary expresses her love for her job, telling us that she thinks it is the best place for
The Industrial Revolution was a major factor involving child labor. It was during this time that America had entered a great boom of prosperity, and there was an excessive demand for many products that steadily became cheaper, the more that was produced. Because of supply over demand, there was a great increase in available jobs within factories. The new stream of child workers was matched by a tremendous expansion of American industry in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This led to a rise in the percentage of children from ten to fifteen years old who were profitably employed. Although the official figure of 1.75 million significantly understates the true number, it indicates that at least 18 percent of these children were employed in 1900. In southern cotton mills, 25 percent of the employees were below the age of fifteen, with half of these children below age twelve. (Irwin, Yellowitz. "Child Labor." Child Labor. History.com, n.d. Web.) In addition, the horrendous conditions of work for many child laborers brough...
“The minimum employment age for employment in industrial, agricultural, or commercial companies is 15. The minimum age for apprenticeships is 14. There is no minimum age restriction for work in domestic service and there are no legal penalties for employing children in domestic labor unless the nature or condition of domestic service harms their health, safety, or morals.”
Many people started working very young and they did not get a lot of sleep and also did not get treated very well. In document one Sadler Committee interviewed one of the workers named William Cooper and he stated “I started to work when I was ten years
Roxy, Massachusetts. Even back in the 1900’s, when you started working for someone, you had
Minimum wage was set in 2009 to pay for a person’s living expenses, and $7.25 an hour might have been enough then, but a recent study by Jessica Janner of Channel 13 Action News says that,
According to the article “A History of Child Labor” reviewed by Milton Fried, a child could work as long as six days a week for up to 18 hours a day, and only make a dollar a week. Child labor was nothing but cheap labor. The big companies loved cheap labor because then they could make an item for not very much money, and make a huge profit margin. Fried continues to state how cheap the labor was, “One glass factory in Massachusetts was fenced with barbed wire ‘to keep the young imps inside.’ These were boys under 12 who carried loads of hot glass all night for a wage of 40 cents to $1.10 per night.” Unlike, children today who are in bed sleeping by 8 pm each night, these children had to stay up all night working to make just enough income for their families. Sadly, the children had no choice but to work for very little pay. Their mothers and fathers made so little money in the factory system that they couldn’t afford to let their children enjoy their childhood: “Other working children were indentured—their parents sold their labor to the mill owner for a period of years. Others lived with their families and worked for wages as adults did, for long hours and under hard conditions” (Cleland). The child had no other choice, but to work for these big
There are a lot of educational requirements as well as training one must take on the job training. They would like it if you have taken high school courses like appliance repair, blueprint reading, drafting, equipment maintenance and repair, as well as physical education. Apprenticeship programs are available and on the job training, as well as having a High School Diploma or a General Education Diploma (GED) is required. A typical day on the job would include the employee to put on their safety gear (e.g. work gloves, coveralls, safety helmet, boots, respirators or some sort of ventilation etc.). Some employers may ask if you have any type of degree in a field related to the job. College is required if you do not have any work experience and you want to be a supervisor. It will cost anywhere from $6,292.00 to $18,892.00 for tuition, $1,270.00 for books and supplies $2,580 for personal transportation, and $7,616 ...
Since its release in 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has impacted the manufacturing sector in the United States. Manufacturing organizations such as Custom Fabricators, Inc (CFI) have been forced to find ways to cut costs to remain competitive.
To be a lineman one would first have to go through the apprenticeship program. The apprenticeship program involves approximately 7,000 hours of training over a four-year period and includes both classroom instruction and field training. So one would be earning while learning. Lineman apprenticeship programs typically require candidates to be at least 18 years of age before applying and to have a high school diploma also must have a CDL driver license since lineman move around big vehicles such as bucket trucks. Programs require candidates to have taken high school level algebra. Also it is very important to have common sense since working with electricity is very dangerous and overwhelming if one is scared of heights then this job is not for the one’s with acrophobia since this job requires climbing high poles and being lifted off the ground several yards by bucket truck (Parker).
When I was eleven years old, I knew that I could not work because I wasn’t old enough or even qualified to apply for a job. When I had nothing to do, I started hustling to make some money. Hustling at that time, meant that you were doing something positive to make money. I wanted to work because I needed money for things that my family could not afford. Hustling was not only a way to make money, but it also kept me out of trouble. During the summer and even on the weekends I would help out at
It was my job for two summers, and was a great, exciting first job. One of the aspects that was very neat about it was the fact that I started it once school got out for the summer, and then once school started back up at the end of the summer I stopped working so I could put all my focus into school. I was primary weed eater for my first summer, simply because I was the newest guy on the job and also the youngest. I didn’t enjoy this near as much as I did mowing, but it taught me a lot about what hard work. We mowed a really big trailer park every other week, and I was in charge of weedeating the whole thing. I had to weedeat around all the pipes and poles sticking out of the ground, and although there was a bunch of those I didn’t really mind that part of the job much. However, the part of this that I absolutely hated was that I had to weedeat two or three decent size hills that were too steep to get a mower on. The worst part of this was that it was a job that couldn’t be done in the morning because the steep hills would be too slippery from the dew, so usually I would have to wait until the extreme heat of midday. This was one of the hardest things I had ever done before, and I truly hated it. However, because it was one of the hardest things I have ever done, it taught me what hard work really was. It taught me how to work hard, and showed me the rewards of my hard work through my paycheck
Throughout my school career I have always loved chemistry. In Chemistry there was always a sense that there was more, there was always something new and exciting to be discovered and theories to be proven (or even disproven). Chemistry was the main subject with a real practical aspect to it during school and it is this, along with my genuine fascination with the subject, which fuels my desire to study it further.
I was only seventeen when I started working. I live in a very small city that is downtown full of different stores. During the summer times, most of the stores downtown would post job listings looking for young individuals who wanted to work during the summer season. I decided that I wanted to gain some work experience and decided to apply to one of the stores. The store I worked in was called Kid City.
To increase production and sales, employers often seek workers that are more experienced. This limits the youth to a small portion of jobs. Due to their inexperience and lack of knowledge, employers do not want to spend money and time training them. But in other cases where firms accept inexperience, the pay tends to be very low, which doesn't attract them from working. The inexperienced youth pay rates range from $5-$10 per hour. But alarmingly, in part-time work the most employable age is between 15-19 years of age holding 28% of males working part-time. The employers see them as less efficient and less valuable so their pay is legally less. In some circumstances you will find that companies employ allot of the youth population, thus they can cut back on their total amount of wages they owe and earn larger profits.