I’m 15, turning 16 later in the year and I’ve been applying to places, with no luck. The problem for me is that I don’t know where to apply. I’ve applied to places I want to work, but so far no luck. I know, being 15, there isn’t much options, and not many employers will hire you at 15 unless they’re desperate for work. I know being in the middle of August, there isn’t much chance to get a summer job, but I’m looking for a job all year round. I actually have two questions:

1. Is there a greater/better chance of me getting a job once I turn 16?
2. Is it bad for me not to get a job at 15? I always worry because most people I know who are 15 have jobs (they don’t work many hours).

Thats another thing. It pisses me off seeing someone get a job by asking. If they tried before and failed then I’m fine with it, but I’m talking about someone who never tried, and figures they should ask someone to do it for them. People who don’t feel like applying, and just want to get in the easy way. I hate people like that! Because people who’ve been trying and failing deserve jobs more than the person who just wants someone to do it for them. ARGH!!!

Also: Don’t say work online, or any fast food places. Try to mention either grocery stores, or department stores. Typical restaurants are fine, but no fast food.

Okay, so I am 15 years old, a girl, and I applied for a job at a local pizza restaurant. They hired me right away, and put me to work. The first couple of weeks I worked a few 3 hour shifts, just to get into the swing of things. Then they started giving me these long weeks. 4 hours here, 10 hours here, 6 hours here. I was surprised on how many hours they gave me, but I was excited, and didn’t mind.

Lately, I’ve been getting really bogged down with work, and I don’t have any time to spend with my friends any more. I know you may think ‘well a job isn’t supposed to work around your schedule, and you should take what you get’, well, that’s not what I want. All I was looking for in the first place was a small summer job; something to keep me somewhat busy, and to earn some money. I’m started to hate it. It gets really boring and I’m not liking it as much as I did when I got hired.

Now here’s the dilemma: They are short handed as it is. So if I said to them ‘give me less hours’, I don’t think that would go over too well. And, to make matters worse, I’ve got family coming up from out of state next week, and I’d like to have most of that time off, so I could spend time with them and not have to work. I was talking to one of the workers, my favorite one, and the one who I talked to about getting the job in the first place. He told me some things that are going on there, and I told him how things are going for me. I told him how I want less hours, and how I need time off next week because of the family thing. He didn’t seem too happy. It isn’t his decision, and it’s not like he was mad at me, it’s just he knows that it won’t go over to well with the boss. Now, the boss is old, and I guess he’s mean to everyone that works there. But, I haven’t seen that side of him yet since I’ve only been there about a month, and hardly ever see him.

Anyways, they are short handed as it is, so me asking for time off, and especially less hours, is not good. Now, I told the worker I talked to that what if I said ‘Thanks, but I don’t want to do this anymore’. He told me they think the world of me there, and that they are so impressed with me. Me quitting would not only hurt them personally, but also it would put more stress on the other workers, because they would have to make up the hours I worked. Now, they had me working 30 hours a week, which, for me, is a lot!! My dad has a business, and I’m going to help him with it, and he’s willing to pay me well to help him (Probably more than what I make now).

I’m in such a jam, because I don’t want to do this anymore, because I don’t like it, but, I don’t want to let any of them down. If I did quit, my family or I couldn’t go in there again, because it would be so awkward for them, and me/my family. It sucks, and I know summer is almost over, and I would have to give them 2 weeks notice if I was going to quit anyways, so by the time that 2 weeks was up, there would only be a couple weeks left of summer. Then school would start, and I wouldn’t work (most likely) because of sports and stuff.

So the worker I talked to is going to talk to the boss, and let me know what he has to say about it. I’m too scared to talk to him myself about it. I just don’t want to hurt anybody.
So I don’t know. If you read all of that, thanks And if you didn’t then here is the run down:

Work at a place where I don’t like how many hours I get and how it’s not fun for me anymore. Don’t want to say anything because they will not like that. So I don’t know what to do. They like me there, and they are short handed, so quitting wouldn’t be good, but neither would cutting my hours, which is what I would do if I couldn’t quit. If they can’t give me less hours, then I will quit.

So there’s my problem. Please give me your advice on this, I need to give them an answer soon.

Thank you so much for you help

So I’ve been friends with this guy for like 7 years (im also a guy btw)…long story short, I screwed things up recently and we had a falling out. The thing is, we both work the same summer job and have the same group of mutual friends, but no one knows that we’ve been kind of getting into a fight. Anyway, yesterday he acted pretty normal during work and we talked, and all the workers were planning to go out later for some drinks and I offered to give him a ride, but he refused for some reason. He then told me through a text that he was done dealing with my crap and I’ve had too many chances.

So I ended up getting a ride from another co-worker and he ended up taking his own car there. At the restaurant, he was actually talking to me a bit and smiling, but we didn’t mention anything about our situation. We went to another bar afterwards, he decided to go to his girlfriends house for a bit and possibly go to the bar later, whereas I went to the bar with the person who drove me and some others. I left the bar at like 12:15 because I had to get up early. I wake up, and I get a text from my friend at 1:45 asking me where I went…

I just don’t get it, he said he’s fed up with me, yet he talked and texted me about my whereabouts last night.

Even though that you could probably see it, but I’m going to warn you that there is a lot of reading involved in this question and that you don’t need to answer this question, but it would be highly appreciated. I just wanted to get something off my chest because I’m going through a lot of stress lately about my summer break.

So, my parents are divorced, and I’m on a 50-50 plan, where I’m with my dad for 2 weeks, then with my mom for 2 weeks. These past 2 weeks, I was working for my grandpa on my mom’s side at his nursery, getting $5 an hour plus bed and board. I earned $400 the past two weeks and I wanted to work for him for the whole summer so that I can buy myself a new Macbook Pro for my birthday, but I needed my dad’s permission in order to work the whole summer (I asked him last Wednesday and he said he needed time to think about it. I called him again on Friday and he was still thinking about it. Asked him today (Sunday, July 4) an hour before I had to go to his house, still hasn’t decided; also, he told me before the last school year ended that because that I quit baseball, I was not going to be doing anything over the summer.).

So I came to my dad’s house at 6:00 and started to discuss with him about work. He said that he loves the fact that I’m working toward a goal and also enjoy it, but if I work for the whole summer, he wouldn’t be able to see me for the whole summer (he wants to “interact with me,” which means I do all the work around the house and not get paid while he sits his lazy ass on the couch watching TV and reading the newspaper). So he wants to see me on the weekends when I’m not working, including weekends where I’m with my mom. I told him that that’s fine, but it’s not my decision because I still can’t drive and I need some sort of transportation to get to one place to another (turning 15 in August; my job is about an hour away from where I live).

So we call my mom, who was with my grandpa and my step-dad at a restaurant, and talk about “our” plan (my dad wanted me to get on another phone so that we could both talk to my mom and grandpa). My grandpa says that my job is a real job, so that I need to stay up where he lives for the whole summer, while my dad wants my somebody on my mom’s side of the family to take me back to his house for each weekend. Both my mother and my grandfather said that can’t be negotiated unless my dad could pick me up at my grandpa’s house, but my dad kept negotiating and saying that he could not pick me up at my grandpa’s house because “it’s not his responsibility.” The “discussion” got so out of hand, so my mom hung up, and I was out of a job.

My dad starts talking to me that since my mom hung up, she is the bad guy that cost me my job. He claims that he could have picked me up after work on Friday when I would go back for the weekend, but couldn’t take me back to my grandpa’s house on Sunday. He also claims that he tried to say that to my mom, but couldn’t because “she wouldn’t let me,” but he was the one who talked most of the time, which also contradicts to “we could both talk to your mother,” when I couldn’t say a word. He claims that if I work for the whole summer, he will get nothing in return.

My mom says that the reason that she hung up was because it was going around the same situation and wasn’t going anywhere. She said that my grandpa said that it was either work for the whole summer as a real job or no job at all. Also, my step-dad my need to go back to Iraq and if he does, my mom is going to go with him, and that I would have to be with my dad for the majority of the school year (though my dad doesn’t believe this and wants to “focus on today, not the future”).

After listening to both sides of the story, I’m with my mom on this argument, but I still am missing out on a job, and I don’t know what to do. I came up with a few compromises:
1) Since I’m with him for six more weeks of summer, he will pay me $1200 in cash
2) He will give me a “reasonable” job, where he will pay me a total of $1200 in cash by the end of summer
3) Get me a 15-inch Macbook Pro with the 500 GB hard drive for my birthday, or
4) Have him sign the papers so that I will be on my way and that I will never see him in my life ever again.

I know none of these compromises will work, due to the fact that it is impossible to negotiate with him, so I want a few more suggestions. Should I try to negotiate with him to working the whole summer? Should I call my grandpa tomorrow to pick me up and don’t give a shit on what my dad has to say about it? I just need suggestions and I’m open to any and all suggestions. Thank you for reading all of this and helping me out the best way you can.
For “deciding on who you want to live with laws,” I live in Ohio.
I also forgot to mention that I might have left out some details, but tried to remember all the details I could remember.

I just turned 14 this week. I’m picking up my working papers tomorrow so i can have a summer job. problem is, i don’t know anywhere that hires 14 year olds. i live in new jersey. what are some store chains or restaurants that hire at 14? also is it too late to get a job?

well i was thinking of getting a summer job and i’m just wondering who i should talking to?
do i just go walk in their and ask the cashier if they have a job opening or what ? thx

I’m 15 now so I can’t work until next summer. I want to be a waitress at a local restaurant in my town. It’s nothing well known, just a small town place with a few other locations around the area. I don’t know how much minimum wage is (I know it’s the normal minimum wage but I don’t know how much that is). I also don’t know what working hours are. I know they’re open from 9-7 but I don’t know what times are which shifts. I know I would be able to work all hours 3 days a week, and 5 hours 2 days a week for a total of 40 hours weekly. How much could I make in three months? How much do waitresses make in tips? The restaurant is really popular in my town and is a big family place. If anyone could give me an estimate of how much I could make (including tips, please) that would be really helpful! Thanks in advance!

The first job is at an amusement park and it seems easier and more likely to get 40hours a week
the second job is for a restaurant the interviewer was really nice and met with me and said she would give me a test run to see how I do. The problem is that both these jobs ask me to come in on the same date. I worked in a different restaurant last year but the hours sucked their were times where I was getting less then 20hours a week and I feel the same thing could happen if I worked here

Damn, I’ve been taken advantage of, those guys are jerks! I can’t believe them! One of them is an icky bisexual and the other one is an arrogant girl, who is also my crush, anyway, This is what happened yesterday, me and my “friends” are enrolling for the incoming semester, after that we went to the mall, all the money is on me( as always), I used my summer job’s paycheck, I’ve treated them in a Chinese fast food restaurant, dang, it did cost me a lot of money, I ordered them the most expensive dishes and I only had a simple meal, plus they had dessert and I didn’t bother to have one because of my cough, I never complained, they NEVER, as in, NEVER thanked me, and I am getting tired of their ugly behavior. After that, we went shopping, they bought themselves gadgets and perfumes( I joined them even though I hate shopping), also my day is getting even more screwed because of my cough(they never showed any concern), but when they are sick, I’ll be the first to come and comfort them. They are so…mean. After we went shopping, we went to our classmate’s house, even though I really wanted to go home, my classmate gave us coke, and we thanked him (AW! See how screwed they are!? Thanking the guy and not me, how about giving me some appreciation?), Then we went to the computer rental, but I didn’t enjoy at all, but my crush-friend was pissed off with me because I seemed to be in a spoiled mood(Damn that gal, I’ve treated her like a queen for a year and look what she did to me!), as we were about to go home, she called me a “bitchh” behind my back, haha, I was all teary because of that, but they didn’t notice. Then I went home, depressed, sick, feeling down and taken advantage of. I’ve been so stupid because I thought they were friends, but they are actually vampires. I was probably too afraid to lose them so I treated them so good, before, but now, I don’t need them, they need me! Lastly, my crush-friend is seriously messing me up, she said she also has a “crush” on me, and that she was jealous of her best friend, because her best friend likes me and I like her too, but my crush-friend begged me to stay away from her best friend, so I did what she asked me to do, but after this day, I am full of regret. =( Feel free to ask if u are confused.

I got a job a month ago making smoothies at a tiny mom & pop shop, but then got fired.
Now, I need to find a good paying job that will last me for at least the summer but I would like it to go on for longer.
Panera Bread is hiring and I have a bright looking interview tomorrow. I figure that they are most likely to accept my High School limitations and not give me an overwhelming amount of hours. Yet, they probably pay minimum wage and might not be worth the effort. However, they would still keep me after school starts, probably.
NEVERTHELESS, I also applied to this local Juice restaurant that is very busy and the waitresses make around $100 a shift when it’s busy (which it usually is). They seem to like me and said they would give me a call for openings. The workload seems demanding and I doubt that my school schedule would mesh well with a waitressing schedule. I start school in August, FYI.

Again, I am not only looking for a summer job. But, I also want something that pays well.

Any suggestions? Thanks!!!!