<p>My parents own a restaurant, but it's a small one in a rather poor part of our state. They just built it not too long ago.</p>
<p>They both work for hours on end (at least 12 hours a day) at the restaurant even though they own it. My dad does all of the important cooking, and my mom does the hostessing, deliveries, packaging, and waitressing if need be.</p>
<p>What do I put down on the commonapp for what my parents do for a job?</p>
<p>I mean, they are restaurant owners, but they work A LOT. It's not like they sit around and watch the money come in. I;'m afraid if I put something down like: restaurant owner, that they'd think that.</p>
<p>I want to get across that point that even though they own a restaurant, they are really hard workers, and we don't make a terrible amount of money, and I still hardly ever see them, and there are days where I don't even see them because they come home late at night (past midnight sometimes) and when I go to school, they are still sleeping.</p>
<p>So what do I put?</p>
<p>If I put down : cook and waitress, and put down their own names for their employers, then would that look really weird / suspicious...?</p>