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Q: What types of jobs do kids do here?
There could be a lot of jobs for kids such as selling lemonade on the streets. Girl scouts used to sell girl scout cookies door to door. What do the kids in China do for a job? I've actually seen a kid probably 5 years old trying to sell flowers for her/his mommy who was sitting there just watching her child do all the work. I'm pretty sure 5 is too young to be working.
What types of jobs have you seen for kids here? And at what age were they?
11 years 12 hours ago in Family & Kids - China
There's this copy place on our campus and I it's a family run place. Sometimes when I go there one of the kids helps me print or scan documents, the boy was about 10 years old and the girl maybe 12 to 13. Not sure if that should count as working though...
Also there's a young boy (not older than 15) working at a nearby restaurant. I was there with my bf and the boy told him that he works at the restaurant full time, doesn't go to school.
I would say trolling the internet for wu mao per post
you must be raking it in
Answer #3 to question #3:
Are you looking for job ideas? I didn't think anyone in China did more work than they could get away with not doing. What kind of values would you teach a child if you expected him to work. I think children would be told to go outside and have a nap or go play in traffic to develop life skills.
Scandinavian:
maybe teaching children values is not a very big concern in the life of a wumao, their chances of reproducing are low
What jobs do kids do? Wee wee and poo poo on the streets I think.
Most kids go to school, that IS their job and parents usually do not make them
work a job... unless helping out in family business after school. Once high school
is finished the real jobs begin for many because the family needs all the income
that can be generated. Often that mean no college education, just a life of menial
jobs.
Under high school age it's usually helping out a family business like a street vendor, convenient store, restaurant, etc etc.
High school age.... it's the same 
Not always the case, but it seems that in China if you're in high school and already working, you will be working that same type of low level job your whole life. Seems like the educated in China don't start taking up part time jobs until they are at least in college. Like someone else said, education is their full time job.
I seriously don't understand how you benefit from asking these questions. Seriously. I mean we all know you're Chinese, you don't even try and deny it anymore. So what's the point of asking questions you know the answer too?
I'm Chinese so I could tell you a different story. Most Chinese kids DO NOT work, especially for those who live in the cities, their job is to go to school and get good grades. Even when we are in universities or colleges, we don't usually work unless we need some cash. I didn't get my first part time job till I graduated from high school. Not that I didn't' want to have one in high school, yet with all the heavy homework and crazy extra classes on weekends, we didn't get any spare time to WORK. Plus, no one would hire us just for part-times; people prefer someone who can work full time. Some kids may need to help out a bit if their parents owns a store something like that. When I was in collage, I had several different part-time jobs that related to my major which did help me a lot in my career later on. But most of my classmates didn't get any part-time jobs at all just somehow spent 4 years in college.
In China nowadays, even if kids want to try to do something, parents will be freaked out with the ideas about sending the kids out doing something they can't control......which is also the reason why you guys think, guys and girls here are relatively more immature than westerners. Some of us may still need babysit in college, just think about that.
