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My first actual job was a bagger at King Soopers, which is like Fred Mayer or something. Its part of the Kroger company.

My first real tax paying job was working at a Winn-Dixie as a bag boy and then a stocker.  I think I was 15 or 16 years old whatever the legal age was at the time.

I did the pop bottle thing as well.  I then moved up to a paper route and cutting grass in the summer and shoveling snow in the winter.  My first real tax paying job was as a stock boy at a small grocery store/ diner. 

To make money as a child I would collect pop bottles and turn them in, also we lived in the country and back in the woods behind our place there was a company that was logging trees so we would open and close the gate for them to make a little pocket money. My first real paying job was detassling corn for 12 hours a day all summer long.

at 7, I was a top seller for Shaklee Products.   It was the best.  Do not ever remember having real cash in hand, but lots of meetings with awards and unlimited access to my favorite chewable vitamins.   My mom did not like I was charging her full price, so she starting charging me gas. 

I cut grass for people in the nieghborhood.........

There's another one. I caddied for a while then at 14 is started pumping gas. They would pay me under the table because I was too young to work 40 hrs. a week. I also managed a pool hall for a couple of years. I remember the GRIT paper. I also mowed lawns.

Like most everyone else I had three paper routes (St Louis Globe Democrat, St  Louis Post Dispatch and the Rolla daily News), my mother was a widow and was working at a bakery for $35. a week so my three routes paid a total of $17. I trapped rabbits for meat, sold the hides and picked and sold blackberries for 50 cents a gallon. I worked for a farmer cleaning chicken houses and odd chores that paid $10 a week. But we made it. She remarried when I was 12 years old and it seems things got alot better.

Cut, split and delivered firewood in a 1954 Chev pu.

Buffalo Evening news in the early 70's

I am 17 and since age 15 I have been flipping houses with my dad.Best job ever until I can become Law Enforcement.

I can recall growing up in the fifties and sixties, and started out shinning shoes, then cleaning up a barber shop daily after school; then delivered the Arkansas Gazette newspaper with over two hundren customers on my route. In the sixties, I went to work for The City Market, sacking groceries, then working deliveries, then stock, then produce and then full time in the Meat Department. I graduated High School and left for Vietnam Sept of 1968 and the rest is history from there. Those days were the fondest of my lifetime. I would love to go back and visit it once more.

I would do chores around the house like mowing the lawn, taking out the trash, washing the dishes, cleaning the house.  By doing these things I got an allowence.    It worked out pretty well and I earned my own things that I wanted to buy.

Well im only 18 now so from the time i turned 15 or so till now, i've done many things. Helped do yard work, worked at a friends restaraunt for about 2 years then just helping people around the town with things and ended up getting paid.

Babysitting, I still do it!!...