Teen Employment Isn’t Exploitation, But It Might Keep You From Becoming A Helpless Adult
By: Mark Hemingway April 14, 2023
Great article from the Federalist, my first job was at age 12 as a paperboy for the Philadelphia Bulletin, and had all sorts of jobs through my teenage and college years. One of my biggest disappointments for myself and my sons during their years was their inability to get work during those years, until they entered college work study programs in their colleges. Most young people these days do NOT have a proper work ethic, and the value of earning their own money and earning more responsibility
- efd
Increasingly, Americans aren’t working as teenagers, and it’s no wonder there’s a growing political movement that equates employment with exploitation.
More than once, I’ve been drawn into a conversation among friends and family about who had the worst job. To the extent this is a competition, I always win because when I was 19, I spent a summer working at a port-a-potty place.
It was actually a pretty great job – I wasn’t dealin…