Like most here, first job was a paper route for a newspaper that only came out on Mondays. Got paid $3 to deliver after school. I must have been around 10-12. Later mowed lawns up to and through high school. The best job I had though was working for the local pharmacy, stocking shelves, delivering drugs to the local nursing homes (yes, they trusted a 16 year old with that) and whatever else needed to be done. I remember white knuckle driving 2 hours each way during a huge ice storm for them to get kerosene heaters to sell as the power was out for a long time in town. That was a great job, I passed it on down to my brother and he kept it for several years.