What did do as a kid to earn money ?
Mowed grass for a few neighbors.Delivered the afternoon paper for the Raleigh (NC) Times and the Sunday paper for the News and Observer.NOT FUN delivering Sunday papers on a bicycle. Back then they were Yuge!
Then I worked weekends and summers until I was 15 at the Wake County animal shelter scooping poop and bought my first car. 1973 Charger with a 400 for $500.