Comment on The land before time

• lime@feddit.nu ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• redwattlebird@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lemonade stands

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• LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bagging groceries. That job doesn’t even exist anymore

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  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        When is comes to Ikea, what you pay in time is taken off the price, according to my experience

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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