Friday, May 28, 2010

A Decade Of Teens Going Jobless

By Larry Wetter

This economy is obviously wreaking havoc with people's lives. Jobs are so hard to find that many people are just giving up. It doesn't seem to matter who you are or what you do, most likely your job is at risk. This has been going on now for a couple of years and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.

People don't understand that when something like this occurs, it will possibly affect life for an extended time. One of many hardest hit groups that want jobs is teens. A lot of them are searching for go to work for the first time and many of them are striking out. The teenage years are important improvement years and that features the coaching they obtain from their first job opportunities.

Teens probably don't need work as much as older people who have families but it is still important for them. Teenagers need those first jobs to put on their resumes and it is vital for them to get their feet wet in the real world. Jobs don't just provide money but they also teach responsibility and how to deal with other people.

Everyone has to get their first job sometime but the earlier you get one and the more jobs you have early on help you later in life. If we go 5 or 10 years with many teens never having a job, how is that going to affect their performance later on when they finally get one? Are they going to know how to deal with co-workers and management?

Right now we may potentially have a generation of young workers who will never learn proper job skills. This will hurt them and the employers who ultimately hire them. Their lives will be impacted as they struggle to make up the ground they lost early on when they should have been working but were unable to get hired anywhere.

We hear on the news regularly how awful it out there for people looking for work but we hardly ever hear analysis on how it's going to affect our country down the road. What's bad right now might have costs much later on that few of us realize. It looks as if the complex times are right here to stay. - 38623

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