Just the usual stuff, mowed lawns, shoveled snow, delivered papers.

13 years old was working at the racetrack cooling down horses after they race.

If you looked and dressed like me you'd get laid every night, just sayin :yesnod:

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Most likely, but I'm hetero.

Earned "bonus" pay on my allowance for doing chores beyond those required by my parents.

When I was 14 I learned that one should always secure a legally binding contract before agreeing to water the neighbor's flowers for two weeks. Cheap bastard paid me $15 for over 20 hours of work.

At 18, McDonalds paid me a fair (i.e. minimum) wage for the 7 months leading up to my enlistment.

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Be sure to post the video of you blowing it up to YouTube. :yesnod:

When I was a paperboy there were kids like me who had a single route and who carried the papers in a bag or in a wagon (or, sometimes, a purloined grocery cart). But they never seemed to be able to hire enough dumb kids like me, so there were also a bunch of older guys who drove around in red Suburbans and covered the routes that didn't have anyone else to deliver them. Each one of these guys had to cover multiple routes, and you bet your sweet Aspercreme that they threw the papers out the window anytime they could. Of course, where I grew up there were a lot of 3-story brick apartment buildings, so more often than not they had to get out of the truck and walk over to the base of the stairs, and then they would throw the paper up to the third floor (or wherever it needed to go) to avoid going up and down 500 flights of stairs every day.

Ah, the good old days. :D

I'd have to get my son involved since he's the explosives expert. :Jeff '79:

My first job was bicycle mechanic for the neighborhood starting around eight years old. I also cleaned my dads wood shop.

My first real job was for A&W. I worked at a Burger King for a week.

Dads cabinet shop for nine years
Oil field for Amaaco.
Pipe threader
Waiter
Guitarist
Photography assistant
Instructor at university of Wisconsin
Instructor at a Milwaukee Area Tech
Radio Dj
Television producer
Range officer
Bandleader
Government contracts specialist for electronics company
CEO of $6m marketing firm
Recording artist
Touring guitarist
President of education company
Guitar teacher
Liaison to the federal govt, representing the Choctaw a nation of Oklahoma
Writer for Scientific American
Publicist
Graphic designer
Marketing strategy consultant for corporations
Sales
Man whore

Y’all are way more interesting than I am. Mowed yards and baby-sat til 16, added fast food to that until I got a job framing houses, after school and weekends. Then got a plumbing supply warehouse job through high school grad. Joined the Navy at 19. I’ve got to say, every gig taught me something important.

First job was when I was 12. Had an after-school job working at a TV repair shop. Rode my bike 5 miles into town, worked at the shop for a couple of hours, then rode my bike home. On gravel roads. Got paid $2/hr, plus a percentage of the repair bill on the items that I fixed.

Agreed. This is a heavy load for a kid's list of childhood jobs. :seasix:

12 cutting grass.
13 cut grass, began working at bio dad's recycling business.
16-18 worked at recycling business, sold a little weed.
18-50 Recycling business.
30 Began making knives, spare time.
50 Tired of getting shot at, sold business after last shoot out, retired, bought rental properties.
51-62 Maintain rentals.
62 Tired of ****ing around with ingrate tenants, turned properties over to a management company.
62-current Fulltime Knife maker when I want to be, Professional **** off.

Who was shooting at you?

Register Guard (Paper Route)
McKay’s Market (Box Boy)
Chevron Gas Station (Pump Gas)
Bob’s Hamburgers (Cook)
Arco Gas Station (Pump Gas)
Marie Calendars (Busboy)
Valley River Inn (Busboy)
Pacific Rim Manufacturing (Planer Mill) (Pulled Lumber)
Cascadian (Lumber Mill) (Stacked Lumber)
Cone (Lumber Mill) (Clean Up)
Roseboro (Saw Mill) (Patched Beams)
Diamond Harwood’s (Saw Mill) (Pulled Lumber)
Seneca (Saw mill) (Ran Head Rig, Barker, Flying Edger’s, Chipper, Sorter, Stacker)
Seneca (Stud Mill) (Sorter Operator)
Monroe Brick and Tile (Ran Machine to make Bricks)
Cascade Fabrication (Sheet Metal Manufacturing) (Turret Punch Operator)
Pacific Metal Fab (Sheet metal Manufacturing) (Engineer) 25 years now...I'll probably retire from here.