The lessons I learned working as a teen have never been equally matched.
At a back-to-school night this year, I chatted with a group of moms who had kids in high school. Their teens’ summers were filled with internships, service projects, sports camps, and more sports camps. Summer jobs? “Too hard to get.” “Not enough time.” “They won’t hire kids,” the moms told me.
Not even Charles Dickens could plumb the depth of misery that is trying to help sunburned tourists squeeze their smelly, sandy toes into the equally noxious plastic flip-flops. And don’t get me started on the Sisyphean task of folding and refolding dozens of piles of beach towels that those same tourists carelessly flung on the ground, while your dad peeks around the corner to see if you’ve tidied up yet.
Ruthie, who survived the Great Depression as a child and worked at Hand’s into her 80s, kindly taught me the rules around shift work — and that staying too long at lunch or showing up late to a shift impacted other people’s lives.
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