<p>So, right now I am working at Olive Garden as a hostess. I have been working there for about 7 months and now my parents want me to quit so I don't have to work my senior year and I can focus on school, college apps, and scholarship apps.</p>
<p>I told them I wouldn't quit because I can't enjoy my senior year and being 18 and all the stuff I do unless I have my own money to spend because I pretty much refuse to ask for money. I'm pretty independent.</p>
<p>So my parents came up with an idea, and they said they would pay me an hourly rate to work on college applications and scholarship applications. I'm pretty sure if this happens I am going to take them up because they'll (hopefully) pay me what I'm making at my job now($7.00/hr) and it would be tax-free so if I worked on apps and stuff for 10 hours a week, I would make $70.00.</p>
<p>You should tell them that you love Olive Garden, and they should come visit you sometime, so they'll understand your side of the story... because "when you're here, you're family." :)</p>
<p>Am I the only one that gets this? Its not an actual job. Her parents didn't want her to work because they wanted her to focus on college stuff, but she refused because she wanted to be independent.</p>
<p>So, her parents decided to pay her for her "work." This way, they win because she focuses on colleges and because she still thinks that shes being independent.</p>
<p>yes, them willing to pay you to do college related work IS EXACTLY the same as them giving you money...i dont understand how you could accept that if you want to be independent and not get money from them</p>
<p>a job is completely different from your parents paying you to do collegework</p>
<p>I think you should take it. You'll have some money to spend, and that will actually make you work on apps.
About being "independent". I've got a question for you: do you have a car? If you do, did your parents contribute to it in any way? Car payments, gas, insurance?
And there's another question: do you live at home? If you do, do your parents pay for electricity, water, house payments, rent (if applicable), food?
So ask yourself: how independent you really are? Or is it just a teenage thing "to try to show my parents that i can live without them"? Dont kid yourself. :)</p>
<p>Are your parents aware that colleges are impressed by students who work to get their own spending money? Your hostessing job is teaching you a lot about yourself, the world, working, and also is a nice EC that would impress adcoms. </p>
<p>If you are organized and responsible, you can continue your job while getting your college apps out just like students manage to apply to college despite pursuing sports and other time-consuming ECs. ndeed, when it comes to the top colleges, the students they want are students who can responsible handle things like that and get their academics done well.</p>
<p>In other words, your parents will be paying you to give up one of the things that would make you stand out when it comes to applying to college, and also would be teaching you some lessons that you'd use for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>Your parents fold far too easily and quickly. They're desperate, I bet you could get them to give you $10/hour, lolz (of course, this adds strain to your relationship, and may be unnecessary, but if you need the money).</p>
<p>Tell them that listing a job on a college application will help in admissions. Colleges respect someone who has already worked a job in high school because they experience more of the "real world" and a working environment.</p>