Started out at age 6 pulling a wagon along the streets with my little sister, collecting pop bottles, wash them off with a hose, sell them to the fish market at refund price 2-5 cents.
Got sent to the mountains, snatched golf balls, sold them back to the golfers.
Washed dishes in a pub, age 12, in Blowing Rock, N.C.
Had a car for hire/transport age 16, got caught trying to outrun the Feds when I drove off the side of the mountain on the Blueridge Parkway age 17( thought I was a better driver & had a faster car, neither turned out to be true

). They claimed I was running corn liquor, but they found no proof of that.
Spent a few days in jail.
Judge gave me a choice of the Raleigh Penitentiary or the Marine Corps, I choose the Corps.
4 years as an electronic tech on cryptographic equipment.
25 years as a police officer in South Florida.
Retired, raising a good son & spending the weekdays assisting hockey & archery moms with chores around their houses.