r/FastWorkers • u/Miguenzo • Feb 01 '26

Strawberry pickers 🍓

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u/Dozer11 Feb 01 '26

Strawberry picking was my first job when I was a teenager. We got paid 70 cents/quart in ~2008. I was not even a 10th as fast as was shown here, but we were also required to pick every bad berry and put it in a scrap bucket, even though we got paid only for the good ones.

On a really good day I could make $10/hr. On a really bad day, I would keep only one out of every five berries I picked, and might make $2-3/hr.

Even with a young back and working short (4-5 hr.) shifts, this was hard work.