<p>Hello!</p>
<p>For community service hours, I've been working at my local AWL. However, it's pretty hard to rack up hours there. It's a relatively small establishment, literally two rooms, and there's only so much that can be done when you have dozens of teens there trying to get hours. It's a whole lot of sitting there doing nothing. I wanted to possibly try to incorporate a few more productive ventures. </p>
<p>My mother is a nanny, and often works ten hours a day or more, and has told me on many occasions that she'd enjoy me being around as an extra set of hands. Of course I wouldn't be paid. Does this count as community service?</p>
<p>That would not be community service.</p>
<p>Your high school should have a list of many options in your community. What are your major or career interests?</p>
<p>Majoring in business and then going to law school for either Corporate or Entertainment law. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I don’t attend a physical High School. I’m home schooled online. My resources from an actual school are somewhat limited.</p>
<p>Call your church. Call local non-profit organizations, like habitat for humanity, your local foodbank, goodwill, nursing homes … all can use volunteers.</p>
<p>There’s another problem with that. The reason I wanted to work with my mom is because it’s convenient. I literally can’t leave the house weekdays unless I’m going with her. Her boss won’t let her leave for anything. Not even when I had appendicitis. I have no license, and like I said, she works ten hours. </p>
<p>Animal shelter is great for the weekends. They’re only open until five.</p>
<p>Yea, it still doesn’t count as community service. See if there is some place you can walk to close to where she works or your house.</p>
<p>Perhaps an explanation of why it isn’t community service would be more helpful? Several threads on CC have said that babysitting for free is community service, and I can clearly see why. That’s in essence what this is. I’m helping watch someone’s kids who can’t do it themselves, and not for compensation.</p>
<p>Well - I think it’s because your mother is there, getting paid for the work.</p>
<p>Addressing an issue in society (i.e. serving the community) is community service. At least that’s how I (and Florida’s Bright Futures Program) see it. Babysitting someone’s kid does not serve the community and therefore would not technically be community service. You could call it “volunteering” but that’s totally different.</p>
<p>“Perhaps an explanation of why it isn’t community service would be more helpful? Several threads on CC have said that babysitting for free is community service, and I can clearly see why. That’s in essence what this is. I’m helping watch someone’s kids who can’t do it themselves, and not for compensation.”</p>
<p>Because it’s not for free. There is an exchange of money. You’re essentially doing your mother’s job, just because the payment isn’t going to you doesn’t make it a community service.</p>