Sasha Obama takes up summer job at seafood joint


Boston, Aug 6 (PTI) : US President Barack Obama's younger daughter Sasha, who has lived a luxurious life in the confines of the White House, has taken up a summer job serving food at a seafood restaurant.

Sasha, 15, who is using her full name Natasha while working at Nancy's, a seafood restaurant on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, has been learning the ropes of the service industry.

"She's been working downstairs at takeout. We were wondering why there were six people helping this girl, but then we found out who it was," a server at the busy island eatery was quoted as saying by the Boston Herald.

Sasha was accompanied to her summer job by a contingent of six Secret Service agents, who sat outside the restaurant in a large 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 stop by for seafood 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 job, the paper said.

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 AM.

The Obamas have been attempting to raise their daughters as normally as possible which may be why they are letting Sasha get a taste of working a summer job in a resort area.

Sasha and her older sister Malia, who will attend Harvard University in 2017 after taking a 'gap year', attended their first-ever state dinner in March.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues., Frazer Town,Bangalore

    Sun, Aug 07 2016

    Sasha Obama has really set a great example and also shown the world the great concept of dignity of labor.All the best in her new assignment.

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  • Valerian D'souza, Udupi / Mumbai

    Sun, Aug 07 2016

    Great. It's quite common in advanced countries, children including of rich parents, take up part time job to earn some money.
    There is dignity for labour. Nobody puts down anybody for doing a legitimate job unlike many in India. For them Lazy mind is devil's workshop.
    We have to learn from them, if we want to prosper India. That's real humility.

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  • Praveen S Shetty, Mangaluru

    Sun, Aug 07 2016

    Lazy Indians do not understand the importance such Summer jobs taken up by rich kids. It teaches the people at young age itself about respecting all kinds of jobs and not to discriminate the people on the basis of their jobs unlike in India where some jobs are reserved for lower castes only and some jobs are reserved for upper caste only.
    In Europe and America no job ( Kula-Kasubu) is reserved for any particular caste or race. In a single family you will find one brother is a priest in Church and another brother is agriculturist and third brother is running Shoe(cobler) shop or Skinning and tanning of animal skins. Is this ever possible in caste-ridden India even after 500 years ?

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  • sri, Karkala

    Sun, Aug 07 2016

    Shetre- it is all publicity stunt.
    In UK and astralia they have last name like farmer tailor butcher merchant etc.
    You might have seen in cricketer names it self.
    So west people gives importance to external appearance and decorations.
    Yesterday we were discussing how important secondary landing gear for the aircraft just like important engine. Their work is just sufficient but not enough!

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  • Lokesh, Mangalore

    Sun, Aug 07 2016

    @Sri, I really pity of you mate. Your comments in this thread never made any sense before but this time you're not even on board. You don't even have idea how the children as well elderly work in the western society. Someone from Mangalore(that is a famous family)was studying in England when I was working here and he used to work in a restaurant for few hours in a week. Though he is very rich In Mangalore, the society in London made him to work like that and he enjoyed and was telling me, he can't do that in Mangalore. Retiries work few hours for many charities instead of sitting and watching tele like in India.. Learn something from others, not just from Bajrang Dal and SRS...

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  • A. S. Mathew, U.S.A.

    Sun, Aug 07 2016

    American culture is the culture in the "dignity of labor". Some of the great names of the U.S. history like Richard Nixon, they have done jobs like dish washing in the younger days. But in India, jobs are assigned and that way dignity is calculated young people are not interested to do anything. That mentality has to be changed and those who work in any job, if they are working hard and honestly, they must be appreciated.

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  • Albert D' Souza, San Francisco/Mangalore

    Sun, Aug 07 2016

    It is difficult to people of India to understand. In the United States each teenager is independent from their parents and proud about work & community service/voluntary work and expect allowance for household work from parent for personal expenses.

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  • Don, Mangalore

    Sun, Aug 07 2016

    It's called dignity of labour, which many Indians don't or refuse to understand

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  • Gladys Mudarth, Mangalore/Canada

    Sat, Aug 06 2016

    Nancy has earned her USD well.
    Natasha has earned her points well too. God bless both of them.

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  • Evans Christopher Sumitra, UDUPI/ NEW YORK, USA. s

    Sat, Aug 06 2016

    What is a big deal if Sasha Obama takes up a summer job even though she is daughter of US President Barrack Obama. Most kids in US as far as I know, take up summer jobs for various reasons. My hats off to Sasha and all others who are doing jobs in their summer vacation. It will keep them healthy. wealthy and wise.

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  • JOY CASTELINO, MOODUBELLE/DUBAI

    Sat, Aug 06 2016

    In future if she marry any Indian, then she will be called as "American Waitress"!!!!

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  • sri, Karkala

    Sat, Aug 06 2016

    Working one day of no use.
    Do at least a month.
    Publicity stunt. This like Spain children spending vacation at kundapur fields.

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  • Ramakrishna Adappa, Mangalore

    Sun, Aug 07 2016

    This job of Sasha Obama is not for one or two days. It is for whole summer vacation of one month or more. As we Indians are accustomed to the dramas and street plays enacted by the rich Politicians through out the year, we do not know how to respect the honest hard work at young age. When Jawaharlal Nehru was studying in England he was made to wash his own cloths and polish his own boots, and when Motilal Nehru came to know this he threatened to withdraw his son from that college Hostel and it was Jawaharlal Nehru who convinced his father Motilal that every student, whether rich or poor, has to do his own chores himself and there are no personal servants available in England just like India.
    Compare this with Mukesh Ambani who has 200 servants at his Antilla house at company's salary and his Sons waste time in Disco, and when one fat son of Ambani loses weight it becomes very big news for Indian Media.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Nashville

    Sat, Aug 06 2016

    Some Idiots in India will call her Waitress ...

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  • Harold D'cunha, Mangalore, India

    Sat, Aug 06 2016

    Jossey,
    That is why they are idiots.

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  • stan, dubai

    Sat, Aug 06 2016

    What is wrong in calling her waitress???? In India they call waitress who serves food... but they call business man if any politicians sons are illegally doing Land grabbing, corruption, sand mining,kidnapping, killing etc.

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  • geoffrey , hat hill

    Sun, Aug 07 2016

    Those idiots must be busy looking for words to justify Modi's unexpected change in attitude towards gau rakshaks/bhakshaks.

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