Are NONE of those options available anymore?
All those jobs are now done by illegals. I made it a point to try to hire the high schoolers in my neighborhood who were willing to work. One parent really thanked me for helping her son learn the value and satisfaction of hard work.
When I was a kid, we not only had options for paper routes, but field work on nearby farms, selling stuff door to door, sweeping up, mowing lawns, raking leaves, shoveling snow, etc.
Are NONE of those options available anymore?
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They are far and few between, actually. Paper routes? Haven’t seen a kid with a paper route in 30 years. They are all adults. Mowing? Snow? Leaves? All I see are lawn services. Maybe a neighbor kid or two once in a while but again, adults have primarily taken over this once kid-dominated industry.
Farm work? You might find kids on very small family farms earning a bit extra when it comes to tobacco or berries but machinery has replaced human labor in most cases. Big farms go for full-time illegal Mexican help if human labor is needed.
Retail/businesses? Too many laws restricting kids in most cases.
Sadly, what you and I once did to earn a little money as kids and learn about life are now left to adults, machines or illegals. Fast food joints still hire high school kids over 16 and that’s about it.
I am sure there are a great many exceptions to what I have posted but the trend is clear and unmistakable. This ain’t Norman Rockwell’s America anymore.
I can tell you that in the Anaheim,CA area the answer is NO! What newspapers are left are delivered by car, door to door sales of what? magazines, candy bars, Fuller brushes?
Lawns are mown and leaves are blown by truck loads of Mexicans (haven't seen a Japanese gardener since I was 12), before I had to sell my house this year there were three houses in the tract overflowing with Mexicans gardeners, kids don't have a chance. Shoveling snow? I don't know what snow is in SoCal. Hell teenagers that want to work can't even compete with the Hispanics for fast food jobs. Does this mean I approve of the little shits stealing and robbing? Hell NO! But the world ain't Mayberry anymore.
No I don’t think kids today have a lot of these options for part time work. Papers are delivered by adults in trucks or cars nowadays. The routes cover hundreds of homes and can’t be serviced by kids on bikes. Anecdotal evidence is that people not born in this country are doing lawn and landscape and snow shoveling type work nowadays. Anecdotal evidence is also that many fast food type jobs are filled by people.not born in this country.
There are things an enterprising teenager can do but there aren’t as many choices as people had in decades past.
“Are NONE of those options available anymore? “
Yes they are, but they’re also called WORK, and WORK is the anethema to our Black utes today in large measure. They are raised by perambulating vaginas like this kid’s mother, so they are never taught about the value of WORK!
Pretty much not. Illegals have destroyed most of the avenues you mentioned. That is one reason why I strongly support forceful mass deportations of illegal invaders.
Federal regulations related to farm work: http://youthrules.dol.gov/know-the-limits/agriculture/
“Are NONE of those options available anymore? “
Oh, they’re AVAILABLE. Kids are just too lazy and pampered by their mommas to do any actual work. I’m a 61 year old woman and I do all of my own yard work while the neighborhood kids strut by bouncing basketballs.