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Your experience is very unevenly distributed, at least for the second item. Around here, restaraunts, car washes, and retailers will hire anyone, they all have
by rmrm 9y ago
Your experience is very unevenly distributed, at least for the second item. Around here, restaraunts, car washes, and retailers will hire anyone, they all have signs up. The car wash starts at $15/hr...good teenager money. I was just speaking to a an established restaurant owner who is raising menu prices so he can try to pay more to keep bus boys and servers as the market is so competitive. Which is what would be expected in a tight labor market. I do not see a lack of retail and restaurant jobs, or those jobs being taken by old people.
- jacobush 9y agoWhere are you?
- logfromblammo 9y agoParent is 45 minutes from San Francisco in the direction of wine country, based on HN posting history. So... not representative of most of the US.
- rmrm 9y agoMy counties unemployment rate is slightly lower than the overall US unemployment rate. Not much.
- logfromblammo 9y agoI was thinking more about the local cost of living than the unemployment rate. I suspect teenagers can get $15/hr jobs in counties near NYC, too. They can't get that much in places like Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Birmingham, or Memphis, though.
- rmrm 9y agoYes thats fair, so far as whether $15 sounds like a lot, or teenager pocket money kind of money.
- tmh79 9y agowhat is the opportunity cost of spending all that time washing cars though? If you don't need the resources I think there are better ways to spend your formative years
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoTell that to my 16 year-old. He's bored sitting around the house and actively sought out a job. Now he gets to hang out with people he likes and is paid for it. Opportunity cost $0
- almost_usual 9y agoOne summer as a teen I worked a maintenance job at a family owned warehouse. It involved pouring asphalt, shoveling gravel, and cleaning warehouse walls. This was in Southern Illinois mind you so it was blazing hot and humid everyday. The dust from the warehouse walls would aggravate my allergies and send me off on sneezing fits. I hated every second of it. This work made me appreciate how important it was to go to college do well in school. It also made me appreciate the "hard work" people do that goes unnoticed. My longest "hardest" days as a Software Engineer in SF do not compare to that maintenance job. I did not gain much financially but I did learn a lot about endurance.