Fed up Mum’s Advertisement Offering Her Son’s Services For Free Lands Him An Actual Job

A mother’s advertisement on Facebook offering her 16-year-old son’s services for free after getting ‘fed up’ with him ‘sitting around the house’ has actually landed him a job.

Donna Cooper, from Hornsea, Yorkshire, has posted an advertisement on a local community Facebook group putting her teenage son, Nick up for hire for free.

She told the Hull Daily Mail: “I was so angry with him I knew I had to find him something to do.”

Ms Cooper explained that her son was ‘polite and hard-working’ but that he had been put on a ‘restricted timetable’ at school and added education ‘doesn’t agree with him’.

However, she said that she could not allow him to stay at home ‘unsupervised’ and ‘sat on his Playstation or Xbox’ while she and her partner were at work.

A day later, Ms Cooper was contacted by a beach café boss who offered the teenager a two-week joinery apprenticeship. “He wasn’t too impressed but he got on with it and the owner of the café couldn’t have been happier with him,” she said.

Ms Cooper said that Nick initially didn’t like her idea but has since turned it into an opportunity for him. “Some kids expect jobs to fall on their laps. Nick complained about the café work at first but he went on to do a brilliant job. He now has a great reference to be able to find other work.

“I wanted to teach him that you need to put yourself out there. I got the number of the apprenticeship company for him but I left him to it after that.

“He managed to organise an interview for himself while we were at work, and now he has a trial doing a job he has always wanted to do,” she said.

Ms Cooper was praised by people online after posting it on Facebook.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk