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Students turn their backs on Saturday jobs in favour of working online

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Just half of 14 to 21-year-olds say they work part-time compared with seven in 10 of their parents’ generation who did so (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Young people are turning their backs on traditional Saturday jobs and heading to the internet in search of some extra cash, research suggests.

Rather than babysitting or stacking shelves, students are increasingly earning a living through websites like eBay and apps that left them sell goods online, Barclays LifeSkills found.

The programme polled more than 1,000 14 to 21-year-olds in education and not yet in full-time employment along with more than 1,700 older adults aged 22 and over.

Just half of the younger generation currently have a part-time job, compared with 69 per cent of 38 to 58-year-olds who worked when they were younger.

Among those not working, 44 per cent said it was because they received an allowance or other income elsewhere such as pocket money from parents.

Of those not working almost half said they received money elsewhere, such as pocket money (Picture: Shutterstock/garetsworkshop)
Many said they were too busy with their studies to find part-time work (Picture: Getty Images)

More than 40 per cent said they needed to focus on their school work rather than any paid work.

The most popular type of job for younger people was shop work, followed by manual work while online ventures appeared to be growing more attractive, the survey found.

Of those earning cash online, more than two-fifths preferred it over more traditional work because of the flexibility it afforded them.

A third said their skills are better suited to making money that way.

Meanwhile, a fifth opted for online work due to a perceived shortage of traditional jobs in their area and a similar proportion said the platform allowed them to be more entrepreneurial.

More than a third of those earning money online said they preferred the flexibility it afforded them (Picture: Getty Images)

Kirstie Mackey, head of LifeSkills, which equips people with business skills, said: ‘The nature of part-time jobs may have changed from 30 or 40 years ago, but they remain a crucial way for young people to strike out on their own and gain the valuable skills and experience they will need for the rest of their working lives.’

Baroness Karren Brady, chair of the LifeSkills Advisory Council, said: ‘Finding a job alongside school or college isn’t as simple as it was in the past, but the opportunities out there are evolving quickly.’



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