<p>I get paid as a social worker. Should I record this extracurricular as Work (paid) or Community Service? I want to impress admissions but I'm scared coming out as a paid social worker may make me seem...insincere?</p>
<p>I also have a lot of unpaid community service that I record as other activities.</p>
<p>Thanks for your suggestions :)</p>
<p>It is my impression that paid work is work, while unpaid work is community service. My school accepts only unpaid work for a nonprofit institution, like our school or some hospitals in our area, etc. If you tell them it’s community service and they later realize it is actually your job, that will probably hurt you.</p>
<p>You’re seriously mistaken about how colleges value “community service” or voluntarism. Most school districts mandate it. It’s commonplace. It’s presence on your resume means zero. Indeed, my friend, a judge scoffs at HS students how overly value this and think it’s so important on their EC lists. He says: “I SENTENCE people to community service!”</p>
<p>You’re believing a myth. You have no reason to hide your paid job.</p>
<p>Community service is unpaid. There’s nothing insincere about getting paid for a job!</p>
<p>many schools on their CDS value “work experience” more highly than “community service”</p>
<p>Being a paid social worker is no more “insincere” than being a paid waiter, teacher, lifeguard or store clerk. It’s a job. And that is well respected. (You can be fired from a job.)</p>
<p>Thank you everyone! I will record it as paid work then :)</p>