Adolescence and youth in Javad Khatani He started earning money since he was a teenager, and at the age of 13, he started working as a simple worker in a Shamshad canning company. He himself says about this: During those years, I received a salary of 6,000 rials per month, half of which I gave to my mother, and with the rest of the money, I used to buy magazines such as Kihan Sports and Duniya Sports to satisfy my love for sports.