Thread: How many jobs you have before you were 16?

How many only 1, same job I have today…farm.

I worked at a super market in the produce department where at a skinny 120 lbs I was unloading produce trucks by hand.
50 lb sacks of potatoes makes for a long shift. I work there for about 8 months then I got hired by Al Copeland and worked at the very first Popeyes Fried Chicken store in Arabi LA.
By my junior year in HS I was closing the store and locking it up every night. I was paid $1.50 p/hr because I was the crew chief. Every one else was getting $1.35. A 2 piece with Frys and a bun was 89 cents. I still have the hot grease burns from slinging tons of battered chicken pieces into that 350 F oil.

When I was in the third grade, Both much older sisters came home with babies 2 weeks apart. Very shortly there after they started working. I got babysitting duties before and after school. Mom and dad wound up raising the oldest, My niece, Of coarse I was the built in babysitter till I went in the Army. Along with the babysitting came chores around the house too...

Mowed yards for the neighbors and made decent money (I thought so at the time) and then went to work at a local full service gas station until I left for college. I rode my bike to work before I got my license at 16, sometimes dad would pick me up on his way home from work. Riding to work was mostly downhill, going home after work, not so much. LOL

At the age of around 12 , I had a pretty sweet job , ketchn goldfish for people’s back yard ponds out of a spot called lake mullenberry , if I remember correctly , downtown Allentown Pa.
It wasn’t easy , there were herds of black ones in the way and them golden targets were few and far between…
The tiger versions sold for more than the solid gold ones …..
Then we rolled em up …..every Sunday morning at 3 am ….big old bundles of papers tossed out in front of a laundry mat …..saddle bagged up our stingray bikes , loaded em till the back tire was about flat and off we went into the darkness …
I was 15 when we tossed the news ….next stop was the bag boy at the grocery store …and on and on it went ….

I started as an Electricians helper about that time. Before that the standard cutting grass and such

Does chores for money count as a job ?

1.Lawnmowing yards 2.Paperboy wrapping papers to keep up with them being thrown out of the truck 3.Caddy at golf coarse 4.Bottle collector paid ok and anything my folks could think of.