Heck I don't ever remember not doing some kinda work. My grandad had a farm so from the time I could walk I was helping him with cows, fences, bush hogging, bailing hay, cutting fire wood, ect.. Then my dad got me some yards to cut when I was around 12yrs old but didn't do that to long. I was 14yrs old when I started working with a friends dad greasing and steam cleaning logging equipment. By the time I was 15 I was going to the woods with him bunching wood on the weekend getting a feel for the equipment. After a few years of working with him in the woods he was killed in accident out there and I ended up on his nephews crew. By the time I was 18 I had gotten more interested in land clearing and site prep for tree planting. I started running dozers raking, building roads for logging crews, pushing fire lines, and even got to do some control burning. Now it's been 10 years since those days, I'm 29 now, I work shift work at a mill and have my own dozer and forestry service.