How Old Were You When You Got Your First Job?

[maxx68]

By the time I was 9 I could sort and do laundry, vacuum, cook and mow the lawn. Then I started going to work with my Mom and helping her clean offices when I was about 11, by 13 I was getting up at 4am and working all day until about 6pm with my Mom on her lunch/dinner wagon (during the summer).

So I started pretty young.

[PUMPaul]

Had a paper route when I was 12 and would hit up my older subscribers to mow their lawn for $5. Making $50 or more a week at age 13 I was the envy of all my friends.
Worked at a bakery, a gas station, and KMart until I was 18 and then got a job as a door man and sales clerk at a porn store shortly after my 18th birthday. The manager of the store hired me instantly as she was the lady who used to watch me in the mornings before school when my parents both worked early morning jobs.

[rawTOP]

For a little while when I was young I used to mow the lawn for a neighbor who was an ex-NBA player - took all day (probably 3-4 acres of grass). Forget how old I was - probably mid teens.

I think my first office job was when I was 17 - it was stuffing envelopes for Liberty University School of Lifelong Learning (Jerry Falwell's university). The offices were in the Moral Majority building... That didn't last very long, then later I answered phones for Falwell's TV show The Old Time Gospel Hour.

[citiboyz]

I mowed lawns in the summer. Made good money for a kid of 14/15 or so. At 16 I had a job at Dairy Queen. At 19 I started working retail in a camera store.

[Seth]

The first job where I actually punched a clock and paid taxes was as a dishwasher at a local Mexican restaurant at 14. To officially work that young I remember needing a work permit signed by my school and parents.

Before that, I would mow lawns in the summer and shovel snow in the winter (it seemed to slow all the time back then). I also worked for a little old lady that ran an antique store. She gave me enough cash to feed my arcade habit. I had a paper route too when The Denver Post was an afternoon paper.

Damn you Lee! Now I really feel old! Thanks for asking.