Did you earn some money when you were a child?

When I got my first job was in one of the groceries of my father. I use to work with my father for at least eight hours daily. I was 12 years old when I began to make money, after a while I began to make beverages like lemonade, to sell, and donuts, so I made my own money. At fifteen I began to work in a school, I remember my first check that was amazing for me, receiving my first check. And I used to my clothes with my money.

At 8, I sold any veggies in the way to school or to my teachers in weekdays and on weekends I deliver it in the market for me to have an allowance in school. At 11, I made coconut or milk candies then sold to friends or classmates. In this way, I had always money in my pocket or wallet, even I'm poor.

Hi Marguicha, Yes, I was always trying to earn money even as a young kid. I remember making mud cakes and actually selling them for .25 each. When my mom caught me, she was so mad that she made a batch of cookies for them for free! I had lemonade stands etc. I began babysitting at age 11 and I did it regular enough that I earned a decent amount of money. My parents had told me that when I was buying my own clothes that I could wear what I wanted. That was incentive for me as my mother bought me some really expensive but not-in-style clothes. I sewed so I bought material with my earnings and made a wardrobe. Mom was not happy but my dad took my side. By 16 , I had my first real job and even more money. I've been working ever since except for one very small time when I was out of work.

yes, I was able to earn money helping out at the company my mother worked for. (they has a "show room" it was a dive. of Lucite products they made.. the office manager would pay me on my vacation days (from school) when My mother brought me in... to dust all the products.. I got paid from the petty cash box.. then they started enlisting my help every month to send out their invoices. I was responsible for Ripping apart the invoices that came off the printer .. OVER 500 of them and some companies had 2-3 page invoices.. so I had to be diligent in making sure those invoices all went in the same envelope. I then folded them in 3rds making sure the address were facing out. and stuck them in the window envelopes. I also sealed them... later they got a machine that sealed and stamped them.. put I was usually paid $40 a month for doing this.. it saved them hours of work and gave me spending money.. it was awesome.. I was probably only 12 or 13 or so when I started doing it.

Hi marguicha, No shame to reveal that I earned money when I was still a child. Some renovation of the buildings we lived in were on and they needed some workers to paint the walls. We said we would do the job. The supervisor was not convinced that we could do. Afterwards he wanted to test and said ok. We pintnted the walls so well that we spent our winter vacation thee only. For us it ws more like fun and not work for money at all. At the and of the week we were paid good money.

When I was a young child my brother, sister and I were paperboy and papergirls. We had large route and delivered the papers throughout the neighborhood. We earned pretty good money with tips and pay. We would save our money to buy Christmas gifts for the family. We would get so excited being able to go shopping for special gifts for our parents and other sibiling, there were five of us plus our parents. I also remember one Easter that we went out to buy a bunch of easter candy, the basket and the wrapping for the basket. We hid it from our parents in the actic. In the middle of the night we put the basket together and brought it dowstairs putting it next to the basket my parents put together. The shock on my parents face when we came down to the living room was priceless. They couldn't understand where the basket came from and they really couldn't talk about it at that moment because we had two younger sibiling that still believed in the Easter Bunny. We eventually confessed that we did it and we all had a good laugh over it. We still laugh about it when we bring it up today.

I started babysitting when I was 14 or so. That was the first income I had that wasn't from allowance. I did pretty good with that and was able to save enough money to get some nice things. I don't remember what all I got with it, but I liked seeing my bank account grow.

Hi marguicha Coincidentally my very first paying job was when I was 11 years old. I lied to the restaurant owner and told him I was 15. Surely he had to have known I was way younger but gave me the slave job. I worked 7 days a week full time and then some during evenings and only earned $10 a day. But it was a pay check and it is where I learned to be so diligent and hardworking. Yes it was a thrill even though I knew I was not earning adequately and since it was cash nothing I could do but work hard to earn it.

I had a holiday job when I was 14. It was in a clothing factory where we had to cut off all the loose strings. It was enjoyable as the work is quite simple and we get to chat to other people. The radio is on all the time and I think I know all the songs back then. I remember the salary was $17 a month, very little but it was wonderful. I can't remember what I did with the money, probably put it in the bank. The only bad thing was that I went in with a few friends, and they were always late, making me late also and we had our salary cut sometimes.

I started earning money only after i got out of college and got a regular 9-5 job. But i do appreciate all people who do summer jobs and save money for their education or for helping their family.

Well I'm still pretty young (only 16) and currently I can't get a real job or anything like that, I also don't get any money from my parents very ofter and even when I was younger I didn't ever get an allowence. But since I was about 11 I've been watching kids and help their parents around the house, I've been making and selling scarves since I was about 12 or 13 and around the age of 14 I started trying to earn some money by helping people clean thier houses (actually what I did all day today.) So I've always done little things to earn some money for the new clothes I wants or whatever else my parents wouldn't buy for me.

When I was in 5th grade, I bought stickers and other cute stuffs and sell it to my classmates double the price as i bought that items. I remember when I was 12, I also earned when I answer my classmate's homework and Im the one who did their lecture notes.

I was around 2nd elementary grade when I learned how to earn money. During break time I used to sell ice candy and some sweet candies to the pupils in our school. By break time, I'll be outside the gate with my ice bucket full of ice candy to sell. By the time I reached High school, I was able to do buy and sell. I buy empty bottles (whisky,rhum,vinegar etc.) and since my mom has her own buy and sell( flowers) as well.I'll go with her in the city as soon as my sacks will be filled with empty bottles and sell it to the junk shop. Honestly, I earned bucks that time and I never asked my parents to buy me some toys, I bought them myself from my earnings. I already manage to keep my piggy bank with me. I guess, this past experiences thought me about tough life, survival, hardships and success. I have never regret with this hard life experiences. Because of this, Iam strong and brave enough to continue my struggle in this journey called Life.

Yes I did earn some money when I was eleven like you - child labour - but my employer stole it from me - I mean refused to pay me.

When I was a kid we were allowed to have lemonade stands and made pot holders to sell.My sister and I made some money doing that when we were kids.When we got around the ages of 10 and 12.We walked some peoples dogs also,sold donuts,greeting cards,delivered newspapers,raked leaves and when we got a little older we babysit and ran some errands for people. When we were younger we usually used the money to buy ice cream from the truck that drove in our neighbor hood or buy candy at the deli.As we got older and made more money then we would buy clothes,records,jewelry,presents,pizza,bus fare to the mall to blow the rest of our earnings,lol

I would cut grass and do other small tasks for people around the neighborhood I grew up in, and I actually managed to earn enough money to buy the baseball glove I wanted, and I would also use the money I earned to buy baseball cards when I went to the store. Later in my childhood, my dad actually used a credit account he had at a local store to finance a riding lawn mower for me, which I worked to make the payments on myself.

at 3rd grade i remember, i helped in selling my teacher's homemade stuff. she will ask some of her students to come over to her house on weekends. she will made native delicacies that we sell to the community. and what we earned from selling the stuff were divided among us, so we have something for the next week's school.

Yeah I did but not a whole lot, I guess. I remember when we were kids, this guy and I who I used to be friends with did the whole lemonade stand thing a lot of kids do. I don't remember how much we made off it though. At the time we were probably in the 8-10 age range.

My brother and I had a paper round when we were children. We worked together every time and shared the money that we made. It was nice to work together, and we were able to chat and have a good time while we worked. When I was about 14 I started working in a law firm after school. I cleaned up after the meetings, took the mail to the post office and things like that. It was a big law firm and we were always 3 teenagers who worked together. I saved up the money that I made and spent it on a trip to Italy.

Wow, it is good that your parents allowed you to earn money at such a young tender age. As for me, i only allowed to start earning money for myself when i was at the secondary school level. That's by the time, i was around 15 years of age. I went to earn money at the nearest shopping malls as part-time book assistant. I only worked a few months during school break. Because i continue studying until i started go to work in a real full-time job.