12 and I still have the same job. I'm 44. I have in more years than most.

No retirement program in a few self owned business.

15. I used to ride a 3 Wheeler to work since I wasn't old enough to drive. General painting, weed eating, tons of mowing, truck washing, and whatever else they needed me to do at a waste waster treatment plant. Going from that to scouting cotton as a summer job was the best career decision I ever made. I went off to school with a decent amount of money in my pocket.

Dang, lots of city folks on here LOL

Born and raised on a Farm/Ranch I was getting paid at 8 or 9 for taking care of Boarded Horses, Operating the Skeet Range, Picking Peas, Butter beans, cucumbers, Squash, Okra and @25¢ each I've loaded tons of Watermelons!!

I was 14(I lied and said I was 16) when I got my first Tax withholding job Vacuuming Motel Rooms on the Beach.

12 mowed grass in the hood. 15 shoveled mud and cleaned out the vacuum bins at a carwash. W-2 job at 16 bag boy.

Dad started taking me to work with him soon as I was out of diapers.. I started working summers and some weekends with dad when I was 10. Worked at a carwash some weekends when I was 15-16. Worked at a grocery store when I was 16 but got caught sleeping on milk crates lined with packs of toilet paper, lol. Graduated on a Thursday and right back plumbing on Monday when I was 17. Quit dad and worked in construction for a couple of years until the economy tanked and I've been back since 08.. 30 years old and Part owner of the company now.

I started paying into Social Security at 16 years old. I have paid in every year since (33 of them).

15. No one asked me to get a job. It was just something felt natural. Mom took me up to a restaraunt and I asked to speak to the manager. I introduced myself and asked him if they would consider hiring me. He told me of two openings and that dishwashers made 35 cents more than bus boys. I told him dishwasher it was then. I think I made $5.45/hour. Over the next 6 years, i was a cook, waiter, and manager of that franchise.

Used to say that I would return to the restaraunt business.

Cut okra for a local farmer one summer when I was 12 on halves. Worst job I ever had.

Left there and started bagging ice for the local nutjob that owned the ice company in town for $1.50/hr, plus all the free ice I wanted. Loved the job, and thought I was getting rich. Stayed there until I was 16 and got a job bagging groceries at minimum wage.

Started working at 15 and now call myself retired a short 47 years later.

I cut yards in my neighborhood starting around 12 years old.

Started working at Wal Mart cleaning bathrooms and pushing buggies when I was 16 years old. Worked there until I got out of High School and then got a job as a runner (delivering inter departmental mail at UAB) and went to school in the evenings and at night. Once I graduated, I caught on at U.S Steel and started as a laborer wrapping and banding coils. In two years I was promoted to Entry End Operator, Waste Treatment Operator, Coiler, Tester, and then finally Quality Manager. Did that for another year and then got recruited to my current job. I worked in Quality Control for 5 years helping to set up Quality Systems and doing Electrical Tech work. I was asked to move to an Engineering job in 2006 which is where I have been ever since.

First paying job was working for my girlfriend's dad at 14 yrs old. He made plaques for taxidermists for deer and fish mounts then got into making picture frames. Mostly helped out spraying the plaques in the spray booth but would occasionally help out in the wood shop.

First real job was at 16 years old...got my license the Monday after my 16th birthday (birthday was on a Saturday that year), and stopped on the way home and started putting in applications. Started working for WalMart the following Monday.

10 driving a lil massey ferguson tractor w/a 2 row cultivator

At 14 I made about $400 cutting yards one summer. I picked watermelons too. At 16 I had my first "real" job digging sewer lines and water lines for a plumber in the hot Florida Summer sun. It would probably kill me now if I tried to do it.

Growing up on the farm and daddy was a contractor as well, I never remember any time in my life I didn't have to work. And I am proud of that

15 was my first real job worked on a welding fab shop , carrying messuring and cutting metal for whatever the welders were burning. Before that I cut grass in the summers and worked on a landscaping crew my dad owned . I don't even remember how old I was when I started working . My dad was always working and I was always helping , cows, fences , cutting grass , working at the nursery planting and potting plants, landscaping. Started climping Poles on a line crew at 17 and I'm 35. Now, I let the young bucks do it most of the time , every now and then I have to show one up.

I mowed yards when I was 11or 12. Got my first real paying a hourly wage job when I was 16. Laborer on a construction site for the summer. Because of sports I couldn't work during the school year. I worked construction two summers and saved money so I could spend it during the school year. Drove a delivery truck the summer after high school.

Never worked full time in college, but had part time jobs all the way through.

I mowed yards around the neighborhood from about 10-15. Got my first W2 job at 16. Been supporting welfare recipients ever since. I'll be 33 next week.

Worked under the table for a small plumbing and electrical supply business my dad managed during summers at age 13-17. Also cut grass and other odd jobs I could find that would work around football summer workouts. First real job was the summer before my freshman year of college working in a restaurant. Worked under the table most of the time in undergrad since football took up a large swath of my time. Continued to work under the table landscaping for the first part of grad school since I made more money than anything else out there. The money was good but I don't exactly miss the 100+ degree temps, snakes, yellow jackets, and illegals I had to work with..

I worked as long as I can remember. Started cutting grass, raking leaves, etc. when I was 9 or 10. Then I had a paper route, had 2 at one time for a while from 10 or 11. I was raised to know that if you wanted something, you had to work to get the money to pay for it. Then I started bagging groceries at 16 and saved enough to but my first car, a 1957 yellow/white Pontiac Chiefton. It was a thing of beauty.
I have four grandchildren that have never worked a day in their life and the oldest is a junior in college. Different world we live in now

I cleaned condos on the beach when I was 13 and 14. By the time I was 16 I was mowing yards for some of the teachers at school.