Working Girl

As previously mentioned, Diana has been working to earn money for her trip to Germany, coming up in June. For the last 2+ years she's been doing a paper route every day after school, and then Sunday mornings. Her customers think she's great, and one of the best paper delivery people they've ever had. Some folks would leave her candy or a soda in their newspaper box. It was a good job for a 14-16 year old.

However, it got old. So she went around and filled out applications at the local pizza place & Subway. She talked about trying for other things, but you know how it is when you're a teen - between school, chores, Girl Scouts, and whatever, you get distracted. Consequently, she hadn't found another job yet.

Then on Tuesday, I was actually out sick, and got a phone call from our neighbor. Their family has a Comic shop downtown, and a friend of theirs was looking for someone reliable to work part-time in their office & run errands around downtown. She suggested Diana, and even though they'd had problems hiring teens in the past, they said to go ahead and have Diana call them.

We had a Girl Scout meeting on Tuesday (Happy Birthday Mary - I'm glad that tub of ice cream is gone!!) and afterward, I had Diana give this guy a call. Diana sounded confident & clear on the phone, so he asked her to come the next day after school for an interview. Diana was actually very nervous about the whole thing! Then she & I went to the store to get her a few clothes that work better for office attire, since I didn't think her cargo zip off jeans & Hello Kitty T-shirt would be the best choice for an interview.

On Wednesday after school, I drove her over to the the office downtown. It's about a 10-minute walk from the high school, and about 20 minutes from our house. He's a lawyer, and Diana had a 40-minute interview with the secretary and the boss. I waited in the car & knitted while Diana was in there. She came out really excited mouthing, "I got the job!!" Then we had to go to the store & get her more office clothes, since she really didn't have anything. Plus they have to be clothes that she can wear to school and then walk to work in, anyway.

We celebrated by getting her favorite thing for dinner. Spinach Dip & Sourdough bread (and other sandwich stuff). She started on Thursday, they were okay with her coming in later after Japanese club. They were impressed by her 3.98 GPA, that she's president of the Japanese club, and that she's going to Germany - they will hold the job for her during the month she's gone. She's earning minimum wage, and working 2-3 hours, 4 days a week (8-12 hours a week).

Trevor is taking over the paper route.

We're very proud of our working girl!! Oh, she'll probably finally get her cell phone now. I don't want her running around by herself without a way to contact someone if she needs that.