<p>Do you have a job? If so, how many hours/week do you work? Do you think your job will help with your college admissions? [Insert interesting question here]?</p>
<p>Personally, I'm a chess teacher at three local elementary schools, so I only work for 3 hours/week. However, I spend 2-3 additional hours/week planning my lessons, pairing tournaments, etc. Since chess is a major extra-curricular for me (in addition to teaching, I play at tournaments, formed my own team, and volunteer at camps and rescue missions), I think the teaching will benefit me significantly. Plus, it pays quite well. :)</p>
<p>I actually accepted my first job offer a few days ago. I applied to many places, got interviews at 3, only one ended up calling back, unfortunately the one I was least interested in working in at that point. Nonetheless, I am happy because I really want some money. I asked for 20 hours a week, and I’ll get minimum wage. But, there’s a mandatory weekly union fee of $8, so I end up making even less than minimum wage…</p>
<p>Most the jobs teenagers can get are not really “mentally” challenging…just menial minimum-wage jobs for the most part, unless you have some special traits/connections. One of my friends is a 1st/2nd grade sub teacher or something at a local Hindu/Indian temple school or something. She gets to design her own lesson plans and everything.</p>
<p>At this moment, the places I’m applying to, it probably wouldn’t make a difference or not in terms of college admissions. I figure I could start saving money for something later on. With the union fees in, I’d only be making $7.08/hour… for around $141 a week, not including the extra taxes / fees associated with this kind of thing. I guess I can put a dollar away for every 7 I make or something.</p>
<p>I’ve worked at McDonald’s since June 2012, but only for like five hours a week because that’s all they give me. I’m done with college admissions, but I don’t think the job helped me very much because I didn’t work very much. </p>