Thanks for the reply!!
Yours and mine had been much the same experience!!! I didn't let my education got effected at all.
> You only had to deliver once per month?

No, daily 2 or three hours, paid 6 or 7 dollars monthly.



Coinsreporter

I was paid nearly $6 $7 a month in the year 1999 (just 11 years old) for that part time work. It was a good amount here for me considering I just had to work two to three hours.

how was that experience? How old were you back then?

It was cool to earn some money as a kid. I must have been around 15 years old at the time. I think I earned ~100€ per month for a delivery once a week.

But in hindsight, the pay was miserable per hour. They paid by piece and I only earned ~25€ per delivery with everything included. Sometimes, I would get a ton of advertisements that I had to include in the newspaper by hand before going out but we usually did that as a family. Maybe even with four people that took 1-2 hours? I don't really remember except that your hands were already dirty at that point with all the printing ink. Then the delivery itself added 2-4 hours based on weather conditions.

So I earned between 4€ and 8€ per hour. But I get that delivering newspaper is not the hardest thing in the world.

Just like my experience with Burger King (where I consistently earned minimum wage which was 8€ per hour at the time), I am glad that I did this but in hindsight, it sucked really hard. But it was also definitely an invaluable experience that prepared me for life in their own unique ways.

Not at all, I delivered during the weekend or in the evening.

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plebpoet

> I was paid nearly $6 $7 a month in the year 1999 (just 11 years old) for that part time work. It was a good amount here for me considering I just had to work two to three hours.

You only had to deliver once per month?

> how was that experience? How old were you back then?

It was cool to earn some money as a kid. I must have been around 15 years old at the time. I think I earned ~100€ per month for a delivery once a week.[^1]

But in hindsight, the pay was miserable per hour. They paid by piece and I only earned ~25€ per delivery with everything included. Sometimes, I would get a ton of advertisements that I had to include in the newspaper by hand before going out but we usually did that as a family. Maybe even with four people that took 1-2 hours? I don't really remember except that your hands were already dirty at that point with all the printing ink. Then the delivery itself added 2-4 hours based on weather conditions.

So I earned between 4€ and 8€ per hour. But I get that delivering newspaper is not the hardest thing in the world.

Just like my experience with Burger King (where I consistently earned minimum wage which was 8€ per hour at the time), I am glad that I did this but in hindsight, it sucked really hard. But it was also definitely an invaluable experience that prepared me for life in their own unique ways.

> How did it affect your education?

Not at all, I delivered during the weekend or in the evening.

[^1]: However, I didn't get to keep most of the money since I had to support my parents (according to what they said).