[gchappel]

Paper route at 10, local paper.
2 years later it was the biggest route the paper had. About 120 papers piled on my bike in baskets everywhere. Finally needed two trips.
Collecting was the worst- I still remember the one customer- 1963 to a 10yr old. Do you have change for $100? I did the next month.
I got my sister, who was about 9 at the time, to help deliver one end of the route. Paper found out a girl was delivering papers. Unheard of at the time. Paper did a big article on this new female skill set.
It was a different time.
Did that until I was 16 and got a "real job."
I was lucky, my parents paid for college. But I had to provided my own spending money. I saved enough to last 4 years. Worked electronic repair and as a lifeguard all my summers through college and medical school.
I sure do not see any 10yr olds around here actually working. My newspapers are delivered by an adult driving and randomly throwing my paper whereever it may land.

Gary