Got my first paycheck when I was 8 years old. 1965.

Summer Job, janitor in a furniture store. 7am-6pm. 7am-12pm on Saturdays. Off Sunday. $37 a month, after taxes.

Was no mandatory social security cards for kids, then. I had to apply for one.

I hated having to work all summer. I wanted to play baseball.

Never got that chance. I kept a job, of some sort, until 2020.