> I had my son doing production soldering at about 9.  He thought it was fun
> and I paid him eight bucks an hour and we were both getting a good deal.
> Of
> course he would get bored and want to go play video games after about an
> hour and a half.  Now I use a solder pot and the boards that used to take
> an
> entire weekend are stuffed in three or four hours and soldered in a half
> hour.
>
> He is 11 now and I got him one of the Radio Shack project labs for
> Christmas
> last year.  That is how I started.  Now they use a breadboard.  I think it
> was a lot easier for a kid when they used the spring terminals.
>
> Brian Kraut
> Engineering Alternatives, Inc.
> www.engalt.com


Wow! $8/hour! I got 25 cents an hour. Then the union at my father's
company complained and the California Department of Labor sent him a
letter suggesting I was not old enough to work there. I have the letter
framed...

Harold


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