<p>Gosh! I really need a job so bad! I’m always broke and when I need money I always have to ask my mom for it. When I want to buy something, i can’t and I don’t want always depend on my mother. I just want a weekend job that pays pretty good. Plus, I need to save up money to buy myself a laptop. Anyone have one in mind???</p>
<p>lol, considering that you are posting this on HSL, I’m sure that someone is going to post both drug trafficking and prostitution</p>
<p>Drug trafficking.</p>
<p>Oh wait, you’re a girl? Prostitution.</p>
<p>work at a restaurant and go up the ladder towards waitress.</p>
<p>also, stop having the desire to buy new things. that definitely works too.</p>
<p>If there were “good” jobs for teenagers, no one would go to college or trade school or join the military.</p>
<p>If you have significant computer skills, you might try various web site design and maintenance related activities.</p>
<p>UPS used to offer good part time jobs to students. I do not know about “now”.</p>
<p>Fast food is out there but people with families are scarfing up jobs they would not have touched 5 years ago.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I make 13 an hour doing filing in an office…</p>
<p>Work for a restaurant. They’re always looking for people because the turnaround is so high. In other words, **** work but quick money.</p>
<p>Check the Red Light District. How good are you at tricks?</p>
<p>It’s not easy getting a well-paying job for a teenager, especially if it’s your first job. </p>
<p>Here are my suggestions:</p>
<p>-Hostess (pays well, but you have to be pretty)
-Office (hard to get…)
-Grocery store (get promoted to cashier!)
-Research position (hard to get… must have connections)</p>
<p>If you’re lucky enough to still live in part of the country where people are hiring, take whatever you can get.</p>
<p>yah you pretty much need a connection to get an office job</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I fully second this.</p>
<p>Eh, I think you need to reevaluate what it means to be in a recession.</p>
<p>Take whatever job you can get and count your lucky stars that anyone would want to hire someone with little work experience and no high school diploma.</p>
<p>As already mentioned, cannabis distribution is the way to go. But don’t take it from me! Do it for yourself!</p>
<p>it takes a bit of training before you can actually get the job, but lifeguard is both fun and pays well. then again, you can always try to become an abercrombie model or something. actually, once u work that angle for a few months u might as well hop into the red light district like everyones saying. give it a try. my most efficient hoes can stack mad paper on weekends.</p>
<p>In all seriousness, waiting is a good job. Although it can be stressful at times, it’s nice to have people to socialize during the job. I also have worked as a lifeguard, and that is probably the ideal summer job (unless you have self-confidence issues).</p>
<p>^Yeah, lifeguard is good. But isn’t there a course you need to pass? I’m a better swimmer than most of the lifeguards at my local pool, but I’m too lazy to get a cert.</p>
<p>ya i had to go through a class that met for 12 weeks every monday for like 4 hours… i know some people who do one that meets like 6 hours a day every day for a week and then get it over with… but i did it in the winter so i would be certified for the summer so it worked out. its annoying to have to take the class, past the tests, re-certify… but its a great job with good pay and those red cross training certs are actually good to have just in general. i put them on my applications</p>
<p>Right now, so few people are hiring that any job is a good job. You’re not going to have a lot of choices, just take what you can get. Try out places where your friends or acquaintances already work. In this economy, few businesses will hire you without a recommendation from a current employee.</p>
<p>You don’t have to be <em>that</em> pretty to be a hostess. My sister was a hostess until she quit and started working somewhere else and with dark skin and locks she doesn’t fit the average American’s definition of “pretty.” But she does have giant boobs.</p>
<p>There’s this thing called the Breakthrough collaborative that’ll pay you $1400 the first summer you work for them. But at least here, it’s a ridiculous amount of work and you have to hang out with a bunch of annoying people. I’m writing them a lazy application today (it’s due tomorrow) but I got in last year, so I’m 99% sure I’ll get in this year. And if I don’t, well I don’t want to do it anyway.</p>
<p>If you live in a wealthy/ridiculously competitive area, tutoring is the greatest job ever. Picking your own hours and making 20-30 an hour is a really good way to go. The summer before my sister went to Columbia she tutored 5 kids who each had two one hour sessions ever week and made 200 a week untaxed for only 10 hours.</p>