How did you earn your first dollar (or your local currency)?

My parents believed in paying us to work around the house from a very young age.

Potato picking during the school holidays aged 9 or 10.

I actually didn’t earn anything, not even from my parents, until I got my first real job after leaving school. No matter how much work I did round the house, my parents still didn’t have any money to pay me, and living in a remote rural area there wasn’t any work available for kids.

My first nonfamily jobs were throwing hay bales for the neighbors after we sold our cows. I was 12.

I’m not sure. I remember getting paid for weeding the yards at other peoples homes. I swept up the rubber dust at my fathers tire shop. I had a paper route when I was pretty young.

Babysitting.

In a vineyard.

I don’t remember ever getting paid for doing chores – doing chores was expected. My first earnings were from a job at McDonalds. First paycheck, for working a week, was about $37.

I delivered papers from the time I was 8 until just before I turned 13. I had to be up at 5am and have the papers delivered by 6:30am six days a week. I didn’t really know what it felt like to sleep in.

Doing my siblings chores. They paid me to fix up their rooms so they could hang outside longer.

Other than brief fling with babysitting, which I didn’t like, I played the piano (badly) for the music classes at Sunday School.

12 years old, by pushing a popsicle cart all over town.

I normally cleared about $32 each day and that was a lot of money in 1958.

Tax-free, of course.

I was 12, and I set up a lemonade stall.

@Ayesha: Did you have to pay for the raw materials?

Answering phones at my parents’ business. I was shy so I would just tell the person to hold.

I believe the first time I actually earned it was when I helped my mother wash the dishes for the first time. Haha. Freaking hate dishes..

^
Aye. The first money I ’‘earned’’ was a small allowance my dad gave me. It included small chores, like washing the dishes a few times a week.
First job I got was at a bar when I was 15. Weekend job acting as a busgirl and then the coatcheck girl. I hated that job. It was pretty funny that I was allowed to work in a bar, but was underage haha.

But yeah, dishes.

8 or 9, washing my dad’s car. Thing is, he extended this to when we were on holiday, offering mine and my brothers services out (i.e. pimping me out!) to other people on the campsite, to wash their cars…!

A lemonade stand. I think we made a dollar that day. Maybe not. It was a long time ago.

Allowance for doing chores.

My grampa would pay me to do chores at his workplace, little stuff like dusting or emptying ashtrays. I worked for him every summer and also took up a paper route as a pre-teen.

I didn’t earn anything until I got my first job. I worked in a shoe shop for my first job.

My parents sometimes gave me money for chores like washing the car.