Do y’all know why there is a summer break from school?
So kids can work the Fields helping with the Harvest.
I did one summer in WA state . Picked berries at a farm for extra money for me. pay was on a per pail basis, within daylight hours, you set your own pace and hours. Aunt and uncle provided three hots and a “Cot” (warm place to live). If I wanted any spending money I had to go earn it, so I did.
My first job outside the home was in 1962, at age 7, when I was picking marionberries for a silver quarter per gallon bucket. Would leave the house around 4:30 to catch the bus about half a mile away for an hour ride to the fields and get home around 2 or 3 in the afternoon. An average day brought in around $3.00, which was true wealth to me then. Saved up for my first bicycle.
I don’t think they even let kids work in the fields now.