If you’re too
young to be hired, here are some other ways to make extra cash. Let
people know you’re available to:
• Do chores around the house
• Baby-sit
• Mow lawns
• Rake leaves or shovel snow
• Help with indoor painting
• Bake
• Clean
• Walk dogs
• Run errands
• Wash cars
• Teach computer or Internet skills
• Make or sell something such as newsletters, cards, jewelry, or drawings
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Who will
hire me?
Types of part-time jobs
Fast food chains
Preparing, cooking, and assembling food; working the front counter or drive-through.
Restaurants
Hosting, waiting on tables, bussing tables, washing dishes, cooking.
Local shopping centers
Being a cashier, stocking inventory, working in customer service (check into
sales commissions and store discounts!)
Offices
Using the computer or Internet, filing, answering phones, entering data into
computers, working in customer service.
Internships
Ask your teacher or school guidance counselor if any businesses, school, government
agency, or nonprofit organization in your area offer internships. Internships
are jobs, either paid or unpaid, where you can apply the skills you learn in
school, or develop new job skills that may help you in whatever career you
eventually choose.
Nonprofit and volunteer organizations
Most nonprofit and volunteer organizations are short on staff and always welcome
an extra pair of helping hands. Here, too, you can apply skills you learn in
school, or learn new skills you can apply to a future job or during your career.
VolunteerMatch.org has a comprehensive list of volunteer opportunities in your
area. Go to www.volunteermatch.org and
enter your zip code and area of interest, then learn how to share your talents
with others! Also, see the “Earn
Life Skills and Money for School” section for other volunteering
opportunities.
(source: www.bygpub.com/books/tg2rw/part-time.htm;
Part-time Jobs for Teens)
However you decide to earn money, it'll help to first draft a simple business
plan.
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money to help my family
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