• SGforce@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I can’t even remember what jobs teenagers were supposed to have. Newspaper delivery? Ice cream bike guy? That’s all I got.

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      3 months ago

      teenagers as a group designation used to not be a thing. you were a child until you could do adult jobs and then you were an adult.

      children would have menial jobs like coal miner, day labourer, the guy who sticks their hand into the mechanical loom when it gets stuck…

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          3 months ago

          we didn’t have delivery where i lived at that point, only take-away. quirks of living in a place with less than 10 people per km2 on average.

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      3 months ago

      How about none ? You’re a teen, you just need to learn, socialize and have fun. Don’t work before your an adult.

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        3 months ago

        Ah, privilege. Parents had ok jobs. As soon as I needed sports equipment or wanted to go out to eat/pay for friends etc etc it was lawn mowing, paper route, construction from 6th grade.

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          Yeah, I dunno, I wanted to work, because I know it would give me money to go do things I wanted to do. Got my first job at 15, which was the youngest you could work in NJ, and have had consistent employment ever since. Money is, unfortunately, important.

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        3 months ago

        If it’s possible to earn something voluntarily is great.
        Tyvm.

        I delivered advertisement for a marketing agency of various local businesses.
        Was the pay shit? Yes
        Did I make enough money to not be a bum and make my mother pay for a gaming pc? Yes.