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Summer jobs are slowly disappearing

• induscreep 12y ago
  Can someone quantify what exactly are the "life skills" these summer jobs teach? How do they "make it easier to get a job and get promoted more quickly"?
  • madengr 12y ago
    They don't, but after sweating in the hot sun doing manual labor as a teenager, I had no issues working hard in college and cruising through BSEE and MSEE with A's. I sure as hell did not want to be doing back breaking, manual labor all my life. That is the lesson taught. Also notice in the article, teenage work is positively correlated with family income. Upper middle class parents, in general, don't let their kids laze around.
  • cafard 12y ago
    show up, get things done, deal with all sorts of people.
• deleted 12y ago
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• ahi 12y ago
  At least where I live the stereotypical summer jobs don't exist even if a teen was pushed to take one. Those McDs fry cook positions are now filled by former manufacturing workers making ends meet with three part time jobs.