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English 9

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Rachel Randgaard

Summer’s almost here. It’s the end of ninth grade, that means no more homework for most people, for others it means time to get tan, lose weight, and other goals like that. For me, it means time to find a part time job.

Trying to find a job has been very frustrating. Mainly because I am limited to a walking distance from my house, and that immediately narrowed down my options. Trying to find a decent job, in a small town is difficult; to say the least.

First, I tried asking about a job at the local retail store and the grocery store. Right off the bat they told me that I needed to be sixteen years old, that it didn’t matter if it were one day before my birthday, I needed to be sixteen. As it turned out half the places I tried had the same policy. So that narrowed my options even further.

There were a lot of corn seed companies willing to hire fifteen year olds, but that is only for two months out of the year, I was looking for something a little more long term. Besides, I am allergic to corn pollen, so unless I wanted to be miserable all the time, that was another reason I couldn’t take that kind of job.

Then I tried the local cafes and restaurants. There again, most of them said that they didn’t have any positions for fifteen year olds or that they just weren’t hiring at all. I was beginning to get rather frustrated. I had planned on working my butt off during the summer so that I would be able to save up for my ultimate goal, a car, that much faster; but it was at the point where it looked like I was going to have to wait until my sixteenth birthday... which would put me a whole three to five months behind for saving up for a car. I was beginning to lose all enthusiasm to find a job now.

But then one night, when I was gone at the Dordt festival, my family decided to go out to eat. (They always seem to go out when I’m gone, never when my brother is gone, it’s just downright unfair.) They decided to go to the local Pizza Ranch. My parents found out that the owner was going to break off from the Pizza Ranch company and go alone; and that Sue, the owner, needed a few new people to fill in the positions of people who had decided to quit at the end of the school year. And that you didn’t have to be sixteen yet.

As soon as I got back home mom told me about the opening. I was excited, because this was my last hope. I told her to get an application for me, only to find out that she already had, I turned it in about five days ago and I now wait to find out if I finally did get the job.