I didn't have a job until I was 21, and it was given to me by a work program because I couldn't get one on my own. The closest thing I had to work experience was volunteer work. My mom, a Baby Boomer, didn't work until she was 22, so that probably influenced the lack of pressure. But, since when is a person supposed to be completely financially, socially, and professionally self-sufficient by the time they're legally allowed to hold a job. I see so many people online brag about how they plan to make their kids start working and paying their own way as soon as they turn 13/14, and it's totally alien to me.