-PJ
When my daughter was 12 she wanted a Gucci leather belt. Told her she could buy one when she figured out how to pay for it. Two days later I heard her alarm going off at 4 a.m. She had gotten a job stuffing newspapers into plastic bags for $2.00 an hour and worked 2 hours every morning before school. That was her first job but she always had at least 2 or 3 part-time jobs after that. Having her own money was a big motivator. When she was 18 she came home with a used car which she bought all on her own with the money she had saved from her earnings.
My first job, at age 17, was as a “Playground Monitor” for the local school district during summer vacation at a city playground. I worked M-F, 1 PM to 9PM from the end of the school year until the start of the next school year. For this I was paid $300 for the whole summer.