You SHOULD Have A Job Before 18

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[cosermann]

While the left thinks people shouldn't have jobs before they're 18, they have NO PROBLEM advocating for reducing the age required to vote. Interesting.

 

[AndreusMaximus]

I remember on my 18th birthday, I was at work and my boss starts joking with me, telling me about how now that I'm 18 I'm a certified adult and can do just about anything I please: vote, join the military, kill and die for my country, but don't even think about walking into a liquor store and trying to buy alcohol.

Not really related, just a funny memory that popped back into my head.

 

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I remember on my 18th birthday, I was at work and my boss starts joking with me, telling me about how now that I'm 18 I'm a certified adult and can do just about anything I please: vote, join the military, kill and die for my country, but don't even think about walking into a liquor store and trying to buy alcohol.

Not really related, just a funny memory that popped back into my head.

I worked from 12 on. At 18, I was a large business manager wearing a tie. Getting served at the local liquor store on the way home.

 

[MCgrease08]

18? By the time I was 18 I already had 10 years of working experience under my belt.

I started mowing grass and shoveling snow when I was 8. Picked up a paper route after that. Started helping my buddy run a snow blower and shovel snow off roofs during heavy winters as we got older.

I had my first payroll job at 14 and never worked fewer than two jobs at a time from that point on all the way up until earlier this year when I finally dropped my side gig as a hockey referee because I got married in the fall and moved about an hour away from the nearest rink. But I expect that to be temporary and will probably go back to it next year.

Heck, I even worked two jobs during college while going to school full time. And I managed to fit in plenty of time for partying.

 

[Leadeye]

18? By the time I was 18 I already had 10 years of working experience under my belt.

I started mowing grass and shoveling snow when I was 8. Picked up a paper route after that. Started helping my buddy run a snow blower and shovel snow off roofs during heavy winters as we got older.

I had my first payroll job at 14 and never worked fewer than two jobs at a time from that point on all the way up until earlier this year when I finally dropped my side gig as a hockey referee because I got married in the fall and moved about an hour away from the nearest rink. But I expect that to be temporary and will probably go back to it next year.

Heck, I even worked two jobs during college while going to school full time. And I managed to fit in plenty of time for partying.

Growing up ag you pretty much worked as soon as you could walk.

 

[smokingman]

I had a paper route at 12. By 14 I was spending most of my summer detassling corn,stacking hay,or at my grandfathers feeding and cleaning up after pigs(about 50-100),cows(around 20-30),chickens,and horses(12 +-). In high school I worked fast food to earn my own money to buy things I wanted and to buy my first car. I paid cash for a used 1969 mustang and felt like a king, until my brother borrowed it to take a girl out on a date and totalled it.

 

[d.kaufman]

First job where taxes were taken out was at 13, corn detassling. Prior to that though, years of shoveling snow, mowing grass, and other odds and ends

 

[Tombs]

Sounds difficult when a lot of places are wanting a bachelor's degree for working a cash register.

If people want this, they're going to have to work on what they're expecting out of an employee.

 

[miketx]

I started working at 13 in a Kress department store in Texas blowing up helium balloons. I came back from lunch one day and caught the freak working with me feeling up one of the mannequins. Weird.

 

[04FXSTS]

I started working at 13 in a Kress department store in Texas blowing up helium balloons. I came back from lunch one day and caught the freak working with me feeling up one of the mannequins. Weird.

I never worked around any mannequins at that age but if I would have. You know the rest. Jim.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

My first ”job” was mowing the neighbors’ yards. Not sure how old I was but it was way before 18. Threw The Jackson Sun for a few years, worked at a gas station, then a furniture reupholsterer, then college. I worked through college.

Mom and dad taught me if I wanted more than the basics I had to go work for it…and I believed them.

I remember in high school getting part time jobs was a competitive endeavor. It was a job just getting a job as a minor.

 

[MindfulMan]

Growing up ag you pretty much worked as soon as you could walk.

Before I could even walk, my daddy had me huntin' buffalo on the lone prairie !

(that really is me !)

 

[Super Bee]

I detasseled corn the summers when I was 13 and 14. By the time I was 15 I was working at a video rental store.

The summer between my Junior and Senior years I worked 3 jobs at 3 different restaurants, probably 50 hours a week. But I had a car buying habit and mom and dad were not going to fund it. Besides, when I got it trouble they could never take my car keys, they were mine.

 

[Kdf101]

Started in single digit years weeding gardens. Mowed yards later and made some pretty good money doing it. Baled hay, spent way too many hours on a 4020 tractor, cut and delivered firewood, had a job at druthers restaurant, cleared brush for people. The great part about the outdoor jobs was that I was, well, outdoors and I found a lot a great places to hunt doing them.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Started in single digit years weeding gardens. Mowed yards later and made some pretty good money doing it. Baled hay, spent way too many hours on a 4020 tractor, cut and delivered firewood, had a job at druthers restaurant, cleared brush for people. The great part about the outdoor jobs was that I was, well, outdoors and I found a lot a great places to hunt doing them.

Point of order! You CAN'T spend too many hours on a John Deere 4020.

 

[Kdf101]

Point of order! You CAN'T spend too many hours on a John Deere 4020.

Point taken. I humbly retract ”too many” and replace it with “a lot”. I will not edit my error so that others may learn from my mistake.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I think it's important to have crappy jobs. My oldest son worked at Pizza Hut, was a pool monitor, and was an overnight stocker at Walmart. My youngest son was a dish washer for a food service contractor... and an overnight stocker at Walmart.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Point taken. I humbly retract ”too many” and replace it with “a lot”. I will not edit my error so that others may learn from my mistake.

A John Deere B or a Farmall H? Those you could spend too many hours on!

Even sitting halfway turned around in the seat running a big round baler the JD 4000 in my case (a 4020 with a 4010 transmission) you were never hurting when you got off of it. Then again, I was a lot younger in those days.

 

[tomcat13]

18? Whatta Joke!
I was Mowing 10 Yards @ 13.
Bussing Tables on 3rd Shift @ a Truckstop, as soon as I got my D/L.
Fast forward 50+ years: Retired & Loving it!