I was 15 1/2.
The youngest that was legal at the time. (1979)
But I'd been working part-time off the books off and on since I was 12.
At 12 I started learning how to pour concrete while helping
to renovate a miniature golf course.
And 'Pleasant Valley Miniature Golf' - and some of my handiwork - still stands!
LOL
So many young men and women did work such as that many years ago. I helped out in family member’s small businesses. My mother managed a clothing store, and I worked there part-time in the summers and at the end of the year during inventory time, during the school Christmas break. All of my siblings and I got summer jobs. It was expected and we loved having the money for those small extras, plus buying our own back to school clothes.
Looking back, I realize that it was a big help to my parents with so many children that we contributed to our on expenses as teenagers. And, then that first car! What an accomplishment. (Even though it was a beat-up old Ford Fairlane and the passenger side window handle was a pair of pliers, and the hood was wired closed with an old metal clothes-hanger).
I think I can see the windmill.
