I think I was 17 or 18.

When I had to have a tiny mental breakdown over getting a single day off after spending the year prior doing favours for the store manager like driving the delivery truck and being the pillar that kept the fresh departments standing. Ohh and I hadn't had a holiday for 2 years.

Now I work 4 days a week by choice, I come in do my work well enough then sign off. I constantly remind them that if I'm not being actively paid by the company I see myself as unemployed and free to do what I want.

Mowing the yard for my dad as a pre-teen. I was trying to earn some extra cash and so went way above and beyond.

He acknowledged it and did pay a little more than we’d agreed to, but in no way commensurate to the extra work I put in.

I don’t mind working hard or doing extra, but I do it for me now. If interested, passionate, and engaged, then I dig deep and do more. Otherwise it’s the agreed upon work and no more.

13 or 14

Idk it just kinda worked for me

I think 23 or 24.

Way too old.

Not yet. I'm still a college student and need good employer letters of recommendation.

My plan is when I graduate is get offers from a bunch of companies, and then start a bidding war among them.

Way too damn old.

Pretty damn old. I’m too embarrassed to say.

I still do it, but I ask and get