At what age did you start working?

Age 10 - 15 49
Age 16 - 20 73
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  • dappled

    Self-employed freelance games programmer aged 15.

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  • DannyKanes

    14. I worked as a brick layer for a brickie who was an alcoholic. He'd drink two six packs of beer (full strength) before we'd start work at 6am

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  • wigsplitz

    My parents ran a dairy farm, so basically as soon as I could walk and understand basic instructions, that's when it all started. Didn't end til I moved out. Slave labor!! My dad was a drunk who didn't do shit, he left it all to my mom, me and my brother.

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  • megadriver

    Think I was 16. I helped my dad at the office and the first real job I got was at a carwash. Still remember the day when I had to drive out a guy's M5. My first contact with a sports car XD
    Now I am 21 and work in a company. International spedition and transport stuff. Started that when I was 19.

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  • Sparkle6789

    I'm 18 and I've never worked a day in my life!

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  • Aliceee93

    I started work when I was like 9, milking cows ;)

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  • smallboobies:(

    16

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  • snowtail802

    10, Waitress at me mum's restaurant

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  • pieceofmyheart

    16, subway.

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  • charli.m

    14, child care centre owned by my friend's mother. Childcare is all I have ever done...so going from that, I've been working in childcare for...fuck...14 years :-S Though I don't say that on my CV, I only count the first job I got after turning 18.

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  • Wh0Ar3YoU

    about 11. I used walk around mowing lawns with a push lawnmower around my neighborhood. I did that until I was 15 or 16 charging anywhere from $15-$40 depending on the size of the lawns and if I hadn't spent all that money at all I would've had easily $1,500-$2,000. No joke I would sometimes make up to 80 bucks a day. I was smart.

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  • Brawnyboy

    14. Construction work. Still doing it. It pays well.

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  • 14...farm jobs in the summer. In Iowa...imagine that? haha

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  • intergalacticalligator

    12-15 babysitting then 16 at Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors.

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  • Aleks85

    17. Bowling Alley.

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  • anti-hero

    14, Grocery store bag boy. I was the fast bagger this side of The Mississippi.

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  • iEatZombies_

    17. The mall.

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  • Cuntsiclestick

    18. It was at Target.

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  • jondoerandom

    16, we were hanging at this bar.. well, it was a small, empty place in a small empty town. so they never asked to see any id as long as you kept buying booze and kept it quiet. One night I got really drunk and asked if they need any help at the kitchen.
    At least I was the only guy with my own car at the highschool ;)

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  • lc1988

    11- paper route!

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  • TerryVie

    Do regular paid babysitting jobs count? That would be 12.

    If not, i basically worked as paper-girl when i was 14 in our neighbourhood. It wasn't official, but the regular delivery guy was getting old and more than willing to share a bit of his income for having less work to do :)
    That was daily, before school, and more than an hour of work, so it has to count :P

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  • SLAYERoftheWICKED

    15 working for my uncle renting and selling tuxedos.

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    • anti-hero

      I didn't see that coming haha

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      • SLAYERoftheWICKED

        what?

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        • anti-hero

          You selling tuxedos.

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  • 15. I was a cashier at a supermarket (grocery store). I worked there until I was 18 years old.

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  • ValleyofVung

    15 at McDonalds.

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    • Justsomejerk

      Me too! It sucked.

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      • ValleyofVung

        Haha, at that age I didn't know any better and was happier than a pig in shit having my first job and making my own (very little) money.

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        • Justsomejerk

          Pay was my age -11 per hour.

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          • ValleyofVung

            That's pretty good for 15! Mine was $7.84 when I first started.

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