If You Have Just Turned Fifteen
This Is The Year You Start
Fifteen is the age you can begin, and that is the law rather than our rule. Your birthday is the day, and your street is already waiting for what you can do.
What Fifteen Means For You
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Your Business Is Yours
You open it yourself, in your own name, and you hold it. Your parent says yes before it opens — they sign one form, witnessed at a pharmacy, a bank, a police station or a post office. Nobody sits on your account but you.
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A Parent Says Yes, Once
Until you are eighteen, a contract you sign on your own does not hold you to anything — so a parent signs beside you, and that is the law rather than a rule of ours. You go together to a pharmacy, a bank, a police station or a post office, and whoever is at the counter watches them sign it and stamps it. The form is on your own page the moment you start, with your own reference on it — and you can read it now, below.
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Start Small
Lawns and yard work are what a street asks for first, and they are the easiest to be brilliant at. Add more whenever you like.
The Form Your Parent Signs
One page. You both take it, with photo identification, to a pharmacy, a bank, a police station or a post office. It comes back signed and stamped, and you are ready to work. Nothing is found in the search until it has.
See The FormWhat Your Parent Reads First — who can reach you, what a stranger sees, and where your money goes, on one page.