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I wasn't being forced to work or slave away, I worked because I wanted to. Also maintained a 3.5 GPA through high school, FTR. Government needs to stay out of personal family business.

Carry-a-Kimber wrote:

snatchel wrote:My first paid job was when I turned 14 at Angelo Burger Company here in San Angelo. I worked there 40 hours a week until the day I graduated 4 years later and went off to boot camp.

Sounds like Angelo Burger Company needs to brush up on the federal labor laws.

My first job was stacking sod on the back of a havester at a grass farm. At $2.13 a pallet we could make about $20/hr. Bad part is we only typically did 20 pallets a day on school days and 40 on non school days and at most 100-120 pallets a week.

Several of the members here worked from a younger age than I did. There were special circumstances that required supplemental income in my family, and my older brother and I did what we could to help keep us afloat.

You are quick to say that, sir, but I assure you the owners of that restaurant did our family a favor by allowing me to work.
My family and I did what we had to do to ensurethat we didnt become welfare/govt handout burdens that would have come out of your checkbook. 14 or not, it was the right thing to do.

They don't run a business anymore, but I am still good friends with them. They are godparents to my wife & I. Please don't be so quick to judge.

My first paid job was when I turned 14 at Angelo Burger Company here in San Angelo. I worked there 40 hours a week until the day I graduated 4 years later and went off to boot camp.