Mike CernovichVerified account

I didn't make it passed the first few comments. It's pretty gross that we can't even celebrate someone learning the meaning of hard work -.-

Yeah, we would rake leaves or shovel snow as well. I remember splitting 20 dollars 3 ways after 2 or 3 hours raking leaves and being so happy to get 7 dollars cash, lol. Was big money to a 13-year-old who grew up poor.

I got my first job at 13. I was a paperboy. I delivered newspapers on my bike around my neighborhood. That job, along with my parents, taught me the value of work and responsibility.

I remember babysitting and cleaning old ladies’ houses as early as age 12, and continued working various jobs in high school and all the way through college. I’m 53 and that was completely normal back then.

I was a detassler at 13. Hardest job I ever had. 110 degrees under corn stalks. Long days, cut up all over the arms and hands from leaves, hella bugs. Taught me a lot about hard work, early.

If only they still were able to farm for real, not just hold the title of farmers. Wish there were more kids now who would work, it's just not as common to have your children learn hard work and the value of the $$ and is so regulated it's frustrating.

That kid is probably going to grow up with a better work ethic than them.

Grandmother detassled corn during WWII to help make ends meet. That was after my grandparents eloped the year before the Crash and picked up walnuts, shelled them and sold them door to door for $1.00 per quart mason jar. Greatest Generation.

Same. I was amazed/confused/jealous when I got to university (elite, moneyed, northeast) and came to understand that by 18, many of my peers hadnt yet worked a day in their lives (other faux-work like resume-enhancing charity drives or "raising awareness," etc.)