Fifteen

[valleview]

Was starting to build the Registered Guernsey herd that has been a project for nearly 60 years. Also haying most of the summer and 4-H- the county fair was always a big deal. Dad never let me plant or run the corn picker, but unloaded wagons and disced with the John Deere G that i still have when not in school. Over several summers, dad and i cemented in a fairly big cow yard. I ran the cement mixer - 5 shovels of gravel and 1 of cement. Was always ready for dinner after doing that. Started with three heifers in 1964 and now down to 4 old cows and a few young stock. Gave up milking some years back. Also keep a few beef cows, the last of the herd that started on this farm in the 1870's. Should do my family a favor and sell them all, but sentiment- it's hard to let them go.

 

[BAnNC]

First Soc Sec job was washing dishes too.
for a boys camp with 330 per meal. 19 meals a week. Made $1.10 per hour.

 

[grandpa Love]

I was working on a house framing crew. Supposed to be a summer job, never went back to school! 15 years later I took off work ( from my own company) and got my GED. That didn't change anything! Learned more from work than school.

 

[4wdtom]

I was working at a local dairy farm, going to high school, and waiting to be 16 so I could get my license.

 

[RBnWA]

I'm the oldest of 4. I was busy helping dad. We had beef and hogs. Plus helping neibhors with hay and straw. Well Bill I had a fasination with 18 wheelers too. RB

 

[paulsamwel]

Besides school,did my share of the chores on the family dairy farm plus worked for other farmers in the neighborhood running equipment.
Paul

 

[MARK ROBKE]

My Dad had just been forced out of dairy farming by eminent domain: the state of Kentucky took the land our dairy barn was located on to relocate secondary roads for the construction of I 275. I was enrolled in a college prep type of high school and was having trouble with my grades because I was not suited or interested in college! So I was changing schools and helping Dad relocate and rebuild his barns to start raising beef cattle, and helping do outside/custom work that we did. Mark.

 

[J.Wondergem]

I was working for dad farming. Wasn't on the internet. LOL.

 

[Crazy Horse]

When I was 15 I remember getting up enough courage to tell my dear dad that he had given me his last haircut and I was moving on to a local barber college. The first few I had there weren't much of an improvement but I learned where the more experienced students were and from then on things were much better. Life eventually came full circle ..... my wife has been cutting my hair for about 45 years now.

 

[olgentdc]

At age 15,I was pretty busy , I was feeding the hogs and making feed for some 180 or so on the slatted floor we just put up 1970 , had 6 pens 29x 8 ft.Most times I would feed after 9 P.m. ,,,, I wanted to be clean and asleep before 10 p.m.My brother was in charge of row crops, Dad and My younger brother did the hay and truck crops/We all pitched in where ever we were needed , Including helping the girls snap beans.We made money,Always had money for whatever we wanted or needed , Never spent lavishly , Took all our meals at home or at the host farm we were working at. I was also splitting firewood 3 miles down the road at a BTOhog farmer place that would around 1980 ,end up belly up when 20 percent interest rates killed a lot of good mens spirit whenever the hogs and sows were caught up. We could amuse ourselves with the 220 electric splitter, 46tons ,LICKITY -Log Spliter, I always get decent grades in school but rarely turned in homework.I had several girls help Me catch up in study Hall, I usually tried to sleep then.

 

[David Snipes]

Milking cows in the evening after school, bottle feeding baby goats, hauling hay in the summer and riding dirt bikes.