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Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:31 pm to
Posted by BestBanker
Member since Nov 2011
19292 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:31 pm to
When I was 12, my buddy and I got jobs cleaning up the new Winn Dixie job site on Gen. DeGaulle in the 70s. First real paycheck. OSHA wouldn't approve now.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53359 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:33 pm to
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My social security statement says in 1971 I made 141 dollars . That meant I worked 141 hours on a farm. I was 14

I learned how to drive a Kubota tractor at like 8-9 years old. Driving a vehicle was easy for me by 12 or so. I kind of wish that my daughter had some parts of my childhood.
Posted by scottlsuscott
Cajun Country
Member since Aug 2007
1931 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:33 pm to
Had a baseball card shop when I was 12. Bought, sold and traded sports cards out of my dads service station.
Posted by UASports23
Basketball School
Member since Nov 2009
26497 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:41 pm to
I haven't. I'm 30 and I still don't have a job but my parents sued me and forced me to move out.
Posted by coolneal
Lakeland, TN
Member since Nov 2007
740 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:49 pm to
13 - running A/C ducts. My grandfather paid me and a friend $50 each. South LA heat in the summer .. it sucked
Posted by reo45
Member since Nov 2015
6362 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:52 pm to
Great thread by the way,

First job was at CiCi's Pizza at 13 years old in 1996. Had to have all this signing off by both parents and other Crap before I could start.

A great experience and fun as shite. Great times and free pizza.
Posted by GrimModalities
Louisiana
Member since May 2018
57 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:53 pm to
14, washing dishes (by hand) for $5/hr at a seafood restaurant... best job I ever took.. it is what made me decide I WOULD go to college and be something.. because I didn’t want my hands to feel like shite for the rest of my life. Also the reason I haven’t favored seafood as an adult.
Posted by momentoftruth87
Your mom
Member since Oct 2013
86110 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:55 pm to
15. Made $5.15/hr ~ 2003 dishwasher at Amish buffet
This post was edited on 6/4/18 at 10:56 pm
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
20394 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:55 pm to
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Posted by GregMaddux
LSU Fan
Member since Jun 2011
18684 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:00 pm to
13. Official paycheck.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
104779 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:01 pm to
Hauling hay, 14 or 15.
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
Member since Mar 2008
38450 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:05 pm to
12. Family bidness
Posted by Keys Open Doors
In hiding with Tupac & XXXTentacion
Member since Dec 2008
32838 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:07 pm to
I think I was 11 or 12, and I got paid by my neighbors to walk and feed their dogs when they were on vacation.

First job where I was on an official payroll was when I was 18.
Posted by novabill
Crossville, TN
Member since Sep 2005
10769 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:17 pm to
12 years old working on a chicken farm. Picking up dead chickens for $2 per hour
Posted by browl
North of BR
Member since Nov 2017
1571 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:19 pm to
Started mowing lawns and shoveling driveways in middle school.
Posted by Pepe Lepew
Looney tuned .....
Member since Oct 2008
38346 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:20 pm to
Threw newspapers with my dad at 13
Posted by Ryan3232
Valet driver for TD staff
Member since Dec 2008
27481 posts
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:23 pm to
First job on an actual payroll was 16.

Babysat at 12 if that’s what people want to consider a job.
This post was edited on 6/4/18 at 11:24 pm
Posted by BRich
Old Metairie
Member since Aug 2017
2897 posts
Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:00 am to
Babysat and washed neighbor's cars, 12-14. First "paycheck" job when I was 15, summer of 1980; worked at Pontchartrain Beach, running rhe Zephyr and the Log Ride.
Posted by TheWiz
Third World, LA
Member since Aug 2007
11878 posts
Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:09 am to
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Posted by LSUgirl4
Member since Sep 2009
39501 posts
Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:12 am to
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