Did you have a job as a child?

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Greetings, long-time workers:

If you worked outside the home at an early age,

1) What did you do?

2) What did you get paid?

3) Did your family need the money or was it all your own?

4) How old were you when you started working?

Thanks,

CoCo

snowbird

1) What did you do?

I picked cotton, peanuts, peas, berries, pecans, different fruit, and sold them.

2) What did you get paid?

About $1 per day.

3) Did your family need the money or was it all your own?

The former.

4) How old where you when you started working?

5 and 1/2 years.

You're welcome.

Sylvia

OUTLAW

1) What did you do?..I mowed lawns..And sometimes worked for family in a advertising business

2) What did you get paid?..$2.00 a lawn..it was in a subdivision..Lawns were not that big..........I worked nights helping with printing..$3.00-4.00 an hr..can`t remember..

3) Did your family need the money or was it all your own?..It was mine

4) How old where you when you started working?..9 or 10..I was a little Hustler..LOL!!

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Finally-Free

I pumped gas for $1.80 an hour. It was mine.

W

leavingwt

Picked cucumbers, mowed grass, and worked at a full-service gas station.

Wages ranged from $10 per day to $6 per hour.

I was responsible for buying my own school clothes beginning at age 14 or so.

(I was a good little JW and I actually sent FICA money to the IRS.)

VIII

1) What did you do?

I was a babysitter for worldy families in our area.

2) What did you get paid?

$1.00 per hour.

3) Did your family need the money or was it all your own?

It was all mine, but, I was expected to purchase my own school supplies and/or clothing. I couldn't use it for toys.

4) How old where you when you started working?

11. I babysat for 3 different families who had 2-3 kids and needed someone to watch their kids on Friday or Saturday nights when they went out to dinner or a movie. I would do it, happily because I got out of our house and I got to watch TV and play games with other kids! It was a dream come true!! I was expected to wash all the dishes but I was used to doing that at home, so it was easy and quick. I could have that done in minutes, no matter how many they left.

I did that until my real job at age 15 in a shop.

snowbird

VIII, are you a female???

Sylvia

daniel-p

I shoveled manure when I was 3 for room and board, then found a better job chopping wood when i was 4. Finally saved money to move into a closet in the back of my mom's brothel... i remember using sardines as lamplight to read Crime and Punishment when i was 7. Eventually went to Yale, got a degree in astrophysics. You just have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps.

VIII

Sylvia--Yes.

undercover

1) What did you do?

Sold magazines for the WT Society

2) What did you get paid?

Nothing.

3) Did your family need the money or was it all your own?

We needed it but what little we got went back to the Society

4) How old were you when you started working?

five

Did you have a job as a child?

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