13 at farm work, always wanted to work and save money when younger

14 years old. Had to get "WORKING PAPERS" Went to the school nurse. Saw the Doctor. He's says turn your head and cough while feeling for a hernia! You guys know where lol
Bingo, got your working papers and can get a real paycheck...can't remember if they took deductions at that age

16yo, 1972. $1.65/ hr..

My first job was $1.00 hr, 1973

12 and 13 worked at a resort up the road $2 per hour cash,13,14,15 worked on the home farm,dad had me running a crew of people hand picking wild oats,yes back in the late 70's and early 80's we had our fields clean enough to hand pick.Years later they formulated better sprays,$6 per hour cash.Age 15 and 16 first pay stub with some guy named FICA was taking some of my money LOL started trapping in 1978 by 1980 I was catching enough furs to make a difference $70 to 100 fox,$8 to 12 muskrat,$30 to 50 mink and the coons were in the teens to $30 range.

8....Working the summer tomato fields. Started suckering, staking, and tying the plants to stakes....Was picking by 12, and also started in the tobacco fields at that age.

12 ,building houses with my grandfather.

12 or 13. I walked to work at a grocery store in our little town. Bagged groceries and carried em out to older people’s cars. Did that some days of the week. Weekends I worked in the local bakery too. Then later that same year one of the local farmers/contractors hired me to disc fields in spring and I worked on his framing crew in summers building homes. I had a lot of jobs and paychecks before I even had a drivers license.
Jim

Real pay check,,14.Worked on Muck Farm for $1 an hour,6 days a week,12 hours a day.We had Sunday off.Got a brown envelope at the end of the week with $72 in it and was happy to get it.Before that,, the Ole Man gave me a nickel for every Rat I trapped or shot out of the barn.Also,,bailing hay at 12 years old but that dont count.Every neighbor kid did that for whatever the farmer would give you for the day.usually enough for an ice cream and a tube of BBs for your BB gun at the end pf the day.

Picked apples the fall of 1967 shortly after my dad died. Got paid in cash. I was 12.

13-14 , worked my my uncle dying the summer doing construction.. man I thought $150 for a 50hr week was some GOOD money

Never got an allowance , made any money growing vegetables and selling them on the road side in the front yard.
Don't remember how old, but around the second grade.
Baled hay for 10 cents an hour, easy job, just pulled the string before the baler knotted .
LOL 20 cents was enough for a Pepsi and a Nickles cherry pie, turn in the bottle and have 2 cents in my pocket.
Cleaned gutters in the dairy barn, pitched manure, and pushed a wheel barrel of it on to the pile in front of the barn.
All before I was 11.
Don't remember what I made , but it was my money.
Painted milk houses when not baling hay or straw.
Was at least 12-13 when I got my first check, and taxes taken out.
Landscaping , rolling sod, and laying sod.
Working seed lawns, and covering with straw.
Worked in a Dairy Isle for a summer , cash. That was the easiest job , and got to eat my mistakes. LOL.
Worked in an orchard pruning apple trees , and mixing concrete for a new 8 inch deep floor for apple storage.
All by hand in a mixer , that did whatever a bag of cement and sand/gravel made at a time.
Think it was 14 sand, 4 gravel and a bag of cement, @ 14 .
Always found a way to make money , bought my own school clothes from the 6th grade on.
It was life back in the good old days.
Had so much more freedom , could hunt all over and never worry about the landowners caring.
Now if you even just look at a place to hunt, they tell you to stay out.
Those were truly the good old days.

LOL I forgot my best job was a Professional hunter, got a box of 50 22 shorts , and paid 1 cent for each starlings, and 2 cents for every woodchuck.
Shot a woodchuck in a culvert pipe 14 times , before I dumped him out and finished him.
Those shorts just broke the skin, and bounced off it's skull.
Could see where they hit , all 14 times.
Still can't believe it.
Give me a 22 long rifle round over a short any day.

Age12 trimming Christmas trees minimum wage $0.50 hr. taken out of my pay check was Social Security. Right to Work tax and Income tax. The next year the the minimum wage went to $1.00 wow I was making as much as my dad.

My first real job ( I don't remember if taxes were taken out or if it was under the table) was tying grape vines when I was 12. My mom and aunt were working there as well and got me the job. I was paid $8 per row of tied vines. My first "official" job was as a waitress in a donut shop at 16. By the following year, I was enrolled in college, working 3 jobs, and living on my own.

Worked on rental properties when I was a boy. Digging ditches, unclogging sewer lines, etc. were part of my duties. No pay though.
First paying job was at 16. Hand inserted sales papers into the Sunday addition of a statewide newspaper. Paid by the piece so the faster the better the pay.

17 doing barn chores at a local dairy farm. Stayed there for 13 years mostly milking but I did everything else as needed too. Before that I just worked for whatever my dad felt like giving me for working on our small farm at home. Plus I would do odd jobs for other neighboring farms when they needed extra help. I picked a lot of rocks back in the day.

I was twelve. I was raising calves for my cousin. I got paid so much for getting each calf weaned. He bought them from a farmer who sold them to him when they were a couple days old. He developed polio and always wanted to farm but could not so I raised the calves up for a few months for him.

Bryce

Walked a lot of beans in my early teens. I'm sure there are a lot of younger folks that don't know what that is.

Started getting paid to be a carpenter at 15 in 1977 @ $5hr. That's all I've done.