I worked as a laborer for a contractor right out of college while applying for engineering jobs...I loved it! with the exception of helping the duct guys...freakin sucked...and never had to do roof work but electrical work was a lot of fun

Has he ever cut grass? Hook him up with a grass cutting crew here in town. Lots of them are always looking for dependable help. Especially ones that can speak English.

Send him on to Motivated Movers. Not sure about Tuscaloosa but lots of our location start new guys at $12 an hour plus the guys get good tips in the summer. He may not get 40-60hrs every week but he will get it some weeks during spring and summer months. He will also have light days where he can enjoy his summer as well. Regardless of what he ebds up doing I am sure he will do well!

My mother and step dad run the Foodland in Fosters and are short handed right now shoot me a pm and I will share details if interested. I think they are looking for someone to train as a manager.

I have children that are grown and on their own, each of them had some sort of job from the age of fifteen to the present. A little hard work never killed anyone, but a lot of hard work will kill you. My children have college degrees and work in the field they chose.

I never finished college and have never regretted it, but I was lucky and found a job I excelled at.

Check the city of Tuscaloosa website. www.Tuscaloosa.com and click on employment

Geesh, remind me to never buy a DR Horton home if a 20 yr old can be superintendent.


BigAl do either of the truck stops down there at the 100 or 104 have truck washes? My 17 yr old works at one and makes $13 hr.

Idk if there is any age qualification but I do know of a 22 yr old superintendant right now.
A LOT of the big box home builders are not much more than schedulers now. They have set dates to hit, they schedule subs to complete the work, Walk the house each evening and if the work is done, they get a check.

This isn't all big builders, but there are a lot like this. It blows my mind.

This. I told my dad I wasn't going to college and he was nice enough to get me a job laying block with one of his friends. Needless to say I was the happiest enrollee Auburn had ever seen 5 years later

I have been out here many years...I don't want him working for the temp services here...we call them the new world order..

Join the Air Force. Best thing I did as a teenager.

BigAl do either of the truck stops down there at the 100 or 104 have truck washes? My 17 yr old works at one and makes $13 hr. [/quote]

Think there is a Blue Beacon at the 77 exit.

Check out Hardin construction off toll bridge road in Tuscaloosa. I worked for him for about 8 years and he will put young kids to work around the shop washing trucks or whatever needs to be done and helping out on his farm. After time he will start sending them out on jobs where they can get more experience. New one young kid during my time that he done this with now the young man has a job at Nucor making good money.

That's the lie that has been sold to a generation of kids that are graduating from college with a pile of debt and very few job opportunities. The ones who do get the jobs are getting jobs that don't pay what they once did. College is not for everyone. Many kids are beginning to go to trade school and get certified in various fields (often in 1 yr) for 4-6 thousand dollars who come out with plenty of good paying job offers. I made the case on here a while back in another thread that if you go that route and invest your money wisely over the same period of time that the others kids are going in debt while in college, then you would be way ahead in most cases because of the power of compounding money. One is working for you with your early investments and the other is working against you in debt related interest...

In the thread below I made the comparison between going to college to be a dentist verses a kid who goes to trade school for a year to be a welder. If the welder is willing to make the same level of sacrifice that the dental student is going to have to make for around 8-10 years then the dentist would most likely never catch him, even once he starts making the big money. Most of you will laugh at this because it's not what we are taught all our lives, but it is absolutely real because of the time value of money. This isn't pie in the sky, the scenario's that I used were based on real and personal experience on the investment side and with my son's best friend who is making more money than I used in this scenario as a welder...
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