Cost of living. Teens with no jobs

[monkeysox]

The whole COL crisis is exacerbated by huge supermarket chains (one example) who are making huge profits. They don't employ as many young people (automation) so the cost of the kid's needs falls on the parents who have huge bills themselves.
I always had a Saturday or evening job.
Businesses aren't hiring nearly as much as 30 years ago.
Aibu?

It isn’t easy
we want to move away from the area we had to move to work to bring up the teens - they are now settled here obviously and it’s not the worse area for work either
so we have to stay longer than we’d like until the teens are older as we might be taking away the possibility of them having starter career jobs or not

it used to be much easier for young adults to go and work where they wanted/needed to

Depends if you have a student with a car, assuming most deliveries are evening and weekends, they could do 7-11pm, £44 flat rate, £1 for every delivery- say £12 and then keep tips which will vary but they might get lucky some evenings

Gives them good driving practice, wear and tear on car would be minimal it’s a car! And fuel would be a small cost.

It would work with college/uni hours. And whilst you are waiting between deliveries you could read