'What I Learnt By Getting Fired From Every Saturday Job I Had'
As a report shows that the number of teenagers in employment has almost halved over the past 20 years, Anna Silverman mourns the demise of this crucial rite of passage…The first time I got sacked, I thought it was funny. A manager at the call centre I worked in back in 2006 had listened into a conversation I’d been having with a co-worker through our headsets; let’s just say it definitely wasn’t about increasing sales revenue.
The third time I got sacked, my parents started to notice a pattern and had a stern word with me.
I’m not proud that I was ‘let go’ from every café and call centre in Leeds, but I’m relieved it happened before I had found an industry I loved And yet, according to a report by the think tank Resolution Foundation, employment of 16 - 17-year-olds has almost halved over the past 20 years. Many are calling it the death of the Saturday job. The research suggests young people are prioritising their studies instead. Having a weekend job always used to be a rite of passage; even
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