So you were like that little girl who borrows her dad’s PDA and creates a massive corporation from her lemonade stand?
And, at least when I was young, you had to be 12 to even have a paper route (I think it is 14 now). Maybe you predate those laws...?
Got laid off in October 2008. That was a week after spending 50k cash on my kids bar mitzvah that I saved from my bonuses. A month later my portfolio tanked. Went from almost a half million to little over 150k. My cobra is too high, unemployment Is a drop in the bucket, my Wife’s business goes under and then my daughter decides that teenage angst isn’t enough. She has to go bulimic on us.
Well that year away cost us another 100k, out of pocket. So I am down to 50k, 1300 a month in take home, plus a small veterans disability pension. 6k a month in bills.
It’s been rough. But despite all that, I managed to pay every bill. That’s what keeps me sane.
I wind up traveling around the country for work, 6 months at a time. My meals are calculated by the buck. And now traveling I have to take on more rent, another car and more stress from being away from my family.
” Maybe you predate those laws...?”
I was 8 in 1945.
I never paid any attention to those stupid child labor laws anyway.
I went to work plastering when I was 14 so I could buy and build a 40 ford street racer by the time I was 16.
When you are 6’ tall at 11 no one questions your age, all you have to do is keep your mouth shut and get to work!
If I hadn’t saved, when I came home with my license on my 16th birthday and my dad demanded my insurance policy or the keys I wouldn’t have had the $600 for the policy he demanded. To protect his business he wouldn’t allow me on his policy and I had to have 100k liability which was a whole bunch in 1952. I only pay $870 a year for insurance on my truck and my wifes Lexus today.
“Maybe you predate those laws”
Almost undoubtedly so.
Let’s see him stay out of debt and keep his savings when dealing with today’s compensation and today’s costs.
I’d wager it was uphill both ways with snow.