Would my dd be wrong to go to this job interview?

[Pinkginandlemonadeissoyummmy]

She's 16. Just got her first ever part time job in a takeaway last week. Going ok but minimum wage and long hard hours (sometimes 7hr shifts from late afternoon to 10pm) She handed out her cv in the area and a few days ago a local restaurant invited her for an interview. From a selfish point of view I think she should go and see what, if anything, they offer and see which job will be the best. But on the other hand feel guilty for the restaurant as it could well be a waste of their time. Feel equally guilty if job no 2 does come off for the takeaway place too if dd leaves after a week! Dd is confused and not sure what to do for the best so I thought outsiders opinions might be helpful. Should she be grateful for the job she has or keep looking for 'more'?

The job is likely to be around longer in an established takeaway than ina restaurant if restrictions increase.

I'd stay put I think.

@emilyfrost

Going ok but minimum wage and long hard hours (sometimes 7hr shifts from late afternoon to 10pm)

7 hours isn’t a “long hard shift”; it’s shorter than the average 8 hours. She will most likely find anywhere she wants to work will generally be 8 hours.

Of course it's a long shift when you've been at school or college all day.

Most student jobs are 4-5 hours a night (twice a week or so after school) as well as a longer weekend shift.

7 hours isn't so long as an adult when it's your full-time job, but it is a long shift for a young student after a full day of school, who also presumably has homework/coursework on top.

IMO it’s a bad idea to leave an existing job to go into one which has no certainty.

My DS has been in a particular job since last December. In June he went for an interview at a different place, and they told him that they weren’t quite sure yet about the hours because of potential restrictions etc in the future. I advised him to think very carefully about leaving his current employer (who are actually incredibly decent and have been during the pandemic) to take up a job with uncertain prospects. As it was he was unsure anyway because of the distance etc, but he did agree with me that perhaps now isn’t the right time to change. As it happens he didn’t get the job anyway, and the person interviewing said she’d had hundreds and hundreds of applicants, rather than the dozen or so she usually gets, but he said that actually if he’d been offered it he probably wouldn’t have taken it for the reasons above.

If your DD goes for this job and is offered it but turns it down the restaurant won’t have any difficulty finding a different person to offer it to, they are likely to have had hundreds of applicants, and she is just one...

sometimes 7hr shifts from late afternoon to 10pm

The humanity.

I’d stick with the takeaway in this climate.