<p>Having the maturity, motivation, and organizational skills to work any kind of legal job is something that can impress colleges of any kind including LACs.</p>
<p>Yeah, my apologies...I was really tired and just didn't...click, if you can call that an excuse. </p>
<p>To Northstarmom and etc who are informed: Do jobs like McDonalds and the like count as well, by the way? For financial reasons when I'm older, maybe in a year or so I may working at either ralphs, mcdonalds, etc...those kinds but I hear some people telling me "Oh it's not 'academic' like the library or something so it won't be worth your time when you do work" when it's for finance.. >_></p>
<p>(and I was like, "profanity"? Until I noticed he edited the portion I quoted and not what I said).</p>
<p>Yes, jobs like McDonalds count -- big time. In fact, the more creative and independent you are in terms of getting and doing your job (referring to the Ebay one) and/or the more menial the job is, the more impressive it is to colleges.</p>
<p>Low status, menial jobs like McDonalds are impressive because they indicate that the applicant isn't afraid of hard work, and also isn't pampered. Such jobs can be far more impressive than so-called high school internships. Most admissions officers realize that the typical way that h.s. students get "internships" is via family contacts, and the internships typically don't require any hard work. In fact, they may not require much work at all.</p>
<p>The McDonalds type of jobs require hard work, assertiveness (to obtain the job), and teach the ability to get along with various types of people. They also teach one a great deal about the world in general, operating a business, teamwork, etc. </p>
<p>Virtually no h.s. students have the skills to be so useful to businesses as to be useful interns. After all, most h.s. students lack the experience to know how to work an ordinary job. </p>
<p>Overall, working any kind of job will make one stand out in college admissions because so many teens now -- particularly those applying to top colleges -- don't work at all.</p>
<p>Invoyable: A LOT of work goes into an ebay business. I used to have one, but it just became too much for me during school time so I set it aside.
You also have to factor in how much you actually buy and sell.
Think of it this way. To have a successful biz, you need to know which products will actually sell and be profitable. Lots of research goes into this. Then the whole process of bidding, buying, and then getting items is a pain. Then you have to list them. Think of listing a 100 items a month..gets time consuming. Then you have to visit the post office 200 times a month from getting the items, then shipping it. There's a lot more to this, but it's just a rough overview. But as you can see from just the outline of this biz, it's time consuming. It's not so much of the part where it's "hard", but you need to have the biz mentality and you need to put in a lot of work.
It's a lot more than you make it out to be. Don't be fooled by the title.</p>
<p>Like I said, I totally got fooled by my friends who casually "sell stuff" on ebay and etc...and really I know nothing about business.</p>
<p>either way thanks for the information. i was really tired that day anyways.</p>
<p>Don't worry about it, haha. I got carried away.</p>
<p>I tend to agree with carolyn. What's the real point. Also, it is way more common these days and may not really give you the edge you are looking for.</p>