What did you do with your first salary?Richard Muller, Prof Physics, UC Berkeley, author "Now, The Physics of Time"Answered Sep 1357.2k Views · 4.4k UpvotesI was inspired by Uncle Scrooge, and I did the same thing he did.I was 11 years old, but I pretended to be 13 so I could get a summer job as a “beachcomber”. (13 was the minimum age for a work permit.) Beachcomber was a romantic name for a tedious job. I reported to the beach three mornings each week at 6 am, and then spent the next 5 hours walking 5 miles along the long beaches at Long Beach, Long Island, picking up the trash from the previous day.The best part of the job was getting to know other kids who were poor. I didn’t consider myself poor; I was saving money for college. None of my coworkers expected to go to college. There was Injun (a nickname, although he was probably a native American), a 15-year-ol
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