<p>Whoa there, Celebrian. I don't believe that for a moment. You seem pretty darned competent to me in your posts. Also, the type of jobs that I have listed do not take "being good at" in the sense of experience and special skills. Cleaning out garbage cans, for instance, or poop scooping a yard after the snow thaw hardly qualifies as skilled labor. But it takes a fortitude, and an attitude to do a good job at these things. As they are jobs, people do not like to do, there is a niche for that. Just do a flyer and title it "Handy Kid" and list all of the types of things people hate to do--homework patrol, straightening out basements and garages, and a number of things we've all mentioned. There is a market for this type of work. And handymen charge alot. Even if you charge half their going rate, you will be doing well. My kids and I have found work in the most depressed neighborhoods at the most depressed times.</p>
<p>Celebrian...I don't believe for a minute that you are not good at anything! This doesn't sound like your normal upbeat self. Bad week? Anyway, if you have public transportation where you live, you have TONS of work options! Can you work at a mall? a restaurant? file or stuff envelopes for a small business? I know kids who do all of these things. I also know a girl who takes public transportation after school to go into the city, where she does filing for a law office. My own son works 8 to 12 hours every Saturday at a science center. My best friends' sons work at McDonalds and as a grocery store bagger. If your neighborhood is so negative, go elsewhere! Not every job is glamorous...I even mopped floors while I was in college. Whatever you end up doing, TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR WORK, and do the job the very best it can be done. Good luck!</p>
<p>My parents don't really want me working during the school year, it drastically pulled down my grades, from a 4.1-4.2 to a 3.6 (quarter, not semester) and dropped my semester gpa from a 3.86 to a 3.81 and my rank from 73/447 to 81/464, so my parents only want me working during the summer. Thank you for the suggestions lkf725</p>
<p>big difference IMO working on campus at a campus related job in college than working off campus where you have to deal with transportation etc in high school
Working 10 or so hours a week- is not much and should not impact on your studies.
If you are in school say 5 hours a day at very most- 3 hours for home work- 8 hours for sleeping- you could still have 6 hours a day for ****ing around, eating, pretending to clean your room and still have two hours to work.</p>
<p>Yes, I do plan on working during the summer and on campus, but working 20 hours a week really was just cutting into my studies (I'm not allowed to stay up past 10pm, when I was getting off work).</p>
<p>You are a good student. You probably could get some jobs tutoring younger students. Their parents probably would be happy to drive the kids over to your house for lessons.</p>
<p>You could contact your current teachers and/or your middle school teachers. If you are involved in a church, you also could put out the word there.</p>
<p>I did tutor for a year- okay I'll consider that option.</p>
<p>Babysitting can pay really well. This summer I babysat 4 days a week, and made about $260 a week. It was close to minimum wage, but considering that they payed for movies, amusement park tickets, food, and everything else, it worked out quite well. It was also right next door, and the kids liked coming to my house more than they did staying home, and it was fine with their parents if they did. If you can drive, it makes things even easier. I pretty much played soccer mom for the summer (drove them to baseball, to tennis, to soccer, to birthday parties, made sure they were fed, clean, presentable, safe, and happy) and it was a lot of fun, and pretty lucrative. Definitely a good option, even if you have to travel for it.</p>
<p>Even if you don't want to work on a daily basis, if you find a family you can get to know and build a relationship with, the occassional evenings aren't hard to find. I made $140 for babysitting 3 little boys on New Years Eve (they went to bed at 8). If you don't mind giving up holidays like Valentine's day and New Years, people are very willing to pay well for your time. </p>
<p>Good Luck.</p>
<p>celebrian...another point is that you don't have to work 20 hours...you probably could work 8 to 10 hours, and we ALL waste 8 to 10 hours per week!</p>
<p>i know my dad makes 90,000 and my parents still say i need to look dor FinAid.</p>
<p>since some schools may run $40,000 + inc room and board, spending half his income on college and related expenses might not be what your parents have in mind ;)</p>
<p>baby-sitting is out- I'm just bad at it, I don't know how to entertain kids, I'm just pathetically bad- I realized this when I heard the kid call his father and complain about me, so I'm kind of done with that.</p>
<p>You might want to consider getting a job at the mall. Most malls close at 9:00pm and the latest you of work would get out would be 9:30pm. I work at Gymboree, a kid's clothing store in the mall. Most of my shifts are 5:30-9:30pm or 6:30-9:30pm. I also do cheerleading five nights a week, and practices go until 5:15pm. Just look for a job with short evening shifts, and only work 8-10 hours a week. That's how I do it! :) Good luck!!</p>
<p>I'll try, but everywhere I go, they want me working 20+ hours a week. I don't live close enough to the mall, so I'll have to consider other options (20 min. drive, which is a lot saying I can't drive myself there).</p>
<p>"latest you would get out would be 9:30pm" not true a girl I know works at Limited too in the mall and often has to stay until 1:30 in the morning doing inventory and what-not</p>
<p>really? You have to be out by 10pm here if you're a minor.</p>
<p>almost all seniors are 18</p>
<p>just must be my school where it's half 17yr. olds/half 18 year olds, for some reason we have jillions of summer birthdays :p</p>
<p>"why should smart, hardworkign citzens have to work even harder to send their kids to school, when the lazy ass parents just sit home and try to have more babies, but yet,, their kids go to college for free... anyway"</p>
<p>Even if their parents where stupid or lazy, why the hell should their kids pay for it? There are some people that come from disadvantaged backgrounds because their parents come from other countries ignorant and with a ****ty middle school education or where left with support from only one parent. Just because those parents don't make as much money doesn't mean they aren't hard working(money does not equal intelligence). A lot bust their asses without any work benefits (no health, retirement, bonus)to help their kids as much as they can so they don't have to go trough the same. Those kids that go on to college are trying to break that chain and financial aid sure as hell helps.</p>
<p>right on! ^</p>