So, how important do you think a job is?

lololu
Wed, 26 May 2010 12:06:38 +0000

Both my kids starting working when they were about 8 and 10 (growing and selling strawberries at a roadside stand). They planted the plants, weeded, picked the berries, ordered berry baskets, made a sign,set up the stand and manned it everyday for the three weeks strawberries were in, dealt with customers. At the end of each season, they figured up their costs, paid back their business loan (to their dad) and then split the profits. By the time they were in high school they were acutely aware of the value of a dollar. Even now, at 18 and 21 they will joke with each other by referring to the cost of things in the number of baskets of berries. Just the other night S1 told S2 he better work his a** off in college cause a single year is 26,000 baskets of berries. Brought it home to S2. (This is the child who refused to buy Hotwheels with his own money because there was no way one was worth a basket of berries!)