my nephew is about to turn 15 and wants to get his first job. i was under the impression that you had to be 16 at work, but his friend at school is working as a bus boy at a local family owned restaraunt. anyway his friend scraped up enough for a ps3 so now my nephew is bent on getting one. i am the closest thing he has got as a father figure but not legally by any means. im all for the kid working, but his mom (single parent) claims its not legal for her baby to work yet. does anyone know if he can legally work?
I found this, so I guess its right...Legal age to work in Texas and Working Age I remember working at Sonic at age 15...Then of course graduating to Kroger and Randalls sacking and checking...money is a good thing, plus learning responsibility and hitting on chicks...
I got my first job at age 15. Neighborhood pizza joint. Since I was 15, they paid me less than minimum wage. They paid me $1.75 an hour when the minimum wage was $2.25. I ate a medium pizza with everything on it each and every day I worked there. They fired me after two weeks!
mcdonald's used to have jobs (my friends had them) for cleaning the playroom and hosting little kids' parties for 15 yr olds
Anyone can work in the state of tx starting at the age of 14. They must pay minimum wage but there are labor laws restrictions. Employee cannot work more than 15 hrs a week and no more than 3 hours on a weekday. 7 hrs max on non school day. and not past 7 pm. 30 hrs max during the summer. and not past 8pm.
A nice job for him would be the guy who cleans the floor during the Rockets games. Wonder how you get that.
I worked for a car wash for minimum wage (then $4.75/hr) at 15. If he asks around, he should be able to find someone that'll hire him.
Just buy the poor child a PS3 yourself. I mean I am all for kids learning the value of money at a young age, but there's no job out there for him right now that will teach him anything valuable in life. Besides, he only wants to work just to raise 600 bucks. Most kids I know, even people my age, still rely on their parents for such goodies. I never worked until I started college. I've always been in the white-collar environment joining Fortune 500 firms and such. I was 19 and making 24 bucks an hour. They're not going to hire you when they see that you've worked at Sonic or Kroger. I might be completely wrong, but that's the way I view this situation. Just let him volunteer his time at the hospital or library to get a sense of the real professional working environment and let him focus on his studies. Then he'll be ready for his first job and he'll know exactly what to expect. It only gets easier after that. So it's not really an issue of being legal or not. Do you really want him to be out there working like a no good chump for minumum wage? I remember when I was 15 I had this old crappy TV in my room that was pretty much black and white. The sound never worked either and I was always frustrated with it. I remember specifically telling my dad the week before the Rockets were about to start that I wanted a brand new 27'' TV in my room by that following Saturday. He got it for me. Simple! And I still use that TV today!
wow you are spoiled.... Redefined has been Redefined Redifined= Shane Battier and Chuck Hayes would not have this Attitude
My father was a homebuilder and he worked me really hard from the age 15 up. Stupid houses under construction in Houston in summer. Like freaking ovens. Anyways, hard labor is good for young people. Teaches discipline, the value of money, AND the value of education.
Agreed...Don't get me wrong, I do buy my kids stuff, but not because they b*tch and moan...They have to earn it through chores, good grades and being a good kid...When they grow up, they're getting a job, whether they want one or not... After High School, I worked summers for Entex, now Centerpoint Energy digging ditches...Totally sucked as the summers where hot as hell...It taught me to get an education and not be stuck in laborer type work...
This from the guy who was upset he cant scam Costco out of his electronic returns anymore.. All that great silver spoon feeding your parents gave you I can understand why you think the way you do..
Guys, I pay my own rent and bills including gas, food, entertainment, and everything else in between. I'm old enough to realize responsibility. My post was serious. So now you're telling me you want your 15 year old kid to buy his own clothes? Oh yeah, I quoted you to tell you that I do have a 51'' HDTV. Bought that baby with only one paycheck! I wonder what I should do with all this free time I have because of not having a job
Costco's policy was for you to not hesitate in buying electronics for any reason. Technology changes so fast people wait for the right time to pull the trigger on whatever it is they want to buy. Their theory has been to buy it without worrying. If anything goes wrong, return it. If a new product comes out with better specs, exchange it. You run out of money all of a sudden, return it for a full refund. I had absolutely nothing to worry about. 80% the time you just keep the product anyways. Besides, the policy won't be retroactive so I can still manage to return the products I already purchased!
You are completely wrong. I never worked in a white collar environment before my first day as a lawyer. My first summer job was when I was 14. I did KP at a mess hall for Army MP's. Those were about the sickest group of perv's I have ever been around in my life. Boy, did I get an education that summer. When I think about what the one-toothed-bald-headed-redneck-cretin-head-cook threatened to do to me on a daily basis (cue the dueling banjos), I am not too surprised about the goings on in Iraq. The left over food from the mess hall was put into corregated metal trashcans and then put in a refrigerated room. Once a week the pigfarmer came and took the slop. While in the refrigerated room, the grease congealed in the crevices of the trashcans, which then had to be scrubbed out in the hot summer sun. Good times, for $2.35/hour. Next I lifeguarded for a few summers through high school. A big step up from KP duty, and the people interested in me were actually of the opposite sex! One time I had to pull a kid out of the pool who wasn't breathing, gave him mouth to mouth, and saved his life. Can't do that working at the library. Not too bad for a minimum wage kid. Good fringe benefits and great job! Then when I was in college I started my own painting company painting houses. Hard work, but I set my own schedule and made a ton of money. I eventually got to where I didn't mind painting so much. Went to law school and went back to lifeguarding at a lake at a county park. Much different than working in a pool. The water was pretty muddy, so if someone went under you could lose them in a hurry. It was a very rural area of Virginia, where the locals loved to drink and swim. Not a good combination. I pulled one kid out, he must of been 12, and the bourbon was strong enough on his breath to knock me over. One Saturday we had seven rescues. I thought we would lose someone for sure, but we never did. Another job with great fringe benefits , but partly also the worst job ever. This was a public park, and we had to clean the restrooms in the bathhouse. We had black industrial rubber gloves that were thicker than the monster tires on the pickup trucks. I was just glad I didn't have to clean the girls' room, man what they would leave .... After my second year of law school (I never clerked anywhere), I worked as a cowboy on a ranch in Florida. We worked from cain't to cain't (from when you couldn't see in the morning till you couldn't see at night). $35 a day (got paid for 5, worked 7), and all the steak and beans you could eat. Steak for breakfast if you wanted it. My favorite job ever. I loved being a cowboy and never got throwed. I had great experiences working, and unlike most on this board never went to summer school and never took a summer off. I didn't think I was missing anything at the time.
