I used to think that adults had paid money to get a job and when got paid they were being paid back - so they had to work a certain amount of time to be paid back the full amount that they paid for the job.
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you had to "buy" your job. The more money you paid, the better the job. — Duke
- That everything was free. You paid for nothing, money was just to look nice.— Blasia M
- I used to think all money paid for goods at shops went to charity.— Tim
- When I was a child, I used to know that using cheques you could spend an endless amount of money— lollo
- I used to believe that we had a finite amount of skin and that I would eventually run out due to pealing.Anon
- When I was younger, I thought a serial killer was a person who ate a ridiculous amount of cereal— Aja