<p>At the beginning of July I started volunteering at a Veterinary Hospital about 6-8 hours a week. I either work in the kennel or assist a Veterinary Technician with appointments and treatment. Most of it is hands on, except for the obvious such as I can't give shots, etc. Turns out they loved my help so much that they fired one of their current employees to make room for me. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to get paid and be able to do more around the Hospital. However, I don't want colleges to get the notion that I'm just doing it for the money. Will colleges value my volunteer experience or my job experience more?</p>
<p>a lot of colleges consider job experience and volunteer experience separately. However, if you’ve never had a job, it won’t detract from your application in any way (it simply just won’t benefit you). In my opinion, it’s definitely better to go for the job, especially if you have a decent number of volunteer hours already. Having a job is great because it shows admissions directors that you are mature enough to work, have an understanding of the value of money, and have a good work ethic.</p>
<p>Have you ever considered how privileged you are to be able to be able to consider turning down a job if it doesn’t look good on your college application? This particularly is true in these economic times when lots of people – including high school students – need jobs, but can’t find them.</p>
<p>Whichever you prefer, don’t do it for the sake of college.</p>
<p>But I’d say volunteer and tell them to give the fired person back their job. If they were doing a satisfactory job and got fired because some kid was doing good volunteering…***. And do they even have under-18 jobs at medical treatment centers?</p>
I have several friends who work at a local vet centers.</p>