<p>Currently I am living with my parents but they clearly do not support my education and keep threatening to kick me out I am and tired of it and cant handle it. I am trying my best to get an internship but I dont know if it is enough to support myself (internships pay about $22-$30 I expect). I dont have any sort of transportation and I dont know if i can get any sort of aid right away. Please if their are any scholarships and aids I should look into please let me know.</p>
<p>I suggest you make peace with your parents or look into a local CC. Internships don’t pay that much either.</p>
<p>I am attending a local cc and my parents are getting into a devorce so it not so easy to make peace with them with so much going on and I am studying my butt of and they want me to drop out or spend less time in school it friggen crazy what kind of parents do this. Yes internships do pay that much (I am a software engineer major) many pay $30. I really feel like I am going to become a drop out, my parents are messing my future over and I have no control over it. If I live on my own It is going to take awhile to get the tools I need and I feel like I am going to fall behind. Plus internships dont seem to offer full working hours for the while year. This is my second year and I feel like I am a loser. All my friends have parents that want their child to do the best while mine are lazy bums that screwed me over in highschool and now that I am doing so good in college they are going to ruin it. The Government only supports those that need financially need aid and say that it is the parents responsibility to aid their child through college if finance is not an issue but Unluckly my parents dont want to support me.</p>
<p>I literally cant make peace with them cause I did not do anything it is tensions between wife and husband which have been going on since I was a child and now it has gotten much worst and my parents are really stressed, selfish, and stubborn. And now it is greatly affecting me and my performance in school. </p>
<p>I guess the best I can do is lesson my school work and work more and save money until that time comes… then grow up and never deal with my family</p>
<p>I don’t care if you are a software eng’g major, many if not most internships do NOT pay that much…especially for someone who is still at a CC. </p>
<p>You’re a frosh or soph…you’ll be lucky to get $15 an hour as an intern.</p>
<p>But if you can find an internship that will pay you THAT much, then take the position and go to school at night.</p>
<p>what are your parents actually saying? Are they saying that they want you to work full-time so you can move out? If they’re getting a divorce, then does that mean one of your parents is moving out? OR…is the problem that their home will be sold, so you will HAVE to find somewhere else to live? </p>
<p>My friend is in his first year of cc and he is making close to $30 a hour as a intern my other friend is making $40 a hour and in his his final year of cc and my other friend at a 4 year college is making $22 in her second year so I am pretty sure I can get that much, I see postings for that much also.</p>
<p>They are just really fid up with me working on school work and doing extra curriculars they are not saying anything specific (my parents getting irratated about their work, and throwing trash, landary, shopping, getting mail pretty much any living work) I think it is just the stress going on and yes one of my parents is planning on moving but it will be to another country and not in my state and one will be moving to another state (I assume cause they need each others income to afford the house payments). </p>
<p>They want me to do all these choirs and I dont understand why, I do my share while my parents do nothing, and they have way more free time then me but they chose not to allocate it correctly so they want me to be the maid or something, also my parents are continously telling me to change my major and I dont see what is wrong with mine, I am good at it and enjoy it and it seems to provide a decent salary but no matter what I say they are alway right.</p>
<p>There is just so much confusion at home I have no idea what is going on and I dont have time to focus on it so I dont know what to do.</p>
<p>Like I said even if I live alone it will be hard but I guess I can take classes at night and find a way to work full time if I need to and cant get any aid. I will have problem with transportation though</p>
<p>If you can get a job paying that much, then you’d soon be able to buy a car. Do you have public transportation to use? how do you get to your CC?</p>
<p>If there is so much stress in your family right now, it might not be a good time to be in school full time. Go ahead and get an internship, or for that matter a full time job so that you can get independent and finish school part time. If you can get a pay check of that size, you will have a number of options in terms of buying a car, getting transportation, getting a place to live. You can’t choose your parents, and you can’t control how they act. I’m very sorry that they are having a rough time right now and some of the flak is getting on you, but there isn’t anything that I can think of to do to change their behavior. YOU have to change what you are doing, and absolutely, if you can get a job or internship making that much, go to it!</p>
<p>People here seem to think these interns pay so much… I looked into it and I found out that in many other states living and rent is much cheaper and people are taxed much less compared to here (I am in california). a studio apt. here is easily 1600+, so compared to living here I am not making much when 60-70% of my earnings go to rent. </p>
<p>I guess I am going to work and save up while I can, I dont think cutting school hours so I can hear my parents rant about everything is a wise, I will just work part time or something.</p>
<p>No one is saying that you need to live alone. Find a two bedroom apt and split costs. </p>
<p>If you can earn $30 an hour and work 40 hours a week, then that’s 1200 a week. So, where are you getting the idea that 60-70% of monthly income would be going for rent???</p>
<p>you’d be earning $62k per year. if you’re earning that much then you can afford an apt.</p>
<p>Find the internship or job that pays that money you think you are going to be able to get. Then we can discuss things. You are talking about a pie in the sky internship, pay check at this point in time. Get the position first and then you have options. That in itself can be a major stumbling block. </p>
<p>My friends DD got a wonderful internship offer paying $25 an hour, but it was for only 16 hours a week and for a 5 week stint. Not exactly something that she could make a long term commitment on, for a lease, her own place, and it wasn’t going to add up to all that much. She could, however, make a nice dent in buying a car and insurance, as could you with some infusion of funds. But you have to get the money first. Even if you do land a high paying internship, it’s going to take a few weeks, minimum to get that first pay check, and it does cost money, to move into a place. Deposits, moving costs. So counting the money before you get is like counting your chickens before those eggs hatch. And I don’t think you even have eggs yet. </p>
<p>I am confused, I have done accounting in my spare time and your gross income is NOT. your take home. Federal taxes will take your money and state taxes. So if the company offers me 60k a year I am not taking home 60k a year because money goes to taxes so in reality I take 40k or so if I work full time (many internships dont offer a year long intern). And $22 internship is nothing in my area… everyone here makes that much in a intern because standard of living is much higher here compared to other areas. I am not sure were all of you are from but someone I know in texas said living in texas is much easier compared to california esp. my area. If I was making 60k a year gross income in texas then yah I would be making a lot cause in many areas rent is way cheaper and texas has no state income tax but then probably getting and intern that pays that much is harder to find. </p>
<p>And lets say I do move I literally have nothing! So at the moment I am going to apply work part time and just save money cause clearly the goverment on their aid and scholarship said it is parents responsibility and goverment only helps if money is an issue. So I would first have to be independent then see what is possible cause there is no way I can pay college after cc. I feel like this thread is moving away from the fact that I need aid to support my education and higher studies to people telling me about internship salarys and living completely off that income. </p>
<p>I have a lot of friends and family who live in the most expensive areas of CA where housing costs are sky high. My kids also have people they know there, just starting out in jobs, are students, etc. You go with less when you have less and the costs are more. You live in slums, dangerous areas, substandard, room shares, if that 's what it takes. My one son turned down an offer to work there–his salary there would have meant an apt/house share with several others whereas he has his own very nice apt in the midwest at the same pay level. So, yes, I know what you are saying. </p>
<p>But the bottom line is that you either make peace with your parents, and continue your living arrangements, or get out and find something on your own and try to pay for school yourself. You want to be independent when you are under 24 and don’t meet the definitions, you have to basically be homeless, down and out and certifiably so, and even then that is a professional judgement on the part of financial aid office of the college. If you are truly done with our parents, get a job, find a roomshare in a not so great place–yes, there are rents affordable to those who make even less than $20 an hour, and go to school part time. That’s how most students get through college. IT’s the privileged ones who have parents paying the tab. They do not have to do so; they don’t even have to give you your 3 squares and cot once you are over 18. It’s all up to you and what you can negotiate with them, and with employers, landlords, schools, whatever. Welcome to adulthood. </p>
<p>When will your parents divorce? Make sure to live with the one making the least amount of money and have that parent as your custodial parent. That would help with your FAFSA and need. Of course, you have to research all this for your own situation. On the stress front, can you book appointments with your com coll counselors/therapists until you’re out of the weeds? </p>