"...When Faith Borden, 16, of Metuchen, N.J., applied for a job in March to be a counselor at a summer day camp, she looked around and saw "all these 30- and 40-year-olds," she said. "Usually it's just teenagers..."
With the job market tight, teenagers turn to the Web and home-based businesses to earn summer cash
A recent New York Times article "Teenagers Are Building Their Own Job Engine" highlights Faith's story and others like Laura Durst who developed her own home-based jobs site for teens called WorkInMyRoom.com.
"...These kids are concerned that the world their parents grew up in no longer exists and the notion of taking control and owning your own future is really appealing," said Amy Rosen..." (Ms. Rosen is chief executive of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a nonprofit group that provides entrepreneurship education in low-income communities)
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