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"Summer is for FREEDOM," my son Fuzzy informed me at the start of summer vacation.
I agree.
Wholeheartedly.
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For a lot of kids though, summer is all about the extra cash and where to spend it.
It was easy work for the money, really, and fine for a kid who didn't have a drivers license. It was also a year 'round job, not just for summer time.
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Big Sister is earning some spending money this summer, and gaining some work experience. Her Auntie grooms dogs (and cats) and has asked her to come help one day a week. Big Sister might help wash dogs, or wash windows, depending on how many furry, four-footed customers they have that day. It's hard work, I suspect, but Big Sister not only enjoys getting out of the house for a change of scenery, but I'd bet she really enjoys having some of her own spending money. She doesn't have any big plans for her cash just yet, except to save. That's a good enough plan, in my view.
How many of you had summer jobs? Which was your best one? Your worst one? How old were you when you got your first summer job?
Very industrious of Big Sister to tackle a job of her own! Bud mows the lawn of a friend...lost a neighbor's due to financial reasons, but a few bucks is a few bucks. (He's not very industrious, or he would have found something more by now.) I have passed 3 lemonade stands in the past week, and I think about stopping...then I see 50 cents a cup for that 4-ounce Dixie cup, and I can't bring myself to do it...sounds awful, but seems to me "kids today" are suffering from the same syndrome their parents do/did: I want something for nothing... WOW, does that sound Grinchy! Chickie is waiting to be "old enough" to bag a job. Probably time to get her into the babysitting training class through the Park District!
ReplyDeleteI remember being pulled in a wagon along your paper route and folding papers in the kitchen well before I got my paper route. Cutting grass for Moose and Mrs. B for a Big Gulp and or a cold can of Coke too. Mr. Schram paid really good to cut his lawn and trim hedges and then shoveling snow in the winter. I don't ever remember having just a "summer job." It was, like you said, a year round job. I get really tired of the "summer job" frenzy where I live and how every kid (and their parent) says "but I have school part of the year and I want to do FUN stuff. Well, that's great. Get a part time job and earn your own spending money so you CAN do the FUN stuff.
ReplyDeletebtw, the worst job was shoveling snow just because of the cold and wet. Paper route wasn't bad, and it was the easiest job. As long as I had a working 10 speed it was a breeze. Only about a half an hour a day and as long as you could hit the porch without riding on the grass, it wasn't too bad. The worst part about it was going door to door collecting for the monthly bill.
ReplyDelete@ticketmaster - Yes, paper routes were definitely a "family" job and not just for the official carrier, especially on weekends and holidays. Remember stuffing, first, the Saturday paper with the comics, etc., and then they started delivering that stuff on Sundays? Maybe not - that was started when our older sister had the route first.
ReplyDeleteDelivering papers is one reason I absolutely *hate* getting rained on - especially when we wore the ponchos to keep the papers dry, and we ended up as wet and sweaty from wearing them than if we'd just left the dumb things off! LOL
My first summer job was as a babysitter, but let's skip that. After that, I worked at a summer camp as a counselor, but let's skip that -- because that's just fancy babysitting. My first real job during a summer was working as a person in the Professional Staffing Department at General Electric in Syracuse New York. I got to show around prospective engineers, take them around to their meetings, etc. It was a job that paid very well, but I hated being stuck inside all day long inside a little cubicle. Oh, and I learned all about what sexual harassment meant. Nice, huh? Yeah. My boss was kind of a dirt bag. My dad let me go back to my summer camp the next summer and work for pennies.
ReplyDeletei had it easy - the papers were already 'stuffed' when I got my first route. I do remember you guys having to stuff the sunday papers though.
ReplyDeleteRenee - How AWFUL! The "dream job" that paid big bucks turns out to harbor a total creep. Talk about "job experience."
ReplyDeleteMy favorite job was delivering papers. It was the perfect job for a kid. You got outside, had consistent daily work but never more than 90 minutes total. That's the job I want now.
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