How Early Did You Start Earning $$$?

[uscitizen]

Started out as a male prostitute. I'd offer to have sex with the neighborhood women, most of the time for free.

You and Neubarth
I knew you two were alike.

 

[CMike]

I had a hamburger and hot dog stand with a friend of mine when I was a kid.

My stepfather built it.

 

[Article 15]

I had a paper route when I was 12.

Do kids still deliver newspapers?

Same. Paperboy at 12.

 

[ConservativeDad]

First real job at 11. Washing dishes in a motel cafe

Most I've ever had at the same time: 3

 

[Againsheila]

Came to mind because of this thread:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/127718-sucking-all-of-the-joy-out-of-life-4.html#post2586263

When we were kids my brother, our friends, and myself came up with all sorts of ways to make money. Our earliest was a kool-aid stand. Yes, really! We started out at 2 cents a cup, by the time we were 7 we're selling same stuff for .15. We also sold candy, with a 50% mark up. Yes, we knew our neighbors!

I was 7 when I got a job putting IGA grocer flyers on door knobs. I had to roll and rubberband them. I earned $4 a week, which was much better than the .25 my allowance was.

Around 9 we spent the summer washing cars for our neighbors, one guy gave us $10, Mr. Plumery, I still think of you fondly, RIP. The rest, I think paid $3.

I think it was the same summer my best friend and I baked bread with my mom. It was SOOOO good. We decided to sell it. So we went around for about 5 blocks taking orders and collecting in advance. We made like 10 loaves and that was that. We forgot to write the names and addresses.

We cut lawns and sold boxed cards from the comic book backs. Actually paid for a canoe trip to Canadian Waters back in jr. high with that money.

I left the world of self-employment at 14, got a waitress job. Really excellent money! #32 on the list from Chicago Magazine.

At the age of 7, I babysat the next door neighbors son so she could get some work done. I made a nickel for keeping him busy in the sandbox for an hour.

I did the kool aid stand thing but I never made any real money at it as I kept drinking the koolaid in the hot sun, and of course, being a softy, I was giving it to my friends and others who had no money for free. I'm not a good business person. I have "sucker" written across my forehead.

Berry picking and babysitting at 12.

 

[Againsheila]

I had a paper route when I was 12.

Do kids still deliver newspapers?

Same. Paperboy at 12.

Not around here, it's been taken over by the immigrants, in fact they shoved the Americans OUT of that job.

 

[Douger]

12 years old. Largest paper route in the county.300 papers
That led to selling firewood.....a lot of firewood.
That later got me mechanic and landscape jobs.
Never looked back or really wanted a ''job" job.
That gave me money to escape the Bibble Belt and setup shop in Floridastan.
That let me travel and find out where I really wanted to live.
You guys booted me out early due to your "knowledgeable" choices made at the voting booth in 2000 and when you repeated the idiocy in 04, I hauled ass.

THANK YOU !

 

[eagleseven]

I did basic construction work for my family at a young age (7-14), which paid pitiful wages ($80 for laying a brick path), but was better than doing unpaid chores.

 

[Againsheila]

I did basic construction work for my family at a young age (7-14), which paid pitiful wages ($80 for laying a brick path), but was better than doing unpaid chores.

I did that stuff and I didn't get paid.....even did it for the neighbors, didn't get paid there either. Either your parents were rich, or you were an only child.

 

[Luissa]

I got an allowance at like 10, but I started babysitting at 12. I used to pick two kids up three days a week from their other babysitter and would stay with them until their parents got home. My first real job was as an umpire at 15, then as a skate instructor all before I was 16. My parents gave me enough money during high school that I probably didn't have to work, but I liked clothes, and if I had my own money I could buy more. lol

 

[Luissa]

I had a paper route when I was 12.

Do kids still deliver newspapers?

Same. Paperboy at 12.

Not around here, it's been taken over by the immigrants, in fact they shoved the Americans OUT of that job.

Are we talking about illegal or legal immigrants? If we are talking about legal immigrants, they are Americans also.

 

[Annie]

How many jobs have you had at one time?

Me? 4.

Me too! Unfortunately that was at 40, but it did keep me and the kids in the house and eating.

 

[eagleseven]

even did it for the neighbors, didn't get paid there either.

Why not? I mean, why did you work for the neighbors for free?

Either your parents were rich, or you were an only child.

The latter...though the neighborhood kids also got paid. The neighborhood was filled with GM employees...

...now it's filled with former GM employees.