It’s very rare today for young people to be able to get part time work especially in Kingston. Most weekends for the past six months I have been on agonizing searches for some form of work. Even stores that do accept your CV don’t contact you back or if they do it is to say you’re not suitable because you have no previous experience. How can a seventeen year old gain experience when know one is hiring. It seems endless the amount of stores that tell you to apply online and after an hour of answering ridiculous questions you still don’t hear from the company.

Is this a form of ageism? Or has the credit crunch really hit hard in Kingston Upon Thames. Students are now considering setting up their own form of money making schemes to break into the world of work by knocking on doors asking if people would like their cars wash to only find one or two will say yes earning a minimal of eighteen pounds within eight hours.

Students are desperate for the opportunities if stores would even give them half a chance to show what they are capable of even though they don’t have experience because they cannot find any the companies may be surprised to find that teenagers are not all thieving drug abusive violent people as the media tend to portray us in television dramas such as ‘skins’ as well as showing constant news reports highlighting teenagers involved in gun crime.

Teach teenagers how to work and they will actually work just as capable as someone who has had ten years worth of experience please give the under eighteens a chance were only human.