Covid or no Covid, we required both our daughters to have jobs as soon as they were legally able to (part time during the school year, full time during the summer). This, in my opinion, is one of the best life-lessons you can give your child.
Older daughter worked in customer service and younger daughter was a server at a country club. In addition to developing interview skills, they learned to handle difficult customers, work with people they may not like, follow directions, ask for help when they don’t know something or can’t find something, negotiate pay and pay raises, how to fill out tax paperwork, how to properly resign from a job when they leave (and also how to reconnect when they want to come back). Not to mention the time management skills (you can’t just call in sick to a job because you have a big test the next day). Younger daughter was off work during the official Covid shut down but went right back at the end of May, as soon as the restrictions were lifted, wearing a mask in 90+ degree heat.
I couldn’t be prouder of the work ethic they have, and both chose on their own, to get part time jobs while in college because they liked the power to make and manage their own money. We live in a privileged area and my daughters were one of the few at their high school to have jobs - most parents I talked to would say that they only “work” they want their student to do is getting excellent grades. Well, both my girls worked, played varsity sports AND got excellent grades 