[kashkhan]

it's better to let teenagers invest in future job skills than past job skills. Sure grape picking would build character, resourcefulness, obedience to bosses and teamwork, but it's got no future. Same thing with fast food jobs.

[nradov]

Knowing how to show up on time, follow instructions, and be polite to customers is a future job skill.

[rm_-rf_slash]

Interpersonal skills are future job skills.

Technical skills are only useful if they command a salary lucrative enough to live on but not so lucrative that you find yourself on the automation chopping block.

[faster]

Non-cognitive skills like those are very important. I've seen a few papers lately that show that it's more valuable to long-term earning to learn non-cognitive skills than cognitive skills in a child's early years.

http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/16164/1/16164.pdf

[masonic]

Working in fast food means responsibility and planning: time clock, rules, clean uniform, proper shoes, standards for behavior, etc. Some millenials aren't held to such basic standards elsewhere in life yet.