The exams ended, and the summer vacation began, to start a stage of family boredom, which only the screens and the summer vacation, and the family meetings, began, but with all of that the boredom remains the master of the scene, and the teenage boy does not find after all his attempts to spend time after two hours in the gym, except the near cafe, to spend most of his time with his friends, the crisis that awaits most of the Arab countries during the Arab countries Summer vacation. Mohamed Ammar tried to overcome it, and communicate with a number of employment ads without experience, to take place in the summer work experience for the first time.
From boredom to the first job
This repeated summer crisis prompted Mohamed Ammar, 17, to take a different step this year. Instead of surrendering to the routine, he decided to find a job opportunity without prior experience. While most of his friends work on family projects or as connections on motorcycles, Muhammad did not find in these options what suits his circumstances as a student who has just finished the first secondary class.
An unexpected opportunity and found it on Facebook, an announcement of a training job in the field of customer service within one of the famous gyms chains in Greater Cairo. Muhammad felt enthusiastically, communicated with the attached number, then sent a brief biography as he was asked, until the date of his first work interview at all.
“I was my first experience in searching for work, and I felt for the first time as if I was a real employee. I went to the interview after I previously searched the nature of customer service, learned how to speak with customers, understand the concept of customer satisfaction, and how to manage a successful call. I spent tonight I follow videos and read to gain the greatest amount of knowledge, which really helped me to pass the interview. I was accepted in the job. “
This was a different beginning of a summer that Muhammad did not want to be a duplicate of the past years.
Ammar tells Al -Jazeera Net that what happened after that, he lost his passion for the first office work in his life, “I thought wrongly that the office work would be easy, and it will give me reasonable experience, but I found me responding to at least a hundred daily calls, and this could not be tolerated in the first work experience.”
Despite the weak salary, this did not prevent the young man from going through the experience in exchange for experience, but he discovered that the work is 9 hours as a reply on the phone, he would only give him a silence in the ear and pain in the spine, so he decided to leave the work after a week only, he says.
Training programs for young people
Basma Shaaban (42 years) remembers how the summer vacation in her childhood was one of the most beautiful periods of the year, thanks to the free summer club that her school was providing, as she was spending her time between the library, the music room, and stadiums. Today, she feels that her children are deprived of that experience, as she is no longer able to pay 5 thousand pounds per child in exchange for a special summer training, and she was not able to leave them at home for three continuous months.
Basma was forced to resort to an alternative solution, so she chose a training course in low -cost programming for 6 thousand pounds for the two children, as well as a subscription to a sports club. “I have no other choice,” she says.
As a middle solution, the state presented digital training programs for teenagers in the fields of programming and computer skills through the Ministry of Education, and the National Training Academy launched a program for young people. However, the weak promotion and the lack of information available immediately from the benefit of a wide segment of families.
Rania Mustafa, a guardian, explains: “I did not know the existence of the academy program except by chance, and I did not find any clear information about the required conditions or documents, not even about the details of the personal interview that my son will be subject. The advertisement was directed to a specific group of the academy’s followers only.”
Despite the importance of these initiatives, the absence of effective communication with families, and the lack of declaration to transparency and clarity prevents their goals, at a time when parents are increasingly searching for safe and beneficial alternatives to their children during the summer vacation.
The training is expensive, but it is the available solution
The teenager’s work during the summer vacation is not only measured by the value of the salary or the number of working hours, but also with the skills and life and professional experiences he can acquire. According to Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud Hamouda, a consultant of teenage psychiatry, contact with society, building effective communication with others, and good practical training, is one of the most important gains that young people should seek during the leave.
In his interview with Al -Jazeera Net, Hammouda asserts that office works are often not commensurate with the nature of adolescents, due to their rapid tendencies to boredom, explaining that handicrafts or those that depend on learning a practical craft or skill, remain the most appropriate for them in this age.
Hammouda regains his personal experience, saying, “What our fathers did wise, is to send us at a young age to workshops and factories to learn life skills. The goal was not to become mechanics or technicians, but we learned through it how to bear the pressure and understand the meaning of real work.”
He adds, “Today, this option is no longer easy, but rather is almost impossible, due to the change of the nature of society, and the change of the conditions of workers in those professions, which makes many families not reassured about their children in such environments.”
Hammouda notes that the concept of summer action is evolving, and programming and digital skills have become replaced by traditional crafts, as it can be relied upon as a vocational training capable to become a real profession. It also indicates the existence of development camps provided by various institutions under educational and qualifying supervision, in multiple areas. Although these programs are paid, they give teenagers an opportunity to gain important life skills, psychological and social rehabilitation that helps them understand society and prepare well for what is coming.
