Anonymous wrote:My twelve year old and his best friend have made $500 over the last two days. But, they haven’t been going door to door. They have been using the neighborhood list serv. There are lots of kids posting on there. Maybe you just aren’t seeing them because they are using new technology.

Nope, our listserv is desperate for people to shovel. Literally zero kids offering to shovel in our area.

And, they aren’t going to make $2000. Each driveway is taking them 3+ hours because of the ice. They are working so hard.

Anonymous wrote:This isn’t easy, push around snow. It took 3 grown men 2 hours to clear my driveway and sidewalk. My kids couldn’t have done it. The high schools I’d “contracted” never showed though they were great last year.

Disagree. Kids could have done it by starting earlier. It wasn't that bad shoveling 5" of the snow. Yeah, it is a lot harder now if you were lazier and had to shovel 10+" covered in sleet.

That's exactly why it was such a golden opportunity for youth to make a boatload of money. They could make multiple rounds every few hours to shovel while it was easier and to keep up with the snowfall. $40 a pop.

Anonymous wrote:With AI taking over, they better learn to shovel.

or just learn AI like normal people.

My twelve year old and his best friend have made $500 over the last two days. But, they haven’t been going door to door. They have been using the neighborhood list serv. There are lots of kids posting on there. Maybe you just aren’t seeing them because they are using new technology.

With AI taking over, they better learn to shovel.

Anonymous wrote:They don't need money. Their parents fund their lives and expect them to get 4.5 GPA, do a travel sport, play an instrument and start a foundation.

It’s this, plus the fact that this was not a normal snowstorm. The sleet made it more like trying to shovel a layer of concrete. Just getting the sidewalk shoveled is a tough physical job.

We have teens in our neighborhood who helped for money, they could not do all of it themselves but it was a great help $20 for 1 hour of work.

They are not earning $200 ... that's insane.

Our neighbors help each other... were you out there yesterday helping your neighbors?

Why not, what has happened to your generation where you can't help a neighbor?

Anonymous wrote:They don't need money. Their parents fund their lives and expect them to get 4.5 GPA, do a travel sport, play an instrument and start a foundation.

Pathetic

To be fair, this was a much harder storm to cleanup. They might have been stuck at the first or second job still chipping away. I hired 2 teenagers, they ended up calling a third friend to help (I have a long stretch of sidewalk in front of my house and a big driveway). It took them almost 2 hours. And they charged a really reasonable price.

They don't need money. Their parents fund their lives and expect them to get 4.5 GPA, do a travel sport, play an instrument and start a foundation.

This isn’t easy, push around snow. It took 3 grown men 2 hours to clear my driveway and sidewalk. My kids couldn’t have done it. The high schools I’d “contracted” never showed though they were great last year.

They're not motivated because their parents buy them everything they want and ask for. They don't have the incentive to earn money, since mom and dad will get it anyway. Why do hard work?

Just stop

Every generation says this.

Those modern kids and their music blah blah blah.

MYOB

I remember as a kid loving snow because it meant we could go door to door and earn cold hard cash shoveling. It was great earning $200 bucks for a few hours of work.

Now I'm reading in DC that it is a sidewalk apocalypse because no one shoveled their walkways. It is too late now because it is packed down into ice, but where are the kids going door to door to make loot? It was a goldmine opportunity if they went out and made some effort. They even had multiple rounds of opportunity for shoveling due to the hours of snowfall and days off from school. I bet they could have easily made $2000 going door to door all day.

What happened to modern kids? Parent too scared? Or are they completely demotivated because they're stuck on their screens the whole time scrolling TikTok? It is great exercise too.