I’ll let you know if it ever happens.

Around 13 years old when I started dating. Was a rink rat and got extra ice time and money refereeing games. Always brought all my gear to rink just in case.

I started my first summer job at 14. Bought myself a discman.

When I discovered video games at the arcade. So, I guess around 14.

That’s when I also discovered that nickles could be hammered into quarter-size slugs. There were three of us doing it. We’d use the nickles to buy tokens from the machine during happy hour at six for a dollar (20 cents worth of slugs), then sell them back to kids during regular hours at a quarter a piece. The kids would buy them because there was usually a line at the machine after school, so they didn’t need to wait in line if they bought them from us. That’s how we funded our addiction. I don’t remember how long we did this, probably only a summer.

My first wage-slave job was cleaning cages at a pet store around that same time. I took over for my best friend’s sister for a few weeks when she went to some sort of summer camp. I hated it very much. I worked a little harder in school after that.

Paper route when I was 14.

Yes, I’m aware that paper routes aren’t really a thing any longer… I’m old.

Started working at 14, and I guess wanted to, sort of? Wanted to go with my friend to England in the summer and my mom matched what I paid, which was really nice, she was not usually like that but did think traveling was important and couldn’t afford to take all of us anywhere far like that. We got to go abroad 3 summers that way.

12 when my family didn’t have the money for a ps2 on christmas. Got a job on a farm nearby that January.

My mom used to give me extra pocket money if I helped around the house beyond my usual tasks, so things like ironing or washing the windows/car. After that I started a newspaper round at 13.