Bump for later.
I think it has to do with the activities the kids are in then anything else. You would not believe the back and forth my wife and I do carting 4 kids to various activities and sports. It is insane. Starting at 0530 for swimming (1 kid), diving (another kid), Lacrossse (2 kids), wrestling (1 kid), girl scouts (1 kid), basketball (1 kid), Confirmation practice (1 kid). Yes I have a 17 year old who I could not imagine having a job. There is no way to fit a job into a schedule today. Yes we have to pay the tab on all but my parents did for us. None of us had jobs either and we turned out great quite frankly.
A profound observation. Duh.
Kid jobs, HS and college, taken by illegals. The kids then do internships for free.
These jobs are reserved for illegals.
I started working as soon as I could, around 14 years old. Youth Rec Dept. McDonalds a short time, later. Then at my city Library as a page for several years, excellent job.
Kids are a much higher percent of the population now than they were during the small X generation. In my boomer generation with so many teenagers, one had to have some kind of political pull to land even a fastfood job.
My teenage jobs were all under-the-table affairs. I often worked for the high school shop teacher during the summer. He was a contractor and always had a couple of remodel or construction jobs going during the summer staffed by kids from school that did good work.
Worked on a cattle ranch for many years doing fencing and feeding and stacking hay.
My teen has several jobs lined up this summer riding/training other peoples’ horses. She’s quite talented at this and claims that her goal is to be a horse trainer. Her income from this will pay her entries to horse shows.
My FRiend sent this to me the other day via IMGUR. Kinda brought tears to my eyes for some reason.
My 15 year old homeschooled daughter has developed an impressive ability to create Pinterest graphics for bloggers. She just spent $550 of her earnings to buy her first DSLR camera with a couple of lenses. Once school is out, we’ll market her business and there’s no limit as to what she can earn by the time school starts again in the fall.
Based upon the teenagers I have encountered in the past 22 years, I would NOT hire any of them to even water my horses.
yep, Americans have been replaced.
My three oldest grandchildren,high school and college age,all have part time jobs. One even has a job at her out-of-state college.
They kept at it until they got one.
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“affluent” kids are kids who’s parents earn $68000 a yr?....hardy affluent...basically probably trying to keep the lights on and good food in the fridge....
Illegals.
One thing I’ve noticed is that fewer young guys are working in the auto repair shops (the Jiffy Lubes and such) because those jobs have been taken by the older mechanics who were laid off when Obama closed down thousands of car dealerships and service centers in 2009-2010.
RE: only 9% of kids working
Why is that a bad thing? Aren’t they all supposed to be in school?
