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by Bride2B on November 20th, 2007

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At what age did you start working?

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  • by Thinker on February 13th, 2011

    Thinker

    I had my first paper route at 13. I threw 98 weekdays and 105 on Sundays. It was a morning route and had to have my papers delivered by 6 AM. I had to have my paper bill paid by 2PM on Saturdays.

    I still work today at 72. I drive a school bus.

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  • by More2Be on February 13th, 2011

    More2Be

    I hustled light seasonal work, like shoveling walks and mowing lawns, when I was 10. I took wage-paying work at the legal working age of 16, and became financially self-reliant through military service at 18. I paid the bills for a college education from savings and working. Now past 50, I still have never taken one unemployment check, or used a single dollar in food stamps, or received something for nothing from the public treasury in any way, shape, manner, or form.

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  • by ChuckExAnon on February 13th, 2011

    ChuckExAnon

    Other than doing chores around the house, which were not monetarily compensated, my first job for which I was paid by an employer was when I was six years old. My parents instilled the work ethic/pride in my Sister and me at a very early age.

    I held employment until I retired as a vice-president of a Fortune 30 corporation when I was 55 years of age. I am now 72.

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  • by Kitt-tastrophy on November 20th, 2007

    Kitt-tastrophy

    14 or 15

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  • by Zack on November 20th, 2007

    Zack

    I was 15 years old.

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  • by Anonymous on November 20th, 2007

    Anonymous

    my first "real" job with paychecks and all was when I was 13 years old. I was delivering newspapers.

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  • by LynfromNM on November 20th, 2007

    LynfromNM

    I was babysitting from about the age of 12, and wrote articles for the youth page of the local newspaper at 14, but the first job with a regular paycheck was at 16, car-hop. But not on roller skates.

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  • by Magenta on November 20th, 2007

    Magenta

    About 16 when I started, 33 when I stopped.

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  • by Galeanda on November 20th, 2007

    Galeanda

    Work? My parents saw that I started working around the house as soon as I could stir a pot and dry a dish and rack those leaves and wash that car, clean my room, clean their room...... and it never stops even when you get your own house:-)

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  • by Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger on November 20th, 2007

    Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger

    Paperboy at 13.
    Worked in a pastry shop at 15.
    Full time worker at 17.

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  • by RosieGHM Jetpacker on November 20th, 2007

    RosieGHM Jetpacker

    Got my first part-time job when I was 14..it was during the two-week Christmas holiday and I got a job working for friends of my parents who owned a dress shop...I spent all day every day in the back making up boxes..all sorts of boxes..small ones, medium-sized ones, big ones..I got to be pretty good at it..boring job, but my first ever paycheck was not boring at all! :)

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  • by SusieQ on November 20th, 2007

    SusieQ

    12 years old washing dishes at a restaurant.

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  • by Cowboy-Matter of Fact on November 20th, 2007

    Cowboy-Matter of Fact

    When I was about 13 I started hauling hay in the summer and washing dishes at my mom's cafe during the school year. I had chores to do long before that which many would consider work however, feeding livestock, driving a tractor, etc. but hauling hay was the first work I was officially paid for.

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  • by Fun on November 20th, 2007

    Fun

    Well at the age of 13 I worked at a camp and babysat... But officially I think 15/16 because you needed working papers to get a job.

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  • by Drastic on November 20th, 2007

    Drastic

    I was 15 when I got my first job at a grocery store.

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  • by lizizhere on November 20th, 2007

    lizizhere

    13, I was working as a waitress & cook at a resterant close to my house. I would do it to have extra spending money. I've worked off & on through my teenage years & worked steadily for the past 17 years.

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  • by Thriftymaid on February 13th, 2011

    Thriftymaid

    14 years old

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  • by AnnieB on February 13th, 2011

    AnnieB

    12 years old.

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  • by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on February 13th, 2011

    DA BEN DAN yanggui zi

    when I was 16. I washed floors in a hospital kitchen after school...but I did have a paper route when I was about 13.

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  • by OldCW wears The COAT of the Cosmos on February 13th, 2011

    OldCW wears The COAT of the Cosmos

    Age 10 or 11 I think.

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  • by azlotto on February 13th, 2011

    azlotto

    When I was kicking the crap out of my mom to get out...9 months was long enough...kidding.

    My first official job was at age 16, Kroger.

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  • by jaykole on February 13th, 2011

    jaykole

    Part-Time: 19. Worked with a friend helping his dad - an electrician.
    Full-Time: 22. Basically a glorified bellhop at a resort motel, except without the dorky outfit and (mostly) without the spine-distorting rigors of lifting 30lbs make-up cases around.

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  • by Anonymous on February 13th, 2011

    Anonymous

    At 13 I could handle a 60 hour work week.

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  • by Zack on February 13th, 2011

    Zack

    Age 15 working 7 days a week for the next decade.

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  • by kagemusha on February 13th, 2011

    kagemusha

    I started a daily babysitting job when I was 11, my first real job was when I was 15.

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  • by Juice on February 13th, 2011

    Juice

    I got my first job when I left school at 16. It was a part time job whilst I did a full time college course. I hated it!

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  • by Sodapop on February 13th, 2011

    Sodapop

    Legally? 14 at a local movie theatre under a work permit. Janitorial work mostly. Sweeping, cleaning toilets.. but it helped when I needed the money.

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  • by Major Look at yerself on November 20th, 2007

    Major Look at yerself

    Worked on weekends and holidays at boarding kennels at 13. Parents wanted me off the streets..$4.00 p/h

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  • by Mentalmum is back on November 20th, 2007

    Mentalmum is back

    At 14, i had a part time job after school every day and all day on a Saturday, then i started working full time when i left school at 16.

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  • by ONE DAY TO LIVE ONE DAY TO DIE on February 13th, 2011

    ONE DAY TO LIVE ONE DAY TO DIE

    thanks guys

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  • by Nikolle on February 13th, 2011

    Nikolle

    I started working at 13, delivering newspapers (for 3 years). In between, I babysat, painted, raked leaves, cleaned offices and similar types of jobs.

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  • by vh101 on March 18th, 2011

    vh101

    16 at a car wash. Well 14 delivering the shoppers guide every Tuesday if that counts.

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