I actually didn’t earn anything, not even from my parents, until I got my first real job after leaving school. No matter how much work I did round the house, my parents still didn’t have any money to pay me, and living in a remote rural area there wasn’t any work available for kids.
I’m not sure. I remember getting paid for weeding the yards at other peoples homes. I swept up the rubber dust at my fathers tire shop. I had a paper route when I was pretty young.
I don’t remember ever getting paid for doing chores – doing chores was expected. My first earnings were from a job at McDonalds. First paycheck, for working a week, was about $37.
I delivered papers from the time I was 8 until just before I turned 13. I had to be up at 5am and have the papers delivered by 6:30am six days a week. I didn’t really know what it felt like to sleep in.
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Aye. The first money I ’‘earned’’ was a small allowance my dad gave me. It included small chores, like washing the dishes a few times a week.
First job I got was at a bar when I was 15. Weekend job acting as a busgirl and then the coatcheck girl. I hated that job. It was pretty funny that I was allowed to work in a bar, but was underage haha.
8 or 9, washing my dad’s car. Thing is, he extended this to when we were on holiday, offering mine and my brothers services out (i.e. pimping me out!) to other people on the campsite, to wash their cars…!
My grampa would pay me to do chores at his workplace, little stuff like dusting or emptying ashtrays. I worked for him every summer and also took up a paper route as a pre-teen.