What is a job you had prior your eighteenth birthday that is practically nonexistent or obsolete in 2021?
[Excluding household chores, family-related tasks that were paid via allowances, etc. This is about work you did for a company or business, and you were paid a salary from which withholdings were taken, etc.]
I had a newspaper route at age ten that I covered on my bicycle; I doubt minors deliver newspapers these days in major cities, even in those few places where newspapers still exist. Small towns and rural areas might be a different story.
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In high school I worked at a movie cinema as an usher. I worked there over a year after school and weekends. I do not believe movie theatres have reserved seating these days. I put many people in the wrong seats. Thankfully, I got most of them to the right ones. I also got to work concession which was fun. Every one who worked there was from two high schools so we all knew each other.
In the summers and Christmas holidays starting when I was about 14 or 15 I worked (with the required written parental permission) at a very expensive department store downtown. My aunt worked there and made this arrangement for me. Each floor had a suction tube station (sort of like drive-in bank stations). Each counter out in the departments with a cash register had a place receipts and credit slips were put on a big steel spike-type thing (the point faced upward). My job was to go to each cash register, collect cash and credit slips, separate, and send to the office on the top floor where my aunt worked via the suction tube. I never stopped being amused on that job. The elevators also had drivers. They were exquisite to ride in and the drivers were always sweet and funny. They knew everything that went on in that store. I got to eat in the employee lunchroom which served up foods that were delish!
Grrrrrrr.
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Yes. It was a large metropolitan newspaper with extremely wide circulation, a massive business enterprise.
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