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Now days no one wants the liability of having a young man his age working for them. Even the federal government in its summer employment programs doesn't allow them to work outside in summer heat. Not even parents would let their son deliver and collect on a paper route like when I was a kid in this society.
Yeh, I saw on TV kids having paper routes. I thought, how cool it would be if I had that. But I never saw a kid in real life have any paper route. I knew there was once upon a time, but not now anymore. So my dreams were dashed.
Yeh, I saw on TV kids having paper routes. I thought, how cool it would be if I had that. But I never saw a kid in real life have any paper route. I knew there was once upon a time, but not now anymore. So my dreams were dashed.
Yeah, the image of the kids throwing the papers from their bicycles is passe. Now you have them throwing them out of cars and trucks. That limits it in most places to 16-8 and older due to the hour restrictions by local gov't.
The fact it is not easy to find work and it don't help when millenials were coddled to death b parents and their teaching into thinking some jobs were beneath them (whether they are or not) and that school is more important than experience.
Newspaper delivery and newspapers in general are a dying industry. Now you can just pull up the latest news on your cell phone or laptop at a starbucks. No need to pay a dollar for a few pieces of paper.
Newspaper delivery and newspapers in general are a dying industry. Now you can just pull up the latest news on your cell phone or laptop at a starbucks. No need to pay a dollar for a few pieces of paper.
You seem to have an excuse for everything, don't you?
You seem to have an excuse for everything, don't you?
No, for once he is not making an excuse on this one. He doesn't have his head in the sand about newspapers. There's many applications on your phone you can pull up news whenever you want. I use pulse which you can you use man sources they pre-screened and even your own rss feeds from google reader. Many print media companies actually post more stories online that are not picked up in the papers than the ones you read in any of the papers.
Within 10/15 years, the newspaper will be dead. The fact is you can get the information at your own ease rather than buying a newspaper for $1.00 each day and having to lug it around. You can already find your favorite comics online. Even political cartoons are going to the net. I know on Pulse, I actually follow the Dilbert comics.
Yeah, the image of the kids throwing the papers from their bicycles is passe. Now you have them throwing them out of cars and trucks. That limits it in most places to 16-8 and older due to the hour restrictions by local gov't.
The fact it is not easy to find work and it don't help when millenials were coddled to death b parents and their teaching into thinking some jobs were beneath them (whether they are or not) and that school is more important than experience.
The only jobs available for a millennial with a high school diploma is low wage retail/fast food. You can't get a union factory job anymore. College/trade school is the only option.
Keep in mind this is probably a kid who got his current job because of his mommy or daddy's connections. Gotta love when privileged people lecture us about how to compete in the job market.
You don't know that. He is spot on about dressing properly.
I have been in several restaurants eating when a young person comes in looking for a job, very rarely are they dressed properly. T-shirts and shorts, faded jeans, etc.
You don't need to wear a suit, but a shirt with a collar and a decent pair of pants shows you made an effort.
You also don't come into a restaurant looking for work during the lunch/dinner rush. Just saw this last week, young woman comes in faded jeans and a tube top at 6pm asking about a server job when the place was packed.....LOL. No one had time to talk to her, you go by at 3pm and make a decent appearance.
It is amazing how many kids today are so clueless about looking for a job.
There is another thread on here where a teen got the email address of a restaurant manager and instead of going back in person is emailing about the status of a job.
What's next? Sitting there and texting during an interview.
Newspapers are dying a slow but steady death. How can you deny such a thing? Heck, the jobs section alone should be proof of that. Out here I remember years ago it was the main spot to find ads for items for sale, apartments and job listings. Now it's barely a full page of classifieds. Craigslist alone has wiped the floor with print classifieds. Nobody is willing to pay money to post a tiny 20 word blurb when they can go on craigslist and post a complete ad, with pictures for more then a week and it's absolutely FREE to post. You can also widen your audience, and post in any state rather then limit yourself to a local area. In my neck of the woods more and more sections of the newspaper is being posted on their website only so the only way to read it is to go on their website.
The dying newspaper industry is a perfect example of automation. The internet alone is killing it.
The same can be said for books, and physical media like CD's, and disc-based media. Kindle, Netflix, and online streaming services and the internet as a whole is wiping the floor clean of these things.
Newspapers are dying a slow but steady death. How can you deny such a thing? Heck, the jobs section alone should be proof of that. Out here I remember years ago it was the main spot to find ads for items for sale, apartments and job listings. Now it's barely a full page of classifieds. Craigslist alone has wiped the floor with print classifieds. Nobody is willing to pay money to post a tiny 20 word blurb when they can go on craigslist and post a complete ad, with pictures for more then a week and it's absolutely FREE to post. You can also widen your audience, and post in any state rather then limit yourself to a local area. In my neck of the woods more and more sections of the newspaper is being posted on their website only so the only way to read it is to go on their website.
The dying newspaper industry is a perfect example of automation. The internet alone is killing it.
The same can be said for books, and physical media like CD's, and disc-based media. Kindle, Netflix, and online streaming services and the internet as a whole is wiping the floor clean of these things.
Everything is being digitized.
The employment section in the philadelphia inquirer is still pretty big on Sundays
I had a paper route as a kid. Hopped on the iron horse and got it done. Remember spending all day Saturday with a big old bag of rubberbands and a couple stacks of unfolded papers.
Most of my friends had them too. We all felt "mature" that we had a job (even though it was just for the Sunday circular). I totally forgot about it until now. I'd remember that great feeling of being the kid that could buy whatever toys he wanted. Lol, the nostalgia.
Tbh though, if I was a parent now, I'd be a little freaked over my kid being out at 3am on Sunday morning (which we all know is basically Saturday 'night' when the drunks are coming home in droves) on a bicycle by themselves.
Society has shifted with all the freaks out and about kidnapping, etc and I think that has a lot to do with it. I'm in my mid/late 20's so it wasn't that long ago everything was fine. Now a days, parents don't even let their children goto the parks or ride to school on a bike. Kinda hard to do anything with that gloomy of an outlook.
Teenagers however, are different. They should go out and get a job as soon as they can drive. It's good for the soul.
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