For many young people, summertime means a break from school, trips to the beach, amusement park rides, barbecues and ice cream cones. For many high school and college students whose families own a business, summer also means long hours spent toiling at entry-level jobs at the family firm, getting to know the enterprise from the ground up.
Family Business Magazine recently circulated a questionnaire in which we asked family business members to share their summer job memories. Their responses indicate that those long, hot days in the trenches were not spent in vain.