Making money is not about pinching pennies and cutting back on your cash flow: It is about making smart decisions. The Teen's Ultimate Guide to Making Money When You Can't Get a Job will put you on the right track to start earning your spending money, even if you cannot land one of those traditional first jobs. You will learn how to start exploring other options, such as pet sitting, babysitting, and tutoring. You will also grasp just how to leverage the Internet to help you make money by taking paid surveys, blogging, or even teaching your parents and their friends how to use social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Most importantly, you will discover how to take your hobbies and turn them into your personalized income generator.

Outdoor enthusiasts may think of their interests and passions as purely recreational. They will be surprised and inspired by the wealth of creative money-making opportunities, tailored specifically to those who love physical work in the great outdoors, contained within these pages. Best of all is that these money-making and career-building opportunities are available to readers right now, not years down the road. Moving well beyond lawn mowing and dog walking to include such exciting possibilities as adventure tour guiding, working at farmer's markets, and staffing animal shelters and summer camps, this is a fresh and creative guide to 21st-century teen money-making opportunities. It also includes valuable information on the career-building potential of outdoor-oriented entrepreneurship, internships, and volunteer work. Teens who want to make money now, while also indulging their passion for the outdoors, have found their ideal resource.

Teens are targeted as consumers more and more. This gives them tremendous influence, but it also sets them up to be taken advantage of. "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Money for Teens" teaches them how to get money, save and invest it, budget it, spend it wisely, and keep track of it. Whether they're saving for their first car, trying to make sense of a checking account statement, or trying to establish a good credit history, this guide has solid information and teen-tested tips.

With parents constantly seeking safe, fun, and enriching experiences for their children, there are many opportunities for teens who have the patience, energy, creativity, and responsibility needed to work with kids. A number of money-making opportunities are presented, from traditional employment within established businesses like camps and after-school programs to unique entrepreneurial ventures. In addition to sharing tips for job hunting or, alternatively, making a business plan, the author gives useful advice for working successfully with children, communicating well with parents, and preparing and planning for child safety. Ample resources for further research and professional development are provided in the back matter.

This volume examines the positive and negative effects of teens and jobs. It explores wages, the benefits of job experience, and time management. Readers will evaluate whether unpaid internships are beneficial, whether young actors need more legal protection, and whether many teens are sexually harassed at work. They will also evaluate whether millennials have unrealistic job expectations.

For all the talk about how being computer savvy is a necessity in today's economy, teens aren't always aware of the many ways in which they can put their computer skills to work while they are still in high school. This highly informative guide points readers toward job opportunities in their communities and also lays out a roadmap for how they can develop their own tech businesses. It's full of concrete tips for dealing with a wide range of issues, such as understanding labor laws, doing your own taxes, interacting with difficult clients, learning programming languages, and mastering networking.

Those with an aptitude and passion for all things digital will find a vast array of creative money-making ideas, including IT work for family, friends, and neighbors, freelance Web design, photo and video services, and app creation. A balanced mixture of entrepreneurial, freelance, and traditional employment opportunities are presented, and important tips regarding networking, customer service and relations, and business ethics are offered. This one-stop, all-inclusive resource is all the budding and talented techie needs to launch him- or herself into the next great wave of innovative digital billionaires.

While budgeting and saving are practices that have been around forever, there have never before been more tools to help people do just that. Today, social media brings the power of people into the equation. This title teaches readers how to use the myriad of Web sites, apps, and crowdsourcing products available at their fingertips, such as TheMint.org and SmartyPig, to plan and stick to budgets and calculate the benefits over the long haul. Readers not only learn how to manage their money effectively, but also responsibly.

Saving and investing are life skills and life goals that everyone can use. This instructive book shows readers why we all need a plan to build wealth and how to get started. Helpful, age-appropriate examples depict how different ways of investing and saving can have varying rates of success. In this informative volume, readers will learn time-tested strategies to help build wealth and why the earlier they start investing, the more money they may make. These money-management and financial skills will last a lifetime.

A practical reference for young girls helps them identify personal spending styles while outlining strategies for earning money, saving funds, and making smart shopping choices as recommended through the advice of other girls.