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Summer Jobs

Prompt: What was your worst summer job? What was your best summer job?

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Summer jobs, especially for teens, enhance the sense of belonging as active members of society and boost their self-esteem as individuals. They also teach the management of money, no matter on how small a scale.

As for me, all my summer jobs were centered around tutoring. I was pretty good in school. One classmate’s younger sister was having trouble with a few of her subjects. After I tutored her during the summer so she could take the make-up exams later, she passed every one of them and with good to great grades. After that, lots of people brought their kids to me. I didn’t have to work anywhere else until I finished school. I also had a stint with working in the library part time one summer. Nothing was bad or too good about all these jobs. I enjoyed them as they were rather cushy, and I learned a thing or two while doing them.

I kinda wish, though, I would have taken other jobs like a sales clerk, fast-food worker, etc. I would learn about and understand the business world better. Possibly as the result of that, I am terrible at selling anything. In fact, selling scares me. I, therefore, encouraged my kids to work in different places during their formative years, and one of them turned out to be very good with sales of any kind in an ethical way.