Jobs for 14 year olds
If you are a 14 year old you can work outside school hours after 7 a.m. and until 7 p.m.
Except from June 1 through Labor Day, when you can work until 9 p.m.
You can work no more than:
3 hours on a school day, 18 hours in a school week,
8 hours on a non-school day, and 40 hours in non-school week.
What Jobs Can 14 year olds Do?
If you're 14:
Become a caddy at a golf course.
Mow lawns for your neighbours.
You can deliver newspapers.
You can work as a baby-sitter.
You can work as an actor or performer in motion pictures, television, theater or radio.
You can work in a business solely owned or operated by your parents.
You can work on a farm owned or operated by your parents.
You also can work in an:
office,
grocery store,
retail store,
restaurant,
movie theater,
baseball park,
amusement park, or
gasoline service station.
Businesses that often give jobs to 14 year olds include:
- Child care centers
- Summer camps
- Veterinary clinics
- Restaurants
- Fast food places
- Newspapers (delivery routes)
- Parks and pools (lifeguarding)
- Golf courses (caddying).Self Development|English|Counselling|Media|GD/PI|Personality|Public Speaking|Finishing School|Spanish|German|University|Colleges
More Jobs for 14 year olds
You can also make money without working for someone else. Start your own part-time business. Here are a few ideas:
- Tutor a fellow classmate in one of your best subjects.
- Babysit.
- Mow lawns in summer, shovel walks and driveways in winter.
- Pet sit for neighbors on vacation or walk dogs.
- Assist with gardening or lawn care (mowing, weeding).
- Detail cars.
- Type school papers for other students.
- Clean houses.
- Use your computer expertise to help other students or adults.
- Be a mother's helper or nanny for a busy mom.
- Plant a garden and sell your produce to neighbors.
- Sell baked goods to neighbors or at a local farmers market.
- Start your own DJ business.
- Be a mother's helper or part-time nanny.
- Make baked goods and sell them at a local farmers' market.
- Wash cars.
Type up a flyer about your services and distribute copies to houses in your neighborhood or surrounding area.
Many 14 year olds work at: Blockbuster, Subway, Mcdonalds, Chick-fil-A, Publix, Coles, Target, K-Mart, Bi-Lo, Gas Station, Movie Theaters, Library, Pizza Places, Chuck E Cheese, Walmart, Mervyns, Six Flags, etc.
If you live in the country, you may be able to get a job grooming horses or doing chores. There is no shortage of work to be done on a farm, and you have a good chance of getting hired if you can demonstrate that you are not afraid of getting your hands dirty.
Be a camp counselor - For getting a job as a camp counselor, you can try your local YMCA.They may still have openings for summer counselors or assistants. Otherwise, go to your neighborhood boys and girls club. It helps to have those certifications and some do require CPR.
Be a lifeguard - Find a lifeguard class in your area. Most lifeguard training classes are often offered through the YMCA. If you can't find one, call your local red cross and ask them. If you can't find your local red cross, call a local pool and ask how they go about hiring lifeguards. They may have a private program. If you have a particular place you want to lifeguard, call them first to see if they have any special requirements.
You generally may not work in:
communications or public utilities jobs,
construction or repair jobs,
driving a motor vehicle or helping a driver,
manufacturing and mining occupations,
power-driven machinery or hoisting apparatus other than typical office machines,
processing occupations,
public messenger jobs,
transporting of persons or property,
workrooms where products are manufactured, mined or processed, or
warehousing and storage.
14 year olds can work in grocery stores and supermarkets, but only in certain jobs. They may perform cashiering, shelf stocking, and the bagging and carrying out of customer orders.
They may perform clean up work, including the use of vacuum cleaners and floor waxers.
They may perform limited cooking duties involving electric or gas grills that do not entail cooking over an open flame. They may also cook with deep fryers that are equipped with and utilize devices that automatically raise and lower the "baskets" into and out of the hot grease of oil. They may not operate NIECO broilers, rotisseries, pressure cookers or fryolators.
They may not perform any baking.
They may not operate, clean, set-up, adjust, repair or oil power-driven machines including food slicers, processors, or mixers.
They may clean kitchen surfaces and non-power-driven equipment, and filter, transport and dispose of cooking oil, but only when the temperature of the surfaces and oils do not exceed 100ºF.
They may not operate power-driven lawn mowers or cutters or work in freezers or meat coolers.
They may not work in warehousing or load or unload goods to or from trucks or conveyors.
They are prohibited from working in any of the Hazardous Orders.