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How old were you when you got you first job?
Ds was asking me about getting a job recently and I told him he had to wait a while, LOL. He wasn't very happy with that and then asked if he could set up a lemonade stand or a produce stand (where he'd get the lemonade and/or produce remains to be seen. 
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Anyhow, it got me thinking. Dh and I have both worked since we were quite young. I babysat as a kid and when I was in 7th grade started working at a local apple orchard on the weekends for $2.17/hour. I worked at the orchard until I was old enough to get a fast food job.
Dh started working front desk at the Holiday Inn (small town with a highway running through it- a few hotels and fast food restaurants near the exit are still pretty much the only things around) when he was only 15.
How old were you when you got your first job and what did you do?
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Re: How old were you when you got you first job?
Babysitting and a newspaper route when I was 11.
I think the legal age was 15 to start in a real job and I started the summer I was 14, turning 15. I was a baker in a local coffee shop. I figured that I hung out there anyway, I might as well get paid for it. I made all of the pastries, cakes and cookies. I was paid decently, but it still wasn't much over minimum wage.
I think my next job was waitressing? It was a looong time ago. LOL
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Aside from a lot of babysitting, I was 14 (?) and I was a cashier at the A&P. My boss would try to feel up all the female cashiers and then give us free cigarettes.
Then I worked for 4+ years at a vet's office, in the back. I learned a lot from that job -- mainly that I did not want to be a vet, lol.
I babysat, but don't really count that as a job. Didn't get my first job until after HS and it was a job at a department store for $5 an hour.
My parents didn't want us working as kids because they said we would work for the rest of our lives. My brother and I shared a car my parents bought for us.
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I was probably 13/14 when I started occasionally babysitting. I got my first actual job at 16.5 at a drive in B&K (like an A&W) that our neighbors owned. We lived on a farm...about 10 miles away from 2 different towns - so it was silly to get a job and parents have to drive 40 miles for one shift. I was technically a waitress, so it was like 2.75/hr I think...but it was seasonal (carhop-like) and about 1/2 mile from a major lake (easily 200 in tips for a weekend day). It was awesome - I worked there until college - then I worked at Old Navy for about 5 years.
My first job (Blockbuster Video) was soon after I graduated high school- when I was 18. I never had time in high school between all my extra-curriculars.
ETA: I didn't think of babysitting. I started babsitting/nannying when I was around 13.
Babysitting around 12, worked at McDonalds at 16, then various dept stores throughout high school. I was a nanny in college.
DD wants to work too
She wants to save for a car. 