I had friends in college in the mid-1980's who earned their tuition doing bent-back strawberry picking in the summertime; every last one of them as white as William Wallace's Hibernian arse.
Still, there's a buncha Ivory Tower types around here keep insisting such things don't happen, and try to call "BS" on anyone who says otherwise. Well, I know the real truth and it has nothing whatsoever to do with any mythological "job Americans won't do".
I wonder what our teenagers are doing for work now?
I know a lot of young men and women who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan now. One soldier went back after a year in Iraq to spend another year there but the second tour was as a highly paid civilian contractor. He earned enough money to pay for all his college tuition to become an electronics engineer.