Does your teen want to work but can’t find a job?

Is your teen looking for a job but have you realized that the competition is fierce with the economy hitting everyone so hard? It seems that everyone is feeling the pinch in one way or another. With all the job losses and business closures, it’s so hard for breadwinners to find a job that they are settling for the jobs usually held by teenagers. It’s hard for a teenager who works for a date or gas money to compete with a man or woman who works to feed their families. More than anything, the employer is going to fill these positions with someone they feel has more motivation to stick with it and will have more loyalty to the position.

Another big challenge for young teens is that most companies won’t hire kids under the age of 16, which puts kids under the age of 15 at a real disadvantage. Younger teens may not yet be working for date money or even gas money, but with their parents out of work, their allowances would be one of the first expenses in the family budget. They still need some spending money to hopefully start saving for college or their own car, but also just to go to the mall to hang out with their friends or for the video games they want between birthdays and holidays. and just to have cash for the extras. at school. Being able to buy a soda or pay your way to a movie while hanging out with friends is an important part of socializing as a teenager. Teens young and old want to be able to feel like they can buy things on their own without having to ask mom or dad.

The problem with all of that is that even though jobs are being cut and wages are being lost, I don’t see the price of movies going down or the cost of gas going down at the same rate. More than ever, teens need a way to earn some money, not enough to live on, but enough to learn responsibility and some independence. Another problem with younger teens is that when their parents are working, they have limited access to go to work, even if they can find a job. If they’re lucky enough to be able to walk to work, great, but most won’t be so lucky.

One way kids can earn some money, thankfully, is in their own homes, with no need for gas money or mom or dad for a ride. You are available on a flexible schedule and they can work around their school and homework; that of course is the internet. Now I know you are safe, my son can surf the internet, talk on Facebook, watch YouTube, send emails and IM, but he knows nothing about creating or designing a website. Fortunately for kids and adults who aren’t web designers or HTML experts, you don’t need to know all of that to have a website. There are numerous ways to set up and run a website without having that knowledge. Now that you learn how it works, you can design and run many types of businesses on the web, but for a beginner it’s easier than ever.

There are plenty of free website builders on the web to let you build your own site, but now there’s an opportunity for true beginners to make money simply by giving away (yes, I said giving away) an eBook. I know it sounds crazy, but for a beginner there is nothing better and in most cases the website can be up and running in a matter of hours; all your teen would have to do is put a link to her site (designed for them) on their Facebook pages, MySpace, and in every email they send. They can get their link however they want, using whatever method they want. They can go further if they want and place free ads on the internet (you’ll get some sample ads to use or use as examples), Craigslist, article sites, like this, wherever they want to get your link!

All of this can be done on their own time so they can work as much or as little as they want, working between homework and chores, on weekends, whenever, and never need a ride to work or gas money. Can you imagine how proud your teenager will be when they can earn their own spending money with their own website?

If all of this sounds a little too good to be true, then all you need to do is check it out, read the free eBook, and decide for yourself if this is something your teen can do. This is also a great way for them to learn about internet marketing and can be a great learning tool for developing a foundation for a career that will keep them free from the glass ceilings that working for the typical corporate company would give them.