<p>Here’s a NY Times article discussing the difficulty that teens are having getting that summer job.</p>
<p>[Job</a> Outlook for Teenagers Worsens - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Job Outlook for Teenagers Worsens - The New York Times”>Job Outlook for Teenagers Worsens - The New York Times)</p>
<p>NJSue: As the OP, I understood that you were totally on board with the usefulness of having employment during the teen years, but that your teen was having difficulty finding that job. </p>
<p>As I mentioned, my daughter had the same problem last summer, and was very disappointed that she could not snag that minimum wage job. The coffee shop jobs that used to be filled by teens in the summer are now being snapped by college students or young adults (at least in my west coast city). The only other jobs here were gov’t internships that went to at risk youth.</p>
<p>But, as it turned out, the babysitting gig has worked for her, and her GC says it it a good job to have. She make $10 an hour and averages 5-10 hours most weeks, and it is flexible. And fortunately, she has the academics to qualify for summer programs instead of a full-time job in the summer… </p>
<p>Jobs are hard to find in many areas these past few years. When I was a kid, it was a breeze to find that minimum wage job. Not so today…</p>