{"id":375659,"date":"2026-10-17T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375659\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:12:24","slug":"teen-asks-all-of-manhattan-to-help-him-find-his-dream-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375659\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Asks All of Manhattan to Help Him Find His Dream Job"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Avi Lichtenstein isn’t sure what he wants to be when he grows up. He’s landed on a unique way of trying to figure it out: tag along with one working New Yorker every week this school year and figure out what kind of future actually looks appealing. The Wall Street Journal<\/a>‘s<\/a> Joseph Pisani profiles the 16-year-old high school junior, who spent $500 he’d saved hiring two Craigslist workers to blanket New York City with more than 300 flyers that say things like: “Your boring Tuesday could be my dream job. Could I shadow you for a day?” Each has a QR code, and his gambit is working. \n <\/p>\n


\n Avi has already trailed a dog groomer, sat in on a satellite radio morning show, and shadowed a Bronx ramen shop co-owner who ended up hiring him part time. To keep things safe, would-be job mentors have to upload a photo, share their LinkedIn profile, and do a video call, with his parents reviewing things. He may shadow an airline captain, tattoo artist, and marketing executive next; all his learnings are going into a spreadsheet. Read the full story<\/a> for more on his quest. \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Avi Lichtenstein isn’t sure what he wants to be when he grows up. He’s landed on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[10069,80316,3415,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-375659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-career","tag-high-school-students","tag-jobs","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}