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I didn't start getting a paycheck until I was 23 and that was several years ago. Before that, I did volunteer work and I only got money doing chores for family/neighbors. I've been through 2 jobs, and even now, I still have yet to be employed in a full time benefited job. I still happily live with my parents.
Welcome to 2016, it is common today for adults to be living with their parents.
It's called Obamanomics.
My daughter tried the online application thing when she was a teenager with zero results. She found summer and after school work by applying to independent businesses rather than chains. When owner operated companies have a help wanted sign in the window they are hiring, not just collecting data. Maybe your daughter will have more luck if she tries to do the same.
Your daughter is only 16 as I read it. Due to her age, she is restricted from doing some things in a restaurant as an example.
It sound like you live in an area, with lots of young people needing jobs. In that case the businesses will be getting lots of applicants.
If there are older people applying that are not hindered by labor laws from a lot of duties, the older ones that are not are the ones that will be hired.
Just keep trying. The first job is always the hardest. This isn't a completely new situation. I started working when I was 19. I remember putting in what seemed like hundreds of applications, but was probably something like 40-50 before I finally got called. It was so hard to fill in the "employment history" part when I had none.
If they say they're "taking applications" that probably means they're not really hiring - or already know who they're going to hire. If they really need someone they will call back pretty fast. I tended to call places during what I thought were lighter business hours - for a food establishment around 2-3 in the afteroon, for a retail store between 10-11 or 1:30-3, when people are at work & talk to the manager briefly & ask if they actually needed workers. That worked pretty well - you'd get a sense of who was ACTUALLY hiring and who was not & did not waste time putting in apps at stores that didn't actually need more staff.
Where I see almost exclusively teenagers working are the movie theater & bowling alley. Try that.
My daughter tried the online application thing when she was a teenager with zero results. She found summer and after school work by applying to independent businesses rather than chains. When owner operated companies have a help wanted sign in the window they are hiring, not just collecting data. Maybe your daughter will have more luck if she tries to do the same.
That is very good advice. Who would of ever thought getting a job at mcdonalds or walmart would be so hard.
It did not, not even close to the degree we are seeing now.
Everything has changed since the recession and it hasn't gone back to how it was. Probably never will.
Exactly correct, we have millions of more people in the US than in 2008 but the number of middle class jobs is far less. In fact, the total number of jobs is only now about the same number as in 2008. But of that total many more are now minimum wage.
Exactly correct, we have millions of more people in the US than in 2008 but the number of middle class jobs is far less. In fact, the total number of jobs is only now about the same number as in 2008. But of that total many more are now minimum wage.
There was a study I read which stated the number of middle class earning jobs lost during the recession was like 78% of total jobs lost but only like 20% of jobs gained. Middle class got decimated.
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