another s/o - what age did you start working?

xbrooklyngrl · June 2009

Almost everyone I know started working at a really young age. During the summers, our parents tried to get us jobs to keep us off the streets.

I was working at an insurance office for $20 a day from age 12-15 over the summers. At 15, I had a Saturday and Sunday job as a phone operator for $10 an hour where I worked 3pm-11pm.

By 17-18, I had a full time job.

goodheartedmommy · June 2009

18.

MrsStubbs · June 2009

I grew up in a small town and where there were only a couple of jobs other than farming and that was only during the summer. I did start the summer before my Freshman year cleaning cabins at a local resort.

mattswife91805 · June 2009

15 at an amusement park. I was 18 when I had my first full time job.

stacynikki · June 2009

Starting at 16 I worked a summer in my grandfather's office. When I was 17 I worked at Hot Dog on a Stick. Shortly after that I was a hostess until I left for college.

wellfleet04 · June 2009

I started babysitting for my own spending money at 12, worked in the summers (retail, lifeguarding, etc) starting at 15, worked full time during the summer and two jobs at college, and had my first full time job at 22 when I graduated.

eclaires · June 2009

I started babysitting when I was 11, and had a regular babysitting job 2 nights a week and at least one night during the weekend. I liked having my own money.

As far as real job, I worked for my mom's catering company off and on from 13 on, and then I worked at a tennis center (the desk) one evening a week and during the day Sat/Sun once I was 16 and could drive. I also kept up with my babysitting during that time.

Bellisimo · June 2009

14....and never did I not have a job after that. I sometimes worked two jobs and babysat too.

Starr_Mom · June 2009

I started working full time at 18. Before that I didn't need the extra dough because I wasn't driving.

firefightersgal · June 2009

I started babysitting at 13.

squishywife · June 2009

14 job at the local amusement park.

by 16 i had a part-time job that i kept for 8 years and worked 30ish hours a week - even through college. i love that place.

i left that place and started full-time work teaching.

Kapalua · June 2009

My parents owned a restaurant...so I guess I was 10 or so when I started helping out and by time I was 14 or so I was doing whole shifts.

KoriBrett · June 2009

Started babysitting at 11, at 17 I worked in the dorm dining hall. Been working ever since.

Amanda&Chris · June 2009

I started PT in a grocery store at 15.

amiamish · June 2009

babysitting-- age 12

Working PT, 20hrs a wk, at Subway (first job): 1 month after turning 16. I went full time (daycare job) a week after I graduated HS. I've had a FT job ever since.

esposa38 · June 2009

I was 16 (right before my junior yr) when I got my first "summer job"; I continued doing it throughout the rest of high school. I didn't work in college (besides a few random hours here and there at the library or tutoring), but I waitressed every summer, and I started my career (teaching) upon graduating from college.

DandelionMom · June 2009

My first summer job was babysitting from 9-5 when I was 14. When I was 16 I got my first real job (at Target).

penguingrrl · June 2009

Babysitting at age 12. First "real" job at 16, which was the youngest anyone would hire near where I grew up. Never didn't work until the summer before DD was born when my OB pulled me out of my job and then couldn't find a job when we moved to NYC. In all that time I've never earned more than $15 an hour despite having a bachelors degree and having completed graduate courses.

littlemermaid · June 2009

My first paycheck job was at 15.

Temp159135562506975 · June 2009

started babysitting at age 11 (i was a mature 11 y/o).

got my first "real" job at 14, doing filing for a small company... then at 15 worked at a chinese restaurant answering phones/register... all under the table.

at 16 started working at Macy's. Had various jobs during HS and college...

my first "real" job was right out of collge - at 22 y/o- when i became a teacher.

cristiana · June 2009

I was 18 when I started working part-time.

WBs_Bride · June 2009

I babysat A LOT starting around age 11-12. I had a full-time summer babysitting job when I was in 7th grade. As far as a "real" job, senior year of high school. I worked all through college, too (both during the school year and summers).

krissymoves · June 2009

Started babysitting at 11. Real paycheck from a part-time job at 15.

I LOVED working when I was younger, both the actual work itself as well as the money. Still enjoy it, but not to the extreme that I used to...

hopefulmom · June 2009

When I was 11, 12, and 13, I babysat and worked for an older couple harvesting fruits and veggies and helped can/freeze. When I was 14 and 15 I babysat. I got my driver's license at 16 and started working for a "real" paycheck. I worked in a hospital doing inventory and was in several departments (surgical supply, xray, pharmacy, emergency room, payroll and accounting). It was great for my resume. When I was 17 and 18 I worked for an insurance company mostly in sending supplies to agents...but sometimes I'd be pulled to work in the main office (Farm Bureau) where I copied aps, collated stuff, stuffed envelopes, printed labels, etc. At 18 I started working for a shrink and from then on I worked for doctors (except one year I worked for the State of Michgian auditor general's office...best job ever!). We moved and that is why I gave up that job.

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