Each year it is becoming more and more difficult for young people around 18 to earn decent money..

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Anonymous wrote:I call it total bs. Jobs are there but kids are too lazy to work. Mowing, dog walking, babysitting…etc.

The problem is again minimum wage. Would you rather hire a seasoned babysitter on care.com or a dog walking business or a teen who expects minimum wage? Unless you know the teen really well it's easier to hire someone seasoned for that much money an hour. For mowing you want a service or someone who has used a lawnmower for years to avoid injury. Years ago you hired teens because it was cheap and their parents weren't going to sue if they hurt themselves.

Huh?? VA's minimum wage is $12.77. I'd LOVE to hire a babysitter for that amount. A teen costs $20 an hour, a seasoned babysitter on care.com is $30. No one is paying minimum wage. Dog walkers get $25 for a half an hour walk. (I have a 4lb dog and we've had to negotiate because my dog is completely not interested in anything more than a 10 minute walk, so I want the rest of the time to be spent petting or throwing her toys for her).

I typically hire teens because my kids think they're fun.

You have to consider their time to get to your house and to the next job. So, its not just 10 minutes. Plus, if they are driving, driving expenses.

Those are expenses for any job. Don’t understand the point.

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Anonymous wrote:I call it total bs. Jobs are there but kids are too lazy to work. Mowing, dog walking, babysitting…etc.

The problem is again minimum wage. Would you rather hire a seasoned babysitter on care.com or a dog walking business or a teen who expects minimum wage? Unless you know the teen really well it's easier to hire someone seasoned for that much money an hour. For mowing you want a service or someone who has used a lawnmower for years to avoid injury. Years ago you hired teens because it was cheap and their parents weren't going to sue if they hurt themselves.

Huh?? VA's minimum wage is $12.77. I'd LOVE to hire a babysitter for that amount. A teen costs $20 an hour, a seasoned babysitter on care.com is $30. No one is paying minimum wage. Dog walkers get $25 for a half an hour walk. (I have a 4lb dog and we've had to negotiate because my dog is completely not interested in anything more than a 10 minute walk, so I want the rest of the time to be spent petting or throwing her toys for her).

I typically hire teens because my kids think they're fun.

You have to consider their time to get to your house and to the next job. So, its not just 10 minutes. Plus, if they are driving, driving expenses.

Those are expenses for any job. Don’t understand the point.

Exactly, why are they charging $25 for 30 minutes, as they include that time when they determine their rate? Why would anyone want to walk your dog for $10 for 10 minutes, as it's not worth their time? They'd lose money. They are dog walkers, not sitters. They aren't going to sit there in your house, where you could accuse them of things, petting or hanging out with your dog.

A half-hour walk, if they have to go from house to house is really 45-60 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:I did not know of any college student who was working for money in my country of origin.

Either you are too poor and you do menial job, or you go to college/trade school and study.

Around the world, that is the system. Why did you think that US should be different?

Your country must miss out on some brilliant kids who were deemed too poor for college. Is that India ?

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Anonymous wrote:"I did not know of any college student who was working for money in my country of origin.

Either you are too poor and you do menial job, or you go to college/trade school and study.

Around the world, that is the system. Why did you think that US should be different?"


Your country must miss out on some brilliant kids who were deemed too poor for college. Is that India ?

I met seasonal young workers from eastern europe at a small town resort in VA. I do think teens in other parts of the world work as well as here. It's not because the family lacks, it's more for the experience of dealing with lots of different types of people if it's a retail job, understanding the discipline of showing up and being willing to do what everyone else is doing, and the travel opportunity (definitely summer teens worldwide working at the national parks). And oh yeah, the extra spending money that is their own to do as they wish and the camaraderie with other teens is great.
India's is a caste system and assigns way too much behavior to status. Why emigrate to another country if you insist on bringing over the ritual behavior and beliefs that continues to bog your country in 3rd world status?

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Agree and disagree.
My daughter has had no trouble each summer landing jobs. But then she goes out there physically walks into places. She's earned pretty well tutoring, babysitting, fast food, retail clothing, checking IDs at her school gym, interning abroad and being asked to organize events at local fraternities.
My son still believes in the online resume submission. He thinks networking is dirty. He hasnt' earned anywhere near his sister.

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Anonymous wrote:I sell 100% of my items on Facebook marketplace at the price I ask. Not sure why that isn’t working for you? I say no haggling. My prices are very fair.

But I agree with you. As a society we also don’t want 18 year olds working. We want them in trade school or in college.

But then how do they pay for college or trade school according to all of the 50-80 year olds who worked their way through those avenues and didnt have loans and therefore cant conceive of why student debt is an issue?

Have you looked into trade school? My uncle is associated with a big one. It's free and they actually pay the journeymen too while they're training. Their struggle is getting kids without records and who don't do drugs (homeowners don't want people with criminal records working in their houses while they're at work). Pay isn't bad while you're training and when you start your own plumbing/welding company later on, the money is great.

Friend of our's has a kid apprenticing in DC as an electrician right after HS. Makes like $52,000 first year. I have no idea if the parents knew someone to get their kid into the program or what.

of course the parents knew someone. My friend reached out to her vast fb& church& friends and family network to see if anyone had an internship in the area that her dc is studying. She found a paid internship for the summer for her child who is finishing their freshman year. Tale as old as time.