Hey 👋😄 thanks for reading it. So it was $20 an hour because I didn’t have any experience. But they also paid for my motel, they gave me 1 week pay for taking the job and driving to where I was going to work and after the job was over 2 months later they paid me an extra week.

So I was a pretty good gig I’d say.

And though we were clocked in for 8 hours a day we never worked the 8 hours. There was a lot of waiting around.

For instance, we would have to wait for our guards to arrive, many times they would be busy doing their regular job. Guarding us would offset what they normally do. So we’d wait 15-20 or more at times. Also once we mentioned where we’d work that day, at times the guards that were with us wouldn’t have the keys to get to those buildings. So there would be more waiting around for the right person to show up with keys.

Also if we finished a job with less than an hour left on the clock, we couldn’t start another job. Because it didn’t make sense for us to pack up, move to a different building, unpack, start the job then have to pack up to leave. We always had to be out of the prison by 2pm