Many of his friends are working as camp counselors. He can't do that, because football camp starts before the summer camp season ends and the camps won't hire counselors who can't work the whole summer. Other friends are scooping ice cream and water ice, but those jobs seem to be filled. He even has one friend who took a bartending course over Spring Break and has been hired by a local Country Club. I worked summers as a fill in secretary in my neighbor's insurance office, before I began working in radio and television newsrooms as "vacation relief" for the assignment desk or control room producers. My husband spent his summers sorting metal at his dad's scrap yard.
Right now, it looks like a babysitting job will be Jason's best bet - he is great with kids, he's responsible and we're hopeful that he can find something that will leave him enough time to spend two hours each day doing the workouts the football coach has assigned prior to reporting to camp.
I'm sure Jason's not the only teen looking for summer work. With unemployment levels still high, it's even harder for kids to find work than it was years ago. The City of Philadelphia has launched an initiative to help teens gain job experience over the summer. For more information on those programs, go here.
And no matter what kind of job a teen is looking for there's some advice that applies to just about every situation.
Snag-a-Job.com includes these suggestions:
http://www.quintcareers.com/finding_summer_jobs.html
And to all those teens out there looking for work, be persistent! And good luck!
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