anyone have any ideas?

Question

My daughter is fifteen, we live in Staten Island, NY. She needs a job and I was helping her look but We can't seem to find anything thats good. Does anybody have any suggestions on what types of job my daughter should look into?

Answer 1

What are her skills? The Internet has opened up the playing field for all ages/etc... Does she type, email, do web pages? Have any hobies? There are many oportunities if you know what she can do. My son is 11 and he stuffs/folds flyers and envelopes for Mortgage company. Not much skill, he does it while he watches TV. They pay him by quantity. A nephew of mine is doing webpages for people that don't have time to follow-up. I could suggest that she learns some advanced skills and sets up marketing pages for properties. She should get the photos/information emailed to her, put together a great template, and link it up to the person that "hired" her. Once ashe has the overall idea down, it would just require switching out and sending to the correct people. Easy to market and find clients over the net.

Answer 2

My first suggestion is to read the archives here on Yahoo Answers because I cannot tell you how many times this same question is asked time and time again, day after day, by parents and children of all ages. The perfect suggestion for your daughter may not be directly answered by your question but rather sitting in another post ... so look around!!!

When I was a teen (dinosaur age) I worked through high school in a program called "Distributive Education" in which the school arranged jobs for the students... and provided transportation. If your school has such a program, use it. If not, suggest it. There are many employers looking for younger people. I worked in retail stores like The Gap, a local shoe store, Woolworths, etc. from ages 15-18. I got school credits, experience and got paid.

Check with your local library for books on the subject. I found one book called "Fast Cash for Kids" that had incredible ideas for teen businesses. Some are quite successful and I am not talking about surveys or stuffing envelopes at home. Your librarian should be able to point you to the section where job ideas are explored and explained. If you don't see alot of them, hey, there's a great business idea for other teens is to research options for teenagers like your daughter. It wouldn't be so bad to make $5 in profit per book and sell only 5-6 books a day. There's a genuine market for teen jobs ... check out the other posts here and you'll see what I mean.

Answer 3

Not a lot of places will hire a 15 year old. However she doesn't need a standard job to make money. Lots of kids make their own jobs by starting their own little businesses.
Have her create a list of all the things she's good at that someone might want help with.
Next look at what kinds of people make up the neighborhood. Are they elderly? If so then lawn care or other manual labor might be. Are there lots of families with small children? If so then babysitting might work.
Plus keeping her local by working at odd jobs for neighbors would eliminate transportation worries and as long as you know who and where she is it's probably safer than working at some burger joint. Plus she'll be in control of her hours and may find she likes working for herself.

Answer 4

Keep looking, unless you have a connection for a special type of job most kids start off with fast food or grocery/department store. As long as the work enviroment is safe and scheduling is acceptable don't worry about starting from the bottom. She's starting a job history so everything is a stepping stone. Besides we learn a lot of little things from working different jobs.

Answer 5

Might want to wait until she's sixteen. I can't think of anything inparticular since I've only been to NYC once, but I would say from my own experience to get her something light. Don't get her in with a large company because she may have a bad outlook at getting jobs in the future simply from all the work politics involved in large companies.

Answer 6

i worked at a video store it was fun and i got free rentals....
she could also:

ice cream shop
dog walk
baby sit
movie theater
junior writer for a newspaper
mow lawns, rake leaves, shovel snow\

if she cant get a job because of age have her volunteer somewhere like the library or a shelter or at a day care it can build her resume and make her more marketable for the future

Answer 7

When I was about 13 - 16 years old I had a paper route for about 4 years to earn extra money for myself.

Answer 8

When I was her age I was bagging groceries at Stop & Shop. Not glamorous or anything but I got some extra spending cash. Besides I remember that you had to be 16 to be a cashier.

Answer 9

I think i worked at target at 15 or 16 in California, but this was maybe 17 years ago

Answer 10

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