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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was here in DC area in the 1980s.
Those jobs (while sometimes crappy) were seen by all as spending money and free food.
I attended a Catholic High School where tuition was not cheap.
Whether working at the country club or working fast food. A job was a job.
Everyone was expected to have some sort of part time job.

When did this all change?

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Still no shame in many communities in this area. When I taught at a downcounty MCPS HS in the past decade, most students were eager to get these entry level jobs and reluctant to do extracurricular after school or take on unpaid internships. Many only got spending money if they worked for it. Others were trying to help out their parents. I knew a couple students who worked at the same McDonald’s as their mom. They were not ashamed of working there. They were proud to have legal, steady income.[/quote]

Yep -- it's about location not about the times. The reaction to working in N. Arlington, McLean or Princeton NJ is a LOT different than in the working class communities -- where people are more likely to scoff at kids taking on one travel sport after the next and one unpaid internship after the next as a kid who is book smart but life dumb bc they don't get that you should work for $ not for free internships.[/quote]

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