Re: What was your First Job?
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:03 pm
14 years old - sacking groceries at Winn-Dixie. . .
If I knew farm work counted, since I was raised on a farm............planting tobacco by hand, topping the suckers when they bloomed, cutting and hauling to the drying barn, and stripping when it came in case. And bailing hay and stacking it in the barn (square bales, not the round ones they do now), all this from as soon as I was big enough to do my part. Plus, we always had a big garden, all our veggies come from there, not from a store.stroo wrote:Picking blueberries at 10, topping onions at 12, planting seedling flowers at 13, painting at 14 and the first job that I got a regular paycheck for was filling gas tanks and changing tires at a gas station at 15.
Now most kids in the city can't work anywhere until 16. I think that is a real loss for them.
