Once you’re out of school and ready to enjoy your summer, maybe it’s time to think about the ways to get a little bit more cash in your hands to make your summer both entertaining and quite efficient. What I’m trying to say that, as a teen, you can totally find a summer job to be able to spend your holidays just as you want without asking your parents for extra money and even earn a little bit more that you can during the school season. First of all, you’ll have more time as you won’t have to do pretty much any homework and (thanks God!) attend classes. Moreover, summer provides a couple of extra job opportunities suitable just for teens. And, you don’t have to spend your entire holidays working. A good combination of work and fun equals great and even unforgettable summer. So, let’s see what teens can do to earn some cash during summer break and how to find that lucrative spot. There’re about 100 job ideas on Thepennyhoarder.com. But here’re 10 most popular, most ‘comfortable’ and quite profitable summer jobs teens may consider engaging in during their summer break.
7 teens summer jobs you’ll be able to get for sure
- Nanny. That’s the first teen job that comes to mind. And, babysitters and nannies are in great demand during summer. As even parents who don’t usually have full-time nannies for younger kids who go to school need to find someone to look after them the good part of the day once their little ones are out of school, but they’re still working. So, longer hours (which are usually paid more, by the way) even a couple of days per week will ensure teens who love children and know how to take good care of them quite significant income. Parents may pay from 10-15 dollars to a highly responsible and patient nanny who agrees to watch their kids during summer. Usually, people look for a nanny through their friends and family members. So, ask your parents to recommend you to their friends or co-workers who may potentially need a babysitter. Ask your school friends if their parents are looking for one. Besides, the right job may come to you if you promote your services online. Use your social media to do that. Create your own profile on HireRush.com – a job hunting website – so that your potential employees are able to see your offer and contact you if they want to hire. Don’t forget to go through the job tasks people post on the website to see if anyone is looking for a nanny in your local area. The same applies to all teen job opportunities I’ll talk about below. The more profiles in different categories you create, the more chances to get at least one of the jobs you have.
Create your profile here - Pet sitter or walker. Sometimes pet owners address pet care services and hire a person who’d take their dogs for long walks a couple of days per week as they don’t have time to do that every day themselves. But summer is the time people go for relatively long holidays and overseas vacations. And, people can’t leave their pets for too long at home without someone feeding, walking and generally taking care of them. So, the number of pet sitting or/and walking jobs increases drastically. This is the perfect job for those who don’t want to take too long hours and love spending time with pets and outdoors. Create a job profile, ask your neighbors if they’d like to entrust you with their pest for vacation time or go to your local pet shelter to see if they’re opened to hiring an additional helper for summer.
- Personal shopper. Don’t confuse this job with the person who helps people buy clothes to create a certain style or look. It’s a socially oriented job. Basically, you provide assistance to people with limited abilities, elderly people and just really busy people. You may run errands, buy and deliver groceries, house supplies, meds, bring to and grabbing clothes from the dry cleaners, etc. It’s the job even younger teens will be able to cope with just fine. Walk around your neighborhood and hand out DIY fliers. Ask the neighbors you know if they might you’re your assistance by any chance. Promote yourself online. But be ready to run around the town a lot.
- General handyman. If you’re the kind of person who’s able to fix everything around the house or if you have some basic construction skills, you’ll be able to conduct occasional repairs around people’s households and yards. Maybe, someone needs their fence to be fixed or repainted, maybe someone’s walls need a retouch, and maybe a professional contractor will gladly pay you for your assistance around the building spot. This is definitely not a permanent summer job. But it’s a perfect source of additional cash for those teens who don’t want to bind themselves with a more or less serious job for the entire summer. But you may easily turn it into a good summer occupation if you find a contractor or handyman who desperately needs an aide to complete a certain project or cope with the overwhelming flow of orders that’s typical for summer season.
- Lawn mowing and gardening. Another typical summer job for teens. But the good thing is that people gladly hire teens to do this kind of task and pay them good tips. However, not all teens may embark on this type of tasks. Kids under certain age can’t use certain lawn care equipment and lawn movers. But, helping out people to take care of their gardens is a whole other story. This is the job even younger teens may deal with without any problems. So, if you’re keen on gardening and you’re quite good at that, you may help people get rid of weeds on their vegetable beds, pick fruits and berries, trim bushes, water the plants, clean the garden and front yard, etc.
- Cleaning services. Most teenagers hate cleaning even their rooms, not mentioning doing chores around the house. But getting paid for conducting a general cleanup, attacking messy garage, doing dishes, taking garbage out, doing someone’s laundry may change your attitude towards this task. Become an independent cleaner for your neighbors or join an existing cleaning company. Both ways may provide you with good amount of work and, consequently, income. Maybe, your parent’s wouldn’t mind paying you for proper and regular house cleaning and maintenance as well. And if you’re a teen who’s known for his cooking skills, you may offer your parents an appealing deal. Ask them if they’d like you to provide them with nice home cooked meals throughout summer. You’ll get paid for picking up groceries and improving as a cook, and your parents won’t have to prepare food or settle for frozen meals.
- Window cleaning. Again, the kind of job with high clients’ demand during summer time. This could be ideal job option for teens who don’t know where to start. Window cleaning is one of the few job ideas for teens, who are under 15 and struggle attempting to get a working place due to the legal restrictions. Window cleaning supplies and tools aren’t that expensive. And if you go from business to business, from house to house to find out who needs a cleaner can take some time. However, once you learn who needs the service or join a window cleaning company who may benefit from having an additional seasonal worker, you’ll get enough work. Just remain motivated and determined, and you’ll earn some cash to have fun during holidays or save up for something you’ve always wanted to get.
