Getting a summer job by students is another American tradition. It has to do with the concept of raising children as independent individuals who in the future, as adults, will need to take care of themselves, make money and make a living on their own.
The last few years, especially the last summer of 2010, were unusually difficult for seasonal employment including summer jobs for the young due to the recession and high unemployment in the USA.
As a rule, however, summer jobs are readily and quite easily available for young people. Students can, and usually do, also work during shorter school year breaks. A lot of them have week-end, part-time or even full time jobs.
One huge difference between the European and the American college systems that allows the US students to work so much is a different organizational structure and almost complete flexibility in organizing the course of studies.
But that’s a different story …
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