Jobs For 16 Year Olds

Stuck with no income and you can’t get a more formal job because you are only sixteen years old? Simple, why don’t you try babysitting? This job is easy to handle, and you can start off with family friends and then move onto advertising your babysitting services to your community and become a well-known babysitter.

Babysitting ages can start from newborn all the way to thirteen years of age, all depending on the family’s needs and if they feel that their child is old enough to stay alone. The younger the child is the more responsibility you will have, and you will need to be able to look after the child and the child’s needs.

A babysitter’s job description is;

• Ensure that the kids are safe and controlled
• Prepare any food or snacks for the children
• Take part in any activities and play with the children
• Occasionally prepare outings for the children
• Ensure that the children are asleep at a certain time, or have naps

There are a number of reasons why you should look into babysitting as a source of income. Especially because it gives you a sense of independency and helps you to start off your working career. This is not a permanent type of work, and you will be able to work with other families as well, so you can control your hours, income and who you would like to work for or not. Babysitting might be a tiring job, however you can earn a very good salary without having to handle any paper work or permanent contracts.

You can look at anything from £5 an hour to £15 a night as well as taxi fare or a lift home. This is a really good amount to start off with, considering that you are sitting in the comfort of a home and when the child is sleeping you have the free reign to do your own work or watch television.

Once you start of babysitting you will find that the family will help you find more babysitting jobs through their friends, and you will start making oodles of money through babysitting in your spare time! All you need to remember is that you are looking after someone’s child and you need to make sure that child is safe at all times and happy, the happier the child the more chance you will get more work.

Babysitting is a wonderful job to start off with, and this work will help you start your working career off on a good start. Even though it is a very big responsibility to handle, you do not need a lot of experience and can start at the young age of 16. This is the nice thing about babysitting, you don’t need to be that old to start working and your travel fare should be paid as well. Babysitting as a first job is much better than any sales assistance job or clerk work, as you are more comfortable in the environment and you are able to work part time and not contracted.