This is the left at its most desperate.
When I was 13, I got my first steady job soliciting newspaper subscriptions for the Houston chronicle. Before that, I had mowed lawns, cleaned pools and threw a paper route.
My next job was sacking groceries in a supermarket until they made me a checker. This was all before I had graduated from junior high school.
While I was in high school, I worked as a clerk for 7-Eleven and U-Tot-M convenience stores, an attendant at a Texaco station (premium was 33.9 at the time) and a delivery driver for an auto parts store. I had a summer job testing computer tape for Texas Instruments.
Started first paying job ($1/hr just like the adults) at 10 yrs old on a Saturday, and got first promotion same day!
Seems the farmer was short of help, so I took a job loading sacks of sweet potatoes, but I couldn’t keep up with his teenaged sons who were promised the PU truck to go to town when the job was done. They taught me to drive the tractor while they loaded the sacks of taters to Get-R-Done faster! Worked out well for all concerned with no gubmint bureaucrats around to gum up the works.
Second step was to put wages into a savings account for the future, and I’ve been saving ever since (except for two marriages where the wives spent every cent I made, plus some). I’m comfortably retired now but they’re still broke and living hand to mouth!
I learned the wisdom of my old father (65 when I was born) that if you can’t pay cash, then you can’t afford it, although I did allow one exception and that was a home mortgage - Dave Ramsay agrees.
Cash is still king in uncertain times!
JC