I'm a teen and I don't want a summer job

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My name is Will I'm 17 years old and I have aspergers syndrome and I need help. Ever since my sophmore year ended my parents espicially my dad wants me to get a summer job as I couldn't find anywhere I liked my dad made me work at his sh***y cemetery as a groundskeeper and I hade to endeure almost 3 months of working in the hot and only got $600 dollars in the end for nothing now as my junior year ended he wants me to go back, I want to say no I'm not working in that hell hole and my parents are always bugging me about getting a summer job, I don't want a summer job, I just came out of a sh***y school year and they want me to go f-ing work where I will only recieve f-ing $300 in the end so I don't care what they'll do I won't work over the summer, I just don't feel ready to have a job. What should I do, how should I face them with this

You should try to get a job in an air-conditioned environment--like a library.

Maybe try a fast-food place or Walmart or something like that--it's air-conditioned in those places.

How else are you going to earn some bucks?

Welcome to the club

I have to get a job because money is tight around here so I decided to take baby steps and find a job where it involves my special intrests. One of my intrests is animals and animal care so now I'm applying to pet stores. My dad talks to the managers before hand to let them know I'm autistic and don't do well with customer service or high stress situations.

Try and get a job where you can be interested, as a personal assistant or sorter or stacker. Take baby steps into preparing yourself. You shouldn't jump into things all at once.

I understand what you're going through.
Wish my parents made me work when I was a teen. That would have helped me leaps and bounds. I believe it's all about getting used to the contentious world of money and people.I find people get most aggressive and violent when money is involved. So it's good to gain that skill early on in life so later in life you end up like me, stressed, and emotionally hurt when I do work and they refuse to pay me. This happens with brick & mortar employers, but more when I do freelance (you get treated worse when doing freelance because there's no structure, or institution forcing them to pay you. Unless you're really good with people, and I'm not)

I'd love to work at a cemetary, even though I hate the heat, as long as it's a job hard to get fired from. Wish my parents had something like that for me.

Being as old as I am, 38, and knowing every day full well how hard it is to get money out of people, I tell you, even though you hate it, what you have is gold in your hands. Hope you don't have to struggle like I did, suffering rejection at every turn.

I had ONE job as a teen, that my friend hooked me up with.
It was at a local japanese grocery store.
Got fired because I was using all their customers to practice learning japanese on.

I don't understand not wanting to work unless you can't. ie there was a time I was far too anxious/depressed to function to work, so I didn't. But I'm the type that as long as I'm fit to work, I'll work. I delivered newspapers 3 days a week from the time I was 10 until I was 15 & could get a part time job at McDonald's. After high school I was off to business school, but still worked over the Summer & then had a part time job on the student association. I've done all sorts of jobs since then.

Anyways, if you don't like that job.. find one you do like. If you can't find one you like better, then do that one because it's better than nothing and at least you'll get some value out of it like a paid workout, as well as learning more about yourself and what you don't want to spend a career doing - which might motivate you to find something better..

I have some friends who like to work about as little as they can get away with and still manage to pay their basic bills. I think there are several reasons for this, and combinations of reasons.. like anxiety & not being able to work much more, combined with valuing their leisure time far more than additional work time, combined with not really having any long term career or financial goals they're working towards etc. I get that there are many reasons people don't want to work or don't want to work much.. but I'm just not one of those people. I have FAR bigger goals for myself and will work my ass off doing what I Need to in order to get what I Want. That's just the way I operate, so that's the perspective I look at this from when suggesting you should do whatever the best job is that's available to you.

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My parents forced me into a job at 14. It was a restaurant busboy and I hated it, so from there I moved to fast food which I liked much more. I found it a fun place to work with others my age.

Given today's options, I might follow-up on things like some of the retailer stocker jobs others' have mentioned.