Charter Oak High School - Shield Yearbook (Covina, CA)

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ver 4617 students at Charter Dak have a part time job. ranging from being a courte- sy clerk, a babysitter. a paper boy, or a worker in the school snack bar. But the most available kind of jobs were at fast food restaurants. Over one-half of all working students worked at fast food places, Whether it was Mc Donalds, Taco Overworked And Underpaid? worked to receive extra spending money. Why did some students stop working ? A number of students quit their jobs because ot' the extreme stress placed on them. They found it difficult to balance going to school and having a job. Also, some teenagers have problems with per- forming their jobs. When rush hour Bell, or Penguin 's Frozen Yogurt, the bottom line was as Steve Shaw, who worked at Del Taco stated, Fm overworked and underpaid, but somebody has to do it. The aver- age student only earned about 53.50 an hour, but students didn 't seem to mind much, What kind of week did a working student have? On the average each student worked three to four hours a day on weekdays and six to eight hours a day on weekends, totaling about 20 hours a week., Why did the students work? Many teenagers got jobs to pay for a car, car insurance, or gas. Others 1 I2 Student Life came, many students just weren't fast enough and had to quit or were fired. ln addition. students were also fired because of their lack of maturity. For example, teenagers were known for certain pranks like playing baseball with chicken Mcnuggets or, as Jodie Heftel, who works at Barbata's Pizza comments ed. '7 play frisbee with pepperoni slices. So next time you see one of your friends in an ugly- uniform bagging your groceries, serving you a bur- rito, or making you a hamburger don 't laugh! They could be your boss one day. - by Derek Arteta Mi: Donalds ' motto might be You deserve a break today But as Tina Messenger shows, she isn't getting one. Photo by fairies Montoya Working at Kentucky Fried chicken is not all it 's clucked up to be. Kathleen La Rose sho ws her chicken packing technique, Photo by James Montoya '

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