Does your teenager earn money with a part time job?
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31046)
United Kingdom
October 5, 2008 12:13pm CST
When I was thirteen I got a job delivering newspapers. I saved up the money and it soon mounted up. I really wanted to go traveling and asked my mum if we could go on holiday abroad. I had saved enough money to go to Greece. I had my first trip on a plane and we went to Spetse Island and explored Athens as well. When I was sixteen I got a Saturday job in a shop. I staved up enough to go to the Netherlands with my friend. We loved exploring Amsterdam and felt so grown up traveling without our parents.
My older son is thirteen and he doesn't want to get a paper round. I think that it is great when a teenager gets a part time job whilst they are studying. It can teach them the value of money and they can save up for something really special. They can meet other people and learn to work as a colleague. A paper round is physical activity so it can keep a young person fit and healthy.
Does your teenager have a part time job?
If so what sort of job do they do?
Do you think it is wise or not to let a teenager work part time?
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2 responses
@zulito (174)
• Germany
5 Oct 08
yeah, well with the past of the time, young people really spend less time outside playing sporting or working...
but a teenager grows up faster with a job, by learning responsability and the advantages of saving money.. i know lots of people with credits problems.. becuase of never learning the deal with money and savings...
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
5 Oct 08
I agree with teenagers having a job and earning in order to learn the real value of money.
As a teenager I worked in a toy shop on Saturdays and I used that pocket money to buy things for myself which my mother considered unnecessary at that time. I can still remember my first transistor radio which I cherished!
My son who is now grown up and married also worked when he was a teenager. He wanted to go on holiday and there was no way I could help him with that. He got a job at a local fruit and veg market and for the whole of the summer holidays he set his alarm for 4 in the morning and went off at dawn for six hours a day. The following year he went on that holiday he wanted so much! I admired him for that and never once did I gave to wake him. He now runs his own business.
Nowadays teenagers have everything they want just by asking for it and I think this will do them no good in later years. This is 'progress' I suppose 
