Monday, May 21
Not burning up the job boardsSeems like everywhere I turn, there are parents brow beating their teens into getting summer jobs.
Survey says the teens aren't all that into the whole job thing, either.
Overheard in separate incidents:
"There's no reason you can't get that job, you know everything about hockey. You can skate, and, you know how to use that stick."
-Mom "sticking to her guns" to make Jason get a job. With those skillz, how could he get turned down?
"Son. I play country music."
- musician father addressing teen son who had just told him that he "didn't understand" what it was like to have a job you don't enjoy.
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When mine are teenagers (not that far off) they have a crappy minimum wage job waiting for them at our business. However, if they don't work, they aren't getting any disposible cash from me. I babysat til my fingers bled so I will have no sympathy.
I gave the dreaded "This is not a hotel" lecture yesterday - Gameboy isn't old enough to work, but he doesn't get to spend the summer on the couch. Too bad I work and can't enforce the couch limits.
I'm very worried this summer is going to be worse than the school year.....
If you want to SPEND money when you're a teen, you need to MAKE money -- and that includes getting gas for the car if ever you want to drive it!
Weird... As far as I know, most ice rinks melt down the ice in the summer. Not sure how she thinks hockey skills are going to help him in any job.
I have such mixed feelings about teens and jobs. On the one hand, I worked my butt off each summer (baby sitter, camp counselor, catering assistant, waitress) but on the flip side, there's a whole lifetime of job burnout ahead of them. I was fully exhausted by age twenty, It almost seems unfair for it to begin so early. Notice I said 'almost'.
My parents never forced me to get a summer job. They just stopped paying for my clothes. I kind of had no choice. Sneaky parents, I tell you!
I ain't buying you no stinkin' hockey equipment or football cleats for your size 13 feet or the $300 worth of costumes for the regional dance competitions or a complete set of designer make-up or a boogie board or a Cannondale bike or...
Last summer husband told oldest..."Getting ready for football is your job". I swear, I couldn't make that up if I had to. This year, I win and the brat will work until they make me send him back to school.
I agree with you.
Let them have fun while they are young.
Love the country music comment... very funny!
I suspect... and I don't know this for sure... that you just quoted a Billy-Ray-from-Hannah-Montana moment on your blog. And that, my friend, is why I love you this much. BTW, Beanie will work for food, and began that when he was around 12, detailing cars and working on yards. So power to him, says I.
Hey now! That country music one... almost sounded like a dig!
*grin*
I actually LIKE country music. It 'grew' on me when I lived in Nashville for 5 years.
Ooo I'm so glad that that's one thing I don't have to worry about for a few more years!
Cheers
Katie:
I grew up in a small but exceedingly wealthy town in Indiana with an indoor ice skating center.
Hockey skills didn't matter so much as it being a way for parents to to keep their kids out of the arrest column.