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The American dream is working yourself to death as a teenager and hoping it pays off

I got my first job 2 weeks after I turned 14. And that’s not healthy. I was in 8th grade, working 30 hours a week, I worked at night and never got sleep. My parents and all the adults around me kept talking about how I was such a hard little worker and how I was gonna do so much good when I grew up. I was more functional at 14 than I am now. I burned out really badly. 14 year olds shouldn’t be working.


I got my first job 2 weeks after I turned 14. And that’s not healthy. I was in 8th grade, working 30 hours a week, I worked at night and never got sleep. My parents and all the adults around me kept talking about how I was such a hard little worker and how I was gonna do so much good when I grew up. I was more functional at 14 than I am now. I burned out really badly. 14 year olds shouldn’t be working.

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