Adult children living at home (teenagers, single mom, wife, girl)
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My parents never forced me to get a job in high school, I just did it. Worked in a grocery store all through school & college too, would work there on my breaks.
I also was required while in college to do several interns, so I worked 2 jobs through most of college.
I know that if my grades were to have suffered because of my job, my parents would have wanted me to give the job up.
I worked so that I could pay for gas and have money for buying clothes and going out with my friends. My parents helped me out from time to time, but for the most part I took care of my car repairs, schoolbooks and fees for community college, new clothes, etc. The adult children who loaf and don't do anything ... somebody must be paying for their pocket money, car, insurance, cell phone, Internet access and so on. No kid wants to sit at home with nothing to do or mooch off his friends--eventually the friends get tired of it.
I don't understand why a kid would not want to earn money unless he got all he wanted from his parents. The possibility of not working didn't even occur to me back then.
I see no reason not to have a part-time job right after high school, if not sooner.
Our kids get out of school at 2:30, they have practice for either marching band, jazz band or golf from 2:45-5:30 (6:00). They get home about 1/2 hour after that (putting things away after practice, etc.). We eat dinner and they crack open their homework. They generally have about 2 hours, give or take, each night. It's now almost 9:30 PM...when would they do this part time job right after school? Saturdays in the fall and spring are taken up with marching band competitions and golf tournaments. Sunday after church they do homework and just plain old relax. They have part time summer jobs and that is all we will let them have because we don't want their grades to suffer. The are on pace to get a lot more in academic scholarships from the colleges they are looking at then they would ever make in a part time job during their high school years.
Our kids get out of school at 2:30, they have practice for either marching band, jazz band or golf from 2:45-5:30 (6:00). They get home about 1/2 hour after that (putting things away after practice, etc.). We eat dinner and they crack open their homework. They generally have about 2 hours, give or take, each night. It's now almost 9:30 PM...when would they do this part time job right after school? Saturdays in the fall and spring are taken up with marching band competitions and golf tournaments. Sunday after church they do homework and just plain old relax. They have part time summer jobs and that is all we will let them have because we don't want their grades to suffer. The are on pace to get a lot more in academic scholarships from the colleges they are looking at then they would ever make in a part time job during their high school years.
I meant after they graduated from high school, sorry.
gosh- first time I've ever seen two moderators talk to each other.
Not in this thread of course but it would be interesting to see two moderators "get into it". Don't know why- just a random thought. Who would call them out?
My daughter never had a job beyond the odd babysitting or watching her aunt's store in high school. Her job was school, end of story. Summers she did internships or took college classes. It paid off completely she got a free ride to a top school.
wow! That is a lot of job hopping. How many jobs is that? Twelve? I job hop too though. My first job was at mcdonald's from june to september 2009, then i worked for dining services from september 2009 to june 2010, took some summer classes while doing some temp work on the side, started another job at an office from september 2010 to june 2011. Found a new job in august and i have been working that job ever since.
I wish i had started earlier.
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