What job(s) did you have as a kid?

[Pat Mustard]

Up until the age of fifteen chores around the house, washing dishes, hoovering, cleaning rooms, mowing the 3/4 acre garden and some brushcutting and wood chopping got me my £5 a week pocket money. I would also have helped out during baling season with the neighbouring farmers during the summer. Between fifteen and seventeen I had a one day a week job at the local petrol station doing car-washes, filling petrol, fixing punctures and general storeroom management (ie humping boxes of produce in and out of the store). After that I was in college and various summerjobs in the likes of Tescos and night jobs in bars and night clubs tided me over until I graduated into full time work.

Edit to say: The general housework was a great grounding for living in my own place, in addition to what I mentioned I also learned how to cook, iron, sew and lots of other stuff you need to do for yourself. I'm fully domesticated.

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Never had a job until I turned 18.  Mostly because I was a teen mom, busy taking care of my kids.  Does that count as a job.  Part of me feels like it almost should.  Kids + Going to school = no time for a job.

Being a mother is the biggest, hardest job.