summer break: 14? 15? eyes on college? you get a job (part 2)
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8/7/2019 Summer break: 14? 15? Eyes on college? You get a job (Part 2)
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tivities outside the classroom.Jobs that let them do something else besides flip burgers get at-tention, he said.
GinnyCarter has had a job eachsummer since she was 14. Shehas worked in an art gallery, doneclerical work and even walked adog or two. All of it went on herapplication to UNC-CH.
She got in. But shes not taking this summer off.
Carter, whos 18 now and justgraduated from Broughton HighSchool, will spend 12 weeks as ayouth counselor for summer campat the YWCA of the Greater Tri-angle. She doesnt plan to workwith kids in the future but thinks theexperience will still be valuable.
It is important to learn how tohandle problems on the job and
communicate with your bosses,she said. It [a job] prepares you,and you learn the skills in a low-risk environment.
The job search also preparesteens for a tough job market. Thisyear, about 37 percent of U.S.teens 16 to 19 are expected tofind summer employment, a dropfrom 45 percent in 2000, accord-ing to Northeastern UniversitysCenter for Labor Market Studies.
Its not that teens arent trying to work. Last year, for example,about 3 million teens either wantedto work and couldnt find a job orwanted to work more hours thanthey were allowed, said AndrewSum, director of the center.
The problem? Jobs that teensused to get landscaping, con-
struction, retail are being filledby college students, immigrantsor older people going back towork. And while the job markethas improved recently, there stillisnt an excess of jobs.
Its particularly hard for teens14 and 15 to find work.
Very few people are hiring atthat age, said James Dickens,program coordinator for theMayors Youth Works SummerProgram in Durham. We arebombarded with applicationsfrom that age group.
This year, the program willplace about 300 young people,including Tony Evans Jr., the
possible future lawyer.Renee Ward, founder of
teens4hire.org , an online job ser-vice for youth in HuntingtonBeach, Calif., says teens musthave a good attitude and be readyto work so employers can takethem seriously.
It is my belief, at least at 16,that any self-motivated young adult that has their act togetherand is determined will find some-body willing to give them an op-portunity, Ward said.
Ward could say the same thing about a 14-year-old. If the moti-vation is there.
Consider Ashley Williams. The
14-year-old is spending her sum-mer searching e-mail for spamand doing other clerical work inthe Raleigh city managers office.
I decided I was getting a littletoo old for camp, Ashley said.So I thought it was a good op-portunity for my first job to workfor the city.
She is one of 160 teens, ages 14to 18, employed through theRaleigh Summer Youth Employ-ment Program.
Ashley, a rising sophomore atSanderson High School inRaleigh, said she hopes her de-cision to work shows she is up forresponsibility and a challenge.
My parents always tell me Illnever know about real responsi-bilities until I get out in the work-ing world, she said.
Her parents could not have putit better.
I think that it is the best decisionthat was ever made, said BernardWilliams, who encouraged hisdaughter to get a job this summer.
We wanted her to start earlyso that she will understand themoney dont grow on trees.
Ashley said she wants to be ateacher or a businesswoman.
If I can get out and see whatI want to do now, then I can takethe appropriate classes that Ineed when I get older, she said.
Ashley has her heart set on at-tending the University of Cali-fornia, Los Angeles after shegraduates in 2008.
Staff writer Rebecca Roussellcan be reached at 812-0874
We want them to see that this
is something other than summeremp loy men t , s a id Ha rdyWatkins, director of the program.We consider this to be part of their personal development.
The Durham program will placeabout 350 teenagers in jobs withthe department of parks and recre-ation, the office of economic andemployment development or theSolid Waste Impact Team. Thecity also partners with the Cham-ber of Commerce to fill jobs inthe private sector.
The program typically lastsabout eight weeks, and pay is from$5.25 to $9.50 an hour.
City summer employment pro-grams are not the only resourcefor teenagers to get jobs, but fed-eral child labor laws and state reg-ulations may limit the types of
jobs available to some youths.Teens 14 through 17 must havework permits issued by the stateto work in most private-sectorcompanies and some private non-profit agencies, said Henry Sasser,deputy administrator for theWage and Hour Bureau of theN.C. Department of Labor.
A teen does not need a workpermit if the job is with govern-ment, agriculture or domestic em-ployers.
Youths younger than 14 cannotobtain work permits. They mayonly work as babysitters, do mi-nor chores or act.
Fourteen- and 15-year-olds maybe hired for work that is nonman-ufacturing and does not involvehazardous materials, but time re-strictions apply even for youths
with permits. For instance, theymay not work after 9 p.m. Teens 16and 17 may not work between 11p.m. and 5 a.m., though this may bewaived with written parental andschool principal consent.
For deta i ls , go onl ine towww.nclabor.comand click theyouth employment and summerjobs link.
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STAFF PHOTO BY ETHAN HYMAN
TO LEARN MORE
For details on Raleighs program, callLinda Graham at 831-6100. For Durhams,go to www.ci.durham.nc.us/and clickthe mayors office link or call JamesDickens at 560-4965.
Cubiclesget a bitof privacy
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
It was the 1960s, and HermanMiller shook the dust out of cor-porate America with a radical ideafor interior architecture knownas the open-plan furniture system,aka cubicles.
And now, about 40 years later,that same office furniture companyis blazing new territory again, thistime in hopes of fixing the biggestfoible of all those opened-up, walls-be-gone offices that may enablecommunication, all right, but alsoput people spitting distance fromone another and turn co-work-ers into co-habitants.
The big problem: a lack of pri-vacy. Specifically: voice privacy.
This month, Sonare Technolo-gies, a newly formed HermanMiller company, introduced some-thing called Babble to 40,000 orso architects, designers and othertrade professionals at the contractfurniture industrys major tradeshow, held annually in Chicago.
About the size of a clock radioand no more forbidding to oper-ate, Babble is a voice-privacy de-vice that makes it possible forpeople to have confidential tele-phone conversations in their cu-bicles and not be overheardby their family of co-workers.
Or at least not be heard in avoice that is decipherable.
It multiplies your voice. I thinkthats a good way of characteriz-ing it, said Bill DeKruif, presidentof Sonare Technologies, which isbased in Chicago.
Babble works by complex com-puter technologies and a sophis-ticated algorithm. But it was de-signed to be a simple desktopdevice. It is composed of a smallmain unit that attaches to a per-sons phone and two tiny speakersthat get placed within the cubicle.
Sonares target markets for Bab-ble include the health-care industry(such as doctors offices), law firms,research firms and any place wheresensitive information is conveyed.
DeKruif said this is just the firstgeneration of Babble, which costsabout $400 a unit and will ship inthe next few weeks.