Sasha Obama lands summer job at Vineyard seafood joint

[babylonsister]

Good for her! 15 is about the right age to start working, if not earlier.

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/inside_track/2016/08/sasha_obama_lands_summer_job_at_vineyard_seafood_joint


Sasha Obama lands summer job at Vineyard seafood joint
Gayle Fee Wednesday, August 03, 2016
Credit: Christopher Evans

Sasha Obama, daughter of President Barack Obama, leaves Nancy's Restaurant after working her morning shift in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard Island on Wednesday, August 03, 2016. Staff photo by Christopher Evans


Sasha Obama, who has lived eight of her 15 years in the luxurious confines of the White House, is learning how the other half lives this summer. The First Daughter is working the takeout window at Nancy’s, a seafood restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard.

Sasha, who’s using her full name of Natasha at Nancy’s, has been learning the ropes of the service industry at the Oak Bluffs eatery this week, working a cash register, busing tables and prepping the restaurant before it opens for lunch.

“She’s been working downstairs at takeout,” said a server at the busy island eatery. “We were wondering why there were six people helping this girl, but then we found out who it was.”

Sasha was accompanied to her summer job yesterday by a contingent of six Secret Service agents, who sat outside the restaurant in a large Suburban SUV and on the takeout benches while the president’s daughter waited on hungry tourists. When her shift ended, Sasha and a friend, who also was wearing the navy blue Nancy’s T-shirt and baseball cap, brought a tray of drinks out to her security contingent, got in the SUV and took off.

Nancy’s is a favorite stop for the First Family, who always pop in for a seafood feed when they are on their annual Martha’s Vineyard vacation. The Obamas reportedly are friends with Nancy’s owner Joe Moujabber, which is how Sasha scored her summer gig.

The Obamas’ youngest daughter has been working an early four-hour shift at the busy, 350-seat restaurant, finishing up just a half hour after it opens for business at 11:30 a.m. Word is, she will only be working until Saturday when her parents arrive for their two-week vacation.

“She’s been around for a few days,” one of the girls working the takeout window told us yesterday. “It’s pretty random.”

The Obamas have been attempting to raise their daughters as normally as possible, considering their dad’s job and all. Which may be why they are letting Sasha get a taste of working a summer job in a resort area — a big change from life in the nation’s capital.

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[Bucky]

1. 15 is a good age for having a summer job. But not younger.

My folks didn't let me work over 20 hours a week until after I was 16.

Old enough to smoke, old enough to work, I say.

[babylonsister]

2. I cleaned, babysat, weeded, delivered papers

before 15. My first 'away' job was at 13 as a mother's helper for 4 hellions, but it was on Fire Island.

[elleng]

4. Heckuva vacay, b'sis!

I worked as Jr. Counselor @ summer camp in Poconos when in Jr. High, waited table and taught riflery!!! and later, 'travel agent' @ Dad's little travel bureau in the Bronx. Learned route LIRR > subway to Grand Concourse!

[GummyBearz]

10. 8 or 9 is definitely old enough to get into the labor force

Women used to give birth at 12 or 13. Anyone not working at age 9 is just lazy. Come on, we need our coffee NOW!

[babylonsister]

12. I wasn't forced to do anything,

that's what I did to make money. I don't remember feeling pressured, but why did I need money?

The big haul I remember at about 12 was $123.00 for the summer. I remember that because I laid my little change purse down with that $123.00 in it and forgot about it and panicked. I got it back and think I opened up a savings account.

[GulfCoast66]

18. I begged my dad to let me throw papers

When I turned 13.

He agreed and it set me on a path to a fairly successful career.

I learned the value of working and providing good service.

The problem in this country is not that people have to work, but that we have denigrated people who do real work.

[Hekate]

37. Babysitting from age 11 on. I had 3 younger sibs, so lots of experience, and at 12 did full time...

...for a working mom's 2 kids all one summer.

At 15 I worked all summer at the pineapple cannery. Damn that was hard, and extremely noisy. My most memorable moment was when a little old lady said, "You still here, haole girl?"

[lpbk2713]

3. Must be a hell of a commute.

I kid.

[63splitwindow]

5. But ONLY because she is the President's daughter...

[uponit7771]

6. K, how does this story HELP the secret service !?!? The tRumpers are too fuckin stupid

[babylonsister]

7. It gives the

six secret service agents there protecting her a nice gig?

[uponit7771]

8. +1

[asiliveandbreathe]

9. Grew up Mass..MV was favorite spot -

Ferry to Vineyard Haven -rented cottage inland VH - motor bikes - or reg. bikes can do island in a day or less..loved South Beach - and Oak Bluffs...awesome.

The Obama's have been vacationing on MV for years.Sasha is very familiar with area..she is all grown up - I would not have recognized her -

.Valerie Jarrett has a home there ...some of the homes are beautiful, old, but homey, in Oak Bluffs. overlooking the ocean - good for her..

Wish I was on the east coast sometimes - like now - this is the best month Aug, ...also Hill will be joined by Cher in Ptown...mid-aug..I'm stuck in the desert..oh well - at least I can get to San Diego in a few short hours....be well all..

[babylonsister]

11. I am in FL and wish I could go 'home' to

visit. It will happen one day soon.

Edit to add: I spent some time in MA. met my ex there. Cape Cod. It is beautiful as was being 23? in Boston/Allston for a year. Good times!

[asiliveandbreathe]

14. I kinda remember 23 - wait, of course I do...

Peter Pan is my idol....Walpole-Framingham - settle in Holliston until '94 - retired to AZ...glad to share fond memories..haven't been back since 2000 - daughter and son moved here to AZ within last couple of years...nice to have them close by....be well...

[retrowire]

13. cool! nt

[MohRokTah]

15. My first job was a paper route at 12.

By 15 I was a cowboy on a ranch.

[Politicub]

16. My first job was at 15 - dish washer at a local restaurant

One of the hardest jobs I've ever had.

[dflprincess]

17. My first job was also in a restaurant at 15

At 15 all I could do was bus tables and make sure people's coffee cups were full.

I lasted two months and knew I would be a terrible waitress and that was the end of my restaurant career.

Even if Sasha only works a week or so, at least she'll get a clue about what some people go through to earn a living. I'm impressed with her parents for arranging this. (Well, I've been impressed with her parents before, but for other reasons.)

[phylny]

21. My first job was working at a store called Frankel's in Garden City on Long Island.

I got "working papers" because I was a few months younger than 16.

The biggest claim to fame of that store was that Susan Lucci (All My Children?) used to shop there, but I never saw her. Evidently, she was polite

[Jim Beard]

19. I hate to say this but I am damn stubborn. Isn't that Melia Obama in the picture?

Isn't Sasha laying out a year before college?

[rocktivity]

23. No, it's the other way around

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Malia was last seen dancing at a concert. She's taking a year off before starting at Harvard, and I'm delighted. No plans? No job? Fine by me -- she's well entitled to a last year of childhood.

One of the smartest decisions I ever made was living at home for a year after finishing college. My sisters thought I was being a slacker, but I got to spend time with my niece (her mother had died the year before), find a job I really wanted, and concentrate on adjusting to the working life. When autumn rolled around, I had enough saved up to get my own place, and my niece had the distraction of adjusting to school life to keep her from missing me too much.


rocktivity

[A HERETIC I AM]

24. ummmmm...it's "MAlia"...not "Melia"

Just a polite correction.

[Jim Beard]

34. Thanks to the both of you. I can't believe I have had it wrong for

over 8 years now.

[Hekate]

36. It's the Hawai'ian version of Mary, which I think is sweet

[rocktivity]

20. At her age, I'd rather see her doing volunteer work

Leave the paying jobs for someone who actually needs the money.


rocktivity

[mentalsolstice]

25. I disagree

Let her learn what it's like to earn minimum wage, and how to manage her earnings. Too many privileged kids never get the opportunity to learn those lessons, they mostly graduate HS and college knowing there are connections to get a cushy job if they want it, and if not there is always a trust fund to live on. Yeah, they learn to join the junior league and volunteer, however, they never learn the true value of a dollar for an hours work. Sasha may be taking a job away from one other teen this summer, however, someday she'll be in a position to use what she learned from this summer to help numerous teens.

[GulfCoast66]

26. I respectively

Disagree. She has a bright future and any empathy she can have for we working folks is valuable.

[JI7]

32. disagree for many reasons. and this isn't taking away a job from someone needy

[FailureToCommunicate]

22. Check out the history. Oak Bluffs is a very interesting town on an other wise pretty white Island

Good for her to land that job!

[Lance Bass esquire]

27. I don't think this a good idea.

Security wise.

I see the Secret service impeding her being able to work like a everyday person and also causing disruption of the kitchens normal work flow.

I am all for her getting out and working

I know other children of previous first families have done it in the past but in this day and age too many crazies out there and the job is to public.

Sad but true.

JMHO

[ManiacJoe]

29. You are overestimating the presence of the Secret Service.

[uponit7771]

30. +1

[JI7]

33. most of the job is before the place opens to the public , it's also short term

she will mostly work early in the day .

overall it's a good thing for her.

[RobinA]

38. No Matter

what she does the Secret Service is going to prevent her from working "like a real person." Part of the "fun" of being the teen offspring of a President. I can't imagine going to college, any college, with Secret Service in tow. Yikes. Your own narc squad. Maybe that's part of the reason for her sister's gap year.

[UMTerp01]

28. Oh wow. My family and I go to Nancy's every year.

My family and I stay in Oak Bluff's every year. Thats the historically African American side of Martha's Vineyard. I've been going up there since I was a child. Every year we go up there. Love it. Nancy's is a great restaurant. Good for her to get that exposure to working.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. it could be worse.

[Hekate]

35. Great summer job for 15. I think Mom and Dad are doing a good job raising their girls.

[raven mad]

39. You GO, girl!!

All I did was groom horses and lead trail rides - and I know restaurant work is much harder.

Both girls will turn out a lot like their mom and dad - wonderful!!

[GummyBearz]

40. She would make way more money this summer by doing a few speeches for $75,000 each like Chelsea

Maybe she wouldn't get as much as Chelsea, but why work at a smelly sea food place when you could get a gig like that?

[GeorgeGist]

41. Satire?

The Obamas’ youngest daughter has been working an early four-hour shift at the busy, 350-seat restaurant, finishing up just a half hour after it opens for business at 11:30 a.m.

[auntpurl]

42. No, prep work, probably.

[demmiblue]

44. No, there is probably a lot of prep work involved.

Looks like a really busy place:

[Yavin4]

45. Looks a lot like Braavos

Is she selling oysters?

[kairos12]

43. I recall when one of Drumpts kids worked the take out window. No, I think not.