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[quote=Anonymous]Some people here have twisted ideas about what they call menial jobs.   We are talking about 16 through 23 years old working a job usually meant for their age group and it’s for spending money or to save for a car or college.  It’s not about poverty unless the teen needs to work to help with bills.

It’s not a negative and it’s hardly ever back breaking. If it is hard labor work then it’s not a problem for healthy young people. Some would welcome that kind of work over sitting in front of a desk all day.

It’s a good time to get work experience.  Internships for high schoolers consist of making copies or entering data into a computer all day.  Even worse setting up meeting rooms and getting lunch orders.  Save that for the later college years when you have something to offer.

Most of these high school / college jobs aren’t even menial jobs.  They are lower income jobs working as camp counselors, retail jobs, waitress jobs, ice cream places open for a season,  basic office work that requires very little skill.

Very few are in the fields picking fruit or vegetables for 12 hours a day or working in a factory under dangerous conditions alongside 12 year old migrants.

A lot of them might work in professional jobs once they are done learning at school.    Some might end up being a receptionist at an insurance company or a department store manager.

Anyway don’t let anyone try to romanticize these jobs.  They are what they are, summer jobs, year round jobs, part time jobs, whatever the worker needs ithe job to be.  [/quote]

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