r/Millennials • u/bookflow • 9h ago

Discussion Are you tired yet?

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u/Forsexualfavors 8h ago

I had a lawn cutting business at 12. $20 each for an acre apiece. Wish I had spent that time doing kid stuff.

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u/Brotorious420 Older Millennial 8h ago

It's why I won't let mine work until 16

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u/Forsexualfavors 8h ago

Good idea. Mine was kind of forced, my dad had hip surgery and I had to take over the lawn duties at 12 so I tried to make a little money with it. Not worth it.

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u/Brotorious420 Older Millennial 8h ago

Gotta do what you gotta do. We can only try to give them a better starting hand than we were dealt

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u/Minmach-123 7h ago

I was helping my dad clean his apartments starting at age 10. I had some money to spend on things, but I regret working. I wish I could have spent that time making friends instead so I'd have fun memories to look back on. By the time I graduated high school I was so burnt out from school and from working for the past 8 years that I didn't feel like doing anything, and I got payed so little from cleaning the apartments that I didn't even really have much to show for all my work. If I can ever afford to have kids they're not going to spend their childhood working.