<p>Very glad to hear this MLonghorn! You guys all deserve a puppy.</p>
<p>Oldest will work full time and continue, also, to do some work at night which is lower paid, but a lot of fun. She is a rising college senior.</p>
<p>Youngest, rising hs senior, will work in a kitchen at a really great restaurant with a chef she admires. Thankfully said chef now knows we want D to attend university and is encouraging business school pre-culinary. (She plans to show D2 the business end of being a chef owner, just for perspective.)</p>
<p>H and I would like to go to camp! So far, though, it looks as if we will continue to work and maybe head out to Italy and Spain, depending on the riot situation. Decided against going to the london olympics.</p>
<p>GeekSon will be home from freshman year June 2. He tried to get several CS-major-related jobs but was unsuccessful. Given his better-than-average experience in the field and its general employability, we suspect he didnāt try very hard (especially after reading all these!). He will continue with an unpaid internship that he did before, but itās a three-hour round-trip bus trip and even though the subject lends itself to working from home, he didnāt do well with the āworkingā part in the past.</p>
<p>Heāll want to stay up until 4 am reading and sleep until noon and do no household chores. He doesnāt have a driverās license. Iām very bummed and feel like Iāve really failed.</p>
<p>My brother just finished his freshman year as an engineering major, and he is interning with Lockheed Martin this summer. I believe heās making about $18-$19 an hour.</p>
<p>I will be graduating from university this summer, and am going to travel and relax before starting my PhD in the autumn.</p>
<p>Both my kids have learning differences as do I, so I really appreciate the strides they have made. Oldest is receiving her masters degree next month, has a summer job, and is looking for another.
Youngest is staying at her college, and taking a few classes ( but when I encouraged her to do so, I didnāt realize summer classes werenāt state subsidized), & still looking for work.
( I wish she could be home for the summer and take classes at the community college, not to mention she has a job here, but then she would have to move out of her house/ pay rent anyway).</p>
<p>D, a graduating HS senior, will work at same job as last summer at a media buying firm, go on a 3 week back pack trip in Europe with a friend, do her summer work out schedule to prepare for varsity sport in college, and prepare to head to school in August.</p>
<p>D will graduate high school, attend orientation for college, and then go on a Girl Scout trip. She will have about 7 weeks between the end of the trip and move in at college. For the first time in years, she can sleep late, not work on summer assignments, and relax. In between that tough schedule, she will tutor a rising Junior, help a friend with college apps, and possibly get a job. Has to finish IB testing before she thinks about anything else.</p>
<p>geekmom, my comp sci son did something similar, we were just lucky that his fallback was working for my brother (which heād also done the previous summer). He got to do real computer programming, but of a pretty boring sort. I think he went back to school in the fall of sophomore year and realized his friends had had much more interesting experiences and he went to the fall recruitment fairs and had a summer internship lined up in no time. BTW heās 23 now, working for Google, and still has no driverās license!</p>
<p>D works box office/usher/dresser for a local theater/cabaret, 20-30 hours a week. That pays well which is good as neither of her other jobs pay at all-- apprentice at one summer theater, actor at another. Sheāll work 60+ hours a week and if she could, sheād do more. I will be trying to convince her to spend a bit of time at the beach with me, without much success.</p>
<p>D graduates on Monday then will be working her little tail off until August so she can come up with her portion of the cost for USC. Iāve challenged her to earn $5,000. So far, she has $2,000. She will need to give us $3,500 towards tuition and then whatever else she earns is her spending money in school.</p>
<p>Heās doing bike messengering (is that a word?) between city law firms. Heās so extreme and outdoorsy it makes me want to puke. Good thing we have good health insurance.</p>
<p>My son is a rising college unior (English major/Japanese minor). He just left this morning for a 3-month internship with a public relations firm in San Diego. He will be the only intern there, and he had to find his own housing, which was a great learning experience.</p>
<p>My daughter just finished her first year as a graduate physics student. Today she and a handful of her peers landed in Geneva, Switzerland. They will spend the summer using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to search for gluinos. Whatever those are!</p>
<p>My daughter has just finished up her freshman year. She is home for 3 weeks and then will be going back to her school for 6 weeks of summer school; then home again for a few weeks and back off in the fall. H and I will be visiting her at the halfway point of her summer school sessions.</p>
<p>My son is finishing up his freshman year in a couple of weeks (quarter system) and will be a camp counselor at a sleepaway camp. He comes home on a Friday and turns around and leaves on Saturday to be gone for 9 weeks; however, his school starts in mid-September so heāll be home for a month at the back end.</p>
<p>DS1 - rising college senior will be home for about 6 weeks and then head back to school for his internship. He will not be back before starting school for the fallā¦ We will be visiting him though.</p>
<p>DS2 - starting college this fall gets to sleep, play video games and do whatever nothing he chooses.</p>
You guys all deserve a puppy.</p>