trend to part-time jobs, feedback sought

[Chan790]

10. Is he going to college?

Now or in the near future? Has some idea what he wants to be in life if he's not going to college?

It may make more sense in the long-run to take the 1 PT job and either volunteer or take a (paid or unpaid) internship. The experience will get him into the FT job-market with marketable skills faster than trying to build the skills and experience needed in a series of PT jobs.

There's also AmeriCorps. That has the benefit that it does a bunch of things: it provides an education stipend at the end of the year in addition to a frankly-low salary ($16K) for a FT job, it provides a number of benefits ranging from student-loan forbearance (not really useful in this case unless he already has educational loans), childcare assistance, some (few) programs provide living quarters (those tend to be 24/7 community-embedded jobs), most provide health benefits, many programs hire their best AmeriCorps staffers to F/T positions and it gives him one year of preferential status for hiring for federal positions.

http://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps