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If the kid wants to, sure. Beware of safety issues.

If the kid has no interest, and you don't need the money, don't push it. Teens don't need jobs to get into college. [b]Low-level jobs do not prepare for higher-level jobs.[/b]

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Maybe not but they help kids get internships. My DH sits on the committee at his business who interview and hire interns. He said they rarely hire kids without any work history.[/quote]

Then he's missing out. In my wealthy neighborhood, the immense majority of the kids never work before going to college. They're busy volunteering and doing other extra-curriculars. Unless your husband also considers unpaid work to be a form of work. But for college applications, it's a different bucket.

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DP who hires interns. I never hire anyone who doesn't have any work history. I don't want to be someone's first employer. It's a good screen for non-entitled kids who are willing to do the grunt work. My attitude is informed by a new grad I had to supervise early in my career who thought she shouldn't have to "waste" her time faxing things (a big part of an assistant's job back then) because she graduated from an Ivy :roll: ECs/volunteering are in no way a replacement for showing up every day, on-time, and dealing with whatever you are asked to do, including often difficult customers.

Both my kids were camp counselors in high school, one at a day camp - he started as a CIT at 13 and switched to paid role at 16, and the other at a sleepaway camp. They worked retail first summer after college, internships after that.[/quote]

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