Franklin County High School - Animo Yearbook (Rocky Mount, VA)

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. ail Working at Frank’s, a new pizza place in town, Stephanie Bousman totals up an order to go. Jobs 21

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Facts Of Life Inflation not only effected adults, it also effected much of our student body. The high price tags attached to all of those novelties that a high school student should have, was just too large to bum the money from mom and dad. The true facts of life; money problems and inflation drew students from the pools, lakes, ar- cades, and beaches out into the big world of opportunity hunting for those high paying jobs. Money wasn’t everything about working. If that would have been the case there Off the clock, Sheila Noel finds a little extra time to brouse through the selection of cloth- ing at Macks. Don’t forget the curl! Making ice cream is one of Teresa Johnson's specialities. would have been a large amount of teenage unemployment in our coun- ty, mainly due to the fact that there just weren’t that many high paying Cy Jobs available. The more important jobs were those that provided happi- ness, a sense of freedom and respon- sibility along with skills that could possibly be beneficial in the future. a ee LD Going to school half a day provides Gloria Bernard with a few extra hours at Winn Dix- Ie. ROPE o wes

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Boney Fingers! Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? For working high school students the question was more often “What don’t you get?” What these students did not get were Friday night parties, Saturday morning cartoons, and afternoon movies. The truth was that if a stu- dent held a job, he didn’t have a great deal of free time. Spending weekends behind Programmed to bag groceries, place them ina buggy and put them in a customer’s car, is Richard Rakes who is employed by Kelly’s Supermarket. ins Many people work but there are also those thay buy what the workers produce. Pam Johnson is partial to Leggetts when it comes to buying shoes. When an employee runs a register, he is re- sponsible for the money in them. Tim Over- street seems to be rather precautious about taking Landy Thurman’s money. 22 Student Life counters, over hot grills, stocking shelves, or bagging groceries was hard. And to make matters worse was the knowledge that friends were out going to movies, parties, and dances. Of course the extra money helped. But what good did new cars and nice clothes do when there was no time to show them off? Another thing working students of- ten did without was sleep. Those late nights were especially obvious during lengthy classroom lectures. Surely there were advantages to working, but they were not always obvious. For the working student, the question remained — “Work your fingers to the bones and what do you get?”