I started mowing lawns when I was 10. I also picked oranges, worked in the tomato fields and the packing house. I spent a couple of years working in an ice cream joint and then when I could drive to town, I became a bagboy at the local grocery store. All this and I still found time to make my parents ask themselves why they ever has kids.
My brother delivered newspapers via his bicycle in the early '70s and I babysat. Then I worked at A&W and Carl's Jr. and my sis worked at Wendy's. My dad was a soda jerk before going to college and then Officer's Candidate School (Lt. Col. USMC, Ret. - miss you, Dad!).
Born in 1955, I remember most of these things still around through the mid 60s. My first job was mowing lawns to get spending money for Boy Scout camp. It was a great time to be a kid!
I was born in 1957 and I was one of the Baby Boomers. In 1973 and I turned 16 years old. I got my first part-time job at Great Scott!Supermarkets,(which is now Kroger).I started out as a bagger and I also stocked shelves and worked in the produce department. That was my very first job.
I was born in the early 1950's. I had a paper route, cut lawns and shoveled snow, ran errands and when I turned 16 and got my S.S. # and worked in a hotel as a busboy. A lot of the photo's shown were before the Baby Boomers like in the 1920's to the 40's. I couldn't relate to some of them.
Born in 1950, I would mow lawns for $2 when I was 10. In high school I would work part time at a mom/pop hamburger place whereby customers would be met/served by car hops. Sometimes I would go to Six Flags for $6 for an all day pass with the money I made during the summer.
I guess my first job was shining shoes and a little barber shop in Heber springs, Arkansas. We had one of those little shoe shine boxes with the shoe. Rest on top and that's where I first remember doing a job
I delivered papers for The York Daily Record. (1970s) The only way I got paid is if my customers paid their bill. Luckily I had a great route. But The York Daily Record still owes my my last check..