Category: Career
HURRY! Win a $5600 Trip of a Lifetime!
HURRY! There’s only a few more days! There’s still time to enter a lucky teen into TeenLife’s “Sail Away Summer” Contest to win a summer sailing experience of a lifetime provided by Sail Caribbean. Remember that our teen winner will join a crew of students on a co-ed sailing voyage aboard a 46’-50’ yacht in [...]
Real Life: Performing Arts Career
Dan McNamara is an actor, writer, musician and performing arts technician living and working in Los Angeles. He grew up in Boston, completed his undergraduate studies at UMass Amherst and worked around New England before moving west. In college, Dan majored in theatre & journalism, and minored in music. He studied acting, writing, singing, broadcasting [...]
A New Approach to Treating Teen Anxiety
Research suggests that anxiety is high among teenagers, affecting their mental health and predisposing them to mental health diseases, such as depression and schizophrenia, and personality disorders, as well as poor physical health. Worried teenagers perform worse in school, sports, and social interactions, three major components of daily teenage life and, coincidentally, three of the [...]
Jobs and Internships: What’s in it for Teens?
Summer jobs and internships, or part-time work during the school year, are great opportunities for teens to obtain work and accomplish many important goals. Test drive your major… or career For teens, it’s hard to decide what to study in college or choose a career just by reading about different fields. A job or internship [...]
Travel the Smart Way This Summer!
Need to travel by plane for camp this summer? Taking a break from the “normal summer job” to study abroad? Traveling with your family on vacation? Helen Burgess, a biological-rhythms researcher and director of the research lab at Rush University Medical Center, developed a plan for herself to avoid jet lag during a trip to [...]
How a Gap Year Can Benefit Your College Success
It takes a lot of maturity to recognize that you’re not mature enough for college yet. In that sense, my gap year was the most responsible decision I have ever made. I was never a huge fan of school. I wasn’t bad at it, but like many kids, there were places I would rather have [...]