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user-inactivated  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 11 years old and working on a tobacco farm

    Currently, the age is 12 in NC when a kid can work. While I think 12 is a bit young, it obviously wasn't a bad experience for you.

In Texas I believe it's technically 14 -- I got my first paid-by-check job at around 15. If you could've gotten across to me the immediate, positive lifestyle changes this would bring I would've start at 11 in a heartbeat.

Kids grow up at different ages. Plenty of inner-city kids in Chicago work, it just isn't what their moms want them to be doing.

I don't know what my point is ... there definitely needs to be a hard and fast law but it kinda screws over the exceptions.