job ideas for young teens (merged)

Savvy_Sue

LumpyBumpy wrote:

Not sure whether this is still the case but you used to have to get some sort of permit to work if you were under 16, I guess that this is to make sure that the employment type and the hours were appropriate.

Yup, that is correct.

Middle son does the free papers and a Sunday paper round, up at 7.30 am. Could the OP's son cope with an early morning once a week? Also if there is a local paper, either weekly or daily, they may do 'direct deliveries' which could possibly be done after school.

sundin13

Hi,

DS is a big (expensive) teenager now, and I suggested to him that he put his name down at the local shop for a paper round.

Well he's got one now, and is thrilled at the vast wealth he's pulling in.

But I'm not. £10 - for seven days a week. Surely that's plain wrong - I know it only takes him fifteen minutes or so (weekdays at least - weekend papers are much more work), but are they even allowed to ask him to work seven days? It seems so wrong - especially as it means I have to get up seven days a week to drag him out of bed!!! :doh:

Can anyone else tell me what their kids are getting?

highguyuk

All depends on how many papers there are in the round.

At my local shop, the lad who delivers to my area gets paid £15 a week. But on the run are 3/4 private hospitals all with at least half a dozen papers per day. Sat/Sun takes him 2 trips to do it because its so heavy.

For the weekly paper round of 150 papers with all the leaflets that come with it you'd be looking at £6/£7 per week depending on leaflets.

His first weeks wages should go towards an alarm clock, then its his responsibility from there to get up for his job.

Philippa36

My daughter took on a similar paper round ~ every day for not a great deal of money. She had to be there for 7am every morning (I wasn't impressed either) I figured she could try it and see how she got on. She was fine for the first week, the owner took her round and showed her the route, then on the Sunday we were due to go out somewhere so I woke her up, and then got on with sorting out the rest of the family and packing for the day ahead.

By 10am I was concerned that she hadn't come home.......I went round her route in the car, but no sign. I thought maybe she was coming back via the field at the back of the house so I had missed her, so we waited another 15 mins before I decided I should go along and ask at the newsagents.

I was just leaving the house when my son shouted that she was upstairs ~ still in bed not having made it through the door :doh: nevermind delivered any papers ....... :rotfl:

I had to go and explain and suggest that maybe she wasn't really suited to the early mornings :rolleyes:

Woby_Tide

if it's only taking 15 minutes to do then it's not that long a paperound, even allowing longer at weekends that equates to around £5 per hour which IMO is fairly good going. Going back a few years but my round when I started took about 45 mins/hour and that was for £5 for 5 days, Sundays were worth more but you got a shorter round due to heavier papers.

(Looking at the minimum wage website and a 16-17 year old is only entitled to £3 per hour so £5 isn't bad goiing at all

YBNB

I'm afraid I'm with Woby_Tide. For the amount of time it takes him that's not bad pay.

KizzyK_2

I got a free paper round when I was 13, £9.40 for the papers and if I had leaflets then it would bump it up to around £10.50. The papers were meant to go out on a Thursday but the round took so long that if I did a few hours Thursday and Friday night (before dark) they would get finished on Saturday afternoon. Took about 7 hours because of the sheer amount of papers. :eek:

sundin13

Thanks for the sanity checks.

You're right that the money itself when worked out isn't too bad....but its the seven days a week that gets me worked up really. It means that he never really gets a chance to catch up on his sleep, so he's frequently grumpy, and he's not at the age yet where he appreciates the joys of the afternoon nap :rolleyes:

It also means sleeping over at friends becomes a nightmare, and weekends away impossible, and, well, lets just say DH and I quite enjoy ourselves when we have the house to ourselves!!!

Ah well - if he can stick it out for a year, then maybe he'll have a good track record and be able to get another job - Saturdays in a shop or something.

Smelis

My cousin has just taken up a paper round, she has to deliver a local evening paper and on Saturday afternoons and collect payment on Saturdays. I think the round takes her about 30 minutes per night and she earns £30! I thought that was rather a good rate of pay for a 14 year old.

Smelis

mae

My son does 6 mornings and 5 evenings so he gets a lie in on Sundays he gets paid £20 and if he gets all his papers delivered correctly he gets a £5 bonus which he usually does so its a good incentive.