Where can a 14 year old get a job in Houston?

What Jobs Can Youth Do?

When You Are 13 Or Younger . . .

• You can deliver newspapers.

• You can work as a baby-sitter.

• You can work as an actor or performer in motion pictures, television, theater or radio.

• You can work in a business solely owned or operated by your parents.

• You can work on a farm owned or operated by your parents.

However, parents are prohibited from employing their children in manufacturing, mining, or any other occupation declared hazardous by the Secretary of Labor.

When You Turn 14 . . .

You also can work in an:

• office,
• grocery store,
• retail store,
• restaurant,
• movie theater,
• Baseball park,
• amusement park, or
• gasoline service station.

You generally may not work in:

• communications or public utilities jobs,
• construction or repair jobs,
• driving a motor vehicle or helping a driver,
• manufacturing and mining occupations,
• power-driven machinery or hoisting apparatus other than typical office machines,
• processing occupations,
• public messenger jobs,
• transporting of persons or property,
• workrooms where products are manufactured, mined or processed, or
• warehousing and storage.

In addition, you may not work any other job or occupation declared hazardous by the Secretary of Labor.

Different rules apply to farms, and individual States may have stricter rules.

When you are 14/15 year old, No matter where you are, your work time and type will be limited.

However, there are lots of jobs you can do . For example, Paperboy,Walk dogs,Lifeguard,Sell Ice Cream ,Tutoring ,Babysitter , Pet sitter and so on.

Look around your local corner shops, farmshops, charity shops to see if they have any availibilities.

I work at a local Bowling alley, they have a room for parents to drop off their children while they bowl on leagues. The bowling alley pays me because this way they get more people to sign up for leagues. Sometimes parents will also tip.