Summer job at the golf course doing maintenance 6 days a week. I'm guessing I earned about $4.50/hr. Fun job until it hit the 100's.

Started at $3.50/ hour helping my grandpa farm and ranch. Got bumped to $5 hour the next summer, paid for my first boat that cost $3250 in one summer at $5/ hour. I think I was 12 or 13 when they finally started paying me.

I was a silent film dancer back in 1907. First gig was called “Dancing Pig” and I was humiliated.

Jk, dry cleaners with my parents. I think like $10/hr back when I was 14.

1st job was pushing a lawnmower around the trailer park. Not a great venture.
2nd job was busting tables and washing dishes at Pizza Getti I was 14. Minimum wage was 4.25 I think.

Summer job mowing for the school district at $7.25 an hour. It really was a good summer job for a kid.10 hour days Monday - Thursday 6:00 - 4:30.

Depending on how you look at it, either feeding bottle calves or operating golf course grounds maintenance equipment.

2nd to 4th grade, Feeding bottle calves for the dairyman across the road when there was some to be fed twice a day 7 days a week, cleaned their pens Saturday took all day, $1.00 - $2.00 per week plus a quart of chocolate raw milk.

4th grade to 7th bottle calves plus drove tractor pulling wagons older boys loaded with alfalfa hauled to barn helped unload & stack, also drove tractor pulling chopped silage wagon from field to silo, adult always unloaded. Drove tractor with manure spreader, loaded & spread manure. Started operating tractors when I had to stand on the clutch pedal with both feet so body weight would depress clutch. Made $4.00 - $12.00 per week depending on work load, plus a quart of chocolate raw milk.

First paycheck type job was during high school, worked on 2 golf courses operating grounds maintenance equipment, irrigation, then equipment maintenance & repair.
Started $1.90 per hour in 9th grade worked my way up to $4.15 by 12th.
When school was out during summer break went to SoCal worked for an uncle doing all sorts of dirt work / excavation, operated all sorts of heavy equipment building avocado & citrus groves, roads & bridges, built a bunch of greenhouses, barns a few houses also irrigation, drilling water wells, etc..
$150 - $250 per week plus room & board.

Windy's at whatever minimum wage was in 1975

Age 13. Dad was a tile contractor. I was day labor. 5 bucks a day plus room and board.
Age 15. Pump jockey at a service station. Salary plus commission, so about a $1.5 an hour.

Kens pizza. I was 14. $2.65/hr.

Busboy 13

Picking tobacco at 14 $1.10 hr.

From the brown cows?

First real job? 12 yrs old, worked a Summer at a tire shop in Beeville. Worked me from dawn to dusk, earned $10.00/day and I earned every cent of that pay. I was 12 yrs old swinging a hammer busting split rims hot off the road. Lol. If not working on tires I was chopping and weed eating the acreage out back. It was hot, but I wasn’t allowed to take breaks.

No, he had Holstein,,, that dairyman made the best chocolate milk I've ever had, raw as in unpasteurized whole milk.
Let it sit for a while and the top third or so of the bottle separated out pure cream, had to shake it before you took a drink.

Yep, we took a big glass jar of it hunting. Set it outside the trailer every night. In the morning the older men would spoon the cream off for their coffee then we would shake it up and pour on our cereal...

Stacking grass on the back of a sod harvested in 1995 as an 8th grader. I think we got $1.50 a pallet and would stack up 20 to 40 a day after school. 40 a day on weekends and summer and took 3 or 4 hours depending on smoke breaks.

SO freakin dangerous! I hate me some Dayton’s.

Started working in the family chicken houses (breeder hens) gathering eggs some time before I was 10. It paid room and board and all the eggs you could eat. By 5th grade I could pretty much run them and knew how to fix most things there, even if I wasn't physically capable. My dad had to have back surgery that year and I got home from school one day and both set of grandparents and a couple uncles were waiting on me to tell them how to fix one of the conveyor belts that brought eggs out.

First regular job I had was at a steakhouse owned by my best friends parents. I got a job pouring water and tea and busing tables every friday and saturday night for $40 a night cash. I stayed there til I was a senior in high school. I didn't work through football season.

In the same years I also hauled lots of hay, built swimming pools, work for a contractor doing insurance repaires, and worked in an antique store. Summer before my senior year I did all of the above.

Delivered furniture through high school at .75 cents / hour .

Worked at fast food burger place .95 cents a hour

Pumping gas and cleaning boats at Big Cypress Marina on Lake of The Pines when I was 14. Fifty cents an hour.

My dad had a meat packing company in Dallas. My first job was sweeping floors, pulling weeds and cleaning the parking lot and riding with delivery drivers to help them with their deliveries.
He paid my brother and me exactly zero. We worked every Saturday, holidays and all summer. We finally started getting paid in year three - minimum wage - which was about $1.50 an hour then.

When I was a Senior in high school he made me the foreman of the night time clean up crew. We washed the entire plant down six days a week after production ended.
He did give me his old Ford LTD so I could get to work everyday after school.

I worked at the Ford house in Stephenville my senior year in high school, I had worked before then but that was my first “real” job. I think I made 6.25 an hour.

My grandad told me he took folks catfishing on pines when it first flooded out of a row boat for a dollar a day