Honestly, both of my daughters wanted jobs of their own around age 15. We live in a largess village and it was no problem finding one.I’m also intrigued by the magic number 18 that Alice uses for when her babies will no longer need to be cared for 24/7 by a non existent mother. I was a pretty independent child, worked many jobs and my mother was a single parent primary school teacher. but I got to admit I rebounded like a boomerang back to my mothers house well into my 20s. I’m pretty sure I still give her grief regularly with my many childish needs and I’m well past 40 now. What makes 18 the magical number that a child is now safe in the world for their mother to leave the house and venture into the big wide world for 8 hrs a day? Does she think when they turn 18 they go off to university and never return? That mothering ends at 18 so she’s safe to leave the house.
They didn't need one. I didn't necessarily want them to have one but they wanted to stretch their wings.
Funnily enough - one started working in a drugstore and 25 years on she is a pharmacy tech for the same drugstore still! The other started washing dishes in a diner (I knew the owner lol) and has spent her life in food production and is a civil service employee of the state. She's about to transfer jobs to a huge university where her children will have free college as an employee benefit.
Once Alice's daughters hit their teens - the world changes in ways you can't anticipate but they sure as hell won't want to be called "babies" anymore.
Get a job before your kids do Alice.