Kick-off
Where do you think American teenagers work? Choose the three places you think are most likely. Then listen to McKenzie and Rhiannon talking about jobs for teenagers in their home town.
CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) – hjelpepleier/hjelpepleiar
McKenzie: I got my job when I was fourteen, ‘cause at most places that’s when they hire … uh, at fourteen. Where I work, at Dairy Queen, they hire at fourteen and at Fareway, where she works, they hire at fourteen. But I wanted to work with ice cream, because it sounded pretty fun and you get a lot of free ice cream. So … that’s, that’s really fun. So I’ve been working there since I was fourteen and it’s a really fun job to work, and there’s a lot of people from Senior that work there too, so you know a lot of people that you work with.
Rhiannon: Yeah … A lot of people either work at, like, the Hy-Vee or Fareway here at uhm … in Dubuque and then uhm, if not, then they’re, like, at some kind of food restaurant I’d say. Uh, and a lot of people do daycare, too. Like, they’ll work at, like, the Finley Daycare, uhm, uh, if they’re trying to be like CNA’s or … uhm, stuff in the nursing program.
McKenzie: Nursing homes too, people work there and they work with old people, so … A lot of people base their car-, like, base their jobs in high school around what they wanna do, which is really good, because it gets them, like, they can say: “I did this as a high school career”, because that’s, like, really important … uhm, when you’re going into college or looking for careers and stuff, so … I don’t exactly know what I wanna do, that’s why I stuck with ice cream … so … I’ve been sticking to that.
Rhiannon: I just kinda needed a job [laughter] to pay for gas and stuff, but I still go to events here for school and take tons of photos for our Yearbook, which is superfun … Uhm, cause it’s j- , doing basically what I wanna do for a career, so … Uh, then after that, I just … go home basically and go to work, so not …
McKenzie: Sleep is a big thing with teens … here.
Rhiannon: Yes.
McKenzie: Ev-, all the teens sleep a lot.
Rhiannon: Yeah.
McKenzie: Seems to be something with our generation.
Rhiannon: Yeah, we like to …
McKenzie: Sleep.
Rhiannon: Sleep or … We’re not too mo-, motivated for some other stuff, especially uh, in the mornings, for school.
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