Your Teen's Next Summer Job Might Be Posting Sponsored Content to Instagram

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Many teens have struggled to find summer jobs. They want to make money over the summer and sometimes they just can't land a job cutting grass fast enough. Then some jobs require training and age requirements to work that can get in the way of you and your next pair of Nike shoes. Resourceful teens have found that if they can amass 1,000 or more followers on a public Instagram account, and then reach out to brands they like; companies will pay them to make sponsored posts using their products! Some make $5 to $20 a post and those with larger followings will make $50 or more. This surely has to beat walking the neighbor's dog for money.

Kim, a 13-year-old in the New York City area, told me she charges brands $20 for a permanent post in her feed, and $10 for one she deletes after 24 hours. "I thought this might be a good way for me to make money over the summer," she says. "Usually all I do over the summer is sit at home. It's hard to find jobs that take kids at my age, so this is the best option for me."
 
Sooo you are saying 2019 will be my year to sell fake followers?!
 
I hear there are places having a hard time finding anyone willing to work hard and learn a trade. Age, race, sex, etc. doesn't matter. I don't know the truth of it but I wouldn't be surprised.
 
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mtrupi said:
I hear there are places having a hard time finding anyone willing to work hard and learn a trade. Age, race, sex, etc. doesn't matter. I don't know the truth of it but I wouldn't be surprised.
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That's true but these are teens. :)
 
Y’all can shit on her but at 13 most kids are babysitting. She could make way more money than baby sitting some kids or slanging movies at blockbuster like I did at 16.
 
Krazy925 said:
Y’all can shit on her but at 13 most kids are babysitting. She could make way more money than baby sitting some kids or slanging movies at blockbuster like I did at 16.
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Nothing wrong with what she is doing. I just have a different preference and hope for some balance in what people out there are doing.
 
Fun facts of parental failure:

My now-adult teen does not want to take advantage of the fact that their parent has designed very important CPUs, made cell phones work, etc - and I can get them IN with dang near any company they'd like. They would rather play fortnite, and bank on being a pro in that field. No, they are not That Good.

I was hoping they'd at least go for a good Nigerian prince scam. Ah well, luckily I have a toddler I can hope rises to the level of internet scam someday.

I'll be over there on the couch, eating Haagen Dazs and reflecting upon poor choices.
 
How many followers does a average AF looking guy over 40 need to get in on this!?

Pushed a mower starting at 10. Pushed carts at the local grocery at 14. Fast food work and stocking at the grocery store at 16.

My son mows 6 acres every weekend and he is 11. We play games together and he gives me the money to buy stuff for his steam account. ( I have the password he doesn’t.) Got to establish a solid work ethic and basic budgeting early.
 
isp said:
oh great, more internet pollution
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At least it can't prevent you from sleeping like noise and light pollution can. Unless you really care about that forum post someone made. That bastard
 
gtfo with this shit. so sick of seeing little thots/d-bags everywhere posing and acting like sluts/thugs instagramin' it up.
 
griff30 said:
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LOL ... a picture really does speak a thousand words

cageymaru said:
Many teens have struggled to find summer jobs.

"that's because they don't know how to actually WORK for their pay and many jobs are BENEATH them like Janitorial."

They want to make money over the summer

"yea,l EASY money to be able to buy $300 sneakers."

and sometimes they just can't land a job cutting grass fast enough.

"because they ain't really look'n."

This surely has to beat walking the neighbor's dog for money.

"Yea, some prefer to never leave the house. America's youth (over all) today? Fat, lazy, attitude of entitlement" ... see Griff30's couch photo
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sfsuphysics said:
At 13 I didn't have a need to have a job... because I was fucking 13.
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I babysat. Did chores around the house. Played competitive sports. Even worked in the family business making samples and doing pre sales stuff.

Shit I still think I’ve had an easy life. But I’ve never not had work to do.
 
sfsuphysics said:
At 13 I didn't have a need to have a job... because I was fucking 13.
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I worked when I was 10 because I wanted things my parents either wouldn't or couldn't buy. No, I didn't "need" to do that. But I wanted things, and we were poor.

For example, an 8-bit computer which they all called a waste of time and money. And yet, after learning to program for it and make peripherals for it, I ended up having a career which now pays for a nice house, kids in college, overpriced GPUs.

I don't want kids in textile mills. But let's not squash kids busting asses to get things, learn things (and I don't think your comment was against that - just putting that out there).
 
sfsuphysics said:
At 13 I didn't have a need to have a job... because I was fucking 13.
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Did you have chores? Did your parents give you money in return for doing chores? Thats a job. Theres nothing wrong in teaching stuff like work ethics, household chores, or even sharing adult responsibilities with your children (like sharing the cost of bills, or showing family financials). Anything about being adult that you can expose them to the earlier, the better since usually kids are more malleable, and able to pick up knowledge and habits early. I hear people grumbling about the lack of financial literacy courses and homemaking classes in high school, and I just have to note the difficulty in teaching teens how to recognize the future academically, what makes you think reading out of a textbook about checking accounts is gonna work? If their parents could assist in that, that would be great for providing weight into learning it.

Many immigrant parents who come to United States and can't speak English rely instead on their children for assistance navigating through many interactions with translation duties. By the time they become adults, the children of immigrant parents usually are able to navigate and be much more independent off the bat than kids with parents who handled everything for them. Now the article I linked does note negatives for the practice like increased stress on kids, and the potential for loss of authority by the parent, which means if you don't need your child to help you do adult things, you also have the ability to control and teach your kids in a controlled manner, that they feel safe to make mistakes in.
 
SighTurtle said:
Did you have chores? Did your parents give you money in return for doing chores? Thats a job.
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No it's not, it's like a job yes, you are doing some form of "work" in exchange for something, sometimes it's money sometimes it's your parents reminding you they put a roof over your head, food on your plate and clothes on your back, but it's more akin to indentured servitude than a job. Now sure your experiences are going to vary depending upon how your parents are, maybe they punished you in some way for not doing your "job", maybe they simply did it themselves and magically still got that $5 bill at the end of the week, or maybe you don't do it you don't get money, but at the end of the day it usually is less about a choice you make, you don't get "fired", your "boss" can't have you removed from the property, it's part of living in a household, your mom might cook, clean, etc and have access to the families money and sure you can argue that it's hard work, and very well might be more difficult than a job, but it's not what I'm classifying as a job.

Now who knows I grew up in a different time period, thinking back there maybe was 3 types of jobs you could do at age 13, babysit, mow lawns, or deliver papers, none of which probably followed minimum wage guidelines at the time, but unless you had a relative/family friend who hires you "Under the table" most every other job was off limits (I'm sure there are some exceptions, but hopefully you get my point). But regardless you could do that if you wanted money, and sure today you might say it teaches work ethics, and it very well might just do that. However I see it from a different direction, and that's a direction of kids thinking they need stuff, now sure the lesson here (hopefully) is if I want stuff I need to pay for stuff, and in order to pay for stuff you could a) save up money from birthday/christmas/chores (that's not a real job, sorry it's not) then go all out and buy it, or b) wait until a special occasion (birthday, xmas) and ask for it as a gift and there's nothing wrong with either of these, they both teach a very good lesson, one that hints on what you mentioned about "financial literacy" and that is that you can't have everything you want at anytime that you want. However, enter "the job" where you learn "work ethics" and you're able to get closer to that goal of buying whatever you want whenever you want, and IMO that's much MUCH worse because that starts evolving you into being a consumer, one of those consumers that needs to have the latest and greatest, the one that needs that newest iPhone every year, damn rent is tight but fuck it I'm gonna buy a thousand dollar phone when I have a 700 dollar phone that's only a year old!

So ultimately, sure having money to do things could be beneficial, however being a 13 year old, being a kid, doing kid things, being for the most part content with what you have might be a little more useful. I'm not ripping on anyone for having a job at a young age, I just have to ask why did you feel the need to have one? Sure it might be because your were poor, maybe it was because you wanted a computer, maybe it was because your family said you had to do the family business, but ultimately in the same way people get proud of young people doing work, there seems to be a little bit of backlash from letting young people be young people.
 
sfsuphysics said:
No it's not, it's like a job yes, you are doing some form of "work" in exchange for something, sometimes it's money sometimes it's your parents reminding you they put a roof over your head, food on your plate and clothes on your back, but it's more akin to indentured servitude than a job. Now sure your experiences are going to vary depending upon how your parents are, maybe they punished you in some way for not doing your "job", maybe they simply did it themselves and magically still got that $5 bill at the end of the week, or maybe you don't do it you don't get money, but at the end of the day it usually is less about a choice you make, you don't get "fired", your "boss" can't have you removed from the property, it's part of living in a household, your mom might cook, clean, etc and have access to the families money and sure you can argue that it's hard work, and very well might be more difficult than a job, but it's not what I'm classifying as a job.

Now who knows I grew up in a different time period, thinking back there maybe was 3 types of jobs you could do at age 13, babysit, mow lawns, or deliver papers, none of which probably followed minimum wage guidelines at the time, but unless you had a relative/family friend who hires you "Under the table" most every other job was off limits (I'm sure there are some exceptions, but hopefully you get my point). But regardless you could do that if you wanted money, and sure today you might say it teaches work ethics, and it very well might just do that. However I see it from a different direction, and that's a direction of kids thinking they need stuff, now sure the lesson here (hopefully) is if I want stuff I need to pay for stuff, and in order to pay for stuff you could a) save up money from birthday/christmas/chores (that's not a real job, sorry it's not) then go all out and buy it, or b) wait until a special occasion (birthday, xmas) and ask for it as a gift and there's nothing wrong with either of these, they both teach a very good lesson, one that hints on what you mentioned about "financial literacy" and that is that you can't have everything you want at anytime that you want. However, enter "the job" where you learn "work ethics" and you're able to get closer to that goal of buying whatever you want whenever you want, and IMO that's much MUCH worse because that starts evolving you into being a consumer, one of those consumers that needs to have the latest and greatest, the one that needs that newest iPhone every year, damn rent is tight but fuck it I'm gonna buy a thousand dollar phone when I have a 700 dollar phone that's only a year old!

So ultimately, sure having money to do things could be beneficial, however being a 13 year old, being a kid, doing kid things, being for the most part content with what you have might be a little more useful. I'm not ripping on anyone for having a job at a young age, I just have to ask why did you feel the need to have one? Sure it might be because your were poor, maybe it was because you wanted a computer, maybe it was because your family said you had to do the family business, but ultimately in the same way people get proud of young people doing work, there seems to be a little bit of backlash from letting young people be young people.
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I get what your saying, my tone was too harsh in retrospect. Tbh, I forgot about the "being a kid" part of being a kid. And going by your definition, I didn't have a job at 13. I worked in the family restaurant but I would classify it as chores, as it wasn't for money and it wasn't by choice. And considering what you wrote, 13 is probably too early for the "job" you describe.
 
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