or the kids don't want the hard jobs.
There are lots and lots and lots of jobs in farming
There are lots and lots and lots of jobs in landscaping and such
There are lots and lots and lots of jobs in construction
My girl is now a freshman at college, but the first year she was legal to work, she worked the summer at Krystal. The second summer as a carhop at Sonic (where she learned that being sweet, nice, and always smiling results in good tips, something the other girls there couldn't grasp), and her third summer at Tazikis. In addition to Tazikis, last summer she also cleaned VRBO houses on the side, and worked a handful of days on a communal farm harvesting vegetables.
I provided her a car and paid for the gas, that was a business agreement[1], good grades = car privileges. The rest of her spending money all through highschool and now college came from her own pocket.
[1] those good grades and her good act score (35) resulted in getting nice academic scholarships [2]
[2] which will benefit her more than us. Before she went to school we told her we had a certain pot of gold earmarked for college, and she could spend it all undergrad, or be thrifty and any left over could be applied to her masters should she choose to go on. She chose a school that had a good reputation in her desired field that also offered her a very attractive scholarship.
I'm proud of her, smart kid, she'll do well in life.