This summer, Bryce, 14, is working in food service at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington. He will be in ninth grade at Syracuse Junior High School in the fall.

I applied to work at Lagoon because it is one of the few places where they hire 14- and 15-year-olds. You have to be 16 to work on the rides, but I like food services because I like cooking things. We get to make cotton candy and dip caramel apples. We bake cinnamon rolls in the microwave. We take turns making stuff and working at the window.

I have tasted everything we make. It smells good. Sometimes you get hungry just working here.

I work three to five days a week, but not after 8 p.m. We [who are 14 or 15] can't work more than 8 hours a day.

I lkike working at Lagoon. It's fun. We get some discount tickets for our friends and some things are free. I have been on nearly every ride. But not the roller coaster. My favorite is bumper cars. I like Pioneer Village and Rattlesnake Rapids, too.

We live in Syracuse and my parents drive me to work. My mom also had her first job at Lagoon.

I saved my first paycheck. I am paying off a laptop computer. I would like to work at Lagoon every summer. And even when I am 16, I think I will want to work in food service.

As told to Judy Magid