You had a chain saw !!! I had a double bitted axe and a buck saw.You were spoiled.

Right out of high school, I got a job working in a Pepsi bottling plant. I was paid $1.00 an hour.

Worked in the family grocery store, got payed 25 cents per hour. Was thrilled figured out I got a buck every four hours.

Putting up hay 2 cents a bale and free lunch.I was fourteen good old days.

During high school in summer I seined minnows with my dad who wholesaled them to various bait shops. During the winter months we trapped suckers and fatheads in ponds he had leased for that purpose.

Herding dairy cows and helping around the barn, probably 8 or 10. Started getting paid five or six years later, didn't like getting paid we were poor and I knew it. Grateful for the life I've had, wouldn't change much but my own mistakes and shortcomings. Most of the bad times in my life have been self inflicted.

Haying all summer growing up.

First steady job starting 14 through 19. Farm I could bike to, a friend's family ran the farm. Summer was haying, growing and harvesting sweet corn, moving cows and sheep around, castrating, firewood processing, odd projects. Winters processing and delivering firewood after school, sugaring.

I was real lucky. The farm, huntjng and fishing kept me out of trouble. I wouldn't have traded it for any of my peers' jobs scooping ice cream or bagging groceries, that's for certain.

I think yr onto something there!!!

Farm work for $1 hr. Then room board in summer on farm, $25 a week , not hard work, an several times during summer went out town an eat out bishops or someplace an went something , county Fair somewhere, 13 years old , forgot about paper boy job in between 2 farm jobs.

Paper boy

there was a local fellow who would hire kids if you where willing to work (he paid very well)i worked for him several times usually splitting wood and stacking even shoveled the horse stalls out once i forget what he paid but he couldnt get round very easy so he was always happy for the help

Pulling tassels for Pfister Hybrid Corn Co. in Woodford County, Illinois for 40 cents an hour. That was in the late 1940's.

Very first job? All you farm boys know this was yer first real job

Gate opener!

First work that I did.. that I received any money for ....was walking beans on the farm I grew up on....got a penny for every cucklebur that was pulled up by the roots....that might explain some of my back issues to this day...lol

Paper boy ,then, at 18, working in the mines.

Detasseling corn when I was 14 about 1976. I think it was about $1.20 an hour. I got to keep .50 an hour, the rest went for school clothes

When I was 12 our dad left my mom and the 6 of us. I raised calves for a man for two years while finishing grade school. The day I graduated from 8th grade I packed my two grocery bags of belongings and moved in with a farm family to live and work every day all through HS. My mom could not afford to feed 6 of us and my leaving helped her be able to care for the 4 younger siblings as my sister a year older than I did the same as I did. Turned out I came to live with a great family and I learned to not waste my time peeing and moaning about others and learned to work but also learned that demeaning those that have much less (like we did) was not a way to make me better. I try hard to give back what I have been graciously given.

Bryce

I didn't get paid for working at home(firewood,gardening,mowing,putting up hay etc.) Everyone was expected to help out. Dad did pay 5 cents a piece for pocket gophers that I trapped. I remember picking rock for an entire afternoon for my great grandfather. When I was done he told me I did a great job and handed me a quarter, he was a very frugal man. My first real paid job was bucking hay bales for a neighbor, three of us split 6 cents a bale. I was the biggest so I bucked and the other two stacked and drove the truck. We were in the sixth grade.

Started driving the pickup pulling the pipe trailer for Dad and whoever he had helping him at 5 stringing out or moving irrigation pipe, started driving the tractor and helping with irrigation pipe at 7. Dad had a hired hand for a month or two in the summer til I was 9, then I was the help. Got paid for driving the tractor but not for anything else working on the farm. Started working for neighbors at 14. Talking with guys around this area and I'm about the only one my age (47) that spent any real time on a hand clutch tractor. I might like farming now if I had enough ground to justify a late model tractor with a good AC, radio and AutoSteer, but I am not willing to spend the money to try to find out, I think my burnout on tractor driving is permanent. I'll do a little farming for a neighbor in a bind, and my own little piece of dirt, but Dad broke me of ever wanting to be a 'real farmer'. Worked construction and farming in the summers through college.