[MMMerc]

So I'm 19, and i just can't for the life out of me figure out, how can you be under 12, in fact under 15 and buy your own gear? I'm pretty sure the law states you have to be at least 15 to have a job, and if your under 14 what kind of job could you possibly do anyway? Someone explain?

[Wolferam]

Mowing lawns, shoveling drive ways, pruning hedges and all those meanial tasks adults would rather pay a kid to do. Or if your parents give you an allowance, technically it's your money.

[Thursdae]

Parents? Birthdays? Xmas? Saving everything?

[-Dublin-]

In the area where I live there are a lot of farms and family owned businesses. Sometimes if your a family friend with the owner they could pay you to do work around the farm and other tasks like that. At a younger age most of your money will come from saving birthday and holiday money. At 13 I was refing hockey for $18 a game. Not bad money for my first job.

[Klub]

Under the table jobs, family friends, self employment. I got my first job when I was 13, just have to know some people and be charismatic

[MMMerc]

I could see that, i mean i myself did small jobs when i was younger, but i dont understand how a kid could be purchasing a bob long g6r, and be like "I bought it with my own money" I mean really? I myself have a hard enough time making that much a year. Allowance is not really your money either, sadly enough parents just stop paying and expecting you to do crap.

[Klub]

Yea, It depends on how much you work. Last summer I was mowing lawns, taking care of greenhouses, and walking dogs monday through friday, and It funded me enough to buy all the guns I wanted at the time.

[MMMerc]

well yeah then again alot of that stuff pays wayyy better than minimum wage lol

[GuyWithAQuestion]

I'm 14 and pay for all of my stuff. I just keep an eye out for good deals and always look for ways to make some extra money and for the most part I don't spend it on anything but paintball.

[littleloopy15]

What I have found is that a lot of the time that people who say they buy their own gear usually ask for the money from their parents and then pay them back. That is at least what I did until I got a job.

[Brony22193]

i sold old video games and washed cars/mowed lawns

[TacticlTwinkie]

It isn't easy. When i was younger, I couldn't pay for paintball. My cheapy spyder i got for christmas one year sat in my closet for months at a time between times my parents would pay for me to go (pretty much no job oportunities for me then. Chores only got me a few bucks here and there). It wasn't until I graduated from high school and got a job that I could actually start to play paintball more regularly.

Based on my experience, it's far easier to pay for it and go often when young if you have an older sibling or parents that play. My uncle has been playing since the 80's, so my cousins played all the time with him and had a desent setup. My uncle would happily help pay for new paintball stuff for them and me, and would take them at least once a month, a lot of times more. If your parents havnt played or don't like the idea of it, it makes it very hard. My parents didn't like it, so I never had help after getting my first gear. I would only get to go once every few months with my uncle after saving up money for paint, which was alot of money for me, but he would pay for entry and air fills. Now that I can pay for it, I have fallen in love with paintball again.

[xItalian_Thunder]

Washing cars, mowing lawns, raking leaves, shoveling snow, chores, good grades (Ask for Money), Birthday Money. I am 12 I just got a: Gog extcy, dye rotor, ninja 68 4500, dye i4, freak jr barrel. pretty easy

[Irish725]

All you have to do to play at the age of 12-15 is just be a little entrepeneurial. Do odd jobs around your neighbor hood that get you money, use that money to get or make a product you can sell for more money. I remember they would have the Harley Davidson Motorcycle rally every year by my house, so I would save up some cash, buy a bunch of donuts and make a bunch of cofffee (or some years split the profits with the bakery owner) and sit out side the morning of the rally. I could sell the donuts that I got for a dollar piece, making 50 cents to cover costs, and 50 cents for a cup of coffee, which I could make like 50 cups for like 4 bucks (instant Folgers ftw). There would be close to 100-150 people stop by every year to pick up breakfast on the way to the Bike Rally. I would clean house just by using my head a little bit. That's how I survived til I got a real job.

[DudeinDump]

My most recent case of paint was what I got for Chrismas.

[Orange Chicken]

Busboy? and internship? What I'm doing.

[Jaccen]

Farm work. I worked on a pig farm and detassled corn on the side.

Do the crappy, remedial jobs nobody else wants to. It's a crap job with crap pay, but you'll learn a good work ethic that will translate when you're old enough to get a better job.

[Paintb@ller]

MMMerc, on 13 March 2012 - 02:53 PM, said:

So I'm 19, and i just can't for the life out of me figure out, how can you be under 12, in fact under 15 and buy your own gear? I'm pretty sure the law states you have to be at least 15 to have a job, and if your under 14 what kind of job could you possibly do anyway? Someone explain?

You can get a job, just not for a major company for example McDonalds, some kids become soccer refs and ref 5 games a weekend for about 1 hour, it pays around $20 a game for an entry level ref, you have $100 over a weekend, buying old/broken Ipods then fixing them and selling them for a profit, mowing lawns, computer tutoring, going around to garage sales buying stuff and selling it for a profit, buying candy/gum/chips, selling it for over retail price. Or you could save up from over 3 years of birthdays, christmas, and any other holiday you get money from, also many kids play video games, sell their old ones, they can make a decent profit on that, or even homework tutoring for like $10 an hour.

[Orange Chicken]

But really...busboy.

[legitpro808]

Birthdays, christmas, other holidays, birthdays, reffing, all that good stuff