I got my first job when I was ten. I went to ten neighbors and procured the rights to cutting, trimming and edging their lawns during the summer, raking their lawns during the wall and shoveling their driveways during the winter. I also helped the local newspaper delivery boy and got a few extra dollars. I think that I made more money from age ten through sixteen then I do now...taxes and insurance eat up a huge percentage of paychecks from two jobs that I work! I started working with race horses during the summers for extra money. I moved on to working three jobs at a garden center, a fast food restaurant and a breakfast restaurant at age fifteen and made less/worked more because of taxes (if only I had seen the futility of my efforts back then.