In Denmark, you can’t work at all if you’re under the age of 13. When you turn 14 or 15, you can get light jobs like walking like with newspaper once or twice a week. I personally don’t work yet. But I plan on working in the cinema when I turn 16, or maybe 17 because I’m going on continuation school after 9th grade. When I get home, I’m 17, and I will probably seek a job there.
Sometimes it can be healthy job for young people to get a job. They learn that money “doesn’t grow on trees”, and you have to work to earn money. They also learn to save up and don’t just spend your money like crazy.
Today isn’t like old days. Especially when you are talking about jobs and work. Back in the “old days”, kids and young people worked a lot more not always for money, but for their parents, helping out on the farm. When they came home from school, boys often helped their dad with harvesting or keep track on the animals. The girls usually helped their mom in the kitchen, making food and clean up. We still do help our parents today but just not in the same way. Many of us kids just empty the dishwasher, carrying the plates from the table and go out with the garbage.
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