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intheflow

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13. While there are plenty of 16 year olds capable of

Reply to SalamanderSleeps (Original post)

Wed Jul 19, 2023, 09:16 AM

Jul 2023

doing all kinds of work, there are many, many more who absolutely should not be operating heavy machinery. The people replying in this thread saying how they babysat or flipped burgers are comparing apples to oranges. I was a hot mess at 16, and I work with teens at my job now. I’d estimate less than a third of them would have the focus and maturity to work in a hazardous job.

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Try to remember what you were like when you were 16 [View all] SalamanderSleeps Jul 2023 OP

2 jobs... MiHale Jul 2023 #1

When did you start driving? Effete Snob Jul 2023 #2

Two jobs, stoop labor (dangerous enough because of machinery and chemicals), flipping burgers. marble falls Jul 2023 #3

At 16 I was a roofer Ponietz Jul 2023 #4

I worked in a parking garage Shrek Jul 2023 #5

I had a friend UpInArms Jul 2023 #6

Stockroom at T.G.&Y. Never once feared for my life. czarjak Jul 2023 #7

I worked at the Olympics in 1996 ecstatic Jul 2023 #8

13 --- I was a trap boy at the Union County (N.J.) trap and skeet range. 3Hotdogs Jul 2023 #9

sales clerk at a stationery store Wicked Blue Jul 2023 #10

I didn't work at a business, I did house and yard and garden work. lark Jul 2023 #11

At sixteen, I was operating farm machinery on my parents' farm. Ptah Jul 2023 #12

While there are plenty of 16 year olds capable of intheflow Jul 2023 #13

Thanks. SalamanderSleeps Jul 2023 #15

Worked long before 16, so that age is not really an issue to me. BUT, unsafe working conditions is Silent Type Jul 2023 #14

Late 80's JustAnotherGen Jul 2023 #16

16 year olds are perfectly capable... Chakaconcarne Jul 2023 #17

At 16 I had already been working sarisataka Jul 2023 #18

"Our employees are our most valuable asset" Initech Jul 2023 #19

I think I've found my new role model. :) SalamanderSleeps Jul 2023 #20