Post-GCSE jobs. Any recommendations

[BathshebaE]

Does anyone have any good ideas for employment in London for a DD aged 16? She won't be available for the whole summer so cannot work "full time". She's happy to do more or less anything.

Only the usual stuff- shops, supermarkets, babysitting, waitressing might be worth trying for. It might be a problem that she is not 18- rules out pubs and anywhere licensed, unless she is washing up etc. Maybe she could try to get work locally by advertising in shop windows- looking after pets or plants etc if people are on holiday?

Local council playschemes?

council playschemes Think you need to be over 18 ( worked on them myself as a student) and you'd also need to be CRB checked- takes too long. and you need to get in early- our local council was recruiting in March/April.

Thanks, all. I'll go through the options with her when she gets back home after celebrating (in a reasonable way!) the last GCSE...

If she can't work full time sometimes there are events where they need litter pickers, catering staff etc, my daughter aged almost 16 has an interview in a couple of weeks. They are paying a good rate too £7 an hour which is very good for her age, it is only 6 days work, but it might be worth getting a local paper and looking through the job page.

good advice evenstar

we are finding ds being still 15 is an issue

she will find it nigh impossible if she is 15. her best bet is to do something herself- baby sitting, nannying etc or looking after pets- that can be quite well paid if people have lots of animals! My daughter often used to look after 2 lots of pets and it paid quite a lot.

I used to waitress at the tennis tournaments.

If she is 16 and 3 months, Waitrose is a fantastic employer.

Dog-walking, cleaning, babysitting, shopping for the old/infirm

my dd has interview for waitrose

they take on loads of post gcse students

ds1 passed his life-saving course and worked as a pool lifeguard. Pretty good money for a 16 year old and a good life skill. ds2 did a footie refs course and does that at the weekends, again not bad pay (around £18 for 90 minutes) much better than minimum wage. Again good skills for adulthood - not getting punched on the nose is a good result lol! He's stacking shelves too in our local Bargain Booze two evenings a week....has more surplus cash than I do