What Jobs Did You Have As A Child?

[Marie Mallory]

I'm sure for us older people these jobs will be a lot different than the new age groups.
Less labor intensive thanks to modern technology.

For me it consisted of a lot of stomping, hand wringing, hauling. But they tell me I had some really nice-looking legs from it.
Heavey things like quilts, rugs had to be stomped out in the creek, our little washer with top ringer couldn't handle we would take to the creek and lay over the flat rock water rolled over and get to stomping them, which was kind of fun if snakes stayed away. I was always running up on a snake, mama hot nit by a rattler, almost lost her leg. Georgia was full of snakes and wildlife.
I loved my life in the woods though. I also had a good city of Atlanta life, had chores there too. Always busy doing some kind of chore no matter where we were.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

My dad hated mowing our lawn so he bought a rider. When I was old enough to handle it, I started doing it. Then it became my job to mow everyone's yard on my street. For a 7 year old, I was making a bunch of money. Which I of course, spent on a good Classical Guitar.

Later I started playing guitar a lot. I played with this great piano player as a duo playing Classical and Opera pieces. He taught me to play pieces my music teacher at school said could not be played on guitar. He told me once that I could not play "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg from the Peer Gynt Suite, so I showed him that I could.

I spent most of my adult working life as a guitarist / band leader. We played in every state except Alaska, Hawaii and Maine. Every once in awhile we would take breaks and I would get a temp job in a national park. I was always a bit of a workaholic. I've worked in a lot of the major national parks and national park service units, such as national recreation areas, monuments and even a couple of historical parks. Even though the jobs were not always anything to write home about, I loved doing that. Waking up in the morning and looking out the window was a treat at times.

 

[Marie Mallory]

My dad hated mowing our lawn so he bought a rider. When I was old enough to handle it, I started doing it. Then it became my job to mow everyone's yard on my street. For a 7 year old, I was making a bunch of money. Which I of course, spent on a good Classical Guitar.

Later I started playing guitar a lot. I played with this great piano player as a duo playing Classical and Opera pieces. He taught me to play pieces my music teacher at school said could not be played on guitar. He told me once that I could not play "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg from the Peer Gynt Suite, so I showed him that I could.

I spent most of my adult working life as a guitarist / band leader. We played in every state except Alaska, Hawaii and Maine. Every once in awhile we would take breaks and I would get a temp job in a national park. I was always a bit of a workaholic. I've worked in a lot of the major national parks and national park service units, such as national recreation areas, monuments and even a couple of historical parks. Even though the jobs were not always anything to write home about, I loved doing that. Waking up in the morning and looking out the window was a treat at times.

My hubby is a good musician, his whole family played music, his dad steel guitar, all 4 of his brothers play music, they played at concerts when young in the late 70s early 80s.
My mother was a pianist.

 

[Krystal]

I had a lot of little jobs growing up long before I was a teenager but so did every kid under 10 years old that I knew. I always had certain chores that I had to do before and after school. I think it was called learning responsibility and a work ethic.

A couple of things I had to do as a child was, I had to trim the grass around everything like, flowerbeds, sidewalk, the house, etc., using a pair of hand trimmers, and my brother mowed the grass with a reel mower. Later on, my dad bought a gas push mower. Yay! We had to bucket feed a couple of small calves and water the ponies. I had to set the dinner table and help my mother with supper dishes, help clean the house, and hand her the clothes pins to hang the clothes on the line. I was too little to reach the clothes line yet.

I have always worked at doing something whether it was a paid job or not.

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

Before joining the Navy in May 1968, when I was 19, my main job was helping my step-dad on his small hog farm. No matter what the weather year-around, got up at 5:30AM and watered/fed hogs. Helped a neighbor during hay bailing season.

Now, during high school years, I worked part-time for K-Mart in their camera department. Also, during the later part of my senior year of high school, got a part-time job washing dishes at a upper-scale steak house. The same restaurant my senior class had our Senior Banquet at.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I had a lot of little jobs growing up long before I was a teenager but so did every kid under 10 years old that I knew. I always had certain chores that I had to do before and after school. I think it was called learning responsibility and a work ethic.

A couple of things I had to do as a child was, I had to trim the grass around everything like, flowerbeds, sidewalk, the house, etc., using a pair of hand trimmers, and my brother mowed the grass with a reel mower. Later on, my dad bought a gas push mower. Yay! We had to bucket feed a couple of small calves and water the ponies. I had to set the dinner table and help my mother with supper dishes, help clean the house, and hand her the clothes pins to hang the clothes on the line. I was too little to reach that high yet.

I have always worked at doing something whether it was a paid job or not.

Krystal, we hung out lots of clothes, never used a dryer other than laundry mats till I was in my 30s.
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Before joining the Navy in May 1968, when I was 19, my main job was helping my step-dad on his small hog farm. No matter what the weather year-around, got up at 5:30AM and watered/fed hogs. Helped a neighbor during hay bailing season.

Now, during high school years, I worked part-time for K-Mart in their camera department. Also, during the later part of my senior year of high school, got a part-time job washing dishes at a upper-scale steak house. The same restaurant my senior class had our Senior Banquet at.

We are about same age, did they have dishwashers or just sinks when you were a dish washer? My first job at 13 was 'The Teddy Bear Grill' in west Atlanta, weekend washing dishes in 3 large deep sinks, don't know of any restaurant with a dishwasher other than manual in early 60s. Then a 5 and 10 Cent store.

 

[Faye]

I grew up on a cattle ranch, so my jobs were many, but my main job, pre teen, was raising chickens and selling eggs. Jobs like snapping green beans and shelling peas, were also mainly my job. About age 10, I started operating the tractor, so I started doing all the discing. By the time I reached my teen years, I took over all the farm equipment work. I preferred that to house work, irrigating, or gardening. I also did all the cattle showing for myself and my family.

 

[Sheryl]

I grew up on a farm. Chopped crops, worked barning tobacco. Looked after my younger siblings, cooked, washed dishes. Never drove a tractor, though. And ♫I never picked cotton, but my mama did, my sister did, my brother did. ♫

 

[Marie Mallory]

I grew up on a cattle ranch, so my jobs were many, but my main job, pre teen, was raising chickens and selling eggs. Jobs like snapping green beans and shelling peas, were also mainly my job. About age 10, I started operating the tractor, so I started doing all the discing. By the time I reached my teen years, I took over all the farm equipment work. I preferred that to house work, irrigating, or gardening. I also did all the cattle showing for myself and my family.

Sounds like you were a busy girl and handy too.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I grew up on a farm. Chopped crops, worked barning tobacco. Looked after my younger siblings, cooked, washed dishes. Never drove a tractor, though. And ♫I never picked cotton, but my mama did, my sister did, my brother did. ♫

We mostly cleared land for parking and helped fishermen at out fishing lake, hauled water, and took care of stray dogs and cats. Mama was a city slicker, raised in the city, who moved to the woods when me, her first child I was a few months old.
We at one time had over 50 dogs and cat's, before she realized she couldn't save all strays. We had service stations all over the city saving burnt motor oil for mangey dogs, can't do that not it will kill them ,too many chemical additives in the oil. But back then I was always curing some stray with mange. Worked great.

 

[Faye]

I grew up on a farm. Chopped crops, worked barning tobacco. Looked after my younger siblings, cooked, washed dishes. Never drove a tractor, though. And ♫I never picked cotton, but my mama did, my sister did, my brother did. ♫

She never picked cotton but she

Grow up in a rusty shack
all she had was hangin' on her back.
Only ya'll know how she loathes
this place called Tobacco Road.

But it's home, the only life she has ever known.
Only ya'll know how she loathes Tobacco Road.

 

[Marie Mallory]

She never picked cotton but she

Grow up in rusty shack
all she had was hangin' on her back.
Only ya'll know how she loathes
this place called Tobacco Road.

But it's home, the only life she has ever known.
Only ya'll know how she loathes Tobacco Road.

 

[Smithy]

As a child I was brought up to do gardening my granddad had me gardening over the weekends when I wasn't in school doing his front and back garden it was huge.