Did you have a job as a teen? Why did you get or not get one?

Question

I personally did not work till i graduated from highschool. I was fine with what my parents could afford. The thought of working and going to school just made me sick. If all my parents could get me was one pair of shoes then so be it. My brother did not feel the same way. He has been working as soon as he could but he allways has wanted material things.
Did you have a job in highschool? Why did you get one?

Answer 1

Yep I had several jobs

Answer 2

I had several jobs as a teenager. When I was 14, I was a camp counselor during the summer. When I was 15, I working in the copy room inside the hospital during the summer. When I was I was old enough to work at age 16, I worked at a grocery store as a cashier. I wanted to work since the age of 14 because I wanted my own money to buy the school clothes and shoes that I wanted. Plus I needed my own money to buy what I wanted and needed.

Answer 3

I'm 16 curently and in the eleventh grade. I have 2 jobs for a toatal of about 19 to 22 and a half hours per week. I'm glad I work becuase without my jobs, i'd just be sitting at home bored to death. It's not like I need the money or anything. I have $2700 give or take $100 because I never spend money.

Answer 4

i got a summer job when i turned 16, then worked from my senior year until now. I am the only one of my sisters that had a job at that age and frankly, i am the only one that has a work ethic, money management, etc. my sisters work a little, then quit. ask mom and dad or friends for money, etc. I just did it because it may me feel good about myself to pay my own car insurance, buy my own school clothes. it was a good sense of "hey, I was able to do this all on my own." don't get me wrong, i am not saying if you didn't work in high school, you'll turn out to be like my sisters. (they are a little wierd anyway) but working when i was younger has made me a different person. i am glad i did it.

Answer 5

Yes, worked at Idora Park, a amusement park in Youngstown, Ohio for 4 years, thur high school, It was like one BIG family working there, we had a blast and the owner of the park, was amazing, but the park burned down (the Wildcat) at that time was the 9th best Roller Coaster in the World! And 2 weeks after the owner, MR. PAT DUFFEY died.......and they say cuz of heartbroken! But the memories were awesome and met my future wife there, she worked in kiddyland! Nice memories!

Answer 6

I worked at Taco Bell from 16 to 18, I did it because I wanted money and I wasn't involved in sports or any school activities so I had to do something, and working at that age gives you a whole new prespective on the real world.

Answer 7

I had a job while in high school. I only went to school 1/2 day and then to work. I got one to have spending money and car insurance.

Answer 8

I got my first job when I was 16 and have been working ever since. I started working so that I could buy myself a car since my parents basically told me that if I didn't get my own, I didn't get one at all.

Answer 9

Yes, I had a couple of jobs in high school. I had jobs because my mother made me get one! lol. I too, was fine with what my mom could afford.

Answer 10

Yes I did work- to get some of the things I needed and wanted.
My dad worked hard but wasn't paid enough for us to live high on the hog.

Answer 11

yep...i started working at 14 at the A&W Rootbeer stand for a whopping $1 per hour plus tips. didn't make much...fought off a lot of bees. it was a great experience (sarcasm). i did it to get out of the house for several reasons