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.

Maybe 12. Detassling corn.

I was 13. Worked for a pulp jobber. I cleaned the horse barns. they were skidding with horses . Received a pay envelope on Friday. He paid in cash . Sunday I took horses out for water and to clean the barn s. they were more like canvas lean too;s

16.......worked at Pizza Villa, downtown La Crosse, WI.
3rd Street (bars, etc)
Friday & Saturday nights we had a bouncer for the "ill behaved" , and for good reason. Observed some eye opening situations during that time. Even the police didn't want to break up a "cat fight" (two women going at it).

Prior to this, odd jobs to scrounge some cash. I also was a caddy here and there.

got paid in cash
was 14 and had to show up ever day after school and weekends tending to near 200 head of hogs.
did get alot of time off for football season lol

14

Worked for a welder dad knew

Cleaned shop, mowed yard and did some cleanup work on parts on Saturdays

I was 16, worked at the local iron foundry 3 hours every morning before school. Knocking out pig iron and sweeping the pour deck, made good money for a high school kid.

Zim