With colleges producing more graduates, and youth unemployment at a sky-high 11.5 percent, even landing a job selling Big Macs is getting competitive.
Consider: A job opening at a Massachusetts McDonald's for a full-time cashier requires one to two years experience and a bachelor's degree.
"Get a weekly paycheck with a side order of food, folks and fun," offered McDonalds.
It is unclear if the fast-food restaurant really wants that kind of experience or is fishing for the highest qualified. The website for the Winchedon, Mass. McDonald's also lists jobs in Spanish.
Youth advocates said the ad is proof of how bad the employment situation is for kids. "Sadly we've taxed-and-spent our way to an economy in which there's intense competition for just about any job. Combine that with government meddling in the student loan market that has artificially inflated the cost of higher education and young people are getting screwed over even worse than the country overall," said Evan Feinberg, president of the Washington-based youth advocacy group Generation Opportunity.
I guess that's one way of saying, no illegals need apply...............
ReplyDeleteWho wants to hire a teen these days? They graduate from High School without reading and writing skills. Even the top schools have remedial English and Math for those students that are brought in to increase diversity... or play sports.
ReplyDeleteAnd when is the last time you saw a kid mowing lawns in the summer for money? A few, but not many. It's either Mom, Dad or what a friend calls squirreleros.
Around here kids do not mow lawns as it is big business - for stat workers anyway. I cannot believe the number of people who have their yards done on a weekly basis.
ReplyDeleteNow my daughter (who graduated early and is going to the Jr. college) is a dog walker/runner, animal care giver, grounds keeper, baby sitter among other things and is making great money... It is all on Sammy's terms ... she knows more of my neighbors than I do and they all tell me how great Sammy is, polite, sweet, a godsend... she is a hard worker, polite and no tattoos - very rare around here...
She sounds great Angie. A real American girl!
DeleteI mowed lawns, shoveled snow, delivered newspapers and did other odd jobs around the neighborhood when I was a kid. I also read and for a time, worshiped Ayn Rand. Where did it all go wrong to have me wind up the communist I am today?
DeleteAnnual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Delete- Charles Dickens
I would argue that having a part time job is extremely important for kids. People skills that they develop are so important and becoming a sill of the past. Two things that I am amazed at are 1) the social retardation of this generation coming up and 2) the inability to count back change at all ages!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in charge of a register I would count back the change. First from the register and a second time to the commuter. My drawer always checked out OK -- the way they just hand back the money in one lump ball I wonder how their drawers are at the end of a shift....
I recommend for a young man being a caddy.
DeleteIt is important to stop at all lemonade stands.
Receiving cash for a job well done should be learned early.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ~Albert Camus