At 15 years old I got my first regular paying job working for 50 cents an hour at the local grocery store (I still have my first pay stub, for the substantial amount of $19.80, laminated and stuck on the bulletin board in my den), but it sure in the hell wasn't so that "I could buy candy and stuff". I knew I wanted to go to engineering school, but my parents had already told me that they could not afford to pay my way so I got that job so that I could start saving for school. And by the time I did leave for school I had enough for my first year plus I did buy a used motorcycle as I couldn't afford a car and school was 360 miles away. Between a four-year academic, full tuition scholarship, and working summers and during school, I managed to pay my own way. Granted, I had to get a national defense student loan my last couple of years after I got married, but I paid off every dime after I graduated.
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