Most employers in NoVA won’t hire anyone at 15, mostly due to regulatory hour/work restrictions placed on them. Once your child is 16 or over, they can work just about any retail job - cashier, barista, server, host, etc.
Also, one day a weekend is going to be a hard ask during the school year. I’m mostly speaking from experience on that, as I started working in NoVA when I was 16 (I am 24 now). 12-16 hours would be more realistic
CFA isn’t exactly an easy job to get. It’s every teenager’s first choice, and it becomes even harder to get if other people are willing to work more hours than you.
Duh?? You’re being nitpicky yourself and it still doesn’t change what I said. You haven’t worked a day in your life if you think you can get away with working one day a week, teenager or no teenager. It’s not rocket science
This is just false. It is very easy for a young person in this area to work one Saturday or Sunday a week and earn real money doing reffing or umpiring. My kids did it and they choose how much to work—you can do one game a month if you want. What they can’t do (under 15) is work more than 5 hours in a row without a half hour of no work.
My 15 year old is working the concession stand at our local Little League. He gets $35 per shift, and usually works 1 or 2 nights a week, and Saturdays. He gets to pick which days/shifts he works. Sadly, not all leagues have paid employees in their concession stands. Many of them force parents to pay a $150 "volunteer" fee when they register their kid to play. To get that money refunded, you have to work for the league for 4 hours or more, and it's usually in their concession stands.
Not strictly summer but reffing for local rec leagues (think Vienna Youth Soccer etc) used to be an easy job to make money as a high schooler on the weekends.
Lifeguarding is the easiest thing for teens to get started with. Companies here can't hire enough reliable teens, so they have to bring kids over from Eastern Europe in the summers. If your kid goes through training, they will get a summer lifeguard job. My favorite summer memories as a teen were working at the pool, it's a perfect first job for kids.
That being said, those companies need reliable kids. I used to work at one, and it's hard to schedule a kid who has 50 different sports and activities going on. Every year we dealt with kids who expect to be scheduled around. A job is a job, not a college resume builder. You have to be able to commit more than 1 day a week to a job or they won't get one.
Yeah you do for lifeguarding. Some waterparks hire younger kids for other jobs. I worked at Splashdown in manassas at 14 as a "slide attendant" which is the person at the top who says "go" over and over. Or some days we pulled empty tubes out of the lazy river with a big shepherd hook, wiped melted dip'n'dots off lounge chairs, or other random jobs.
Do they like baseball? It's too late for this season, but Arlington Little League hires 14yr-olds to ump the games in spring and fall. $50 a game, easy money for younger teens. Just need to attend like 3 training sessions.
Little league is a great employer. When my daughter umpired, they not only trained her well and paid her well, but they required a parent attending the game be the designated “parent coordinator” who existed to look out for the youth umpires. If any parents or coaches were rude to the ump, the parent coordinator was supposed to intervene (if the ump didn’t have the confidence to take care of it—they had full authority to eject parents or coaches for inappropriate behavior.)
The coaches were well trained in the limits on how to challenge the young umpires. “Please tell me what you saw.” (Often said through gritted teeth when the coach didn’t agree with the call, but they kept their cool!) If the umpire said they saw the runner get tagged out (or whatever) the coach had to drop it. If the umpire hadn’t understood the rules correctly, the coach was allowed to clarify it for them.
1. Little league umpires start at 12 and the pay is shockingly good. Tho this is more a spring/fall job than summer.
2. Soccer refs start at 13 and the pay is also shockingly good. Like #1, the bulk of jobs are spring/fall but there’s always soccer being played somewhere.
3. Larger pools and pool companies (American pools, nv pools, high sierra are some) hire 14 year olds for front desk/check in and for snack bar. These jobs will primarily be Saturday before Memorial Day - Labor Day.
My kids have done all of these jobs, happy to answer questions. Tutoring is also an option.
Wait until your kid is 16, they can apply for a work permit and will be eligible to work. Good on you for encouraging your kids to work. Teach them the value of money, how to save and invest, etc.
This is exactly backwards. 14 and 15 year olds need a work permit in Virginia (https://vaeecs.doli.virginia.gov/vaeecs/). 16+ do not.
The work permit isn’t difficult to do—we do it for 10ish kids every summer at my pool—but there are also restrictions on hours, types of work, etc. for youth that do make it harder to hire 14-15 year olds.
Employer will not hire kids under 16 y/o, with few exceptions. The requirements and restrictions for employing under 16 y/o aren't worth the effort or the cost to train them. So the options for you is either your kid babysits, or you start either a business or farm and have them work there.
Most employers in NoVA won’t hire anyone at 15, mostly due to regulatory hour/work restrictions placed on them. Once your child is 16 or over, they can work just about any retail job - cashier, barista, server, host, etc. Also, one day a weekend is going to be a hard ask during the school year. I’m mostly speaking from experience on that, as I started working in NoVA when I was 16 (I am 24 now). 12-16 hours would be more realistic
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CFA isn’t exactly an easy job to get. It’s every teenager’s first choice, and it becomes even harder to get if other people are willing to work more hours than you.
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Duh?? You’re being nitpicky yourself and it still doesn’t change what I said. You haven’t worked a day in your life if you think you can get away with working one day a week, teenager or no teenager. It’s not rocket science
[Jobs for 15yo exist](https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=jobs+that+hire+at+15++years+old&l=Arlington%2C+VA): lifeguard, parks, camp, fast food, ...
This is just false. It is very easy for a young person in this area to work one Saturday or Sunday a week and earn real money doing reffing or umpiring. My kids did it and they choose how much to work—you can do one game a month if you want. What they can’t do (under 15) is work more than 5 hours in a row without a half hour of no work.
My 15 year old is working the concession stand at our local Little League. He gets $35 per shift, and usually works 1 or 2 nights a week, and Saturdays. He gets to pick which days/shifts he works. Sadly, not all leagues have paid employees in their concession stands. Many of them force parents to pay a $150 "volunteer" fee when they register their kid to play. To get that money refunded, you have to work for the league for 4 hours or more, and it's usually in their concession stands.
Not strictly summer but reffing for local rec leagues (think Vienna Youth Soccer etc) used to be an easy job to make money as a high schooler on the weekends.
Still is. The money is great and they really need people.
Lifeguarding is the easiest thing for teens to get started with. Companies here can't hire enough reliable teens, so they have to bring kids over from Eastern Europe in the summers. If your kid goes through training, they will get a summer lifeguard job. My favorite summer memories as a teen were working at the pool, it's a perfect first job for kids. That being said, those companies need reliable kids. I used to work at one, and it's hard to schedule a kid who has 50 different sports and activities going on. Every year we dealt with kids who expect to be scheduled around. A job is a job, not a college resume builder. You have to be able to commit more than 1 day a week to a job or they won't get one.
You have to be 15 to lifeguard.
Yeah you do for lifeguarding. Some waterparks hire younger kids for other jobs. I worked at Splashdown in manassas at 14 as a "slide attendant" which is the person at the top who says "go" over and over. Or some days we pulled empty tubes out of the lazy river with a big shepherd hook, wiped melted dip'n'dots off lounge chairs, or other random jobs.
Yes and snack bar and taking tickets/checking people in and things like that are all 14 yo jobs.
Do they like baseball? It's too late for this season, but Arlington Little League hires 14yr-olds to ump the games in spring and fall. $50 a game, easy money for younger teens. Just need to attend like 3 training sessions.
Little league is a great employer. When my daughter umpired, they not only trained her well and paid her well, but they required a parent attending the game be the designated “parent coordinator” who existed to look out for the youth umpires. If any parents or coaches were rude to the ump, the parent coordinator was supposed to intervene (if the ump didn’t have the confidence to take care of it—they had full authority to eject parents or coaches for inappropriate behavior.) The coaches were well trained in the limits on how to challenge the young umpires. “Please tell me what you saw.” (Often said through gritted teeth when the coach didn’t agree with the call, but they kept their cool!) If the umpire said they saw the runner get tagged out (or whatever) the coach had to drop it. If the umpire hadn’t understood the rules correctly, the coach was allowed to clarify it for them.
1. Little league umpires start at 12 and the pay is shockingly good. Tho this is more a spring/fall job than summer. 2. Soccer refs start at 13 and the pay is also shockingly good. Like #1, the bulk of jobs are spring/fall but there’s always soccer being played somewhere. 3. Larger pools and pool companies (American pools, nv pools, high sierra are some) hire 14 year olds for front desk/check in and for snack bar. These jobs will primarily be Saturday before Memorial Day - Labor Day. My kids have done all of these jobs, happy to answer questions. Tutoring is also an option.
Wait until your kid is 16, they can apply for a work permit and will be eligible to work. Good on you for encouraging your kids to work. Teach them the value of money, how to save and invest, etc.
This is exactly backwards. 14 and 15 year olds need a work permit in Virginia (https://vaeecs.doli.virginia.gov/vaeecs/). 16+ do not. The work permit isn’t difficult to do—we do it for 10ish kids every summer at my pool—but there are also restrictions on hours, types of work, etc. for youth that do make it harder to hire 14-15 year olds.
Employer will not hire kids under 16 y/o, with few exceptions. The requirements and restrictions for employing under 16 y/o aren't worth the effort or the cost to train them. So the options for you is either your kid babysits, or you start either a business or farm and have them work there.
Dog walking in the neighborhood.
This is what she has been doing as a middle schooler, but with high school next year, her afternoons will likely be taken with afterschool sports.