When I was a teen-—an A & W opened up in our small town.
THE ENTIRE FAMILY OF 6 or 7 worked there...and they knew almost all of their customers.
Myself & one brother picked strawberries, also.
ALL THE DAIRY FARMS had entire family working on the farm.
Even a 4 year old can throw ‘scratch’ to chickens.
We cleaned hen houses—gathered eggs—cleaned gutters in dairy milking barn-—threw down silage & bales of hay & shoveled oats into bins when that harvest was in swing.
ALL 4 of us have been self-employed—One with 65 employees.
Kids from surrounding farms did well as adults, also.
WE ALL WENT TO A ONE ROOM SCHOOL.