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All of these comments saying that you worked a ton of jobs as a teenager and started small businesses: How many of you even realize how out of date your concept

All of these comments saying that you worked a ton of jobs as a teenager and started small businesses: How many of you even realize how out of date your concept of being a teenager is like? If a teenager is working it's in order to support their parents nowadays. They're not building any sort of higher experience flipping burgers or stocking shelves, they're tanking their education in order to survive. It certainly as hell wasn't aligned with my teenage experience growing up poor. And more importantly think about how far a minimum wage part time job as a teenager is going to get you today vs 30 years ago relative to inflation.

andelink 3y ago
> If a teenager is working it's in order to support their parents nowadays. I went to high school 2008-2012. I got my first job at 15, and then two more jobs later on before graduating. I also had a small thing cleaning this retired couples house once a week and getting paid cash. I did not support my parents at all. The money was mine to keep or spend irresponsibly as I’d like. > they're tanking their education in order to survive. That’s not necessarily true. I worked in the summers only. I did have a bakery business with a friend selling our home made baked goods to our fellow classmates during the school year, but that did not take much of our time