PSA: Don't do drugs!
 

Who needs drugs when you can have tractors???

Where's the drug that keeps you from buying tractors? LOL
My wife would be slippin that in my drink

It's called "Being 14 and having no money" heh... :bigeyes:

Get a job.... 14yr Olds can work as far as I know. :bigthink:

Mow yards, do odd jobs, work on the farm. I had money when I was 14. Actually I probably had more money when I was 14 than I do now, lol. But I worked for it.

Amen to that!
When I was 13 A neighbor of ours became paralyzed waist down and loss some use in hands and arms. He asked me if I could use his tractor and cut his grass. Told him sure.. No problem. When I was done he handed me 5 bucks and told me if cut the lawn the rest of the summer I could have the tractor and the following year he would get a service to cut. I agreed and took the tractor home. I picked up 4 or 5 more lawns and did pretty well with it. The guy that gave me the tractor insisted I still take 5 bucks every time I cut to pay for the gas.. I tried to not take it but he always made me.

Here in PA you have to be 16 and get working papers from school, at least that's how it was when I was younger. Obviously he could still work for cash if he can find someone willing to do it, hard to find work like that these days due to liability and everybody wanting to sue.

"Working papers" from the school??? And here I thought as a parent it was MY decision whether or not my kid could work!! :bash2:

Surely you don't need the schools "permission" to get a summer job....:bigthink:

What a screwed up world the liberal lunatics have created!! :beatdeadhorse:

Not sure about summer but I know you have to have them during the school year. It's just like playing sports, if your grades aren't good then you can't play, same thing with having a job.

Our school only requires this if the kid wants out of school early. Like he’s got last period study hall, and could be at the job sooner.

Lots of state laws nowadays. I was running farm tractors for my uncle at the ripe old age of 11. I think the only 11 year olds I could employ would have to be my own. At certain ages they can do certain tasks. Working with livestock and running powered equipment, climbing ladders, I think you have to be 16. There may even be restrictions here on your own kids, but I'm not certain. Don't know how many hours a day they can work either, we did about 11-12 with a 1/2 hr for lunch. And I was glad to get that $3 an hr.

During High school I worked part time @ 42 hours a week.
4-10 pm Monday through Friday and 10 to 10 Saturday.
Sundays were no work days.
No work permits, just the will to make money to buy car/parts and money for dating the girls.
Best years of my life:beerchug:

George, I'm way younger than you and I did the same thing!
I worked on our farm (way before high school) and worked at Wal-Mart when I was in high school. If I wasn't at Wal-Mart, I was on the farm. When I was at Wal-Mart, it was 4pm-10pm (or later during Christmas) and then weekends. Between the two I could get in well over 40 in a week and go to school. I agree too, best years of my life! I had a girlfriend too! :biggrin2: I do remember though that I had to have my parents sign something when I got on at Wal-Mart because I was a minor.... but that was it. A "permission slip" kind of thing. I think they could only schedule us like 30 hours a week too, but I made up the rest of the time farming. Shoot, some days I started on the farm at 6 or 7am, then went to WM and worked until 10. It didn't kill me! :BlahBlah:

Same here, during the summer worked for cash, doing anything, for anyone I could ride my bike to, and got paid whatever they figured I was worth. Most was for grandad on the farm. Made enough in two years to buy a new TS 125 Suzuki at age 15.:beerchug:
Work at home was for my clothes and food, or as father would put it. "You've got a roof over your head".:biggrin2:
During scrool season, right after last period, walked down to the Shell station, pumped gas, changed oil and tires. Father would pick me up when he got home, bout 6:00 pm, unless he stopped for a beer first, then it could be 7.:biggrin2:
That was a good gig. Pumping gas, especially when those "older, ladies" came driving up. You know, the ones that are late 20's and 30 something. I always did a REAL good job cleaning the windshield. Made sure to get the corners real good...:bigeyes::biggrin2::bigthink:

Mow lawns? About 10 people live on my road and they all mow their lawns just about every 3 days, and if they could they would mow them every 3 hours. Plus I have exactly 5 or 6 mower decks yet somehow none of them are suitable. What's up with that? How does that work?????

If I were you I would get a little more creative. Make a flyer. Put on there that your young willing and able to do tasks in people homes or yards. Clean gutters, mow grass, trim hedges etc.. Put them in mailboxes around your neighborhood. You would be surprised these days how many people will hire you to do things simply because "at least I feel this way" most people my age or in the 40-80 year old range find it refreshing to find a 14 year old willing to work hard. So many of our youth want to do nothing except be on the x-box, cell phone, or TV. I bet you will get some calls.. I bet some neighbors will actually invent reasons why they need your help just to reward a kid that actually wants to work.. If I got this in my mailbox I would certainly call the kid to give him a few days helping me stain my fence.

:Announce:
It is illegal to place flyers in mailboxes!

What he said. You'd be better off sticking the flyer in the screen door.

My boys went and purchased colored aquarium rocks, zip lock bags,and paper.
Made their fliers then put it in bags with a few rocks. The rocks were for weight, they drove around chucking those things at people’s front doors. Was faster than
walking around town.

Wait, when did this go from humorous thing to a discussion about work???

Seriously, when?? I want to know. :bigthink:

Also, I would work, but I kind of don't want to get run over on the road. People fly down our 2 lane street going like 50 MPH with a speed limit of 40.

Obviously, Be safe.. But if I wanted to make money I would conquer that challenge somehow also. Solutions over excuses will geter done every time...

I have a 16yr old and a 14yr old.
I know an excuse not to work when I read one.
I understand that until you can drive legally, your options are limited, but if you want something you will find a way.
Neither of my boys are interested in old tractors, they just see them as a machine to use to make money. Glad to see a young person who is interested.

Terry, Not only are you intuitive but you must also be a mind reader because that is exactly what I was thinking ! lol:beerchug:

when I was 14 I was riding on potato diggers and driving 2 1/2 ton trucks around the backroads!