<p>I currently own my own business that makes several thousand of dollars/month. However, my parents have represented my earnings in their names because I started my businesses as a kid and I wasn't old enough to earn money under my own name. How can I add this to my resume?</p>
<p>Personally I think I could probably just send them copies of some of my checks I've been receiving and then write that they are under my parents name due to my age.</p>
<p>wow that is super cool, sadly i dont no how to add this to ur resume, but great job on having ur own business, it takes a LOT of hard work, as u obviously no ;)</p>
<p>do you think they will really believe that I made the business? They will probably need some proof and I think that I can just show them checks that have been written out to my parents and tell them that they are written to my parents because I am underage.</p>
<p>Also to give you more info, the business is an online business, so perhaps I could just show them that the name under CEO for the business is me.</p>
<p>yea hopefully showing them that u r the CEO will be enough, but then again u r definately going to want to get a 2nd opinion, since I am not positive on this. btw what type of business is it? I'm just curious</p>
<p>send in a quarterly income statement</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>I also own my own business. If you want to add it to your resume, just write it down under "job experience", if there's a category. Don't send in any checks. Put yourself in the place of an admissions reviewer... a check wouldn't look good, btw it proves nothing in terms of owning your own business. </p>
<p>What do you sell?</p>
<p>Ninyaha</p>
<p>What age restrictin is there on a kid making money? It's hard to believe your parents would have wanted to pay tax at their rate rather than at yours. </p>
<p>Without knowing more details it's hard to tell how credible this will be.</p>
<p>Read AdOfficers posts on the lies he's uncovered. It will have to make sense for them to believe it, having your title as CEO on a website is meaningless. I have a friend who's parents put him on the board of several of their companies. Hard to miss school for those meetings though!</p>
<p>Sounds like bull to me. What online business? Post a link.</p>
<p>ok suze...why are you questioning the kid when thats not at all what he asked for...hes asking how he can make his business credible on a college app...honestly...if you dont have an answer dont question his honesty with a stupid doubt</p>
<p>Gosh beefs, I don't know why his veracity may have entered my mind. Perhaps because he had another thread asking if adcoms verify ECs? And because his original chances thread didn't mention his being CEO of a business--maybe an oversight?</p>
<p>So I tell you what, you do what you like and so will I!</p>
<p>if it wasn't for this "friend" gaining an unfair advantage i doubt suze would be all butt hurt over this issue</p>
<p>Beefs, what's for dinner. Wana go out for a steak Suzeee or are you still working?</p>
<p>holed up at the lawyers offices. I'll email.</p>
<p>I wouldn't send them a copy of a check. I don't think, personally, that that would quite come off the way you desire. I don't think at all you would consider doing that to be showy, but I do think it would come off that way. If you have the option when listing your ECs to use an extra page if necessary, put an asterisk by the business and explain on a seperate sheet, or try to bring it up during an interview. Better yet, have someone mention it as a plus in one of your recommendations (he wouldn't have to go into detail). If it interests them enough when they see a mention, they will ask you about it.</p>
<p>Just to answer some of your questions, advertising programs such as Google Adsense require that users be atleast 18 years of age. I've been letting my parents represent me for all the advertising revenue I have received. </p>
<p>I think the best idea for me is to just attach an extra sheet with an overview of my business, a print out of the "About Us" page, etc.</p>
<p>But I was thinking about giving a scanned copy of a check because I thought this could prove that the site was actually making the money, because truthfully any kid could open a nice looking site if he knows how to program/design, but I think what stands out about this is that I was able to be very successful in mine.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input, I will probably ask my guidance counselor about this later.</p>
<p>One other thing to remember - depending on whether you're in the US or not - if it's really your business, but your parents are claiming the money rather than putting it into a UTMA with you as beneficiary, you and your parents may very well be participating in fraud, and violating various state and US laws (particularly thinking income tax). You may want to check with an attorney or accountant before even asking for a college to consider this as "your business".</p>
<p>well, I actually didn't register it as a business. I guess it would be more likely considered a personal hobby that makes money.</p>
<p>What do you think of this?</p>
<p>Post a link. Anybody can slap some adsense on a website and make chump change. Let's see if you've done anything actually impressive.</p>
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<p>Then you don't own your own business, and saying on your applications that you do is a misrepresentation if not an out-and-out lie.</p>
<p>If applying for financial aid you'll face the question of whether the money is yours or your parents. They want 35% of it per year if it's yours and only 6% if it's your parents savings.</p>