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aldeana
07-08-2024, 12:15 PM
What is the best place to post a short tempo job for a strong high schooler. Good pay, but only for 4 hours.
Next-door nor ToTV seems to have a section for this sort of thing. Not worth paying for a classified ad.

fishon
07-08-2024, 12:21 PM
Call the High School.
Some schools have a YES program. Youth Employment Service.

ThirdOfFive
07-08-2024, 12:56 PM
What is the best place to post a short tempo job for a strong high schooler. Good pay, but only for 4 hours.
Next-door nor ToTV seems to have a section for this sort of thing. Not worth paying for a classified ad.
If you're going to be paying him to do a job, especially as your post seems to indicate that what he'd be doing is pretty physical, I'd be worried about your own liability. Florida seems to be a pretty sue-happy state.

retiredguy123
07-08-2024, 02:38 PM
If you're going to be paying him to do a job, especially as your post seems to indicate that what he'd be doing is pretty physical, I'd be worried about your own liability. Florida seems to be a pretty sue-happy state.
I agree. I wouldn't hire a high school student to do anything.

Topspinmo
07-08-2024, 03:26 PM
I agree. I wouldn't hire a high school student to do anything.


Very few city kitties want to do physical labor anyway. Hard to hold iPhone and text from daylight till bed time? :22yikes:

graciegirl
07-09-2024, 07:59 AM
I clearly remember when high schoolers wanted a job like that to pick up some extra money. I haven't ever seen any kids that age doing odd jobs or things like weeding or trimming bushes...in the eighteen years we've lived here.
BUT.........

A very skilled Hispanic man brought his grandson to replant the bushes displaced from our pool being dug. I was so impressed with the both of them. Hard workers, skilled at gardening and brought their lunches to save money and so personable. I would have voted for either one of them for President. Whoops. I think that might be political.

Anyway. Times have changed. Work is hot and sweaty and itchy and disagreeable nowadays and not sought after. Plus mom is there with the money for whatever.

Stu from NYC
07-09-2024, 10:19 AM
I clearly remember when high schoolers wanted a job like that to pick up some extra money. I haven't ever seen any kids that age doing odd jobs or things like weeding or trimming bushes...in the eighteen years we've lived here.
BUT.........

A very skilled Hispanic man brought his grandson to replant the bushes displaced from our pool being dug. I was so impressed with the both of them. Hard workers, skilled at gardening and brought their lunches to save money and so personable. I would have voted for either one of them for President. Whoops. I think that might be political.

Anyway. Times have changed. Work is hot and sweaty and itchy and disagreeable nowadays and not sought after. Plus mom is there with the money for whatever.

Very true. Kids should be brought up to have a work ethic

tophcfa
07-09-2024, 10:30 AM
I’ll hire any responsible and hard working kid that will pull the weeds from our flower beds.

danglanzsr
07-10-2024, 05:36 AM
What is the best place to post a short tempo job for a strong high schooler. Good pay, but only for 4 hours.

If you are looking to hire a STRONG high school student to, for instance, help you move, you better be aware that you are subject to workers compensation laws. If the high schooler, who would ordinarily be skilled in that task were to slip a disk, you might be out many thousands of dollars. Normally, high school placement is for retail or office work, not physical labor.

Girlcopper
07-10-2024, 06:10 AM
Very few city kitties want to do physical labor anyway. Hard to hold iPhone and text from daylight till bed time? :22yikes:
Many HS kids want jobs and are available to do anything. Because you only associate and know the lazy ones, doesn’t mean they’re all like that.

retiredguy123
07-10-2024, 06:11 AM
If you are looking to hire a STRONG high school student to, for instance, help you move, you better be aware that you are subject to workers compensation laws. If the high schooler, who would ordinarily be skilled in that task were to slip a disk, you might be out many thousands of dollars. Normally, high school placement is for retail or office work, not physical labor.
If you have less than 4 employees, workers compensation insurance is not required, but that doesn't mean they can't sue you. It really doesn't matter what type of work they do, they can still get hurt. I wouldn't hire a high school student, who I don't know, to do anything. It's not worth the risk.

danglanzsr
07-10-2024, 07:47 AM
If you have less than 4 employees, workers compensation insurance is not required, but that doesn't mean they can't sue you. It really doesn't matter what type of work they do, they can still get hurt. I wouldn't hire a high school student, who I don't know, to do anything. It's not worth the risk.

Workers compensation INSURANCE is not required if an employer has less than four employees. But the employer is still responsible for paying workers compensation. In effect, the employer is self insured.

Robojo
07-10-2024, 09:51 AM
Very few city kitties want to do physical labor anyway. Hard to hold iPhone and text from daylight till bed time? :22yikes:

In my experience this only applies to city and suburban kids. Country kids feed livestock, use the riding mower and tractor. Brush horses. Collect eggs. And do it all from age 8 with no phone in their hands.

We will be saved by these kids later.

ElDiabloJoe
07-10-2024, 10:06 AM
in my experience this only applies to city and suburban kids. Country kids feed livestock, use the riding mower and tractor. Brush horses. Collect eggs. And do it all from age 8 with no phone in their hands.

We will be saved by these kids later.

^ this. 100%.

Salty Dog
07-13-2024, 03:34 AM
What's the job? My wife might be interested...:icon_wink:

Topspinmo
09-23-2024, 12:53 PM
Many HS kids want jobs and are available to do anything. Because you only associate and know the lazy ones, doesn’t mean they’re all like that.


I don’t associate, just observation. :thumbup:

Topspinmo
09-23-2024, 12:59 PM
In my experience this only applies to city and suburban kids. Country kids feed livestock, use the riding mower and tractor. Brush horses. Collect eggs. And do it all from age 8 with no phone in their hands.

We will be saved by these kids later.

That’s why I said city kitties. Not all but IMO majority. I grew up in small town in 50s and 60’s. 99% of us had chores and responsibilities.

OrangeBlossomBaby
09-23-2024, 03:20 PM
No one has even approached the obvious, so I'll do it:

You live in a 55+ community, and posting on a forum created for people living in, interested in, or servicing this community. It's the start of the school season, so you won't find any high school kids on vacation visiting their grandparents here. You won't find high school kids living here (minimum age to live here is 19).

Your best bet is to get in touch with the high school.