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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 17:39:13 GMT -5
One day Looney's daughter is going to put together a resume. Does working for your mom count?
DD: "Oh, contact my mom for a reference. She will tell you what a great and wonderful person I am."
Employer: (Lol.)
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Rocky Mtn Saver
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on May 28, 2013 17:41:36 GMT -5
If she puts down her reference as a business name, the employer wouldn't necessarily know it was a family business.
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Post by steph08 on May 28, 2013 18:03:03 GMT -5
Between my freshman and sophomore years in college, I didn't have a job. I bummed around all summer and was broke after buying books for the fall semester! So at school, I started back at my three jobs and rectified that problem! between my sophomore and junior years, I needed cash because I was going to London to study abroad and wanted to bum around Europe. I didn't find anything in my field, so I worked in a cabinet factory all summer. It paid the bills, I worked hard, and I met DH. I took the job that paid me, no matter how hard the work was. I did an internship in my field between junior and senior year.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 19:24:45 GMT -5
Easy Peasy - Start charging her $250 per month rent for her room & she will find a job fast!!
It is harder to find a just for summer job because most places don't want to train for known short timer.
Walmart is a good option & maybe she ends up in Bentonville, AK as a marketing master mind later!
ETA - If she can't find someone to give her a job, she can make up her own Dog Walker Babysitter Grocery Delivery Service - $5 for the delivery + you get the sales for your humble grocery Logo Design (has she learned that stuff yet?) - try elance
Working for mom's business is not great, but it is better than NO job for the summer. What if she gave you 2 hours a day at the register and worked on your on-line marketing presence? She doesn't have to work full time to list on resume.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 19:43:50 GMT -5
If she puts down her reference as a business name, the employer wouldn't necessarily know it was a family business. Rocky, you usually put down a name, though, as a reference. I am talking applications now rather than a resume. I think they would notice if the last name was the same. At least that was our reasoning when we told our son not to put down his grandmother's antique shop as a job even though he kept her books while he was majoring in accounting. No employer on earth would think they would get a critical review of a close family member. If they did, they would suspect other family dynamics going on.
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on May 28, 2013 20:16:42 GMT -5
Meh, just either put down the name of some other responsible person at the store who would say good things, or use mom's maiden name or something. They way, mom (or grandma) knows that the person calling is the potential employer too. If your family is featured on the business' website, it'd be harder to work around, but I'm sure there are ways.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 20:43:47 GMT -5
Meh, just either put down the name of some other responsible person at the store who would say good things, or use mom's maiden name or something. They way, mom (or grandma) knows that the person calling is the potential employer too. If your family is featured on the business' website, it'd be harder to work around, but I'm sure there are ways. I guess. My son's grandmother's shop was known as FAMILY NAME ANTIQUE SHOP. She was really the owner and sole other worker. It would have been a hard work-around. I figure Looney's set-up is sort of the same, but who knows.
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on May 28, 2013 21:11:18 GMT -5
Honestly, if I were applying for a job I had already been performing well for a couple of years at the family business, I would probably start with the truth and see where it got me. If that failed to work after a while, I'd get a little more creative. How creative to get just to avoid a hiring bias would be the ethical dilemma. But I would hate to see all that skill and experience be thrown out the window too.
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Post by formerroomate99 on May 29, 2013 11:13:32 GMT -5
People think the economy is good because they have a job and everything is working out fine for them. Let them go unemployed for a while or have someone they love not be able to find a job and it all looks different. Until they face the problem themselves many are just arrogant assholes, who want to kick the person who is down. Those people, and there are many here, are scum, imo. My FIL is in that positon. His work experience is in an industry hard hit by the recession, he has no education, so most office jobs are out, even though he would do them very well, and he is too old and frail to do a job where he'd have to be on his feet. But this girl is young. I would think it would be pretty easy to find some family who wanted a break from the sky high daycare bills and would rather pay a college student to watch their kids for the summer. There's also more yardwork to be done in the summer. There are other options besides an office job or retail gig. But she has to be willing to get her hands dirty. From what we're hearing from Loony, this girl isn't is being a little too picky about where she wants to work and what she wants to do, and would likely have trouble finding a summer job no matter how the economy is doing.
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on May 29, 2013 11:19:54 GMT -5
FWIW, I think the 18-21 aged kids I know are all currently employed. Not everyone is in their dream job, of course, but they're all working at least steadily. One does screen-printing, two are waiting tables, one is in a call center, one working for an elementary school, two are doing house-cleaning for a friend's business, and two are using AA degrees in the medical field.
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