Well I'm 14 at the moment and have a job. I teach little kids gymnatics and get paid roughly 10 pounds an hour (not sure what that is in dollars?)
:D Lifes good
Answered By: Josh - 6/8/2009 |
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In my day 1950's the usual was paper route, cut grass, winter snow no school shovel sidewalks for $5 bucks a piece. Saturday mornings walk around and find bottles to turn in to the store for 2 cents apiece. Movies 25 cents candy maybe 15 cents for that you get two movies, cartoons now you need a diners club to got the the flicks.
Answered By: Tag23 - 6/8/2009 |
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I dug for and dried golden seal and ginseng root for a local herbalist. It was quick (but not so easy) money for a teenager. I was able to save enough money in one summer to buy my first car. Ten years ago, I made $30/lb, I noticed that the price for goldenseal recently went up to almost $100/lb. I also babysat for $3/hr and mowed lawns $10-$20 depending on the size of the lawn.
Answered By: .·:*¨`*:·. .·:*Hå®sH ®EåLíTy - 6/8/2009 |
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Since 12 always mow lawns, pull weeds and go the grocery store. Had a paper route too. It helped pay for my model cars which I love to do and summer camp in Scouts. Did not worry about liability or child labor laws then.
Answered By: Ken H - 6/8/2009 |
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I baby sat a lot. 50 cents an hour seemed like a lot. I bought records (Beatles and others) and clothes and even contact lenses (part of them).
My kids were really good at earning their own money, too. My husband used to help a friend's parents bale hay on their farm. My 14 year old granddaughter is really good at paying for things she wants, too. She baby sits, and does extra chores
Answered By: meerkat uno - 6/8/2009 |
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Work for corporate or private farms. I know I was under 16 because no driving. Probably 15 yrs old.
Either cut grass or shoveled snow was my first gig.
When I was 13, I was one year to old to enter a Easter Egg Hunt. I was offered $10.00 if I found the grand prize egg and give it to a younger relative. I found it, and made $10.00.
Answered By: glen And Then? - 6/8/2009 |
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Shoveled snow for a dollar, mowed grass for a few bucks, babysat for 50c an hour, walked dogs for 50c.
Answered By: Baw - 6/8/2009 |
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When I was 13-15 yrs old, I had a paper route (120 customers) and delivered the newspaper 6 nights a week and before 7am on Sunday morning. I made around 8 or 9 dollars (plus tips) a week. I mowed lawns and I did baby sitting for 50 cents an hour. I would hire out to help people clean yards or basements.
I spent the money on nothing worthy: pop, cigs and food.
Answered By: Jeff (weseye) Wesley - 6/8/2009 |
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I baby sat, washed cars and cut grass. Fifty cents an hour for child sitting and a dollar or two for washing cars and cutting grass.
Answered By: Ginger H - 6/8/2009 |
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My parents ran a country gas and grocery, and I do mean country. We raised our own chickens and I got a penny for each dozen I gathered and cleaned as well a a penny for each gallon of gas I pumped. Gas was 19.9 per gallon and you could get a soda for a nickel.
Answered By: jonds - 6/8/2009 |
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Yes. I did the ironing job too, 3.00 a basket I put the sign in the laundry room at our apartment building. Babysat for 1.50 an hour
started work at 15 after school for Bobby Orr's Pizza.
I still do odd jobs and even dirty deeds..for some.
Still love to work.... it keeps me sane now though
Anything for a buck and sometimes free.
Answered By: Ronnie - 6/8/2009 |
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Before I turned a teenager, I got an allowance of $1.00/week if I did all my chores without complaint. After I turned a teenager, I started putting up the farmer's hay for 7, 8, maybe 9 cents/bail and did all my chores for free.
Answered By: oldman - 6/8/2009 |
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I mowed lawns for $2.50
And shoveled snow for $3.00.
Big bucks in '65.
Answered By: Sly Snake - 6/8/2009 |
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What I did at home was part of my responsibility, I went to work next door at a care home t 14 and as a nurse aide at 15at the hospital.50 cents an hour.
Answered By: June smiles - 6/8/2009 |
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Well, living on a farm, we were assigned chores around the barn, caring for the animals, gardening and tending to crops, and then just normal household tasks. As far as getting paid, as my father would say: "you have a roof over your head and food on the table, don't you?"
Answered By: Gladys - 6/8/2009 |
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I baby sat for $.50 an hour. I did odd jobs for people, like going to the store, house setting, and etc. . I didn't charge a set price. I accepted what ever they could pay. Some was real good and some was pretty poor. But it gave me the money I needed for my Elvis records and extras.
Answered By: HappyCamper - 6/8/2009 |
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Did babysitting and mowed lawns with a push mower ( no motor )- I still have that no motor mower, and it still works !
I don't remember how much I got paid, it wasn't much- but back then it seemed like a lot to me.
Answered By: Windy - 6/8/2009 |
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I use to get paid .50 cents to hold Effie Watson's goat while she milked her. had a paper route, and mowed a wealthy family's lawn every other week took 9 hrs at $1. per hr., during harvest a dollar a day from sun up to sun down meals included.
Answered By: Micol - 6/8/2009 |
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I did baby sitting in the late 50's and got 35 cents an hour. In 1960, I raised my rates to 50 cents an hour. Believe it or not, I had one family, with 4 kids, who complained and said they would not pay 50 cents! When I turned down baby sitting jobs from them, they quickly changed their minds!
One of our neighbors was an elderly woman, and her adult daughter asked if I would visit her mom on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for 1/2 hour after school, just to give her mom some companionship. She offered me $1.00 an hour, however, I did it for free because I really liked that lady and would have felt greedy if I took money. I am still proud of myself for doing that, and when that lady died (she was not rich), she left me $1,200 in her will. What goes around, comes around, huh? Even the good!
Answered By: janet a - 6/8/2009 |
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Babysat the neighbor's 3 small kids for .35 cents an hour-holy cow! I must have been desperate.
Answered By: Bogey - 6/8/2009 |
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Yes I did and I 'm proud of it,it wasn't enough to pay even for my beer.
Source(s):
The golden spots on the ordinary sheet of my not so ordinary struggles in life
Answered By: chillyoung - 6/8/2009 |
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12 to 15, late 1940's early 50's.........Baby sat, $ whatever they gave me, weeded pickles, tomatoes, 25 cents hour, that didn't last long.
Popped corn for vending machines, that was solo. 10cents for every bag I popped. Mowed grass at home and other chores for free.
Answered By: jenny - 6/8/2009 |
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.50-.75 per hour. Pulling mustard and driving tractor (and other odds and ends)
Answered By: Snuffy - 6/8/2009 |
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I, too, did the .50/hr baby sitting. Additionally, I pulled weeds, mowed lawns, raked leaves, shoveled snow, and ran errands (all on a "donation" basis ... we were expected to help our childless neighbors out, if they paid us great ... if they didn't, it was considered Christian Charity ... which, of course, always began at home).
Answered By: RT 66 - 6/8/2009 |
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All I ever done was go shopping for old people.
Answered By: Jim's Mother. - 6/8/2009 |
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I used to babysit and made .50 an hour.
Answered By: Moe - 6/8/2009 |
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Of course, how else did we get any spending money--parents back then didn't just hand you money. I remember picking strawberries and peaches and apples--after the main season was over (the professionals did the seasonal picking) when there were still viable fruit on the plants but the adults were too big to get at them so we kids would hit the fields and harvest. The famer paid us some very low amount per basket/bushel but we could take home gobs of the stuff too (and eat lots while we worked). Best raspberries and peaches I ever had. I babysat (I think it was like 50 cent per hour but I changed diapers, heated milk bottles, fed the older kids, helped with homework, washed dishes, picked up one kid after school and gave him (us) plenty of activity outside to get rid of a lot of his energy (he became "incorrigible" if he had too much pent up energy) which allowed him to get off the drugs they kept him on but after I was let go (mom thought she could take care of him now that she knew the secret) the kid eventually killed himself (lots of family problems). I would go down to this accounting office on weekends and sometimes after school (or on school holidays) to do mimeograph copying, replacing CCH pages, run errands, pick up lunches, help with filing. That was the first time I had to buy lunch for myself (and I soon learned to bring my own, buying lunch took too much of a chunk out of my meager salary). We stuffed envelopes. We delivered newspapers. We mowed lawns and walked dogs and took in mail/watered plants/cared for fish & cats when neighbors and relative went on vacations. We shoveled snow (and shoveled snow and shoveled snow). We washed windows. We weeded backyard gardens. We ran errands to the grocery store for the elderly neighborhood people or if we knew someone was ill. We also ran to the library for these folks (they would call the library to order books and we'd pick them up). We washed cars. I remember once our family doctor was doing some research and we kids would go in once every week to give blood. I can't remember what we got paid, it was something like a nickel and definitely not more than a quarter for any chore--people just didn't have a lot of expendable cash back then. And if someone didn't have the money, we'd still do the chore just because they were neighbors who couldn't do for themselves--I don't think there were any lazybones among them so if they couldn't do for themselves, it meant they were either too busy with other stuff, or ill, or incapacitated in some other manner. We kids weren't allowed to watch tv at will, nor were there computer games. And if the weather was nice enough, mom would kick us out of the house right after breakfast and we weren't allowed back in (except for toilet breaks) until suppertime so we utilized that time to play but also to be useful where needed. It just was the way it was.
Answered By: Inundated in SF - 6/8/2009 |
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Worked on a dairy farm as a kid - dollar an hour no over time.
Answered By: Dave M - 6/8/2009 |
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We used to pick ground pine for 9 cents a pound...you would fill a burlap bag as full as you could and drag itout of the woods to the guy who bought it...a bag would hold a bit less than 40 pounds of pine...so we made over 3 bucks for a full mornings work...
Answered By: Dan the brick man - 6/8/2009 |
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