<p>I want to get a job soon, but I like having downtime. I currently do two sports and two-three extracurriculars a week. I'm taking some honors classes. I was wondering if any of you guys work? How do you guys manage your time? I've noticed that most students with jobs, either suffer with their grades in order to maintain 13+ hour week jobs. Can anyone relate?</p>
<p>A lot of top students juggle a job. If you want something done, give it to a busy person. And working a real job during the school year is one of the best possible EC’s for college, especially if you’re low income and need the money. </p>
<p>All the kids joining a bunch of BS school activities have no idea that bagging groceries at the local supermarket would carry more weight than all of that other stuff combined.</p>
<p>Work? No. I’m not much of a “job person.”</p>
<p>I did some filing for my mom’s office over these past few summers though.</p>
<p>I used to do a few retail jobs and they convinced me, that if I do nothing else, attend college.
I couldn’t deal with some of those snotty ass customers everyday. I don’t know how people who do work there FT deal. I’m still livid at some Canadian diplomat who came to the store and was an ass. If I ever see him again, I’m throwing a frog at him.</p>
<p>Kermit is going to have to take one for the team.</p>
<p>I feel like I’m at a disadvantage because I’m 17 years old Senior and stil don’t have job. Yes some of the top students have part time jobs. But that’s less than the top 5%, they are practically elite! Many other students that I have jobs that manage jobs that have good grades usually give up extracurriculars or the ones that do both often have mediocre grades (3.0 or bellow). IMO.</p>
<p>I’m a junior and I got a part time job in september. (I’m an average student) I had originally planned on working more, but now I’m happy with the fact that I work once a week. (on the weekends for about 6 hours usually. It seems longer than it is.)</p>
<p>I work at a pizza place, and it kind of sucks, but I think it’s good work experience.</p>
<p>I work 2 hours a week. It doesn’t seem like a real job and I don’t think it is. I come to school for 2 hours Saturday morning and help 7th graders with like math and Latin. That’s a fake job, I think.</p>
<p>Our valedictorian has a part time job, but his only real EC is football and he took leave from his job during application season. </p>
<p>I babysit a few times a week (anywhere from 2-10 hours), which can get insane, but of course, I have the leisure of turning a job down if I’m swamped, though I very, very rarely do. </p>
<p>Summer jobs are great options. Probably 99% of my friends have summer jobs, from grocery store cashiers to lifeguards to camp counselors. My bf has quite an impressive amount of money saved up from his job as a camp counselor, and it allowed him to quit his school-year job (which he hated).</p>
<p>i don’t, sports in spring in fall make it hard. getting a summer job this year though- id be so bored if i didnt. hopefully getting a paid research position! which would be far better than working at the grocery store haha</p>
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<p>You’re probably not much of a “successful person” either.</p>
<p>I tutor math both for money (for more affulent students) as well as pro bono for Questbridge and POSSE.</p>
<p>I tutor at my school (mainly for APUSH - my specialty lol). I haven’t really gotten paid yet (it’s been months) - unfortunately, this is what happens when you’re school is run by a bunch of incompetent morons (district).</p>
<p>During the spring and fall, I umpire. It’s only about 4 hours/wk though. I’m employed to manage a network of sites for my dad’s business/organization he’s in.</p>
<p>I work, for three days in a row in the local Stop and Shop</p>
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Yeah but at least I’m not a complete *******, y’know?</p>
<p>I’ve held two jobs; one as a cashier and one as a TA at a summer school. Got two internships too, but neither were paid. 
Paid internships are impossible to find for high schoolers…</p>
<p>i held a summer job, but that’s it. i’d probably go insane if i had a job during the school year. i have sports everyday after school til at least 5:30 and on game days, i don’t get home til like 6ish.</p>
<p>Nope. And don’t intend on doing menial high-school type of jobs anytime soon either. They seem like a waste of time. I’d rather volunteer. I will be doing a paid internship, although they offered; I wouldn’t have minded if it were without the pay.</p>
<p>I think everyone should be required to work customer service for say, at least three months of their life. Working those “menial jobs” is not only extremely education, it makes the world a better place. You understand customer service a lot better when you’ve done it.</p>
<p>(I work 25 hours/week as a cashier.)</p>
<p>Ugh, right now, I have no job and therefore no money. I used to work in retail, and two years ago I was a waiter/busboy, which was tiring. I had pretty much the same work schedule - some combination of Mon afternoon, Wed afternoon, Thur afternoon, and Sat afternoon/night or Sun morning.</p>
<p>After those two jobs, I would never want to make working with people a career. People look down on you when they think that they, as the customers, are always in the right.</p>