Hear! Hear!
EVERYONE, including future Wall Street Investment Bankers, neurosurgeons, and Ivy League attorneys could benefit from a summer spent as a short order cook, carpenter’s apprentice, or with the experiences you mentioned.
I went to an Ivy and almost everyone I knew including myself has done exactly that. Personally, I would have preferred to be a cook instead of a bus boy.
But that was the early 80's when jobs were really tough to find, much as it is now.
Maybe they did not do that in the last decade.
I’ve done that and it is a great help to have that kind of experience but nowdays the businesses that would hire for those types of jobs are either out of business because of taxes, union nepotism or hiring illegals because they are cheaper. Hell, the 18-30 year old unemployment is at record levels and it’s not because they are lazy or not looking. Trying to get a college degree on your dime and mine seems to be one of the few options for a lot of these people and even at that if they are white males they are a lot less likely to receive any aid. Many of the adult male students I have in classes struggle along with 1 or more low-paying jobs to try to live and finance an education while females and minorities (include illegals) receive the bulk of any aid.