Should I take over my sisters job?

[_Poizon_]

 Hey, my sister has a job at the florist round the cornerbut is giving it up to give herself more time for her A Level coursework. She gets �25 a day and works saturdays. I have been given the chance to take over but I get nervous about things easily and am quite shy around people I don't know very well or people much older than me. I am 14 and would like to know if you think I should take over her job. The only problem is that it is on saturdays which is one of my only few days I get to have a social life between homework and school but I would get a lot of cash (�100 a month). Do you think I should take over or not? Cuz I can always quit if I don't like it can't I?

I don't know what to do!

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(Yes I know I also posted this on the Jobs and Careers section!)

[Hgrove]

There's no harm in giving it a try;  lots of teenagers have Saturday jobs so you might find in the next year or so, your friends start working on Saturdays, so you might as well be busy.  And working for a florist sounds good, I think it beats being a shop assistant (which I think is another teenage Saturday job).  Earlier I was reading an interview with Jane Packer who is a very upmarket florist (she did Fergie and Andrew's flowers which launched her career) but she started as a teenager so maybe that's influenced me today.

[sweetsixteen]

Hey, Yeah i definatly think you should go for it! If you dont like it or find that you dont have enough free time then you can always give it up. The money is an extra plus point as well. I work as a sales assistant on a saturday and i find that the extra money is great!! You seam a little worried about feeling shy around people you dont know very well, but this sounds like a great opportunity to get to know some new people and soon you'll feel really confident not only in your job but in other things too!!

Good luck!!

xx

[CiderMonkey]

I think you should go for the job, it sounds like a great opportunity. i know you'll want to spend time with mates on saturday, but you still have fri night, sat night and sunday to do things you want to do. you might feel like you are missing out a bit if they still go out and do stuff. but you'll be getting �100 a month!! another thing on the plus side, a florist sounds like a lovely place to get your first experience of a proper job. it's small, so you'll get to know the other staff better and it just seems to me (not that i have wokred in a florist, so i may be wrong) that working somewhere like that would be more serene that weekends in sainsburys (like i did). i guess you're more likely to get a 'nicer' sort of person going to florists too. i know that sounds an awful, stereotypical thing to say, but it would tend to be more ladies (or men buying for their wife/girlfriend), and less oiky loudmouth kids. if you are a bit shy, as you say, you may feel more comfortable somewhere like this. sorry if i have offended anyone!

[krissy04]

I think you should take the job! Being 14 and having the chance to get some work experience is awesome! Well i dont think a florist shop is going to be open much later than 6 on a saturday...so you could have the rest of the day to hang out with  your friends..Start saving your money tho... i wish i would have when i was your age...now im hurting for money and wishing that i would have saved it, instead of buying clothes and shoes :(..good luck, oh and nerves hun, we all get them! and we all get over them too..once your comfortable in the work setting those nerves will go away! Good Luck Hun!