Best jobs for a 16 year old?

[TulsaSooner]

My step son got a job at Cinemark on 71st St and he is 16.  He doesn't work a lot of hours, but it's a decent job.

[guido911]

But I've worked in...a psychiatric hospital

"worked"? Must...resist...

[Ed W]

"worked"? Must...resist...

Yep.  It's the only place I could find that would pay me to play basketball.

[DolfanBob]

I almost forgot, until you mentioned the psyc Hospital.
I worked as a maintanance assistant at a Nursing Home. You know. Buffing floors, helping the nurses with paitents, taking out trash, chasing runaway residents etc, etc.

I will never forget Harley. He was a resident in a wheel chair who got a kick out of waving you over close enough to him, and then he would punch you in the nuts and just sit there and laugh. He couldnt really talk but he sure would light up with amusement having you fall for it.
He once climbed out a window and had crawled about 30 yards from the building before we got to him.
These are the kind of memories you just cant get playing video games.

[Conan71]

Tulsa Piper. . .Worked for Cowboy Bill Watts.

Made the mistake when I was 15 of asking my dad for an allowance (met with laughter).  The next day I was to report to my new job.

When they told me I would be driving a fuel truck, I said I was only 15.  They said no problem, we'll teach you.  It was hard work and it was a blast! 

So you probably knew the Richardson's as well.

[sauerkraut]

I think that's great. As for jobs the Whataburger on 31st & highway 169 is hiring, TP is always hiring if you have no criminal backround history and have a good credit report, they will hire ya...The jobs are there if you pound the pavement and lootk for 'em.

[neversummer23]

Just sent in an app into Best Buy. Hopefully I get the job.

Heres a interesting thing. All of their apps are handled online. One of the biggest things I got from this thread was always to go inside a store, but that did nothing for me at best buy! Geez, thanks guys. 

[guido911]

Just sent in an app into Best Buy. Hopefully I get the job.

Heres a interesting thing. All of their apps are handled online. One of the biggest things I got from this thread was always to go inside a store, but that did nothing for me at best buy! Geez, thanks guys. 

Best of luck, and I can only assume that big meanie Ed W wishes the same.  . That would be a great place to get IT experience.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I think Lowe's is doing online, too.

Well, you know that this is a bunch of old people (comparatively).  There are new technologies every day that render the old obsolete -  we are all obsolete around here.

There still have to be places that deal with you in person. 

Hey, wait a minute!!!  You mean that is the only place you have applied so far??  What have you been doing all this time?  Get your backside up and get out there applying at places!  NOW!!!  (Sound like a parental unit??)
What if they say no, then you have wasted all that time waiting when you could have been lining up a dozen more places that might say yes.  And just because they say yes, doesn't mean you have to take it - if there is another one you like better, just say, "Thanks, but I already accepted another position".  Using exactly those words.


Personal opinion moment:  Best Buy!  Yuck!

Good luck!

[Ed W]

Ya know, when I was a teenager...back in Bedrock with Barney, Fred, and that d@mned hot Betty, I worked for two summers as a student technician at Westinghouse R&D in Churchill PA.  Sure, I did the least important jobs in the shop, but I got to work on electric car prototypes, future toaster designs, plastic moldings for pre-fab construction, and even some interesting mechanical apparatus for a nuclear power plant.  Every day was different, and I was seldom bored.  The hours just flew by. 

Corporations hired students like me for the summer.  It probably wasn't a paying deal for them, but they certainly inspired some to take up technical careers. 

Here is my wish for you, Grasshopper, and it's the same one I have for my own kids.  I truly hope you do something you like, something that you look forward to when you swing your legs over the side of the bed in the morning, because there's nothing worse than waking up to go off to a job you hate.  Most of us have had that experience, and I really hope it's one that passes you by. 

[guido911]

Here is my wish for you, Grasshopper, and it's the same one I have for my own kids.  I truly hope you do something you like, something that you look forward to when you swing your legs over the side of the bed in the morning, because there's nothing worse than waking up to go off to a job you hate.  Most of us have had that experience, and I really hope it's one that passes you by.