” Maybe you predate those laws...?”
I was 8 in 1945.
I never paid any attention to those stupid child labor laws anyway.
I went to work plastering when I was 14 so I could buy and build a 40 ford street racer by the time I was 16.
When you are 6’ tall at 11 no one questions your age, all you have to do is keep your mouth shut and get to work!
If I hadn’t saved, when I came home with my license on my 16th birthday and my dad demanded my insurance policy or the keys I wouldn’t have had the $600 for the policy he demanded. To protect his business he wouldn’t allow me on his policy and I had to have 100k liability which was a whole bunch in 1952. I only pay $870 a year for insurance on my truck and my wifes Lexus today.
>>I was 8 in 1945.<<
You don’t just predate those laws, you predate CHILDHOOD! ;)
>>When you are 6’ tall at 11 no one questions your age, all you have to do is keep your mouth shut and get to work!<<
When you are 6’ tall at 11 I am surprised no one shoved a basketball in your hands. When you are 4’ 6” at 11, life treats you a little differently...
It sounds like you were bound and determined from an early start.
As was I (graduated HS a year early, had a long working history by the time I was 16, etc.). But your experience was in a far different world.