NTF: Part Time Job for Teen

[Mr.Shrek]

My 16 yr old brother in-law is coming to live with us for at least a few months. I'd like to find him a part time job on the weekends only. His grades are in the crapper (Highest is a 65) so week nights are not an option as it will be full with school work. If anyone in the Nashville, Antioch, Smyrna, Mt. Juliet, and maybe Hermitage area has something for him let me know.

Thanks,
Glenn

 

[Shorty]

not close enough to offer anything, but the time is about right for lawncare businesses to start raking leaves all over town. I'd hit up a few and see if they're looking for another set of hands for a couple months.

 

[Mr.Shrek]

Good idea, thanks.

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

Anything in the food industry...especially fast food. Any day working a job in the food industry is a good moral booster for doing something with your life. (i.e. flipping burgers or dunking fries...been there, done both)

 

[Cnickgo]

Anything in the food industry...especially fast food. Any day working a job in the food industry is a good moral booster for doing something with your life. (i.e. flipping burgers or dunking fries...been there, done both)

Food industry is great. Landing a kitchen job teaches a useful skill set, good interaction with people of different ages and social groups, and its out of the public eye and a lot less stressful.

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

Food industry is great. Landing a kitchen job teaches a useful skill set, good interaction with people of different ages and social groups, and its out of the public eye and a lot less stressful.

I was never fortunate enough to have just a kitchen job...I was always the guy who got cross-trained to do everything because i'm a fairly quick learner and a hard worker.

 

[JeepAddict85]

I was never fortunate enough to have just a kitchen job...I was always the guy who got cross-trained to do everything because i'm a fairly quick learner and a hard worker.

same here...but thats a good thing. i got to be night manager at the coffee shop i used to work at in high school. that kinda responsibility is good for ya at that age. makes you work hard and appreciate what you get from it.

 

[Shorty]

my experience with kitchen work (a million years ago) taught me that some of the most drug addicted and disreputable people hide there between binges. I wouldn't want to subject anyone with "less than stellar" morals to the temptations therein.

I won't say it can't be a good experience, but if I were being trusted with someone else's 16yr old, I'd look for something with fewer temptations. YMMV

 

[Mr.Shrek]

Yeah I'm hoping to find him something that he will walk away from saying "Crap I sure as hell don't want to do that for the rest of my life! Which way to class?"

 

[YJ-GENRAL]

physical labor! that will do it most times...

 

[mbogosia]

Roofing. He will never get a bad grade again. Even roofing sales will make him study harder.

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

same here...but thats a good thing. i got to be night manager at the coffee shop i used to work at in high school. that kinda responsibility is good for ya at that age. makes you work hard and appreciate what you get from it.

Good and a bad thing...Good in that you earn a lot of respect from your managers, but bad in that you're expected to pick up the slack for all the other idiots who don't give a crap, with no type of pay back...but I guess that teaches you how the real business world works...lol.

 

[bigalpha]

Find him a job at a landscaper, nursery, or tree trimming service.

After busting his ass non-stop all day doing landscaping, he won't want to do it for a living.

 

[cr2000xj]

Roofing is good, sheetrock is good too. I finished sheetrock for 3 years and you will definately want to get away from that and back to school. Really any construction type job would probably be good. Hard work, long hours, enough to really make him not want to do it. Although, I do miss doing that kind of work, nothing like fresh air everyday instead of factory chemicals.

 

[shortxjdoug]

i'd recpmmend restaurants but i know what over 3 years in the business has done to me.... the work might teach him to get the hell out of it but those restaurant kids love to party, more than a long list of things to get in trouble with in that industry...