im am 14 years old and i wanted 2 get a weekend job can someone give me some ideas i can work or a place?

Question

also i need 2 create a cv but people are not taking me seriously because i am young i want to earn my self some money for christmas can someone help me out?

i dont want 2 do a paper round cuz t is 2 dark in the mornings

i live in plumstead

i dont like pets

i live in london and all the sites where u take survays it is american money only

Answer 1

You need to be just over 15 and have a National Insurance No to get legal work in this country. A lot of jobs offered to younger people pay very low wages, they have no rights and will work long hours. Your CV can be done at home or school. Don't be to impatient to grow up.

Answer 2

Good for you, that's the right attitude. I did the same as you and by the time I was 17 I was able to buy my first car!

Unfortunately you are quite restricted in what you can do at the age of 14, but there are some options.
It depends where you live really - lots of youngsters get employed in places like riding stables, though they will sometimes pay you with riding lessons instead of money!
You can do a paper round, but you will need to deliver a lot of papers to make much money. You can also do extras like delivering leaflets.
You could try asking in a hairdressers - they sometimes employ young people to sweep floors etc.
I think at your age you need to be prepared to do what you can get, don't be too picky. Be careful though that you don't take on something where you will be exploited.
Good luck, I hope you manage to earn some proper money!

Here are the rules about what you cannot do:
Children may not work:

without an employment permit issued by the education department of the local council
in any industrial setting eg factory, industrial site etc
during school hours
before 7.00 am or after 7.00 pm
for more than one hour before school
for more than four hours without taking a break of at least one hour
in any occupations prohibited by local by-laws or other legislation eg pubs, betting shops
in any work that may be harmful to their health, well-being or education
without having a two week break from any work during the school holidays in each calendar year
These are your protective rights

Answer 3

If you have MS Word / Office you should be able to find a CV template to guide you.
What about a hairdressers or a cafe? I waitressed when I was 13/14 & it was the best job I ever had. Silver Service for weddings & Christmas Do's. Get the phone book out & ring around all the places locally that might take you on. Also try mobile caterer's, newsagents, leisure centres. Good Luck x

Answer 4

Since you are very young, I will advise you to focus more on your study and dont look out for a job for which you need to go outside. Instead you have an optiont to work online at home. I am a full time worker doing work online at home, so I can share my personal experience with you. When u are planning for a home based online business, be very careful because most of them are scam and ask you to pay initial money. never pay money to any such site. Did you ever heard that if u r going for a job and employer ask you for money before hiring? After lot of search, I have found one website, where you can make $600 in a month working at home. The only work need to be done is posting a discussion and answering a discussion. the link is:

http://tinyurl.com/yhzzph

But there is nothing called free lunch and you have to work if you want to make more and more money. When i said $600, i meant in a month, if you will work hard you can even make $1000.. it all depends on your usage pattern. How u get money is through posting a discussion and replying to discussion. I worked for 1 hour daily last month and i got paid $238 for the last month. Its not bad after all, i am happy and making more

Please let me know, if you have any queries

Answer 5

Your question is a very common one ... if you read the archives from other teens, you will see the same question over and over... only the poster's name and age is changed. There are only so many answers that WE can give you. The right answer is the one that you give to yourself since none of us know you. At your age you can learn anything you want to learn and be anything you want to be. What works for me probably won't work for you. One thing that's not going to change is that you'll get out of a job what you put into it. There are some amazing library books written by people who can give you ideas, business plans, motivation, etc but unless YOU take the first step nothing is going to happen. Might I suggest a trip to your local library to find one or more of the following titles...

Fast Cash for Kids … Bonnie & Noel Drew
Better than a Lemonade Stand … Daryl Bernstein
50 Money Making Ideas for Kids … Lauree & L Allen Burkett
Jobs for Kids … Carol Barkin & Elizabeth James
The Kids’ Business Book … Arlene Erlbach
Making Cents … Elizabeth Wilkinson
Make More Money Than Your Parents … Mike Bundlie and Others
How to Be a Teenage Millionaire … Art Beroff

You will make more money working for yourself than you will working for someone else. Get your parents on board to help you. Who says that a family business has to be started by the parents??? The books above will guide you to things that you can do to earn money and help your parents get tax credits. You may be looking at Christmas money now but soon you will be thinking about a car, college, apartment, retirement and other issues. Do something TODAY.

Answer 6

Is this about making some money or is it about getting out of the house? If it's about making money then you're going to be a little bit stuck because of your age ....
if it's about getting yourself out of the house - how about asking at a local beauty or hair salon if they would let you do some voluntary work - like making cups of tea/coffee for the clients and sweeping the floors .... I know it's doesn't sound very exciting - but what it does give you is an opportunity to get up close to an environment that could, in the not too distant future, give you employment opportunities .... you would be learning things like how to deal with customers, listening and watching to learn what customers want when they visit a salon, watching the qualified hairdressers/beauticians at work - you will see how they work, how hard they work, what their work actually entails, what they need to do to prepare themselves for their work, what they need to do at the end of a working working day ..... you could call this work experience ... extremely useful for a cv and something future employers look very favourably on .....
if not hairdressers or beauticians - then consider what other form of voluntary work you could get interested in ..... it's a great way to get an insight into the world of work and various types of employment without being committed to employment in that area ...... maybe take your mum/dad or a sister (if you have one) with you for support and approval ....

Answer 7

don't worry there a lot of places that still take on teenages and pay cash in hand so you can get a job at 14. I worked at 14 in a hotel as a waitress. I went around all the local hotels and restaurants and asked to speak to the managers and left a copy of my CV, i got 5 job offers. Although it was my first job, I wrote a CV relating the skills needs to work in the hospitality to the skills I had learned at school. Have you been in a drama production? you could relate this to customer service skills. Being in a sports team shows you are team player, in the school orchestera? That shows dedication and maturity.... etc, it's easy once you get into the flow to relate what you've already done in your life to this new job, and it applies later on in life too, I found myself applying the skills i had learned waitressing to other jobs in other industries.

Best of luck, and remember, there's no harm in putting yourself forward to potential employers and asking!

Answer 8

In his mid-teens, my nephew got some irregular work with the police. They often need teenagers for ID parades, and will pay you to do it. Call in at your local Police Station (tell 'em I sent you!) and they'll take your details and give you a call when they need you.

This isn't regular work, you will need to look for something else, but it's easy money if you can get it.

Car washing ? Oven cleaning ?

Everyone hates cleaning their oven, but if you get the right equipment (rubber gloves, mask against the fumes, spray on oven cleaner) and allow about an hour, it's really not a bad job, esp. if you have your mp3 player on. Practice on your oven at home first, then advertise Oven Cleaning for £10 a go. Read the instructions on the oven cleaner carefully, and don't breathe it in.

Answer 9

Dog Walking
Pet Sitting
Car Washing

Answer 10

At 14 you can only get paid cash in hand as you dont have a national insurance number so try small companies such as independant hairdressers, restaurants, shops. I know how you feel but keep at it, there are lots of employers who need enthusiastic people to help out.