When did you start working and when did you start full-time work?

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Also when did you start paying for yourself completely?

I started work at 15 and carried on from there

I was working full-time at 18 and never stopped for long until I went self-employed and now switch between full and part-time.

It seems natural that my child would begin working around the same age, but is this normal for people now?

At 18 I was considered an adult and expected to buy everything for myself. I moved out then and have been independent ever since.

I never got any funding from parents at uni, I thought this was normal then, or is it a new thing to fund grown up children until early twenties?

13 Saturday job family business but a fair bit of responsibility. First non family job 16. Was full time at 18 to save for uni then back to part time.

First job at 15, full time at 19.

Weekend job in retail from the age of 16. Went to university at 18 to study nursing/midwifery - campus/placements weren't too far away so I lived at home throughout my training. Married shortly after graduating and had my first baby at 23 ( totally unplanned ) , back to work 12 weeks later. Same with the other two although I did have a nanny, we couldn't have done it without her. Been working for the NHS ever since. Kids now 19, 17 and 15. Eldest DD is at medical school.

This has jogged the memory. I cleaned a large house for my mother and was paid at age 17 when she couldn't find a 'proper cleaner'. I did some bar work at 18, then two or three short- term jobs at university (could have done more). Then a job in a hotel for a few months. After post- graduate work it was difficult to find anything in my field and ended up in a different field, finally ending up in the chosen one where I stayed.

FT since I was 20 after university....desperate to go PT but struggling to find PT roles

Oops and started working aged 14!

Started Sat job at 16/17
holiday work during Uni at 18
supporting myself from 21, started full time work at the same time.

I have less a protestant work ethic and more an "ain't nobody else going to pay my bills" situation.

I started part time work at 14, then left school at 16 for full time work ,I'm 51.
I've worked pretty much ever since, full time, self employed or part time and with talk if I pensions in the news recently realise I will have been paying tax and national insurance for 35 years this year and my current pension age is 67, by which time I would have paid tax and NI for 50 years!
My DC are at uni, doing apprenticeship or still at school, nowadays most young people don't work full time to their early twenties and due to cost of housing its much harder to live independently.

Started work part time at 14 and was full time by 15/16.

I started waitressing at a village tearoom aged 13 and worked there on a Saturday or Sunday until I went to uni.
Worked part time through uni at other waitressing jobs (plus as many hours as possible during the summer).
Started working full time a few months after graduating.

Part time at 16 when in college. Full time at 18 and then 30hrs since having ds at 28. Roll on retirement.
My poor nana had first job at 6! She 'blacked' an elderly neighbours range. It was the 1920s though in rural Wales. Her brother was sent to work down the mine to work at 14. Such a different time.

The wealthier people are the less they require their teens to work while at school, which puts their kids at an advantage as they have more time for study and enrichment activities.

If you need the money, fair enough but I wouldn't make my term work for the sake of it. School + extra-curriculars takes up enough time,

I would expect my kids to work only once they had finished full time education.

Started working in MaccyDs at 15 (Aug birthday) to supplement college hours and have some spending money. Full time from 17. Worked full time ever since. No kids.

Step children aged 23 and 18 neither working full time and probably never will. Take after their mother.

I had a dream Saturday job in a vets from 14. £10 for three hours. I would have done it for free. Moved to another country for sixth form and had a Saturday job there too. Went to uni and worked pt all the way through, bars, nightclubs, McDonald's, pubs.

Finished uni and went full time at 21.

Had a year off for mat leave and went p/t 3 days a week for four years and then back up to ft.

I was 13 when I started p/t - a few hours a week in the village shop. Began waitressing at 14. Worked p/t to support myself through college and uni. Did teacher training full time after graduation and have taught full time ever since.

I am quite proud of my working history. I haven't always enjoyed the jobs but learnt a lot from all of them and learnt the value of hard work at a young age.

I don't think I could not work - but I am only 36 so will no doubt feel differently in years to come 😂

I think things are very different now. I worked part time alongside college from 16, through a gap year and during university. I then left my course and worked full time until I started my nursing diploma.

My dses are both very academic and couldn’t have worked and got the grades they did at A level. They are now both doing intense degrees and we support them so they don’t have to work during term time. We are happy to do that. They don’t get a grant like I did, the loan is minimum so we are expected to support. It’s tough but I want them to do well.

12, babysitting. Then at 14 I worked for local farmers clearing fields. 16 got a job in a cafe, left home at 18. Worked through uni in cafes and nightclubs.
I paid for my clothes, toiletries, everything including giving my mother money for food from 16.

Saturday job when I was 15 then full time job from 19 and left home at 20.

Have now been working full time without any kind of break (other than annual leave) for over 40 years. I was feeling very sorry for myself until I started this job at 56 and I love it so much, my planned retirement when I turn 60 this year is now on hold 🙂

Started work at 14, Saturday jobs. Worked through uni in the holidays and started FT work when I graduated at 22. I had moved out at 17 to start uni, but my parents supported me as due to the means tested loan system I wasn't eligible for the full student loan, but also couldn't earn enough to support myself fully and study. So wasn't fully independent til I graduated.

Worked FT from 22 to 30 then dropped to PT after I had my DD, have been PT at 36h/week since then. I don't think I'd like to go back to FT work - I love my weekday off with the kiddo.

The only paid work I did before age 18 was babysitting. I went to uni at 18 and worked in the holidays (not allowed to work during term time), my parents gave me a bit extra to top up my earnings (this was before uni fees were introduced).

Worked full time from graduating at age 22 until I had my first baby at 31. Was a SAHM for a few years, then back to work part time when the DC started school.

Paper round at 13 - replaced by supermarket at 15. Added pizza shop at 16 and worked both for a while. I was very money motivated as I didn't really get anything much from my parents.

Paid half a school trip to the US when I was 16.

I worked a full day at weekend and 2-3 evenings whilst at college so actually I was pretty well off as I didn't have to pay any rent or bills. Just to spend on me - I went to a lot of gigs!

Had a part-time (shop) job at 14 and entered full-time employment at 16.
Only had 2-jobs over the next 41-years (3-years & 38-years).
Retired at 57 and enjoying life!

13 part time and pocket money stopped.

16 full time and I had to pay for myself and also contribute to house bills.

Supported myself entirely since the age of 17. Now 44.

The only time I’ve worked part-time was at medial school when I worked 30 hours/week at night and on weekends.

I’m the only woman my age I know who has never lived off the state/parents/partner as an adult. I do like it. I enjoy my independence.