Minimum duration for high school job to have positive impact

bjkmom
Sat, 26 Sep 2015 10:58:42 +0000

Oh, you don’t have to sell me on the importance of a part time job for a teen. Both my kids, ages 15 and 17, have jobs and I think they’ve been remarkably good experiences. I honestly think that the one I had in high school and college had a lot to do in helping me grow up.

But I was reacting mostly to these lines: “I’m currently juggling a lot more things than I expected to be, and I don’t think I can handle the 20±hour work week past this month. It doesn’t help that the work environment is, uh, questionable…I have been working at my current job for a couple months, in large part due to financial need, but also in the hopes that it would be work experience I could cite in college applications & in resumes…”

It just seems to me that, for the OP, the job is getting in the way of school work, the environment is “questionable” and the hopes that it would help a college application weren’t reasonable.

All the other benefits of a part time job-- absolutely important.