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Good for her! 15 is about the right age to start working, if not earlier.
http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/inside_track/2016/08/sasha_obama_lands_summer_job_at_vineyard_seafood_joint
Sasha Obama lands summer job at Vineyard seafood joint
Gayle Fee Wednesday, August 03, 2016
Credit: Christopher Evans
Sasha Obama, daughter of President Barack Obama, leaves Nancy's Restaurant after working her morning shift in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard Island on Wednesday, August 03, 2016. Staff photo by Christopher Evans
Sasha Obama, who has lived eight of her 15 years in the luxurious confines of the White House, is learning how the other half lives this summer. The First Daughter is working the takeout window at Nancys, a seafood restaurant on Marthas Vineyard.
Sasha, whos using her full name of Natasha at Nancys, has been learning the ropes of the service industry at the Oak Bluffs eatery this week, working a cash register, busing tables and prepping the restaurant before it opens for lunch.
Shes been working downstairs at takeout, said a server at the busy island eatery. We were wondering why there were six people helping this girl, but then we found out who it was.
Sasha was accompanied to her summer job yesterday by a contingent of six Secret Service agents, who sat outside the restaurant in a large Suburban SUV and on the takeout benches while the presidents daughter waited on hungry tourists. When her shift ended, Sasha and a friend, who also was wearing the navy blue Nancys T-shirt and baseball cap, brought a tray of drinks out to her security contingent, got in the SUV and took off.
Nancys is a favorite stop for the First Family, who always pop in for a seafood feed when they are on their annual Marthas Vineyard vacation. The Obamas reportedly are friends with Nancys owner Joe Moujabber, which is how Sasha scored her summer gig.
The Obamas youngest daughter has been working an early four-hour shift at the busy, 350-seat restaurant, finishing up just a half hour after it opens for business at 11:30 a.m. Word is, she will only be working until Saturday when her parents arrive for their two-week vacation.
Shes been around for a few days, one of the girls working the takeout window told us yesterday. Its pretty random.
The Obamas have been attempting to raise their daughters as normally as possible, considering their dads job and all. Which may be why they are letting Sasha get a taste of working a summer job in a resort area a big change from life in the nations capital.
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http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/inside_track/2016/08/sasha_obama_lands_summer_job_at_vineyard_seafood_joint
Bucky
(54,065 posts)My folks didn't let me work over 20 hours a week until after I was 16.
Old enough to smoke, old enough to work, I say.
babylonsister
(171,091 posts)before 15. My first 'away' job was at 13 as a mother's helper for 4 hellions, but it was on Fire Island.
elleng
(131,107 posts)I worked as Jr. Counselor @ summer camp in Poconos when in Jr. High, waited table and taught riflery!!! and later, 'travel agent' @ Dad's little travel bureau in the Bronx. Learned route LIRR > subway to Grand Concourse!
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Women used to give birth at 12 or 13. Anyone not working at age 9 is just lazy. Come on, we need our coffee NOW!
babylonsister
(171,091 posts)that's what I did to make money. I don't remember feeling pressured, but why did I need money?
The big haul I remember at about 12 was $123.00 for the summer. I remember that because I laid my little change purse down with that $123.00 in it and forgot about it and panicked. I got it back and think I opened up a savings account.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)When I turned 13.
He agreed and it set me on a path to a fairly successful career.
I learned the value of working and providing good service.
The problem in this country is not that people have to work, but that we have denigrated people who do real work.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)...for a working mom's 2 kids all one summer.
At 15 I worked all summer at the pineapple cannery. Damn that was hard, and extremely noisy. My most memorable moment was when a little old lady said, "You still here, haole girl?"
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)I kid.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)babylonsister
(171,091 posts)six secret service agents there protecting her a nice gig?
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Ferry to Vineyard Haven -rented cottage inland VH - motor bikes - or reg. bikes can do island in a day or less..loved South Beach - and Oak Bluffs...awesome.
The Obama's have been vacationing on MV for years.Sasha is very familiar with area..she is all grown up - I would not have recognized her -
.Valerie Jarrett has a home there ...some of the homes are beautiful, old, but homey, in Oak Bluffs. overlooking the ocean - good for her..
Wish I was on the east coast sometimes - like now - this is the best month Aug, ...also Hill will be joined by Cher in Ptown...mid-aug..I'm stuck in the desert..oh well - at least I can get to San Diego in a few short hours....be well all..
babylonsister
(171,091 posts)visit. It will happen one day soon.
Edit to add: I spent some time in MA. met my ex there. Cape Cod. It is beautiful as was being 23? in Boston/Allston for a year. Good times!
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Peter Pan is my idol....Walpole-Framingham - settle in Holliston until '94 - retired to AZ...glad to share fond memories..haven't been back since 2000 - daughter and son moved here to AZ within last couple of years...nice to have them close by....be well...
retrowire
(10,345 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)By 15 I was a cowboy on a ranch.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)One of the hardest jobs I've ever had.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)At 15 all I could do was bus tables and make sure people's coffee cups were full.
I lasted two months and knew I would be a terrible waitress and that was the end of my restaurant career.
Even if Sasha only works a week or so, at least she'll get a clue about what some people go through to earn a living. I'm impressed with her parents for arranging this. (Well, I've been impressed with her parents before, but for other reasons.)
phylny
(8,386 posts)I got "working papers" because I was a few months younger than 16.
The biggest claim to fame of that store was that Susan Lucci (All My Children?) used to shop there, but I never saw her. Evidently, she was polite
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)Isn't Sasha laying out a year before college?
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Last edited Thu Aug 29, 2019, 05:46 PM - Edit history (2)
Malia was last seen dancing at a concert. She's taking a year off before starting at Harvard, and I'm delighted. No plans? No job? Fine by me -- she's well entitled to a last year of childhood.
One of the smartest decisions I ever made was living at home for a year after finishing college. My sisters thought I was being a slacker, but I got to spend time with my niece (her mother had died the year before), find a job I really wanted, and concentrate on adjusting to the working life. When autumn rolled around, I had enough saved up to get my own place, and my niece had the distraction of adjusting to school life to keep her from missing me too much.
rocktivity
A HERETIC I AM
(24,377 posts)Just a polite correction.
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)over 8 years now.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Leave the paying jobs for someone who actually needs the money.
rocktivity
mentalsolstice
(4,461 posts)Let her learn what it's like to earn minimum wage, and how to manage her earnings. Too many privileged kids never get the opportunity to learn those lessons, they mostly graduate HS and college knowing there are connections to get a cushy job if they want it, and if not there is always a trust fund to live on. Yeah, they learn to join the junior league and volunteer, however, they never learn the true value of a dollar for an hours work. Sasha may be taking a job away from one other teen this summer, however, someday she'll be in a position to use what she learned from this summer to help numerous teens.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Disagree. She has a bright future and any empathy she can have for we working folks is valuable.
JI7
(89,264 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Good for her to land that job!
Lance Bass esquire
(671 posts)Security wise.
I see the Secret service impeding her being able to work like a everyday person and also causing disruption of the kitchens normal work flow.
I am all for her getting out and working
I know other children of previous first families have done it in the past but in this day and age too many crazies out there and the job is to public.
Sad but true.
JMHO
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)JI7
(89,264 posts)she will mostly work early in the day .
overall it's a good thing for her.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)what she does the Secret Service is going to prevent her from working "like a real person." Part of the "fun" of being the teen offspring of a President. I can't imagine going to college, any college, with Secret Service in tow. Yikes. Your own narc squad. Maybe that's part of the reason for her sister's gap year.
UMTerp01
(1,048 posts)My family and I stay in Oak Bluff's every year. Thats the historically African American side of Martha's Vineyard. I've been going up there since I was a child. Every year we go up there. Love it. Nancy's is a great restaurant. Good for her to get that exposure to working.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)All I did was groom horses and lead trail rides - and I know restaurant work is much harder.
Both girls will turn out a lot like their mom and dad - wonderful!!
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Maybe she wouldn't get as much as Chelsea, but why work at a smelly sea food place when you could get a gig like that?
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)demmiblue
(36,885 posts)Looks like a really busy place:
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Is she selling oysters?