Turning down neighbor’s job offer?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Holy geez you’re really overthinking. My 15yo is mowing lawns, using a weed wacker and hedge trimmers this summer for neighbors (at very good under the table pay). I gave him a 2 minute demonstration on how to safely use the hedge trimmer and sent him off. It never even occurred to me that I should be worried about workers comping case he hurts himself.

You should worry about how he would pay for any property he might accidentally or inadvertently damage.

Not actually worried about that either. We live over in a pretty chill neighborhood.

I’m pretty chill, too. But if your child’s subpar weed whacking skills cracked my window, I’d expect you to pay for it.

Something tells me you wouldn’t be hiring a 15yo in the first place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just say no. Your neighbor will move onto her next victim. She's not thinking about this as much as you are!

My daughter is 14, and no, she's not doing that sort of job. She has occasional pet-sitting and dog-walking gigs. My 19 year old son has a teaching assistant summer job and an internship. At 14 he wasn't working.

None of this needs to happen. Let your child enjoy her summer off. Goodness knows they work them hard in high school.

LMAO!

So your kids not in the 12 APs and demanding extra-curriculars crowd. Mine are. I want them to relax in the summer. I never had a job as a teen, and I'm a multimillionaire today, without family wealth. I have never understood DCUM's odd fixation of foisting work on children. If they WANT to work, fine. But if they don't, why? They'll have to spent the best decades of their lives working.

You can get into a great college without washing dishes and baking all summer.

What do your kids do in the summer?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just say no. Your neighbor will move onto her next victim. She's not thinking about this as much as you are!

My daughter is 14, and no, she's not doing that sort of job. She has occasional pet-sitting and dog-walking gigs. My 19 year old son has a teaching assistant summer job and an internship. At 14 he wasn't working.

None of this needs to happen. Let your child enjoy her summer off. Goodness knows they work them hard in high school.

LMAO!

So your kids not in the 12 APs and demanding extra-curriculars crowd. Mine are. I want them to relax in the summer. I never had a job as a teen, and I'm a multimillionaire today, without family wealth. I have never understood DCUM's odd fixation of foisting work on children. If they WANT to work, fine. But if they don't, why? They'll have to spent the best decades of their lives working.

You can get into a great college without washing dishes and baking all summer.

What do your kids do in the summer?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just say no. Your neighbor will move onto her next victim. She's not thinking about this as much as you are!

My daughter is 14, and no, she's not doing that sort of job. She has occasional pet-sitting and dog-walking gigs. My 19 year old son has a teaching assistant summer job and an internship. At 14 he wasn't working.

None of this needs to happen. Let your child enjoy her summer off. Goodness knows they work them hard in high school.

LMAO!

So your kids not in the 12 APs and demanding extra-curriculars crowd. Mine are. I want them to relax in the summer. I never had a job as a teen, and I'm a multimillionaire today, without family wealth. I have never understood DCUM's odd fixation of foisting work on children. If they WANT to work, fine. But if they don't, why? They'll have to spent the best decades of their lives working.

You can get into a great college without washing dishes and baking all summer.

+100

[Anonymous]

Where I come from kids are learning to cook at 3 and driving large hay tractors on their own by 9 years old. Never once have I feared a rock from a weed whacker breaking a window, or scared a 14 year old might burn themselves on a baking sheet. You must lead very sheltered lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just say no. Your neighbor will move onto her next victim. She's not thinking about this as much as you are!

My daughter is 14, and no, she's not doing that sort of job. She has occasional pet-sitting and dog-walking gigs. My 19 year old son has a teaching assistant summer job and an internship. At 14 he wasn't working.

None of this needs to happen. Let your child enjoy her summer off. Goodness knows they work them hard in high school.

LMAO!

So your kids not in the 12 APs and demanding extra-curriculars crowd. Mine are. I want them to relax in the summer. I never had a job as a teen, and I'm a multimillionaire today, without family wealth. I have never understood DCUM's odd fixation of foisting work on children. If they WANT to work, fine. But if they don't, why? They'll have to spent the best decades of their lives working.

You can get into a great college without washing dishes and baking all summer.

How did you make it with zero income and zero family wealth?

[Anonymous]

Teens should always be encouraged to work. Nothing wrong getting paid for an honest day's work washing dishes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just say no. Your neighbor will move onto her next victim. She's not thinking about this as much as you are!

My daughter is 14, and no, she's not doing that sort of job. She has occasional pet-sitting and dog-walking gigs. My 19 year old son has a teaching assistant summer job and an internship. At 14 he wasn't working.

None of this needs to happen. Let your child enjoy her summer off. Goodness knows they work them hard in high school.

LMAO!

So your kids not in the 12 APs and demanding extra-curriculars crowd. Mine are. I want them to relax in the summer. I never had a job as a teen, and I'm a multimillionaire today, without family wealth. I have never understood DCUM's odd fixation of foisting work on children. If they WANT to work, fine. But if they don't, why? They'll have to spent the best decades of their lives working.

You can get into a great college without washing dishes and baking all summer.

I think there is a divide between people who worked menial jobs and those who didn't. For instance, op is horrified at the idea of washing dishes. When she eats out, grown men do that job for less than $200 a day for her, yet it is beneath her child. She never learned to respect that, and it sounds like you have not either. It's a lack of knowledge about the world and a lack of empathy no amount of money can fix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just say no. Your neighbor will move onto her next victim. She's not thinking about this as much as you are!

My daughter is 14, and no, she's not doing that sort of job. She has occasional pet-sitting and dog-walking gigs. My 19 year old son has a teaching assistant summer job and an internship. At 14 he wasn't working.

None of this needs to happen. Let your child enjoy her summer off. Goodness knows they work them hard in high school.

LMAO!

So your kids not in the 12 APs and demanding extra-curriculars crowd. Mine are. I want them to relax in the summer. I never had a job as a teen, and I'm a multimillionaire today, without family wealth. I have never understood DCUM's odd fixation of foisting work on children. If they WANT to work, fine. But if they don't, why? They'll have to spent the best decades of their lives working.

You can get into a great college without washing dishes and baking all summer.

I think there is a divide between people who worked menial jobs and those who didn't. For instance, op is horrified at the idea of washing dishes. When she eats out, grown men do that job for less than $200 a day for her, yet it is beneath her child. She never learned to respect that, and it sounds like you have not either. It's a lack of knowledge about the world and a lack of empathy no amount of money can fix.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where I come from kids are learning to cook at 3 and driving large hay tractors on their own by 9 years old. Never once have I feared a rock from a weed whacker breaking a window, or scared a 14 year old might burn themselves on a baking sheet. You must lead very sheltered lives.

DP. I live a pretty sheltered life. However, a weed whacker in a traffic median kicked up a rock that struck the side window of my car while I was stopped at a stoplight. Dumped an entire window of safety glass pieces right onto my child's lap right before I pressed the accelerator. I also had a teen friend get burned cleaning out a fast food machine he wasn't old enough to be assigned to clean. Don't take safety lightly.

[Anonymous]

My kids would love this. It’s great money and I wouldn’t have any concerns. They’ve walked dogs and I’ve never been worried about them being bit or workers comp.

Does your DD want the job? If not or if you don’t want her to take it, just say no. You are over thinking it. She can get a job in the future and the neighbor won’t care. My kids have turned down some job offers and taken others, like for dog walking or babysitting. It depends on what is going on in their lives at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just say no. Your neighbor will move onto her next victim. She's not thinking about this as much as you are!

My daughter is 14, and no, she's not doing that sort of job. She has occasional pet-sitting and dog-walking gigs. My 19 year old son has a teaching assistant summer job and an internship. At 14 he wasn't working.

None of this needs to happen. Let your child enjoy her summer off. Goodness knows they work them hard in high school.

LMAO! :lol: :lol: :lol:

So your kids not in the 12 APs and demanding extra-curriculars crowd. Mine are. I want them to relax in the summer. I never had a job as a teen, and I'm a multimillionaire today, without family wealth. I have never understood DCUM's odd fixation of foisting work on children. If they WANT to work, fine. But if they don't, why? They'll have to spent the best decades of their lives working.

You can get into a great college without washing dishes and baking all summer.

I think there is a divide between people who worked menial jobs and those who didn't. For instance, op is horrified at the idea of washing dishes. When she eats out, grown men do that job for less than $200 a day for her, yet it is beneath her child. She never learned to respect that, and it sounds like you have not either. It's a lack of knowledge about the world and a lack of empathy no amount of money can fix.

Well said. These people will never learn to give respect up and down, only up. The worst types of people imo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where I come from kids are learning to cook at 3 and driving large hay tractors on their own by 9 years old. Never once have I feared a rock from a weed whacker breaking a window, or scared a 14 year old might burn themselves on a baking sheet. You must lead very sheltered lives.

DP. I live a pretty sheltered life. However, a weed whacker in a traffic median kicked up a rock that struck the side window of my car while I was stopped at a stoplight. Dumped an entire window of safety glass pieces right onto my child's lap right before I pressed the accelerator. I also had a teen friend get burned cleaning out a fast food machine he wasn't old enough to be assigned to clean. Don't take safety lightly.

These sorts of accidents happen every day to all sorts of people. A kid could be playing baseball in their yard and shatter your window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where I come from kids are learning to cook at 3 and driving large hay tractors on their own by 9 years old. Never once have I feared a rock from a weed whacker breaking a window, or scared a 14 year old might burn themselves on a baking sheet. You must lead very sheltered lives.

DP. I live a pretty sheltered life. However, a weed whacker in a traffic median kicked up a rock that struck the side window of my car while I was stopped at a stoplight. Dumped an entire window of safety glass pieces right onto my child's lap right before I pressed the accelerator. I also had a teen friend get burned cleaning out a fast food machine he wasn't old enough to be assigned to clean. Don't take safety lightly.

Accidents happen, that’s life, teach your kids good first aid skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just say no. Your neighbor will move onto her next victim. She's not thinking about this as much as you are!

My daughter is 14, and no, she's not doing that sort of job. She has occasional pet-sitting and dog-walking gigs. My 19 year old son has a teaching assistant summer job and an internship. At 14 he wasn't working.

None of this needs to happen. Let your child enjoy her summer off. Goodness knows they work them hard in high school.

LMAO!

So your kids not in the 12 APs and demanding extra-curriculars crowd. Mine are. I want them to relax in the summer. I never had a job as a teen, and I'm a multimillionaire today, without family wealth. I have never understood DCUM's odd fixation of foisting work on children. If they WANT to work, fine. But if they don't, why? They'll have to spent the best decades of their lives working.

You can get into a great college without washing dishes and baking all summer.

DP and my kids want to work. DH and I also wanted to as teens. My mother was like you and didn’t want me to because I had my entire life to work. She says the same about her grandkids.

You know that feeling your kid gets when they earn a 5 on the AP test, win the tournament or are recognized as being the best of the best worldwide for their superior ECs? That’s how I felt with work. It’s pride. And yes, I still took AP classes. I liked earning my own paycheck, even at my fast food minimum wage jobs. DH and I both agree that customer service in the odd fast food jobs gives you a lot of life skills that translate to the real world that college doesn’t. We support our kids if they want to work or don’t.

OP, put up a burner email if you want to refer others to the job. Plenty will job at this opportunity.