What jobs did children in the middle ages do?

Answer 1

Child Labors such as working the factories, chimney sweepers.

A rebuttal answer: Umm. . . no. There were no factories in the middle ages, that came later in the industrial revolution.

Childhood was short, however, and children went to work early.

Children of villagers would likely start to help their family with chores as soon as physically able. Younger children might work in the family garden, help weed crops or tend to animals in the family's toft (an enclosed barnyard around the family house). They might supervise other children, do household chores, or assist with the making of cheese and butter. Children might be set to watch the field and drive away birds after the seed corn by throwing rocks. As children matured they did more and more for of the work of adults, and by the mid teen years were essentially considered an adult.

Children of town and city dwellers also started working early. Those fortunate enough to learn a craft would have started an apprenticeship well before the age of ten, in some cases as early as seven. The apprentice would live with the craftsman they were training under. They did not receive a wage, but were provided with basic needs at the master's expense. They were trained in the tasks of the profession they were learning, and worked in the masters shop. There were likely at first given simple, less skilled, repetitive or support tasks, but over time they were instructed in more advanced techniques as they matured. At the end of apprenticeship, sometime in the teen years, there were considered competent to begin working in their profession for a wage.