N2EY wrote:
In article , "Kim W5TIT"
writes:

What was his problem? Did he feel the jobs were "beneath his dignity"
or some such?

Yep. He was "better" than all that. And, his friends would see him!


I must be getting old. When I was a teenager, I cannot remember anyone I knew
thinking a job was "beneath their dignity". There were some jobs that some kids
did not want to do for personal moral/ideological reasons, (like working for
the IRS ;-)) but those jobs weren't open to teens anyway.

There are still plenty of young people willing to take "menial" labor.
My son worked all summer cleaning a warehouse and tearout and hefting
the new materials on flooring construction. There were other people his
age there too. His girlfriend has *two* jobs (which is way too much for
a high school senior, IMO)


What sort of work did he expect to do as a teenager without special
skills?

Kids want jobs behind computers these days...or at a minimum, with the least
amount of physical labor, and definitely "out of the elements."

Considering what the elements must be where you are in summer, I can understand
that part. But the rest I don't.

I think its a big broad brush the situation is getting painted with
here. I don't know enough about all kids to know what all kids want to do.

an aside: I have seen a few other cases where an unemployed person was
*above* the jobs available. In each case, the underlying problem was
depression. Not to sound alarmist, but you might keep an eye out for
that, Kim.


Remember the classic movie "A Christmas Story"?

"Mommy, Daddy's gonna kill Ralphie!" What a movie...

- Mike KB3EIA -