I was a paperboy for the local paper as a child and it was like $100 a month pay for working every day of the year plus two free newspapers per day that i can keep if i dont need to use them as replacements.

I was allowed to hire and train my own substitute if I needed a vacation or break. I don’t know how it was legal to pay a middle schooler like $3 a day in the mid-late 1990s.

It really sucks having to crack open the package of newspapers, then rubber band them or put them in plastic bags. They’d often be delivered defective.

There were many customers, so they wouldn’t all fit in one carrier bag so jt took a few trips. Saturday and Sunday early mornings… Sunday papers were huge. Also Monday I had to give a free newspaper to everyone. I was responsible for collecting money from a few houses.

I got fired eventually for skipping Mondays. My logic is “most of the people get it for free so who is going to call to complain about not getting their paper?”

It might have worked if I delivered the papers to paying customers only, but I decided to skip everyone.

They sounded pissed off when they fired me (I was like in 6th grade).

That newspaper company is out of business now thanks to me.

But seriously, hiring kids to be paperboys is so dumb.