A paper route is fine but not doing some farm work in the fields?
Wow, I just cringed thinking about uttering that line to my parents. It would have likely provoked a session of child abuse.
I grew up on a farm and during the summers worked all day and often into the night. Now add cutting timber, pulp wood, fire wood for home use and sale.
Working bees, picking blackberrys, clearning land was recreation.
I was reimbursed with food, clothes and a roof over my head, .22 and shotgun ammo, and never thought a thing about actually getting paid.
I'm thankful for my early life, the lessons learned and the men I shared time with. I'm today amazed the youth with their entitlement mentality and lack of interest in the world around them.
