14, driving tractors in rice fields

14 off bearing at saw mill.... Didn't have the pleasure of working tobacco fields until latter in life, great people to work with, job not so much. It was honest money and necessary at the time. Made more trapping than all the farm work combined

Me too!

I was 8 in the summer of 1952. I went to work for my uncle who owned a wholesale pork operation.

I worked 6 days a week, 10 hours a day, 2$ per DAY plus lunch.

16.. I got a job working at the local slaughterhouse cleaning up after school hours.
I rode the school bus to work, walked home,, and checked my traps after work in the dark with my flashlight.
Luckily I had body grips at the time.

I still have memories, snow on the ground, and I always was able to catch the train going over the trestle, watching it go over… and hearing the horn as it pierced through the darkness.
I have thought about writing an article about that time.

12 years old, weeding trk farm vegs, 35 cents an hour, 7 hours, paid in cash end of day

Worked for a nursery after school and Saturday, mostly planting starts, was 1969 I think, , Ag min wage was a buck fifty, lol, and they paid by check...small checks.
Guess I was around 16.

My first paycheck job was at the St. Ann 4 screen drive-in in 1963, I was 14. Made the princely sum of $.25 hr.

14.
Had a job at a cemetery. $1.69/hour.
My job was to stand on the vault in the hole and tamp the dirt down along the sides while the backhoe was delivering the dirt there.
Pay was low, but I never got any complaints from the customers...
I do remember complaining about the 40 cents taken out for taxes. I kid could get sick on that much penny candy back then.

Penny candy

.10 cent Cokes

.08 cent Funny bones

.05 candy bars

.20 cent McDonald's burgers

.10 cent cup of coffee with free refill

16 yrs old , pulp cutter and log peeler.
15 cents a stick . 300 per day, cash out on Fridays.
10% help back in saw check account.
Paid for any equipment needs.
Usually done by early afternoons
Great money late 60's era.

First payroll job.
Lakeside Refinery about 1971.
From there to Checker Motors Corp.
Plant closed 35yrs later.
Semi retired for a few yrs.
Then I said done.

9 years old. I couldn’t do much heavy lifting so I was forced in a tractor seat. Took me a couple weeks before I could operate the clutch without leg shake.

I was 15. I cut grass, weed whacked and blew clippings for 50 to 60 some hours a week. I loved getting overtime because I got half again as much for doing the same work.

Keith

"real" meaning with taxes taken out? Probably around 10-12. It was early 90's.

12, stacking lumber at a sawmill.

13, dad slipped me in as hired help on an inventory his employer, IT&T Autowise, was doing. First actual paycheck with taxes cut. This was before computers and everything counted by hand.

At 16 I got kicked out of school and got a second shift factory job.

When I was nine I started wading in three ponds on a nearby golf course at night. I'd find hundred of golf balls, clean them up with the course's ball washers and sell the good ones back to the golfers. \My brother and I would display them in egg cartons on a bench beside the tee off area of Hole 13. We made decent money.

I was a trap boy for the local gun club starting at ten-years-old. In a couple of years I graduated to score keeper which paid twice as much as being a trap boy.

And trapping that whole time which was relatively lucrative in the 70's.

Oh and we dug around in old farm dumps and sold our good finds at a local flea market.

15 landscape/mowing

16, bucking hay bales. Thought I was in fat-city, the guy paid me $2 an hour, when minimum wage was $1.60 an hour.

Got a summer job as a fishing guide at a remote fly in camp when I was 15.
That fall I got a part time job at the dairy,packing the boxes with dairy products and take to the north train for people living remote along the moosonee line and the seneterre east line.
Also delivered milk with the truck in town on saturday mornings.That part of the job was interesting to say the least as saturday was collection day.
And of course the fur cheques from trapping after school in winter.
later on when still in high scool worked summers tree planting and timber cruising as well as the railroad.
Railroad was my favorite summer job in high scool and I made it my career.