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Get a job. I was a caddy & a busboy. Everyone needs to work customer service at least once in their lives. The sooner the better.
Agree. Two of my boys worked retail counter jobs. Dunkin’ and BK. Best first job experiences ever. The best we’re the stories of the entitled soccer moms order their coffees at the drive through. And then to contrast that, the people who could barely pay with pennys.
Hey if it’s good enough for Ben Affleck…
Introverts may feel unduly out of their comfort zone when pushed into a high contact customer service role. At the risk of sounding like a coddler, I would encourage directing him towards jobs that balance his introverted nature, with some extroversion required. Libraries, banks, backoffice functions are all good options to push that comfort zone.
My son is in the same boat. We are making him work. Far too many kids leave highschool without having held a job. It’s a shame. Doesn’t matter the job either. Food service, golf course, whatever. He’ll be working at a couple of kids sports camps and running the register at a local market place.
Coach
Dishwashing at a fine dining establishment would be a perfect foundation for leadership for a very good honors student between 10th and 11th grade… true personal growth experience as it was for me!
Both of my daughters played national-level competitive sports and they both ended up coaching in the summers and the off seasons; great experience and resume building for college and future work. Lots of planning, people and leadership skills involved. Highly recommend it.
I have heard good things about Outward Bound, but don’t have direct experience.
Coach
Our 11 year old is super excited to become a sailing instructor when he turns 15. Motivation to focus and learn more in his sailing classes and to always help others.
He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s also going to be working in retail for at least a summer.
Not an answer to your Q but a reaction to one of your comments: many introverts are very successful individuals and contributors to society… they don’t necessarily need “coaxed out of their shell.” And stretching someone outside their comfort zone, if they aren’t bought in, can either make them realise they can operate outside their comfort zone… or it can cause them to rush right back to it and refuse to leave it again.
Also.. what does he want? Could you sit down with him, lay out some parameters on what you want him to experience and within those parameters asking him if there’s something he’d like to do?
CutCo knives
So probably not for us but he is an introvert so anything that can help pull him out of his shell would be considered.
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