What was your very first job with a non-family member (even extended family) ?

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65. In an interesting full circle kind of way, the last...

...raise I got at my nurse practitioner job reflects my raise at Penney's. Our pediatric practice went thru some lean times a few years ago (at least, according to the managing partner), and no one got any kind of raise for 3 years. OK - times like that happen.

I have been there for 20 years now. 3 years ago, at my yearly evaluation, the managing partner said things were looking up some, so I would be getting a small raise. I was also informed at that time that I had "topped out" the max pay level for my career field, so it would be the last raise I would ever get.

She wasn't kidding when she said small. I was thinking maybe a couple of dollars an hour. I was shocked to hear that the small raise was small indeed, damned small - 65 cents an hour = 1.3%. Rather insulting. Having great self control, I said nothing, but my brain was snarling, "If that is all you can afford, just fucking keep it."

If I were not into my early sixties at the time, I might have quit, but nearing retirement is not a great time to be starting over at a new practice.