Do you remember your first job as a teenager? That nervous excitement with butterflies filling your stomach as you painstakingly filled out that job application? Or spoke to the hiring manager/person and tried not to sound like a complete idiot?
*sigh*
My teenager just got his first job. I guess that officially means I’m getting older, right? He’s been telling me he wanted a job since he turned 16 earlier this year. Well, believe it or not, most stores have online job applications and apparently none of them want to hire a 16 YO with no experience.
What’s up with that? I mean Food Lion (it’s a grocery store) won’t hire teenagers? Or Target either. Some stores require you to be 18, such as Kohl’s, or 17, such as Hollister. Every time he goes in Hollister, they ask him if he’s 17 because they want to hire him - he looks like a California beach model with blue eyes and blond hair.
So it’s been a sloooow process to find him a job. I just happened to be searching through various online job posting websites looking for part-time work. Many of them are those ‘WORK FROM HOME AND BE A MILLIONAIRE’ type postings, which of course are total crap. Then I went on Craig’s list and lo and behold, found one for a front desk person at a neighborhood pool about 10 minutes from the house.
It met his desires for a job - not too hard, in the shade and close by. He went for a group interview the other day and from the 11 teenagers there, 6 of them got e-mails saying they were hired including my DS. Not sure what the qualifications were at that point, but he was dressed nicely (thank you Mom).
He’s going to start this weekend, Memorial Day, when the pool officially opens so I expect it will be an eye-opening weekend for him. That first paycheck is coming and he’s going to want to buy himself something. Another sweet memory for me - although I only made $3.25 an hour so it was a veddy small paycheck. Yet oh so satisfying.
Memories, eh?
