<p>mollie-- D1 was a heck of strong swimmer–she passed the city guard test first try which is even harder than the Red Cross’s. She didn’t go out for swim team because she didn’t like the other kids on the team, didn’t want to spend time with them and wasn’t a pool rat. She also wasn’t a pretty swimmer–I swear she swam as well as she did out of sheer cussedness…</p>
<p>Many of the head guards at our city pools were EMTs as well life guards. She made great contacts while working for the city pools. She now knows folks who work in EMT service in the city, county and the surrounding counties. She just finished her EMT-I.</p>
<p>My son got his lifeguard certification his last summer as a camper at his overnight camp. Came home and worked at the Boys and Girls Club that winter. Last summer he was a lifeguard at the town pool and saved quite a bit of $ (lots of hours.)</p>
<p>He is returning to his overnight camp this summer as a counselor. Not much money, but will be hanging out with his buds and room/board included. Because he is chaperoning the kids that are flying up, he is being flown for free (nice perk!)</p>
<p>D1 has an internship with an OOS professional sports team this summer and D2 was rehired as a sports coach for summer camps. They don’t make a lot of money but it is better than nothing!</p>
<p>I’m likely working as a research assistant for part of the summer, a carry-over from my work during the school year. Last year, I tried looking for minimium wage jobs and had no luck–but ended up taking a paid government internship, though I only broke even or maybe lost a bit of money</p>
<p>My daughter, a college freshman, started her summer job search when she was home on break in December, making the rounds of biotech companies, veterinarian’s offices and a couple other places loosely related to her intended bio major. She checked in again with all of her contacts over Spring break. But until today no luck. She had pretty much resigned herself to going back to the farm stand she worked at during summers as a high school student but at reduced hours (HS kids are preferred because they continue working into the fall). Then today she got a call at college from one of the biotechs. It looks like she’ll be working with rats – a good thing! – for $10-11 an hour. That’s pretty good pay in these parts and she’s delighted.</p>
<p>congrats to your daughter and ewwwwww (regarding the rats).</p>
<p>My sister is a surgeon and she had a scholarship for undergrad that included a provided “job”. Hers was removing the pituitary glands from crickets for some doctor’s research. She thought it was awesome and ended up getting her name on the paper as ‘contributing’ and she LOVED that! Not sure if she’d have handled rats tho.</p>
<p>“…Jobs-- The Competitiveness is Outrageous” - think this is bad? this ain’t bad. wait til you spend a hundred grand or so to get a degree, and find it doesn’t make things better</p>
<p>In Ct where I live many students, college and high school are finding it very hard. Even old camp jobs are not as prevalent, they have less children going (money reasons I’m sure) and needed less help.
One of my daughters has a better paying job than her older brother who works at a store, because she lucked into an internship at a college through a program she belonged to for science. She works in a lab and helps at a museum. They both are savers which is good, but my other daughter has stopped looking, she just couldn’t find anything for the summer and is hoping to volunteer at a job that will give her more skills for the next round of apps around the holiday’s.
I see college grads doing jobs for 10.00 an hour and begging for more hours. One I know works at two retail stores for a few hours so he can pay his loans and car payment.
It’s not gloomy everywhere but its hard to see so many people out of work.</p>
<p>My DD worked for Environment California last year, and plans to work for PIRG in Chicago this summer. It honed her skills, and she made great friends. There was no ceiling for earning $$–It helped her get a job during school, and this summer she was offered 2 other jobs–if interested: [The</a> Fund for the Public Interest - Citizen Outreach Staff](<a href=“http://www.jobsthatmatter.org%5DThe”>http://www.jobsthatmatter.org)</p>
<p>My D found a job at an amusement park for the summer. She kind of feels like she hit the jackpot, it doesn’t pay very well but they work them 40 to 60 hours a week.</p>
<p>I am so sad though. I understand why she is taking this job but she will be home for a week and then off to her job. She really felt that she couldn’t pass up this job to come home for a very uncertain job market.</p>
<p>She goes to school half way across the country. She only came home for Christmas break and now she not going to be home for the summer. This is really, really hard for me.</p>
<p>Where is your daughter going to stay? Do they provide housing? I’m so sorry, deb–I’m sure she’s right (my kid is getting nothing so far), but I’ll bet you miss her!</p>
<p>We have been renting a place on Cape Cod for a dozen years now and it will be interesting to see if there is any visible change in the makeup of the seasonal employees we encounter. In recent years huge numbers of foreign students – Poles, Russians, Czechs, you name it – have filled many of the summer jobs at retail outlets, ice cream stands, restaurants, motels and so forth. When my wife and I were in college most of these positions had been filled by American college kids and there was pretty stiff competition for even the most humble jobs. I’m curious as to whether or not we’ll see a reversion to the pre-globalisation days this summer.</p>
<p>Catch as catch can summer work: One on one tutoring. Going rate is $10-15 an hour for math in our area. If the student is good, get them to talk to the top math teachers and see if the student’s name can be put on the list. Try Craig’s list as well. With summer school just around the corner and HS students in CA needing to pass the HS exit exam, there should be some work available.</p>
<p>My S alternates with his math tutoring. Some he does gratis (community service credit) especially for his friends and sports team mates. His name is also on a tutoring list and he charges for kids he doesn’t know. He usually ends up tutoring an 8th or 9th grader so the work isn’t so tough. Over the summer, it will be easier for him to fit the hours around his research internship.</p>
<p>Deb, Can you visit D at the amusement park & spend some time in that area this summer? It may not be ideal but it could allow you to spend some time together & she will get SOME time off to spend with you. Try to fit it in so you can do it!</p>
<p>Thanks, APOL, for that link to the Fund for the Public Interest. S is graduating soon with Environmental Policy major and PolSci minor and has had no luck so far. I forwarded him this info. This kind of cause fits his background although not sure he’d be outgoing enough. But hey, worth a try.</p>