@3scoutsmom i’m talking about maybe when schoosing starts again.I didn’t think I needed to provide more details than that.
If you are talking about Fall then you have all summer to look for a job that will work with your class schedual!
See if you can get an on campus job, also Chick-fil-A and Mc Donalds in our area have good reputations for working with college kids schedules and our local grocery store even works around high school students’ schedules.
If you don’t need the job/money, and want to focus on school, go ahead and quit. It doesn’t sound like it’s much of a job anyway and school should be your #1 priority.
Goodness. From what you describe, you aren’t supporting anyone, not even yourself. In fact you’re a burden to everyone else-- everyone paying for your scholarship, financial aid, food, and living expenses, not to mention your use of roads, library, etc. But yes, it’s ok to quit a job without another lined up. If you don’t need the petty cash, feel free to quit. Find a job on campus in the Fall. Or don’t. What is your contribution? What do you want to become? Get going on that.
It’s fine to quit if you need to for school but at the same time it’s a choice you make and it’s not fine to complain that other people have cars and take vacations and have money as you have done in previous threads if you chose not to work.
@3scoutsmom i’ll use my free time to job hunt and use that to get a car and go on trips. Is it ok to take it one step at a time?
Of course it’s ok to take it one step at a time, as long as you keep on making progress toward your goal!
Please don’t judge me on what I said in previous posts.
@SuperGeo5999 here is my opinion based on these assumptions:
- You’re in college
- You live at home and commute
- This is some type of entry level food service or retail type job you have solely for the purpose of fun money for yourself
Quitting your job would not be bad if the reason is to focus on school. However, if you do this you should be certain to attain a 4.0 or close to it. I would also suggest that you get involved in a club or two that interests you, something that can expand your network and build your leadership skills. All these things would suffice as a future explanation to potential employers.
To make this more general than the OP’s outlook on life, the mantra of not quitting a job until you have another is generally applied to the working population who have responsibilities including paying for rent/mortgage, car payments, insurance, etc. At that time in your life, yes, you want to have a job lined up before you quit your current job to ensure that your fiscal responsibilities are met. This could also be applied to students who, for whatever reason, must keep a full or part-time job to help support themselves and their family. However, you are not in that situation. If your parents are willing to bankroll you, and you don’t need a job for any reason except for fun, then it is not necessary to have another lined up.
Regarding Taxes,what if I started saving for 15% of my income towards retirement once I had a full emergency fund (hopefully by age 25) and let my grow in a 401 (k), 401(b), or Roth IRA for 40 years? If i did that I could retire a millionaire, have enough to live on, maybe have enough to travel and do whatever I want, and never have to depend on anyone by taxes or social security again?
Nope not how it works. We ALL are dependent upon subsidies and taxes. Food? Subsidized. Roads? Funded by taxes.
This is how living in a society works. We depend upon one another. We pool resources to make things easier on all of us.
I know, rich people in this country really like to pretend like it’s the poor that just suck off of them, but really the richer you are, the more in subsidies you get. They’re just “invisible” subsidies because they aren’t given directly to you in the form of a food stamp pittance.
Why give money to places like McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, and other places when they don’t even appreciate customers who shop there?
??? Because adults need to buy things?
And as a former Walmart cashier, that’s not a very accurate assessment.
@bodangles maybe it’s different at other wal-marts. I’ve been to good and bad wal-marts.
Ok I tried, I really tried, but there’s no way any of this is for real, right?
shrugs I’m out. Have a good summer.
@bodangles i’m glad you have retail experience because people who never worked in retail seem to not appreciate people in retail. I, myself work in retail and feel that because i"m known for good customer service that I should get customer service when i’m the customer. Maybe i’m bitter about this but we should all appreciate one another and unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen.
@romanigypsyeyes , I think the same. Reminds me of the song that says “too much…time on my hands”
I turned 20 years old a week ago.i’m scared now that I’m 20 especially because I’m not a teenager anymore. I worry if I’ll get anywhere or accomplish things in my life. I feel like I missed out on my teenage years because I did not do any dating or had too many friends. Is it too late to develop things I could of during my teenage years? Is it bad how I’m still working in retail at 20? I worry about this because I read stories about people who are still working in food or retail in there 20s, 30s, and older even with a college degree. It seems there’s more non-marketable degrees than marketable degreees and not even STEM is always a safe bet anymore.
Happy belated birthday!
Dating: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1995645-are-my-daughter-and-her-friends-all-destined-to-be-librarians-with-cats.html Read the many stories here of people dating in their 20s and 30s.
Retail:
I worked retail through age 20, and only quit because I was at the point in my degree when I needed to get a career-related internship. If you’re not there yet, then any job that fits your schedule and gets you good money makes sense.