I started delivering newspapers when I was 8, my parents would follow me around the neighborhood to watch what was up. Then I around 13 I started umpiring softball, and refereeing Hockey, I remember having to ride my bike to the games, even 15 miles across town! Then I started working at A&P (I see Im not the only one). I remember that job because I had to ride my bike across town (seeing a pattern here?) on the hottest day ever in Canada and get the equivalent of my SSN card. I rode back to the store covered in sweat and handed it to the guy soaking wet.
After those my first real job I guess was selling sports equipment at SportChek, which is like a nicer version of Academy I guess without the outdoors stuff. That was commission and at 16 years old I was making about $20-25 an hour in 1999 the key was to stand near the Hockey skates :) After that I started working summer jobs in local union factories. First in a place that made hydro-electric generating coils (and also SSN nuclear generator stator coils, that was neat, working with a US navy guy watching everything you do...), Then brake line factory, then conveyor belt motor factory, then Party rental deliveries (BEST JOB EVER for partying and getting in shape, but I did go from ~20/hour to $14.)
Then I graduated and worked in the oilfield as a field engineer for 7 years, and now I am a sales engineer for anything that makes things cold!
And that's the story of how I became the youngest person to have a house at SMRR by ~15 years!