Jobs you had as a kid.

[Argent 88]

I had a paper route, and after that a place called Taco Casa. Dishwashing cleaning up. Things like that.
Then the Navy.

[wtxbadger]

First paying job besides mowing lawns was working at the rodeo grounds for Junior Rodeos. Loaded up roping calves and steers in the chutes during the events, helped set up the local c&w bands equipment before they played and cleaned up the grounds the next morning.

[DDZ]

Spent a lot of my early years helping on my uncles dairy farms. Baling hay, cleaning out calf pens with a pitch fork and wheelbarrow. Helping to milk and feed the cows. I remember baling hay all day and my uncle paying me $5 a day. He always was tighter than two coats of paint, but the work sure was a good character builder.  When I wasn't helping on the farm my dad kept me busy with working in the big garden we had, and mowing acres of grass with a push mower. My pay for that was three meals a day and a place to sleep.  When I turned 16 I started working part time at a greenhouse. While going to school, still helped my cousin on the farm, and still helping dad. So there wasn't much time to get into any trouble.   

[Ranger99]

Obligatory lawns and raking, etc.
Go fer at a stock trailer dealer.
Go fer/ clerk at a men's wear store.
Horse crap shoveler 
Chicken wrangler.
Box stacker

[billy_56081]

Bailing hay, bean walking.

[Lloyd Smale]

worked in the woods pealing pulp wood to start and after a couple years i was promoted and given a saw. Something the kids of today will never do because they have air conditioned processors that do the whole job while you listen to tunes on the radio. Most of my friends either did that or worked on the farms around here.

[Doublebass73]

I mowed lawns and shoveled driveways whenever it snowed. Delivered newspapers too. My first real job at 14 was a cleaning boy at a meat market, I had to scrape and clean all the concrete floors so there was no meat stuck to the floors. I also had to wash all the slicers, grinders, etc. I ended up mangling my right hand in one of the grinders, it took 7 hours of surgery to fix my hand. It's usable but it's never been the same obviously. I was legally too young to be doing the work I was doing.

[oldandslow]

Idiot stick swinger, cow milker, livestock feeder, dish dryer,  tractor and school bus driver come to mind. Sometimes I even had free time to hire out to a neighbor and get paid for swinging the stick or driving a tractor. I got to spend long hours out in the fresh air and sunshine. Now I'm having skin cancers removed.

[neckisred]

My Dad had 2 Shell gas stations when I was a kid. Wasn't too much in the day to day operations I couldn't do.

[ironglows]

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  At home on the dairy farm ..all the tasks, cleaning barns, feeding calves, mowing, plowing , thrashing, hay making (both loose and bales)..etc, etc..... no pay involved.. Pay, I had to earn elsewhere..

  For others..for pay..  Picking beans, strawberries etc., also baling hay..   Between high school grad and 18 years of age, when I went into military, I worked in a knife factory and a sawmill !

  Then worked for Uncle Sam..  $76 per month.. crewing an M47 Patton tank...l

    https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=33

....later, the M48;
   
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M48_Patton_Tank_on_display.jpg

[Lloyd Smale]

what the heck year were you in the service. A E-1 in 1950 made 70 bucks a month. I think when i enlisted in the early 70s we made like 350 bucks a month as an E1. Did they charge you rent in that tank???

[ironglows]

what the heck year were you in the service. A E-1 in 1950 made 70 bucks a month. I think when i enlisted in the early 70s we made like 350 bucks a month as an E1. Did they charge you rent in that tank???

  That was 1955...tank training in Fort Knox, KY...  $76 per mo.