During this time of rising unemployment, it is becoming more difficult for teenagers to find summer jobs. In fact, the latest unemployment statistic for teenagers is a staggering 25.7%. When our oldest was teenager, he did not work outside of our home. He had two part time summer jobs; 1) He was an administrative assistant for my real estate business. The admin job kept him in pocket money for pizza and movies 2) He searched and applied for strategic scholarships for college. Overall he applied for dozens of scholarships. Which meant fillling out lots of application forms and writing plenty essays. When the summer (3 comments)