Do you think there could be any jobs that kids who are age 14 can do rather than laze around all day? I need a wage since my allowance has been pretty much slumped since the last few weeks... -.- I've already did the jobs for my parents and yet it's not enough for what I'd need to buy things.
16 for a full employment. I'm sure your school district offers a work permit -- which will allow you to work (with certain restrictions of course). Dunno how your district would handle it, but my old school district basically kept us to more register type stuff and the like. If you pop into your counselor or principal's office to ask, you should be able to get some info on it. c:
Not a lot of places will hire you at 14, even with worker permits or papers. The best suggestion I can give you for now is just to pick up odd jobs--rake the neighbor's lawn, fix their computer, shovel the snow from their driveway, etc. You can easily make some cash that way, and the people you consistently help will make great job references for when you do get a bit older and start applying places.
Like Misty said, not a lot of places will hire anyone younger than 16, and at least in my state to work at 15 you need a worker's permit, and if I remember it was very restricting when it came to how many hours you could work. How are you with kids? Have you tried babysitting? If you don't feel comfortable with the really little ones you could mention that in your ad, but sometimes there are plenty of parents out there who want someone to help their school-age kids with homework or just being there on those busy school nights when they can't. I babysat for a neighbor for a year and half, who had a 4-year old and an 8-year old, and we did just fine. I had two "fixed-days" that I worked each week, and I was "on-call" often. She paid me equal to minimum wage, sometimes a little extra if the parents were heading out somewhere and wouldn't be back until late. I've also shoveled driveways in the winter, raked lawns, even worked as an umpire in the spring for $10 a baseball game for the town's little league. Best place to check those sorts of things is maybe the town hall or some other local place that gets a lot of traffic (my town often posts notes in the supermarket). People will put up flyers there all the time; go there maybe once or twice a week, scout the flyers, make some calls.
