Job for a 14 year old?

[nboy22]

Mow lawns, charge 20 bucks per lawn and weed eat around the edges too, I've been mowing lawns for 5 years.. I usually get about 5 lawns per summer that I do every week, I make about 100 a week working for 4-5 hours, not too bad for not being employed.

 

[Lola]

Oh my God, i am 9 years older than you!

anyways, what about tutoring? are you good at any specific subjects that you could tutor local kids with?

Have you checked with your school to see if they know of any job oppertunities? I know our school had a whole list of them in the cousiling center.

I know that you may think babysitting is just for girls, but i know a lot of guys are doing this as well. THere are even some classes that a lot of local commity enrichment centers give so you can become "certified" in babysitting. Courses include CPR and handling children. There is a lot of money to be made with this.

Good luck!

 

[DaShen]

Work permit signed by parents.

Paper route.

Household chores for neighbors.

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: LolaWiz
Oh my God, i am 9 years older than you!

anyways, what about tutoring? are you good at any specific subjects that you could tutor local kids with?

Have you checked with your school to see if they know of any job oppertunities? I know our school had a whole list of them in the cousiling center.

I know that you may think babysitting is just for girls, but i know a lot of guys are doing this as well. THere are even some classes that a lot of local commity enrichment centers give so you can become "certified" in babysitting. Courses include CPR and handling children. There is a lot of money to be made with this.

Good luck!

Dang LolaWiz, you are a youngun to be married.

 

[Lola]

Originally posted by: DaShen

Originally posted by: LolaWiz
Oh my God, i am 9 years older than you!

anyways, what about tutoring? are you good at any specific subjects that you could tutor local kids with?

Have you checked with your school to see if they know of any job oppertunities? I know our school had a whole list of them in the cousiling center.

I know that you may think babysitting is just for girls, but i know a lot of guys are doing this as well. THere are even some classes that a lot of local commity enrichment centers give so you can become "certified" in babysitting. Courses include CPR and handling children. There is a lot of money to be made with this.

Good luck!

Dang LolaWiz, you are a youngun to be married.

Perhaps, but i am wise in my young age will be 23 on tuesday!

 

[latino666]

Work at a golf course. I made good tips when I worked at a private golf course.

 

[YetioDoom]

Paper route.

 

[PCMarine]

when I was 14, I worked as a bagger at the local supermarket. Went on to work in the bakery department at 15 and made mad cash for how young I was. I'm 19 now.

 

[sonoma1993]

try like a paper route, or bus boy at the local restraunt.

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: latino666
Work at a golf course. I made good tips when I worked at a private golf course.

Works better if you are Caucasian and your parents are members of the private club, but that is only from my experience of it.

Friends made crazy money, but I wasn't even considered.

 

[BlueFlamme]

Know anyone who runs a construction company/mechanic shop? Even if you're not good with your hands, they can hire you on the side at unskilled labor prices (paid under the table typically) and you can learn some helpful stuff.

I did this a couple weekends working 12 hour days for a friend's dad where we were doing small time construction (remodel inside of an office, repaired ceiling of a church, installed windows/doors on an old house)

It was fun, I learned some good stuff, and I actually got paid decent ($7/hour back when min-wage was less than $5)

You can always be creative and resell stuff, used to do with this those bubble-gum lollipops, would buy a box of 100 from Sams for $7, then sell them at school for a quarter a piece. Maybe take some of the ideas from the early Apprentice shows (sell Ice Cream, give animal baths, etc)

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: PCMarine
when I was 14, I worked as a bagger at the local supermarket. Went on to work in the bakery department at 15 and made mad cash for how young I was. I'm 19 now.

I was a bagger too. Then one day they got a new juice machine in the produce department and I knew they were going to have to hire someone to operate it. So I went to my manager and said, "please let me work in the produce department...." That's when my manager told me, "baggers can't be juicers."

 

[DougK62]

When I was 14 I worked at a Tool & Die shop -- I'd go in after the workers left and clean the place up.

 

[Kevin1211]

burger king? or any other fast food restaurants.

 

[captains]

see if your local church has anything to do....i used to set up tables and crap for the CCD classes

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: GroundZero
hold the neibors cat hostage..
or babysit for them.
the mowing lawns thang works in the spring/summer.
wash cars, my truck has about 15 pounds of mud on it.
ask your neigbors what they need done work wise....
or get money from the parental units for being an upstanding young man

Please do not give advice to a 14 year old with such horrific spelling. You're polluting his young mind.

Neighbor.
Thing.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: GroundZero
hold the neibors cat hostage..
or babysit for them.
the mowing lawns thang works in the spring/summer.
wash cars, my truck has about 15 pounds of mud on it.
ask your neigbors what they need done work wise....
or get money from the parental units for being an upstanding young man

Please do not give advice to a 14 year old with such horrific spelling. You're polluting his young mind.

Neighbor.
Thing.

my truck has about 15 pounds of mud on it.

That should have been your first clue that you're dealing with the punchline of every Jeff Foxworthy joke....

 

[733SHiFTY]

dont get a job, live off your parents for as long as possible

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: PCMarine
when I was 14, I worked as a bagger at the local supermarket. Went on to work in the bakery department at 15 and made mad cash for how young I was. I'm 19 now.

I was a bagger too. Then one day they got a new juice machine in the produce department and I knew they were going to have to hire someone to operate it. So I went to my manager and said, "please let me work in the produce department...." That's when my manager told me, "baggers can't be juicers."

That was just awful

 

[l Thomas l]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I'm actually pretty close to turning 15. I live in San Francisco. I'm good at math, so maybe I'll try tutoring, but one place where I used to go to said they don't pay unless you're 16+.

Not many lawns around here or kids to babysit. There is one of those baby drop off places on my block, but I would think they're closed on weekends, and I usually get home from school around 5, so I wouldn't be able to work much there.