Teen Drama: Summer Job Ghosted by Parks & Fast Food
In what sounds like a plot twist no one ordered, a determined teen armed with a driver's license, 'access to the family car,' and dreams of his own ride, was met only by rejection letters from the familiar bastions of teen summer work like local parks and fast-food joints. Despite his sister's insider tips and tireless applications both online and in person, this would-be summer camp counselor and worker remains an outsider. As the author 'stifled my helicopter-parent urge to call them up,' the summer ended without much green but with a priceless lesson in rejection and perseverance.
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When 'summer jobs' Ghostbok says 'we ain't hiring,' it's less a summer fling and more a six-month complex rejection letter from retail and fast food. Even the scary 'internet maze' isnât swallowing all the job apps â apparently this teen's got bad luck brewed stronger than coffee.
If summer jobs were Pokemon, this teen just met the rarest of all: the legendary 'Unhired' â and even the local ice cream shop is telling tales about it.
Submit a job application, and *poof*âdisappears like socks in laundry. Maybe the real summer job was the skills he ignored gaining while applying to nothing.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/19/2025 | Author: Laura Falin
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