Never in my life did I ever apply for employment at the Panama Donut Shop. I have never even visited Panama for any length of time, not landed in the airport or floated through the canal, so obviously I would not have opportunity to know anything about the donut shop, let alone apply for a job there.
It is true that I did have a job in high school translating letters from Spanish to English for the private Christian school system there but that was because we were asked to do that. It was nice of them to pay us but we really had not asked for the money. It was just understood that we would be paid 5 or 10 cents a letter or something like that. It was not a lot of money, just enough for pocket change. I am not sure who made those arrangements.
It is sort of awkward to think of getting a job in high school when you are living in a foreign country and perhaps outside the U.S. until after high school graduation as myself. The country in which you are living may have rules about that or your company or something. Perhaps we should have checked on that. I never thought to ask. I have no idea whether that would have been a problem with the local authorities as we did not discuss it with them.
