At the age of 9, most kids are barely doing chores around the house, unless they are farm kids who come out of the womb working.
I was working in the kitchen at the country club at age 14. Slicers and knives and hot things be damned. Of course, dad was on the board so perhaps I got some special 'in' to work there that young.
Many of my friends were working in kitchens by the age of 16. We had real sit down restaurants in town, no fast food except for one mom and pop shop that had carhops on skates.
Methinks this drop in the age of child workers is a way to allow more migrant kids to pull their own weight...as it were. And who cares if some of them are maimed or killed...amirite?
I doubt little Becky or Jason are going to be doing manual labor at the age of 9, being driven to work from the 'burbs.
I was working in the kitchen at the country club at age 14. Slicers and knives and hot things be damned. Of course, dad was on the board so perhaps I got some special 'in' to work there that young.
Many of my friends were working in kitchens by the age of 16. We had real sit down restaurants in town, no fast food except for one mom and pop shop that had carhops on skates.
Methinks this drop in the age of child workers is a way to allow more migrant kids to pull their own weight...as it were. And who cares if some of them are maimed or killed...amirite?
I doubt little Becky or Jason are going to be doing manual labor at the age of 9, being driven to work from the 'burbs.
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