Part Time Jobs

To earn money, one option you have is to go get a job. Typical and obvious jobs for teenagers include:

• working at a fast-food restaurant
• working as a clerk in a store
• working as a bag boy at a supermarket
• etc.

What you get out of a job like this depends on your attitude. If your attitude is, "I hate this job," then obviously you will get nothing out of it.

If, on the other hand, you look at your job as an opportunity to learn how a business works from the inside out, then you can get a lot out of it. Many of the millionaires in this country, for example, are owners of franchise and private restaurants. Many of them learned how to run a restaurant by working in a restaurant.

Owning a restaurant is not easy, It requires quite a bit of knowledge and skill to be successful. Start gathering the knowledge and skill as a teenager by working in a restaurant. Try as many positions as possible and ask lots of questions about cash flow, staffing, inventory, etc. Also keep in mind that there are lots of different kinds of restaurants: fast food, family dining, elegant dining, etc. They pay differently and appeal to different people. Look around at the options before making up your mind.

If you apply this attitude to any job you have, you can give yourself a tremendous boost. See the article How to make a million dollars for lots more information on this approach. For a great book describing this process, see the book Dave's Way on the books page. This book shows how the founder of the Wendy's chain got his start as a teenager. A fantastic, fun-to-read book!