I've been working since I'm 9 years old.
I've worked since I was in second grade.
A boy has to peddle his book.
I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.
I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
I was 16 years old and wanted to help my mom with the rent. There was a restaurant called China Buffet in Tampa that hung a 'Help Wanted' sign outside, so I went in and ended up hosting every Friday and Sunday for $6 or $7 an hour.
Growing up, we had to work. If you wanted anything at all that was more than basic food and shelter, you had to make your own money.
Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.
I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at 4 A.M. to work as a cleaner before school. It wasn't pleasant.
In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor's grass and make an extra 30 bucks.
I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.
We used to tie-dye T-shirts and sell them to classmates. We used to make egg rolls and sell them at street fairs. I worked at the mall. My parents probably spent more money on the gas driving me to different jobs than I made.
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
I used to sell candy and ice creams in the street, and I worked in the fields to help my parents.
