Eager to work, teens find a frustrating summer job search
Business
Finance
June 21, 2026
Share this article
Click to view full size
Jaelyn Chester will wait your tables or stock your shelves. She'll wash your dishes or scrub your toilets. If only someone would give the 17-year-old a chance.
"I've been looking everywhere," says Chester, an A+ student, high school basketball star and aspiring engineer who has blanketed her community with dozens of applications. "I'm not unemployed because I'm incompetent. I'm unemployed because nobody's hiring."
The summer job, a rite-of-passage for generations of American teenagers, isn't so easy to come by.
Business
Finance
Need the bigger picture?
Share this article
Comments (0)
Download our mobile app
The portable companion to gazettE. Get notifications, track read articles, and more. The latest news from Trinidad and Tobago, in one place.