Korean Job Discussion Forums

proustme · Joined: 13 Jun 2009 Location: Nowon-gu

As a little kid, I helped old people carry their groceries up the stairs in our apartment building. I usually got a couple dimes or quarters. In my neighborhood, I was always watching out for old ladies walking home with their hands full of groceries.

The Gipkik · Joined: 30 Mar 2009

Shoveling people's snow, mowing their lawns, early morning paper route.

UknowsI · Joined: 16 Apr 2009

We would get something like 0.1 euro for recycling 0.5 liter bottles and 0.25 euro for recycling 1.5 liter bottles. So on my way back and forth to school I was always looking for bottles to recycle. When it came to doing real work I would mostly mow the lawn, shovel snow or gather leaves. Sometimes I joined in on lumber jacking and that kind of stuff, but of course they wouldn't let me use a chain saw before I became a teenager.

The Gipkik · Joined: 30 Mar 2009

Speaking of bottles, that reminds me: as little kids, we'd collect beer bottles and get money for the returnables. We became pretty good in scouting out the regular bush party locations near our neighborhood.

Tundra_Creature · Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Location: Canada

Recycling cans, babysitting, and household chores mainly.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I never did...

CrikeyKorea · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Location: Heogi, Seoul

My older brother owned a cd-burner back when they were really expensive, so I used to buy movies, burn em and sell them at school, and I used to sell firecrackers....

Draz · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam

Paper route at 8 (didn't last long) started babysitting at 11.

Needed a car to recycle bottles where I lived or I probably would have done that.

Gibberish · Joined: 29 Aug 2009

My brother and I found out quickly that you make a lot more money from a lemonade stand by giving it away for free and leaving a tip jar out.

The Gipkik · Joined: 30 Mar 2009

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I swear I will kill someone the next time someone qualfies anything I did or did not do because of my race.

Yes, I am Asian - Chinese, to be precise, but how does that affect anything?

I grew up in a multi-cultural family. A very unusual one, actually.

My parents were out at work daily, I was pretty much raised by my grandparents and our English governess. Then my sister and I went to the UK for secondary school and universities.. so we left just before I was a teenager. I am assuming that people who did paper routes and stuff were in their early teens+?

You guys (some of you anyway) need to quit your stereotyping. ALL my school friends in the UK (I went to a private all girls boarding school) never had a job until they were at university at the very earliest.

Conversely, a lot of my sister's old friends in HK had jobs when they were quite young.

It has nothing to do with our race, but rather more because our parents (and we) chose for us to live like that.

peppermint · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject:

I lived across the street from one of the bigger parks in the city, so when I was about six or seven, a lemonade stand was pretty profitable. By the time I was 12, I had a paper route and a long list of families to babysit for.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

My parents gave me pocket money until I was 16. Then I washed dishes in a restaurant.

The only common way for kids to earn money in the UK is to do a paper round. I remember evaluating the work/time involved for the renumeration. It didn't add up. Kids delivering newspapers in the UK amounted to exploitation.

The UK has a history of child labor. The industrial revolution saw a lot of British kids doing horrific work for 12 hours a day. Mining, factories, the worst was leather tanning, I heard.

Maybe that's why kids working is frowned on nowadays in the UK.

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

paper route, collecting bear crates, mowing lawns, washing cars, (dishes in resaturants -13yrs old)
I started working full time at the age of 15...
straight after school I would go to work and work until 10pm pretty much did that all through highschool...

when we were kids my mum had set up a money making board in our house..
every job was worth something..
dishes - 20cents
mow the lawn - 1 dollar
clean the car-1 dollar
etc etc etc

but actual customers outside the house was the ones listed above..

UknowsI · Joined: 16 Apr 2009

When I come to think of it, the most profitable business I've had was a flower stand. There is a flower which grows in huge numbers in a certain forest back home (I can't remember the name). The flower has a very pleasant smell and most people have no idea where they grow. My sister and I went out to pick flowers one day and sold them outside the post office the next day and made around 200 euroes (but in local currency). Now this was 15 years ago or so, so that was a lot of money back them. Even as a grown up I think you could earn some serious money picking those flowers, but you can only do it for a week or two every year.