Summer Job Ideas
Ah, high school summers. How well I recall. Gas was $0.30 per gallon and the livin’ was easy . . . until I needed to buy some gas, get new tennis shoes, or go out on a date. So, being the brilliant strategist that I am, I figured out that I needed a summer job. Jobs weren’t as hard to come by back in the mid-’60s, certainly not as hard as it is today. I just sat down and made a list of semi-influential people I knew and checked out the local temp agency (“Manpower” was its name; I wonder if it’s called “Personpower” these days).
Anyway, my high school summer jobs consisted of being a busboy at the local Holiday Inn, where I learned a lot about what happens to restaurant food while it’s being prepared. Trust me; it’s better not to know. I also lugged heavy boxes of Cold Power laundry detergent samples door-to-door in a six-county region of my state. My job was to take one of the small sample boxes of Cold Power, put it into its plastic bag along with the advertising leaflet, hang the bag on the front-door handle and ring the doorbell. These heavy boxes of samples weighed about 35 pounds when full and those of us in the distribution crew carried them with a strap that went around our necks. Maybe that’s why I can’t look to my right.
I also worked as a tennis instructor, which was no doubt my favorite summer job. I got paid for taking care of a country club’s beautiful clay tennis courts as well as showing lovely young ladies the advantages of the drop volley. But I digress.
The point of discussing summer jobs here is to point you to an informative article that explains a dozen solid ideas about what you can do this summer to earn money both for college and general living expenses.
Ideally, you should have been searching for summer jobs already. However, perhaps an idea here will give you a clue as to where to look and you’ll luck out by snagging some paid action. Here are the highlights: More »











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