Paper route at 12, then tobacco fields at 14, which was the hardest job ever!
That! I had a route when I was around 11 or 12. Getting up at 3am, stuffing papers in a bag, going house-to-house on my bike.
helped my cousin one summer I was visiting .. blah
That! I had a route when I was around 11 or 12. Getting up at 3am, stuffing papers in a bag, going house-to-house on my bike. Get home, eat breakfast, then get ready for school. Winter was brutal. If it snowed too much or ice on the ground, I had to walk it. Then I had to get up about 2am to get it done in time. Kids don't deliver newspapers anymore. Today, adults ride around in cars and shove them in boxes at the street. I'm kind of sad kids are deprived the opportunity to earn money and get that work ethic at a young age.
Also mowed lawns in the summer.
Not to get off topic but I am curious about something, will there be any jobs for 16 to 22 year olds in the future. With the push to raise the minimum wage and people trying to turn what used to be jobs for kids into careers where will the kids work? I am seeing less and less young people working fast food and retail jobs but I know there are a lot of young people in the county, so where are they working?
That's a great question. But I see many of my friends who have teenagers not even encouraging their kids to get jobs, saying they'll have plenty of time for that later. :shrug:
I also know some recent college graduates that are B&M about not getting jobs immediately after graduation. IMHO, they should have already had entry level jobs in their career field. However, these young adults have never held a job in their life and are now expecting a career position that someone needs years of experience to have, to just be handed over to them, because they graduated.