Yard Work 10 a hour

[pdsavage]

Most kids won't work cause their parents pay for everything,my kids would jump at 10 bucks and hour....

 

[Mattemma]

I have seen a post or 2 directed towards students to do yard work.At $10 I would do it to have some extra money for food!
Yea I went to college and have a BA,but when it comes to having some extra cash I would take the offer.I understand the pride thing,but sometimes you really just have to let that go. I remember when I first started working.It was around 1988 and I got paid $4 a hour to take care of 20+ elderly people in a nursing home(aide).I was thrilled to be making money.

 

[call ducks]

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i am as old as your son and thinking the same thing... i could not get paid by the hour around here , and mowing a lond a person would get paid like maybe 15.00 if they are lucky... bunch of rednecks in my area

heck i am a redneck lol

 

[joebryant]

I have a best friend who owns a Dairy Queen. He has many teenagers wanting/willing to work for about $8 an hour; he can't hire them all. Few kids around here would turn down $10 an hour tax free. There are many men in this county who can't find a job; they'd jump at the chance to work for $10 an hour tax free.

 

[Royd]

There is no need to complain. We are the ones, who created this monster.
The first thing we need to do, is to recind those stupid child labor laws...I was working, at the age of 12, as a summer farm laborer, 11 hour days, for .75 an hour. The neighboring farmer, jokingly, called me Big Money.

Patterns of laziness and entitlement, are easily broken, in those early, formitive years..Not so much, by the time you are 16. Especially, if you have not been forced to do anything, which was against your choosing.

And yes, if I didn't have any work, and a neighbor came to me, offering $10 an hour, and would pay for the fuel, for the mower, I'd work all day, as long as I was paid in cash.

I've spent all day, recently, on my hands and knees, weeding my own garden. So, I quess I could pick beans, if I had to.

 

[Marie1234]

I think it has to do with where you are. If you put a sign up at the grocery store here offering that you'd have fifty people at the door. My step son will take care of goats, pigs, horses, mow the grass and do your dishes for fifteen a day. He does it at home for free so when he works for people he is always concerned that he is taking advantage by accepting cash.

 

[kcsunshine]

And we wonder why we have illigal aliens doing farm work?

 

[Debob]

Work-10$ hr. Im retired and I'd still jump at the chance for some tax free money-heck I'd even be willing to trade a little of that for other things. Food,gas,feed ect. No eggs though they are starting to stack up again. lol .Neighbors are going to like me again.

 

[Boyd]

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In michigan at least, the child labor laws are exempt for family farms

No minimum wage, no limit to hours worked.

 

[Camelot Farms]

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In michigan at least, the child labor laws are exempt for family farms

No minimum wage, no limit to hours worked.

I am curious about this as it pertains to equipment etc and relationship to Farmer. In NY, we could do 'farm work' on the books but no equipment. Most of us made our 1st paycheck at Morgans Berry Farm picking strawberries.
We could work only so many hours but the hours were generous. Now the Morgan kids could work sun up to sun down if they wanted to cause it was their farm and they could run equipment.

We could all do anything on any farm as long as it wasnt on the books and the farmer was willing to take the risk of injury. Of course back then no one sued over hot coffee. =/

Does your states have any specifics like that Boyd or is it really more open?

I picked rocks out of beet fields for 1$ an hour in the mid 80's. And was glad to do it!