To expect my 16 yr old to get full time work for the summer?

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At least 8 weeks until they go back to school for A-Levels. I worked full time at that age. AIBU to think they should get a job for the summer?

Temping work wouldn't be hard to find, just get him signed up to the local agencies.

Maybe when you were 16. The world has changed!

Ok so I just logged onto to a local largish temp agency to look at the temp jobs available

Gas engineer You will be confident in routine installation and commissioning of gas boilers and full central heating systems. You will have current Gas Safe qualifications and ideally 5 years or more experience. Full driving license required, current GAS central heating qualifications, OIL/LPG qualifications advantageous. As this is a mobile role a full UK driving license and own van is essential

Painter required for 6-8 Weeks You will have a valid CSCS card, UKATA Asbestos Awareness and City & Guilds or equivalent. As this work is based within school settings, an enhanced DBS will be completed on your behalf.

Accounts Assistant Your previous experience in a similar role will ultimately lead to your success. You will have excellent experience in transactional finance, and will be comfortable with all relevant processes and legislation

Joiner - temp for supermarket refurb You will have a current CSCS card, valid Asbestos Awareness, your own tools, PPE and transport.

Teaching Assistant experienced/qualified Teaching Assistant working on a supply basis

Call Handler - you must already be PATHWAYS TRAINED (Version 16/17) with recent 111 call handler experience.

If you don’t need the money can I second the ‘do something to make them employable next summer’.

The practical skills developed doing a hobby project in the summer after GCSEs may have contributed to getting good industrial placements. One thing can build on another.

Another temp agancy is advertising for less skilled roles but every single role that does not require either specific qualifications or ability to drive is either shist work including night shifts or is otherwise unsuitable for anyone under 18

comefromaway Yes can completely understand why. Was just saying that op’s child isn’t even legally old enough to work in many places. The type of employer who will illegally employ a child as a labourer is not somewhere I’d want my child. I do still wonder how that lad who fell off the scaffolding 20 years ago is, wonder if he was paralysed.

It really is a problem for young people.

Many of the old jobs that used to employ young to mid teens have either gone, or are now restricted by regulation (often rightly so).

There is also not much they are qualified to do, and a whole load of them looking for part time work.

I'd let him enjoy the summer, hopefully it will be the longest continuous time he has off without work or much responsibility till he retires.

My DS did this last summer after he'd finished his GCSEs and has carried on working at the same place at weekends and in the holidays. We didn't "make" him work but we did say that he needed to do something to give him a bit of structure in the long break. He could have chosen to do other things - sports, voluntary work, hobby - but he chose working.

To be honest, I had assumed that most people would be working, but he's the only one in his group of friends who has done this.

Some of these ideas are laughable.
Baby sitting how many of you are willing to employ an unknown 16 year old to look after your children? You might get some jobs if your parents have friends with young children and so are known to the family but otherwise it is not going to happen.

Paper round. Our local newsagents closed over 2 years ago and the nearest place that will deliver is over 5 miles away. I would say this is pretty common.

Car washing. Every supermarket and multi story car park has properly trained, insured with the proper equipment. Only really possible if your neibours are home all day and willing to let some kid with a 30p sponge and a bucket of water lose on their car and risk the damage that they could do. Most you are going to get is a couple of pounds a car as you can have a proper wash for a fiver elsewhere.

Pub work/collecting glasses not many places wants 16 year old as they can’t work behind the bar. Collecting glasses around here is usually done by an old regular who gets the odd free pint in payment.

Cafe/restraint you might get lucky but these jobs are much sought after. Students who work weekends will often want and be given the extra summer shifts and if a job comes up it usually goes to someone with a connection already. Ie sibling or friend already working there or their parents are friends of the owners.

This make up a game and do fares. Well what fares? We don’t have any bar the church and school fares which don’t sell tables as it is all about raising funds for the holder. I don’t doubt that someone has done this but they are in the lucky position of living in an area were fares are a thing.

Dontsweat, my dc had no problem getting babysitting jobs. Firstly for neighbours and then a network grew.

When was the last time you looked for a job OP?

Roses yes but as you said neighbors so people who know you and it grew as people were recommending your dc.
Not an unknown 16 year old.

If mine had wanted to do babysitting I have no neighbors with young children and I don’t know any friends with young children so they would have to put out flyers offering their services.
Are you trying to tell me that there are a pool of parents who are going to hand over their child to an unknown 16 year old lad?

Yes companies are queuing up to give work to unqualified, inexperienced, bored teenagers who are only looking for a job because their parents told them too.

Sounds a bit harsh, maybe a part-time or Saturday job?

Summer jobs not too hard to find as summer holiday cover is often needed. My ds got a summer job in the warehouse depot for a chain of stationer s and loved it. I

That was after he got a job in a factory on the pressing machine to shape tin foil containers. It was night shift and one shift did him. Press the lever, press the lever, press the lever again. He was actually going to leave on the first tea break.

I'm staggered at how out of touch and back in the past so many are. Paper round? LOL. Oh, yeah, loads of those around these days. Or 'Saturday' jobs in gig economy where they want you 24/7, or these jobs you used to be able to do, like 30+ years ago, but now you need a license/DBS check/be over 18. 'A game a a fayre' takes the prize for nonsense, hey, why not go rag collecting door to door or offer to tell fortunes . FFS, it's 2019.

My mother was like this, still thought everything was like the 1950s in the 80s. As a result I didn't have much of a relationship with her as a teen. She was clueless and refused to believe things had moved on.

Absolutely. I have had my son applying for all sorts in fact he applied for mcdonalds on monday was interviewed yesterday and starts on Monday.

Thadeus McDonald’s is a 0 hours contract. Great that he has got a job and although people like to slag off McDonald’s jobs I think they are generally a good employer. My oldest son is special needs and they were one of the few employers who would take a chance on him.
He has been there a while now and they have gained a hard working, reliable employee where others just saw someone a bit different and not willing to take that chance. He generally picks up 30 to 35 hours work per week but the only draw back is he doesn’t know until the shifts are published for the following week when and if he is working.

The Fayre game one really is ridiculous, does that poster live in an Enid Blyton story?

Hi Toothbrush

I think you're right, except it can also depend on where you live.

In our local high street, nearly every shop has a card in the window saying they are hiring e.g. cafés, hairdressers, shops etc

The local garden centre employs young people at the weekend - serving in the café and helping out.

Totally agree OralBElectricToothbrush. But apparently we're lacking imagination and are out of touch with the gig economy

I didn't expect mine to at that age and to be honest I'm not even sure there are any temporary full time jobs available for 16 year old are there?
Part time maybe if they are saving up for something but full time at 16 seems harsh to me.

What does she want to do for a career. She needs work experience (probably unpaid). All the people I recruit (professional services) do placements and internships but also had paid work in their teens at unglamorous places like their local cricket club, B&q, Sainsbury's. So yes summer hols from 16 up not to be wasted but needed towards getting a future job. If she wants to relax she can save up towards a gap year!

It's true that plenty of places are hiring Magic, but there's a good chance a 16 year old would be competing with slightly older students, who are a more attractive option from the employer's point of view. Still worth a try though.

My first job at 16 was in a local independent supermarket. I went in and asked about a job, was asked "have you got an hour free now?" I was shown there and then how to work the tills and I started the next day. Didn't even have to give them a CV. That would never happen today.

My mum made me do this. At her work. I also had a Sunday job at a local nursing home. At 16 I only had one day off a week in the summer holidays. It was shit. They didn’t need the money. I was still treated like a child with a 9pm curfew and was explicitly not allowed out during the week

This is a bloody good example of what i meant upthread. Your mum wanted you to be an adult when it suited and yet a child when it suited. Some parents want it both ways.