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<p>I don't think he'll do that. Mainly because he works in the kitchen and knows what they put in it and how they cook it.
Or maybe it's just the McDonald's I know just have really crappy food.</p>
<p><em>Daniel</em>...I have AP U.S. History, and I still find time for my job...that's because it's so chill like I said before. TOTALLY flexible hours..I mean, I even push it sometimes...but yeah, AP U.S. H is a b....</p>
<p>so, do ALL the rich businesses in mountain view pay high schoolers that much? :)</p>
<p>reading the first post makes me glad that I don't have a job :D</p>
<p>What about helping younger kids after school? Babysitting? Those are both in pretty high demand in most places I know of & can pay pretty well. They need people skills & because you're working with people, your days are never the same.
My S worked with kids over the summer, as a teaching assistant in a robotics class & earned $10/hr.
Working in a fast food restaurant IS very rigorous and dangerous, as you correctly point out. If it's not working well for you & you need the money, consider other options, including cashiering, stocking, working on campus, being a classroom cleaner, tutoring, etc., rather than just grumbling. McDonalds DOES give scholarships to employees, so that might be something to look into before deciding to quit your job.</p>
<p>I'm a senior and I get $9/h designing ads for a cell phone company. :)</p>
<p>The pay = fantastic </p>
<p>The hours, not so much. I work 4-8 Tue-Fri, so I'm bringing in a ton of cash, but I can barely keep up with my schoolwork (Never thought I'd say it, but thank God my AP Calc teacher only counts tests for grades, haha)</p>
<p>My oldest brother's a maniac. He managed to get a job as the "Conference Coordinater" at a prestigious, international film festival through a family connection. What the heck. He was like 17, making $12.50us/hr.</p>
<p>Oh man, that was kind of offtopic. Sorry, mates.</p>
<p>HImom, with all due respect, babysitting is a 10 year old little girl's job..not a high school senior or even a freshman's ,IMO.</p>
<p>What stuck-on-1700 said.</p>
<p>I don't get jobs like art(referring to adrian), engineering, designing basically. How does everyone on a team get involved? How do you reward individual performance? I can't envision my self helping to create something that many others could use.</p>
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HImom, with all due respect, babysitting is a 10 year old little girl's job..not a high school senior or even a freshman's ,IMO.
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<p>totally not true</p>
<p>I'm on my school's yearbook staff, so I'm familiar with different design programs (Adobe Photoshop & InDesign). This job has been in the hands of current/former pupil's of my school's yearbook/newspaper advisor for the past three employees, and that's how I got my job. The last person here couldn't handle it in addition to her college workload and called up my advisor and asked if there were any Photoshop nerds in her classes interested in the job.</p>
<p>It's a relatively small chain of stores, but I do the designs for all of them; I don't work with a 'team', though everything I do is based on instructions from my boss, who manages all of the franchises. It's basically doing 2-5 ads per week, and many ads are recycled designs with updated phones/prices. I recently designed a four-pager from scratch (as in finishing right now- I'm actually AT work ;)) and the hardest part is staying patient when the bossmen make you switch up the designs/prices/etc 23472392 times. That, and being new with no clue which ads go to which deadline and getting a migraine trying to figure out what ads you're already three days behind on. </p>
<p>Besides that and my lack of time for schoolwork, though, it really is a decent job. I used to work at a sub place, and I like this much more. I mean, I couldn't lurk on CC ringing up chips and sandwiches. ;)</p>
<p>I've known a HS senior who got to go on a trip to Australia with the family she babysat for. She was getting well over the minimum wage as well & they paid all her expenses. Babysitting can be VERY lucerative and you can get your homework done when the kids are sleeping. Of course, if you go in with the attitude that babysitting if for little girls, you won't be hired & won't get the $10/hour that some sitters get.</p>
<p>I don't think that they're saying babysitting is a poor job in terms of pay and benefits, but I've read several college application books which have said that babysitting and being a camp counselor are looked upon as 'cushy' jobs. They're typically easy to get (esp. babysitting), easy to keep, and commonplace. </p>
<p>No one's denying that babysitters need to be competent and often make great money, but it doesn't give a competitive edge on a college application, which most people on CC are most concerned about.</p>
<p>yep, why do you think fast food is always hiring. people work for 2 weeks, realize it sucks then quit.</p>
<p>Not sure that colleges necessarily discount babysitting, depending on what it involves & it can be done in connection with other part-time jobs.</p>
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<p>What if they're ranked number 1 in the US in babysitting?</p>
<p>If they were ranked number one, they'd probably be in the service of a family so rich and generous that a college education would be superfluous. ;)</p>
<p>Puppetzz-
1) Is there a CVS near you? My friend wants to be a pharmacist, and he worked at CVS in high school. The pay is usually pretty good, from what I've heard.</p>
<p>2) Stick it out until you safely net another job. Good job performance now will be a stepping stone to better jobs in the future. It's not uncommon to be offered a supervisory position after a year or two of working in fast food. </p>
<p>3) Believe me, there are worse jobs. This summer I worked at an animal hospital, naively thinking I would be able to play with the dogs. I did, but that was the only positive thing! What I hadn't counted on was being bitten (repeatedly), being scratched (every time I handled cats...they didn't like me), having to handle dogs with LYME DISEASE (:eek:), having to be a poop-scooper-upper in the walking court, trying to capture specimens of feces and urine for lab testing, cleaning and disenfecting several dozen cages every day, being dragged around by dogs that literally weighed more than I did, and having to break up dog fights...not to mention the dominant dogs that tried to pee on me or mount my leg. So yeah, there's worse jobs out there. ;)</p>
<p>Wow that job would suck even though I love animals. Im definitely quiting after I find another job still.</p>
<p>Yea, who'd have thunk there were such unglamorous aspects to a job at an animal hospital. :( Glad you survived it! Hope you have not contracted Lyme yourself!</p>