It was a good job for a kid growing up. I think you could be below the legal working age, and still do it, or maybe no one checked back then. Got me up and out early, and learned how to collect money from neighbors. Downsides where that it rained a lot and you still had to deliver. I think I graduated to an "inside job", when I hit 14. Kind of funny now, being a 14 year old dishwasher was my first "promotion"!