Did you have a job when you were a teenager?

I am a teenager but I don't have a real job but I baby sit and have been since I was about 11 years old, I sometimes help people wiht cleaning thier house, I make and sell scarves, and today I put a candy machine you pay a quarter for up in a companies break room, so i don't have a real job or anything like that but I have ways I work to earn my own money.

I did tutoring to elementary students, then eventually went to buy and sell business and ran other small businesses as well.

I had a newspaper route when I was about 14 or 15, but it was only a few days a week. I never missed a customer and delivered my papers as soon as I got them. It was a traditional job as a teen, but nowadays they only hire adults to be carriers and require them to have a car.

Hello, I had a paper-round when I was 13, and oh how I hated it, but I never complained when I got paid at the end of the week. 25 years on am I'm still working, dont really want to BUT , it has to be done. Better than scrounging off the social. And alot better than doing nothing wasting a life. Have a cool day.

When I was about 13, my friend and I started helping my uncle out on his farm. We worked mostly on weekends, but we sometimes worked for him after school during the week. We both continued to work for him until we were almost done with high school. During this time, my uncle also started getting work for us on other farms in the area when he didn’t have anything for us to do out at his place. I would also cut grass for another man here in town who owned a grass-cutting business. I would work for him when my uncle didn’t have anything for me to do. When I turned 16, I got a job working on a dairy farm in another town, but I continued to do the work my uncle had for me as well. I later got a job at Walmart, and I gave up working on the farms and cutting grass for the most part. I was working at Walmart when I graduated from high school.

Been working since I was 17

Hi Maximax, Yes I was raised to work for what I wanted. My parents did have money but they did not just hand it over to us kids. In fact, they made us WANT to work. They would not buy us cool clothes. They'd say things like, when you buy your own clothes then you can wear what you want. I was 11 when I started babysitting for neighborhood kids and earned my own money. I learned to sew in 4th grade. I made a lot of my own clothes. I got my first real job at 15 at a dept. store and then went on to Dunkin donuts until I graduated at 18. By the time I graduated, I had a good job working in an insurance company where I stayed for the next 12 years.

Babysitting at 14. Working in a sandwich making for vending machines place at 16.

When I was about 13, my friend and I started helping my uncle out on his farm. We worked mostly on weekends, but we sometimes worked for him after school during the week. We both continued to work for him until we were almost done with high school. During this time, my uncle also started getting work for us on other farms in the area when he didn’t have anything for us to do out at his place. I would also cut grass for another man here in town who owned a grass-cutting business. I would work for him when my uncle didn’t have anything for me to do. When I turned 16, I got a job working on a dairy farm in another town, but I continued to do the work my uncle had for me as well. I later got a job at Walmart, and I gave up working on the farms and cutting grass for the most part. I was working at Walmart when I graduated from high school.

I did indeed! I also had a paper round and then I got a staurday job in Clinton cards and also did some house keeping work in a hotel at Manchester Airport although I hated that job so much!

Yes, I got my first job at as a nurse assistant at a nursing home when I was 14. That was during the days before you had to be certified. I liked the job but the regular nurses and nurse aides use to be very mean to us young girls. They would give us all the dirty work they did not want to do and gave us all the difficult patients, plus they would get on us for not doing work that we did not know we were suppose to do. I later worked as a teacher's aide and a daycare aide. Both of those jobs were much nicer.

hi maxim, i was graduating from high school when i first had a training in office work. i was 14 then. after 6 months of probationary work, i got a clerical job and continued on until college. at 19 i got a secretarial job at a law firm and i worked there for 13 years. then i got bored and took on another job in a real estate firm where i now work as administrative assistant. ann

I never did! I think I was in first year university when I applied and accepted to work at a local McDonalds. Unfortunately, my scheduled orientation day was also the enrollment day for a hard to get summer class in Physics. I chose to study so my academic load wasn't too hard the following semester.

I remember those days ... I got a job in a Walmart. I was a packer, and I had to pack customers' stuff into bags or boxes, depending. I guess you all know them,. It was one of the best experiences of my life, because I finally earned money by myself, I met my first love and I learnt many other things that have been useful throughout my life. I remember those days happily. Those were les années heureuses.

I started doing a paper route when I was 9 years old and delivered newspapers everyday except Sunday, back then there was no Sunday paper. I don't remember how much I earned but it was pretty good for a kid. I did that till I was 11 years old and then I started babysitting, mostly for my mom's girlfriends. There were these two sisters that had a bunch of kids and they liked to go to bingo so I babysat for them a lot. They lived just a couple houses from us and they lived next door to each other so I would babysit for both of them at one house. I still got paid double because they each paid me. Then when I was 15 years old I got a part time job in a high fashion clothing store. I loved that job. I got to meet really rich people and I got paid really good and I got a 50% discount on the clothes otherwise I could never afford them as they were expensive clothes. I would wait till they went on sale and then I would still get 1/2 off of the sale price. I worked there a couple evenings a week and on Saturdays. I have had several jobs since then and now I am self employed cleaning houses. This is the best job I have ever had...been doing this since 2001...best money I have ever made. Cheers, Your friend Chris

I was 15 when I got my first job and I worked in a law firm after school. I had to tidy up, wash the dishes and take the mail to the post office. It was a big law firm and I had two co-workers about my age. We worked together and we were able to chat while we worked. We usually had a good time together and I liked my job, but after one year I had to quit, because I had too many classes to work there. My second job was a paper round. My brother and I worked together and we shared the work and the money. I also worked as a babysitter when I was a teenager, and it was a nice way to earn some extra money.

I actually have the same job as i have now. Not sure how to explain it. It doesnt have a name to translate but basicly i put hooks on long strings and attach them on a wooden box for fishermen to use. I get paid about 1.25 euros for each one and everyday i do 8 for about 6 days a week.

Most of my life I've been working, simply because I liked making my own money and not relying on my parents. At six years old, I was competing in barrel racing (a western horse sport) and making money through prizes. I'd put it all into savings for my future car. By nine I was working for various family members in a variety of ways...polishing woodwork for my grandmother, cleaning stalls for both my father and some of our horse friends, yardwork, clerical work for my dad's real estate business, etc. I couldn't yet be hired by the state of Ohio to work because of my age, so I found things to do! At fourteen, I started working outside the home. Not once after that haven't I worked at least part-time. At fifteen, I started my own real estate business and bought a condo to fix up and rent out. Real estate runs in the family, and I was happy at the time to best my dad who had started at seventeen! Now I'm twenty-three and have grown my real estate business to the point of not having to work for someone else, which was the dream I'd had with starting it back in high school. I can't stand working for other people...I need to be in charge, and this allows me to do that. Last year I started publishing my novels as well, which has been another dream of mine since I wrote my first when I was six. I've been writing ever since, but never made any money with it until now. I'm glad I started working early...I wouldn't be as happy in my life or career today if I hadn't. :)

I've been working since I was about nine or ten. I used to carry magazines around in a little sack. I've been a paper boy and worked on the farm picking string beans. As a teenager, I finally worked for a paycheck at an amusement park.

It's not really a job, however, me and my friends tried selling ice cream pops in the neighborhood during one summer. We haven't reached our teen years even. We were just doing it to kill time. My siblings teased me for it saying I'm slaving myself when they're back home playing computer games and all.