[mountn man]

I was in 6th grade when I started my paper route.
6 days a week for 4 years.
Got up at 5am.
To school by 8:20 am.
Collecting a few evenings, every other week.

Quit the paper route to bus tables, when I was 15 and could get a work permit.

Paper routes were great jobs for young people to get a start in the working world.

Today they are just jobs for dumbed down Americans, too lazy to develop real skills. So they take a job that a grade school kid can do.

Same thing with fast food. What WAS a starting job for yesterdays high school kid, has become a career choice for todays Obama voter.

[RS_Rider]

In 5th grade, I was both a crossing guard and a paper boy...
both adult “jobs” today.

[Zeneta]

I delivered Papers as well.

Up and down my route everyday.

Got attacked and bit by an Airedale.

Had competition from the order kids with there “Red Rider” Wagons.

I was never very good at collections.

[SamAdams76]

I know. I did all the minimum wage jobs as a teen. Delivering newspapers. Bagging groceries. Shagging carts. Washing dishes. Bussing tables. And working at McDonalds - the only job I did not like.

But at the time, these were seen as jobs for young teens and people were expected to move on when they became full-fledged adults. Never intended to be a career but just a stepping stone to something better.