How old were you when you received your first real pay check? I was 16 and working in a gas station. Before that I did almost anything for some spending money. Shoved snow, mowed lawns, dug gardens, baled hay, trapped a little, washed and polished cars, ect.

I also was 16 working at a drive-in

I was 16 when I first started receiving a real paycheck weekly where taxes were taken out n etc. That first real job like that for me was working for a fairly large chain of grocery stores.I worked at the one in my home town bagging groceries,stocking shelves,facing shelves,glass bottle returns,clean up type work sweep and mop.

It probably was around the spring of 1985. I believe the minimum wage then was a whopping $3.35 per hour !! I think we may have started at $3.75 per hour. Before that I mowed quite a few yards and did odd jobs.

Fifteen and a half. Working at a local butcher shop. The owner would cash our checks for us from the till.

If we worked outside legal hours, we'd get pad in cash.