The Times

SYBIL SHELTON For the young scientists, there is plenty of laboratory work.

CAMPBELL HAYS Volunteer work-camp jobs are hard, rewards are great.

SUMMER JOBS Continued from page 17

6. Don't give up early—many vacation replacement jobs open up in July and August. And some work is better than no work. Be persistent and follow up all possible leads. 7. Conduct interviews and fill out application blanks in a nature manner. Remember, competition is stiff. 8. Check on the reputation of any prospective employer if you don't know it already. Your public employment service or your school may be able to help you here. You want a job, but you don't want to be exploited. Many teen-agers will create work for themselves. They can start their own odd-jobs pools, dispatching hedge clippers, lawn mowers, or fence fixers for an afternoon or a day. They can organize groups to stage children's birthday parties and walking trips. They can publish a newspaper for a season in a resort area, or they can set up weekly puppet shows. They can conduct personal shopping, sell home-grown vegetables, or read to shut-ins. The amount of work and the money it brings depend on the resourcefulness of the teen-agers themselves. AND IF all else fails, there are still two constructive courses open to the young person who cannot get a job this summer. He can learn a skill that will help assure him a job the next year. A summer invested in learning to type, for instance, is as valuable as any job. Or, he can volunteer to do any number of things, without pay. Social agencies everywhere are in need of free help. The Junior Red Cross recruits thousands of volunteer teen-agers every year to prepare bandages, serve meals, and read to patients in hospitals. The American Friends Service Committee has summer "intern" programs for high-school and college students who live in "work camps" and do constructive work in needy areas. In recent years, AFSC groups have built a low-water bridge for a settlement in the Kentucky mountains. In Lame Deer, Montana, they built a recreation hall for an Indian village. And at Fort Defiance, Arizona, they built a playground for Navajo Indians. Other teen-agers go to Mexico every year for similar work, and others go abroad—to work camps in Italy, Pakistan, Tanganyika, and many other countries. For overseas projects, they must pay as much as $600—but this fee can often be covered by scholarship funds. With the competition for jobs so tough, why will more than half of all U.S. teen-agers set out to face it this summer and some even go so far as to pay for work when they could go right on being America's last leisure class? The fact is that today's teen-ager is itching for a chance to try his wings even if it means flying in the face of grim statistics. He is an immigrant in a hurry to get to the adult world. Chances are that money is not the only factor in his thinking—most of the money earned this summer will go for milk shakes, movies, and clothes. But the freedom and independence are vitally important. He wants responsibility and he wants experience. He wants a job. Furthermore, according to many experts, he should have a job. "Young people," Eli Cohen says, "will not get the qualifications demanded by our present-day labor market by magic. Experience with a summer job can be crucial to them when the time comes for them to get a permanent job." Even if a young person has to pay for working, the return on that small investment is very great. How many teen-agers could tell a potential employer they have set up a technical-assistance program in Peru's high Andes, built houses in India, or worked toward international understanding in Pakistan? These, and many other volunteer experiences, serve as a strong recommendation for any job any time. And the same dignity, independence, and experience go with a volunteer job as with a paying one. Both represent the same giant step toward adulthood. This summer the expectation is that 43% of all the boys and 22% of the girls will get their jobs. But the hunt will be difficult, and many young people will be squeezed out. Still, by using all the resources at hand, plus a large measure of their own imagination, all young people should be able to find some sort of useful work. The summer job may pay, or may not—or may even cost something. But the teen-ager who wants it and gets it will be the winner in any case. Suburbia Today, March 1961 19

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