Comment on The land before time

Pavidus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t even remember what jobs teenagers were supposed to have. Newspaper delivery? Ice cream bike guy? That’s all I got.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    teenagers as a group designation used to not be a thing. you were a child until you could do adult jobs and then you were an adult.

    children would have menial jobs like coal miner, day labourer, the guy who sticks their hand into the mechanical loom when it gets stuck…

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True, but not in the late 20th century when pizza by delivery was common but there was no gps

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        we didn’t have delivery where i lived at that point, only take-away. quirks of living in a place with less than 10 people per km^2^ on average.

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  • LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bagging groceries. That job doesn’t even exist anymore

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Work that grocers have passed onto their customers that they used to do themselves:

      • Gathering the groceries from the shelves.
      • Bagging the groceries.
      • Checking out the groceries.

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      • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Good ol shadow work.

        Ikea is the greatest.

        • You look up the items in inventory and find their warehouse locations
        • You traverse the warehouse, locate the items, and load them on your dolly
        • You take them to the front and self checkout
        • You load them in your delivery vehicle and complete last mile delivery
        • You unbox and assemble the item with minimal instruction and provide your own tools

        All of those used to be paid work, some even being part of the “white glove” service. Instead, we pay with our time, a finite resource.

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      • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i mean i wouldn’t want another employee touching every single food item. this is also a hygiene issue.

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It still does in my area. Not every grocery store, but the big grocery chain around here definitely does. Sometimes they even offer to take my groceries to the car for me which has surprised me.

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    • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Market Basket, Stop and Shop, and so many others still have people for this.

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      • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hello New Englander.

        Yeah even having moved from there to the US South most grocery stores still have traditional checkout lanes/humans bagging your items if you so choose.

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  • xav@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How about none ? You’re a teen, you just need to learn, socialize and have fun. Don’t work before your an adult.

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    • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, privilege. Parents had ok jobs. As soon as I needed sports equipment or wanted to go out to eat/pay for friends etc etc it was lawn mowing, paper route, construction from 6th grade.

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      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, I dunno, I wanted to work, because I know it would give me money to go do things I wanted to do. Got my first job at 15, which was the youngest you could work in NJ, and have had consistent employment ever since. Money is, unfortunately, important.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If it’s possible to earn something voluntarily is great.
      Tyvm.

      I delivered advertisement for a marketing agency of various local businesses.
      Was the pay shit? Yes
      Did I make enough money to not be a bum and make my mother pay for a gaming pc? Yes.

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  • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you didn’t mow lawns, you were never a tween/teen.

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  • redwattlebird@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lemonade stands

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• bountygiver@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And they were a proper fleet who has delivered in the same areas for years, making them extremely experienced in navigating those streets.

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  • Pavidus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This also led to better customer service. You had a relationship with your driver.

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    • other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s a local restaurant that still does their own delivery, and we order lunch from them each week on the same day pretty regularly. We recently moved (still in area) and he was like “Hey wait you moved!” and we had a nice lil convo, it was pleasant. I miss that.

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• Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sort of. I did this at 16-18.

  Also, one person didn’t do all that, still doesn’t. Phones, oven, and delivery are all separate jobs, with phones and oven overlapping during slow shifts.

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