My boy started his first job today. Yes. A proper job requiring a bank account, commitment and well… work.
He’s doing the paper round.
He’s being paid 10 cents a paper and delivering about 130 papers. He has 24 hours to deliver them. So far he’s done half and spent nearly two hours doing it.
You do the math. He’s not being paid much but he is being paid and not by me.
I’m so proud of him.
He’s still to work out the most efficient way of delivering papers. At the moment he has a satchel which can only carry about ten papers – and he’s on his bike – so he has to continually come back and forth to the paper depot – read house – to stock up.
But I have confidence he will.
So what has brought on all this industriousness?
Well he has the opportunity to go on a trip with World Challenge, a trip which will cost $7,000. That’s a lot of dough but fortunately (for us) the team at World Challenge believe that part of the challenge is to raise the money yourself – by working.
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Oh and he wants to buy – and build – his own computer.
The paper round is a first step.
Can you remember your first job? I worked in Dad’s office for my first job – photocopying in the library. There was a tea lady who remembered what you liked to drink – in those days for me it was white tea with two sugars – and left a couple of biccies on your desk in the morning and in the afternoon.
Brilliant.
The other thing I remember is getting my pay in a little brown envelope – in cash – down to the cent.
It was SO satisfying.
I think kids miss out a bit on that these days with everything going electronically.
Mind you… it will be easier to save that $13!
Congrats on the job, I’m sure he will feel a sense of accomplishment earning his own money. I got my first job at a fast food place when I was fifteen and have been working ever since. I quit my job when my six month old was born so I guess this is my reprieve but it doesn’t feel like it! I hope your son saves up enough money for his trip!
Woohoo – that’s great for him (and you).
My first job was stocktaking at the local pharmacy. Then it was filing invoices at the car service centre. Nothing very exciting.
those people who remember stuff like how your tea is made and think to make you welcome and part of the team are so important. i remember feeling quite nervous and wondering what goes on here?? in my first office environment.
My first job was collecting dead wool and selling it in town to the wool people (??) it was the building next to the post office. we got a pittance for it and it was truly FOUL work!! involved walking the paddocks and lifting remains of wool of DEAD sheep!! wahhh! the things we do for money (translate that to comics and lollies – well cobbers and freckles and bubblegum for the tattoos!)
My first job was in the Murray Bridge Farmers Union factory, where I learnt to operate the milk bottling machine and how to securely wrap 40lb blocks of cheese. my first pay packet was $70. Wow! I was rich!
My son’s first job was also newspapers, standing on the side of the road for people driving home to see and stop to buy a paper. When he wasn’t raising money fast enough, he and his friend mowed lawns for elderly people in our neighbourhood. When each of them had $200 they quit working and took their riches to spend at the show.
Ooh, that is exciting. 🙂 Ouch on the $7000 though!!!
My first job? Feeding a neighbours pets for 3 months to pay for a bike I desperately wanted. Followed by many babysitting jobs, some office work for a friend of my dad’s and helping dad with a delivery round.
My first “real” job – as in “in a paypacket” was in a supermarket and not until I was 17. We got paid in cash back then too. Oh what fun!!! Things went electronic while I was still in that job (about 6 months after I started).
My first job, I was about 16, delivering the weekly suburban paper. I think I earned all of $7.00 a week but got a few extra dollars if there were advertising/junk mail inserts to put into the newspapers. But even then, they only paid by direct deposit, so no pay envelope. Took ages to save anything substantial but by the time I left school, the money i’d saved was (just) enough to enrol me at a radio school which at that time radio was my career goal. Good course but the career never eventuated though!
Picking potatoes. A right of passage for many Scottish kids. My first longer term job was a summer job at a shop in a caravan park in St Andrews. Many colourful characters came through there. I worked out recently that I had done over 30 short and long term jobs in my work life. Some good, some really bad…