Reply #30: Think it just depends on where you live [View All]

Last summer both my kids got jobs--one of them got a full time daycare job and then she did part time at a Sonic at night..so she was working like 60 hours/week. The other was hired by a national chain movie theater that hires kids as young as 15 yrs old. She still works there and even though she started out at 7 bucks an hour, she has gotten enough raises since then to where she now makes (a year later) like $7.57/hr. Every time she goes shopping to her favorite store at the mall, they ask her of she wants a job there.
The one that worked at the daycare center last summer is choosing this summer to stay in Austin where she goes to school. She found a full time job once again as a daycare teacher even though she only had 3 months experience as a teacher's aid gotten the summer before.
I'd say 95% or more of the fast food workers around here are Hispanics who look to be in their 20s or 30's, whether it be a drive thru place or Subway. The places that hires the most teens around here are Sonic and the movie theater.
You all should see if there is a Sonic around where you live.
Sonic is wonderful here cuz the kids get tax-free tips. My kid would make up to $40-50 bucks/night in tips each night. Work 3 nights like that and it's $120-$150 tax free per week in tips alone. Her particular store still paid min. wage (not below, like some restaurants do) so she got that plus tips.