You're 16 , you're looking for a job , what must that job have?

[Spinneret]

Local and good pay

 

[DLgal]

Short shifts. Flexible scheduling around school.

 

[tvguy]

When I was 16, just a job met any requirement I had.

 

[mrodgers]

Same as tvguy. School first, then work, collect the paycheck, spend the paycheck. It was all minimum wage start part time jobs by mostly high school kids with a lot of single out of high school females during the day at retail, fast food, or restaurants. No one was trying to make careers to raise a family out of it back then. Nickel raise every year. Learn work ethics and move on after school is over.

 

[disneychrista]

The deciding factor when I was getting my first job when I was 15 was Burger King and better uniforms than McDonalds.

 

[tvguy]

The deciding factor when I was getting my first job when I was 15 was Burger King and better uniforms than McDonalds.

I applied at McDonalds 50 years ago. I'm still waiting to hear back for an interview.

 

[tvguy]

Same as tvguy. School first, then work, collect the paycheck, spend the paycheck. It was all minimum wage start part time jobs by mostly high school kids with a lot of single out of high school females during the day at retail, fast food, or restaurants. No one was trying to make careers to raise a family out of it back then. Nickel raise every year. Learn work ethics and move on after school is over.

I lucked into my first job. I was in the Sheriff's Department Explorer Post. A local Department Store approached the Sheriff's Department about hiring those of us who were 16 or older as uniformed security in their stores. We were strictly a visual deterrent to shoplifting. Our uniforms were identical to those of Sheriff's Deputies, except our should patch said "Deputy Explorer" instead of "Deputy Sheriff". Our job was to just walk around the store. We did NOTHING else regarding shoplifting, that was all handled by the undercover operatives in the store. Shoplifters never caught onto .....that if I was in an area of the store......there were no undercover operatives in that area.....nor did they know that if I watched them walk out of the store with merchandise, I couldn't do anything.
Minimum wage in California was $2 an hour then....1973......and we got paid an extra 25 cents an hour because we were also supposed to be a deterrent to employee theft, since the employees never caught on that we had no powers to detain anyone if we witnessed a crime.
Was odd, because one of the teachers at my High School worked part time in the menswear department. I never had him as a teacher. One of my assignments was to go to the menswear department and count the leather coats every hour, which were chained to the rack. They were very popular shoplifting targets. I ran into that teacher at school and said hi, and he was shocked to see me. People in the store never caught on to the fact that their uniformed security guards were all 16, 17 or 18 years old.

 

[disneychrista]

I applied at McDonalds 50 years ago. I'm still waiting to hear back for an interview.

You might need to reapply. LOL

 

[mrodgers]

I lucked into my first job. I was in the Sheriff's Department Explorer Post. A local Department Store approached the Sheriff's Department about hiring those of us who were 16 or older as uniformed security in their stores. We were strictly a visual deterrent to shoplifting. Our uniforms were identical to those of Sheriff's Deputies, except our should patch said "Deputy Explorer" instead of "Deputy Sheriff". Our job was to just walk around the store. We did NOTHING else regarding shoplifting, that was all handled by the undercover operatives in the store. Shoplifters never caught onto .....that if I was in an area of the store......there were no undercover operatives in that area.....nor did they know that if I watched them walk out of the store with merchandise, I couldn't do anything.
Minimum wage in California was $2 an hour then....1973......and we got paid an extra 25 cents an hour because we were also supposed to be a deterrent to employee theft, since the employees never caught on that we had no powers to detain anyone if we witnessed a crime.
Was odd, because one of the teachers at my High School worked part time in the menswear department. I never had him as a teacher. One of my assignments was to go to the menswear department and count the leather coats every hour, which were chained to the rack. They were very popular shoplifting targets. I ran into that teacher at school and said hi, and he was shocked to see me. People in the store never caught on to the fact that their uniformed security guards were all 16, 17 or 18 years old.

Neat first job

 

[goofyernmost]

One that pays $150K minimum, company BMW, corner office, 4 weeks minimum vacation and a solid separation umbrella package. Oh yea, also company provided health insurance coverage and a huge 401K multiple matching donation. And if it's not to much to ask, someone to help me with my homework.

 

[barkley]

the willingness of an employer to hire a minor b/c my state has some major hoops an employer has to jump through-including committing to set hours that they have to put in writing on a form that requires both the parent's AND the school's signed permission for the minor to work. none of the stuff that was the norm when i was a teen would fly-no alternating shifts, no working after (depending on school night or weekend) 9 or 10 p.m. (so my high school job of working at the local movie theater evenings would be out).