Eight-year-old Nash Johnson knew exactly what to do when he needed to earn money to buy an Xbox: he applied for a job.
To most of us, it makes perfect sense. When you need money to buy something, you get a job. It made sense to Nash Johnson, too. He needed money to buy an Xbox. So he applied for a dishwashing job at a local restaurant. There was just one problem: Nash is only eight years old.
“I just wanted to find my friends on Xbox and play Xbox,” the elementary schooler from Lexington, Kentucky told his local news station, WCNC. But Nash didn’t have enough money saved up from his allowance to buy the Xbox, so he did the next logical thing: he went online and filled out an application for a dishwashing job at a local restaurant named Drake’s.
“That had to be the easiest job I knew. Also, I’m very good at washing the dishes,” Nash hilariously explained.
Technically, Drake’s requires its workers to be at least 16 years old. But Nash found a loophole on the application that allowed him to be honest about his age. It didn’t ask him exactly how old he was, it just asked him to select an age range. Nash chose “Under 18,” which was accurate.
Nash’s mom, Belinda, explained that she tries to teach Nash about financial literacy. At home, he has jars labeled “Save,” “Give,” and “Spend.”
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“That kid is not afraid to fail. He’s a go-getter,” she said. “He’s like, ‘I can get me more money if I go get me a job, that’s going to get me more money than doing my chores at home, that $5 a week gets me.”
Obviously, Nash didn’t get hired, thanks to child labor laws. But his entrepreneurial spirit didn’t go unrewarded. The manager at Drake’s still invited him to attend a staff orientation, and while there, the restaurant surprised Nash with a brand new Xbox.
You’d think that would satisfy little Nash, but he didn’t quite get everything he wanted.
“I wish I had the job and the Xbox,” he said.
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