More kids should work.”
Jobs my kids had when they were in high school aren’t any more - service station attendant, golf course maintenance, washing cars, sales clerk in clothing store, donut makers, etc. Of those jobs that still remain, lot of them are filled by adults who lost their white collar and oil patch jobs. Looked around at the grocery store last week and estimated that the average age of the sackers is early 50’s.
Our neighborhood paper lists teens that are looking for all kinds of work. List now takes up one full page. House cleaning, painting, lawn maintenance, etc. jobs all filled by Mexicans. Finally found a guy who is a Vet that started a lawn care business. Several of us working really hard to see that he has business.
My grandkids all found work——waiting tables,supermarket cashiers,life guards,and camp counselors.