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I worked at an eye doctor's office. I did all the pretests before you saw the doctor.

I had a job as soon as I could legally work! (Age 14). Through the years I was a library Paige, a bagel shop employee, breakfast restaurant waitress, diner waitress, water park lifeguard, JC Penny retail worker, Marriott front desk clerk, banquet server, bank teller, caterer, Italian restaurant waitress and substitute teacher. Whew!

Yes. I babysat in middle school. In high school I worked at Claire's. I was 16 and piercing people's ears - my youngest customer was 9 months old! My manager used to have me close, by myself, which meant I was carrying the cash bag down through the mall to the bank deposit box at 10pm. Crazy.

Just summers and the last 4 months of high school. I played 3 sports and my job was to do well in school.

I worked at Outback Steakhouse as a hostess after I turned 16. It was a fun job. Before that, I babysat occasionally but nothing on the regular.

No, I wasn't allowed to. I was supposed to focus on school, but also helped around the family business.

Yes. I started with regular babysitting gigs as soon as I was able (14/15). But my two proper jobs were cleaning a postnatal maternity ward, then working in a high end homewares store. Outside of using it to buy things like nicer jeans and movie tickets etc, my high school offered a trip to Thailand for a month that my parents agreed to allow me to go on, so long as I paid for it. It took me two years to save and I went two days after my final exam.

Office work year around starting at 14. Part time during school, full time in summer and during breaks.

I was a camp counselor in the summer, but that was only for a couple weeks per summer and more of a volunteer thing. We got paid like $25/week as a stipend, not a legit paycheck lol

Other than that, no. I took a ton of very challenging courses that I earned college credit for (I only had two years of college left after I graduated high school!) and my parents felt like that was more valuable than me having a part time job. I also earned a ton of scholarships based on grades, more than what working would've contributed to my college bills.

I worked part of my junior year as a waitress at a pizza restaurant, and I worked my senior year at a movie theater. I thought working at the movie theater was fun! We got to see free movies, eat unlimited popcorn and hang out with our friends.

I babysat starting at 12 and then worked about 9 hours a week at a call center during the school year and full-time one summer. My family was very middle class (which I think existed back then). I didn't have to work, but I wanted to and at least half of my friends had jobs.

Year round my senior year, but just on the weekends. And full time during the summer once I turned 16.

I did a few babysitting gigs until I was old enough for a work permit (15).

Then I worked a fruit market for a little over a year, and then worked retail at a camera store/one hour photo. I kept that job through college and still did it part time after I got my first career-related job.

ETA: I also picked up odd jobs. My mom's cousin was building a house next door to us one summer, so I worked for him. He payed better than minimum wage, and sometimes all I had to do was help him unpack (but other times, I was shoveling pea gravel and raking it in tiny spaces under his deck)

I babysat all throughout middle and high school. I also grew up in a ski resort town, and worked seasonally in food service at one of the resorts during my freshman & sophomore years (my first 'real' job). Junior year I was a tutor in an after-school program at my high school, and senior year I worked at the public library. I did all of those after school/weekends/during school breaks. I feel like I *must* have worked over the summers but I can't for the life of me remember what I did!!

I worked at the Gap once I turned 16 - mostly for the discount. Man, I was so proud when I got a job for $5.25 an hour!