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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people posting about how graduates should have fast food and retail experience don’t realize that many of those jobs have gone to full time year round workers including new legal workers (asylum seekers can legally work after a year).

We now live in CA where the minimum fast food wage is $20 an hour. My 16 year old applied to 10 fast food jobs in May and June. He got 2 interviews. When he said he could only work full time in the summer but could not work over 20 hours in the fall when school started he wasn’t hired.

The only jobs his friends got were life guarding and the attractive girls were hired as hostesses in restaurants. [/quote]

I spend equal time in DC and upstate NY and I see tons of high school and college age kids in retail jobs in both places.

The point is you are not helping your kids by paying all ths bills for their upper middle class lifestyle and then suddenly expecting them to understand to be prepared for work when they graduate from college. A kid who graduated college with no workplace experience of any kind, even if volunteer experience, is behind the curve.[/quote]

How is it possible to graduate college without work experience? I am not familiar with other fields, but in my major electrical engineering they repeatedly emphasized to us that we needed work experience before graduating. After my freshman year I worked with an electrician doing low voltage work. To this date best experience I have ever had..The summer after my sophomore year I worked in a low office doing admin work. Because I had work experience the summer after my junior year I worked for Orange and Rockland in NY. By the time I graduated I secured a full time job with Delta Airlines.  [/quote]

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