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[mole]

Interesting OP. I hadn't really thought about it much.

I got a 50 cent per week allowance, raised to $1/week in middle school.
I was expected to help with household chores and projects.
Projects meant repairs as needed and I was Dad's gopher/go-fer,
retrieving tools and supplies [a fresh cold beer usually] while he worked.

I mowed lawns around the neighborhood for $5 each. $6.50 for one that had fancy landscaping and took longer.

My first real taxpaying job was working a concession stand at the local zoo.
I was 15, had my own car. '76 Mustang II that was Mom's 'til she got a Coupe DeVille.
That was $2.50/hour which was less than minimum wage, but it was considered part time, seasonal, I was underage, etc. And I was glad to do it.
Got promoted to concession stand manager [my one stand only-South Kiosk] with a raise to $3.10/hour.

Sometimes, when Dad was in the mood and report cards came out,
we'd get 50 cents per "A" and a quarter for "B"s.

I'd continue, but from here on, I'm no longer a little kid, I suppose.

[benji]

When I was a kid I worked for some Italians down the street. Mostly I delivered packages, brought them cocktails, general gopher type stuff. Well one day me and my friend Tommy got caught by the police for selling stolen cigarettes from the back of a truck. We had to go to court. It was then that I learned these two important things: never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

[Sector7G]

[warmachinenkorea]

During the summer I did lawns and worked with my Dad and Granddad managing the county water system. I was the gopher until it I got strong enough to dig holes and use the machines. During school as long as I played ball my parents gave me about $20 a week. I lived a 25 mile round trip from my school so that 318 Dodge pretty much used my $20.

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

At around age 8 or nine me and my mate Lee used to go round doing odd jobs for old ladies on our estate (sweeping the patio, mowing the lawn, tidying up, vacuum cleaning etc... taking out the trash.) Prices were random and usually were in the range of 20p - 50p

Thing was you had to be a Boy Scout by law and show i.d to prove it (true story.) We weren't so we'd just lie and do the jobs anyway. But then one day a miserable old git told us he knew we weren't in the scouts and he'd snitch us in if he saw us knocking on doors again, so we were scared and stopped.

Then at around 11 yrs old me and Lee used to have a car washing round. My Dad gave us enough to buy two buckets, a chamoise, sponge and some washing up liquid. We'd do people's cars once a month and we charged around 1.50 a car, not bad back then...

Also from about age 10 - 16 me and me mate 'Batesy' used to go caroll singing every year from the 23rd to the 24th of Dec in the evenings. This was really bloody lucrative as people would be sloshed it being chrimbo and all and would give us a few quid a pop. We'd be over the moon and buy a pack of smokes to share and go down the rec centre and blow the whole lot on the arcade game 'Super Pang.' - or was it 'ping..?' We'd literally stand there and play for the whole day long until all the cash was gone.

Also when I was 15 the old man started making me work for my pocket money, the git. He let me use his ladders and bucket, wiper blade etc and I'd have to go round all the local estates knocking on doors and asking people if they wanted their windows cleaned and noting ones that did in a notebook. I used to go out and do my round every month. It was really embarrasing though as I had to walk along holding the ladder on my shoulder as a I walked and it hurt. Also Lisa the girl I fancied lived nearby as did a lot of people from my school and I'd have to strategically place the ladders, then do a quick reconasence mission to make sure nobody I knew was in the area before making my way to and fro each house to ensure I wouldn't be seen as if I were I'd be accused of being a 'pikey' a 'chav' or a 'gypo' and made fun of at school.

I also had a paper round from age 14 - 16.

I guess it's possibly why I don't mind hard work and have rarely been out of employment since I was 18

[PatrickBateman]

Asked my parents.

[reactionary]

I never had any money until I was 16. then I washed dishes and sold newspaper subscriptions door to door.

[Fishead soup]

Picked fruit in the Niagra Pennisula. The job was done by kids back then.
When the first wave of Vietnamese Refugee's came in they started to take those jobs. Now these jobs are done exclusively by Rastafarians from Jamaca.

[Goku]

$2 a day doing chores.

At that time, in middle school, that was a fortune.

I would do really basic stuff like wash dishes.

I've never really been materialistic in any way. So I use to buy my friends stuff and we would share in my bounty.

Unfortunately, I thought my acts of altruism would impress my parents. Rather they viewed it as immaturity and a "waste". They cut allowance in half and I was no longer allowed to buy things for friends.

Well, my friends were disappointed but did expect it. Later, I ended up having the biggest pile of magic cards and would ultimately beat them out.

Money is power. You learn that at an early age.

[Steelrails]

Hypothetically speaking about my past...

Swiping money from mom's purse. Selling Black & Milds and Swisher Sweets.


And I will proudly claim I did things like work for my dad and his friends during airshows. I also had a stint cleaning out a pond. Then came pizza.

[Draz]

[kiwigirl :O)]

setting the table
feeding the cat
putting out the milk bottles
(when I was very young, and 50 cents was a fortune)

then
vacuming (top floor and stairs)
laundry
ironing
(as well as the above minus milk bottles)
washing the car
babysitting neighbors kids
feeding neighbors cats and dogs (when they were on vacation)
vacuming for elderly neighbors
(all of that was for $30 bucks a month with an ATM card when I was 15)

then first taxable job at 16