Milazzo is a very famous tourist destination because there are amazing places to visit. There is the castle, the Aeolian Islands, Capo Milazzo ( which is a marine riserve) and lots of other things to see.
Since there are so many nice places to visit, tourism is very developed and increases mostly at the end of the spring and in the summer.
In Milazzo there are a lot of restaurants and shops, which hired teenagers during the tourist season to work. But now the owners find it difficult to find staff. They offer room and board and a good salary, but still nobody wants to work it seems.
In an interview of “Gazzetta del Sud” (a local newspaper) many potential employees said they prefer to stay at home and get government assistance because they are exploited. But what about teenagers? Do they want to work?
According to employers, teenagers want to be well-paid but some of them don’t think about the fact that they don’t have skills such as speaking several languages. Teens also request too much, for example having all Saturdays off so they can go out, or on Sundays they want to get up late or go to the sea and these are the days when there are the majority of the tourists.
Obviously lots of owners of restaurants and stores take advantage of this period of economic crisis and exploit the youth and adults too. If people work for hours for a miserable salary it is granted that they prefer to stay at home and have the citizenship income.
We decided to find out for ourselves and interviewed some students from our school and asked three of them to talk to us about their summer jobs. Here’s what they said:
Davide (4CL), worked with a representative of Barbera Caffe from Monday to Thursday, from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. He didn’t earn much but in his opinion it was a good experience.
He learnt so many things from this job, for example how to deal with customers and people in general. He liked this experience but if he had the possibility, he would like to work as a waiter or bartender.
Giovanna (4CL)worked in a local bar all summer long from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., from Tuesday to Saturday and sometimes on Sunday. She didn’t like it because of the excessive hours – above all when she worked on Saturday and Sunday because there were a lot more customers -, also some of her coworkers were unfriendly, and the pay was poor – even if she worked 12 hours per day.She didn’t learn much but one thing that she did learn was how to deal with customers.
She said that she will of course work another time in summer but will try another job like being a shop assistant or waitress in a restaurant.
Finally, we talked to Giorgia (4CL), who worked in her parents’ place (lucky her!), the wages were fair and the working conditions were good not only for the money earned but also for the good relationships with colleagues.
From this experience she learnt how to deal with older people and have so much patience. She says that if she has the chance, she will do this job again.
SO what can we say… there are positive and negative sides. We need experience, and some pocket money is useful to be independent and there are teens who are willing to work and make sacrifices.
Now you decide!!
This is all for now!
Tell us in the comments,have you ever worked during the summer holidays? Did you like it?
See you soon!
- Anita P. ,Annalisa B. , Alessandra G. , Elena I. , Giulia V.
IIAL