The only job I had in HS was at JC Penny selling bicycles for a month one Christmas. That was big money for me at the time. One month.
The next real job I had was the job I kept for 32 years before retiring. It paid better.
I would go after school every day to a Burger King for lunch (the school cafeteria was horrid of course). A lady was there every afternoon (and rarely anyone else) and when she's see me pull into the lot she would put my burger on the flames. I'd have a large orange, fries, and Whopper for 98 cents. She was a very nice lady.
Then I'd go to bball practice, which usually was about an hour after school let out.
I took Daughter #1 to the UGA-Tech game in Athens last year. I didn't know where to eat, it was COLD and drizzly that day and hardly anyone was TGing, so we tried the university cafeteria. Boy was that different from 1972. They had all sorts of food items and it was good and not too expensive at all.
I rarely ate there as a student, it was pretty bad as I recall. Our neighbor is a retired professor at GT and he took me on a tour there a while back. In 1972, it was a DUMP, really barren and ugly, and now it's beautiful. That is one reason tuition jumped of course. I was amazed how nice it was, they have made good use of the land they have available, which isn't much.
