<p>alliesmom: Maybe she could come home for a long weekend? S is over 150 miles away is and is coming home for 2 interviews on Monday. I would encourage her to do some on line searches and to apply to what’s left. Also, some phone calls to past employers might work. Good luck!</p>
<p>Bennnie, my grandmother’s favorite saying was, “A change of work is rest.” It sounds like your daughter will have a great summer.</p>
<p>bennnie, good for your DD who could afford not to work in summer. For kids from some families like ours, they need the summer job to earn part of their tuition and all of their spending money. </p>
<p>PG, you are missing my point here. Sure, You may be right.
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<p>I will like to think that a high % of full paying students (~50% of the student population?) at HYPSM will not need a summer job, like bennnie’s DD. The rest of the student who needs a job, they might not need to go to “Jamba Juice or Starbucks or Target or the local pool or park district” to look for a job. There are still plenty of good jobs and interns on campus or at major corp such as OF’s. </p>
<p>Our DD has landed a supervisor job earning about 2X of minimum wages, as a first year student on campus. I would assume any returning student who wants a job will get one.</p>
<p>Kids would be lucky to get a job at a Jamba Juice, Starbucks, Target or whatever this summer!</p>
<p>“There are still plenty of good jobs and interns on campus or at major corp such as OF’s”.
Not what we’re seeing…maybe we live in a different world. </p>
<p>Local company here got 2,000 applications for 18 intern slots (they had 50 slots last year). When a big company only has a few slots, many of them to to kids of parents or similar referrals. My H and I don’t work for big companies so I guess we’re out of luck.</p>
<p>I know lots of adults who out of work and having a hard time. Some are ivy grads who made the unfortunate choice of pursuing a career in law. (3,000 have been laid off since January). It’s also spotty for students…even HYPers. Kid down the street is in his third year at Johns Hopkins - English major though. He’s got an unpaid internship. A good friend’s son is at Harvard (and is not rich!) - will likely be a camp counselor for the third year in a row. Yeah, it’s work, but not what he thought he would get. </p>
<p>So Dad II, please pass on those leads…</p>
<p>My friend’s son started cutting lawns for the neighbors as a HS Freshman. He continued throughout High School, buying a car and a trailer and expanded his territory. He always had spending money and saved for college. The best part was when he went off to college, he sold the business for $25,000.</p>
<p>A lot of the research internships expect applications by March and send out offers in April so it may be late in the cycle for those. I think that companies recruit a little later than that. Those still looking for research positions could beat the bushes in their own departments to see if anyone has anything - and then hit the career center and other related departments in their own school.</p>
<p>HYPS may have a leg up or maybe not. I don’t really know. I see it more as a combination of what your major is, how well you are doing in your major, previous experience, and location, location, location. If your university is in an area with a lot of businesses (small, medium, large) looking for interns, then they’re probably going to use formal and informal channels to look for interns. You need to get into those channels and preferable get them funneled to your email account. You may get a lot of jobs that you aren’t interested in but you may find the one that you like and are a good fit for.</p>
<p>Dad11 - you are so right that she is lucky, no doubt, but she is also young (just 16) and needs to be a kid. The time will come soon enough that she will have to work to earn money for tuition. When she’s in college she’ll have no choice but to work every summer.</p>
<p>Her father and I have always been the kind of hard working, do the right thing, responsible people who saved and saved only to see it all go down the toilet this year and now I wished we had a little more fun with our money when we were younger. I just hate to think that she’s being robbed of her adolescence too because she’s worried about money adn because of the ridiculous demands of the day camp. </p>
<p>Anyway, one suggestion I do have for those looking for jobs is to look into the Youth Conservation Corp - a program of the national park service. They are holding a lottery for jobs to work at national parks. I think you need to apply by May 1.</p>
<p>Bennnie, you are right that your daughter needs some time off. In our case, my daughter is a college student, and her summer break is about four months long! That’s plenty of time for resting and working. </p>
<p>My daughter is very fortunate that the camp she worked for last summer has hired her again. She’ll be outside for seven weeks in a wonderful environment. In her case, she attended the camp for five summers as a kid, and that’s why she got hired last year. She told me, “Mom, I’m earning back your money, summer by summer!” So parents, don’t overlook the camps your child attended. Having that experience gives them a leg up.</p>
<p>The most successful kids I know are the ones who created opportunities for themselves instead of applying at the same places as every other student or adult.
One girl who has a knack for organization called/emailed all the de-cluttering businesses (apparently, there are quite a few here), many of whom are one woman owned and offered her services. One called her back and she ended up being her right hand ‘man’.</p>
<p>Another girl taught private swimming lessons. </p>
<p>My S printed up a bunch of T-shirts and sold them all summer. He came up with a great design that had local appeal, and they went like hotcakes. He was also approached by local businesses and sports teams to design shirts for them. </p>
<p>My mother-in-law complains that she cannot find any local kids to work for her. She would love to hire one to do lawn care, errands, etc. There are many elderly people who don’t drive much anymore.</p>
<p>I myself would hire someone to sell stuff for me on ebay.</p>
<p>I think you are out of touch with reality to think that HYP kids are magically above working at Jamba Juice or the local mall. </p>
<p>Anyway they have the rest of their lives to be corporate drones or science drones. What’s the great push to have them all slaving away in research labs at age 19?</p>
<p>my parents made me start cutting lawns and babysitting once i was thirteen(i got my certification, which they paid for)…i never made alot of money…but i made enough to go to movies with friends and go out…you know simple stuff…
once i was fifteen i worked a full summer at a local theatre. 40 hours a week, all summer…it was more to give me something to do…
I worked at the theatre again the summer i was 16 AND i worked at a local DQ an additional 28 hours a week…</p>
<p>I work all this school year 2-3 days a week and this summer plan on working 40 hours a week at the DQ again this summer…</p>
<p>I’m grateful they kinda pushed me into working. I never have to ask them for money, had enough to buy my own laptop this year, and really just enjoy working…it gives me a sense of pride…</p>
<p>Don’t ever feel bad for kids working-no matter where it is. they will make the best of it</p>
<p>There are decisions made that have a linear or exponential effect on aspects of the rest of our lives. Starting younger can result in a higher gain or loss on exponential effects.</p>
<p>It’s been said that if you love your work, you’ll never work a day in your life. When young, it is nice to be exposed to a variety of jobs in your areas of interest so that you can see what you like and don’t like so that you can make good job decisions in the future.</p>
<p>How about at a day camp or sleep a way camp. Loads of fun and pays nicely</p>
<p>as a hs student who wasn’t able to get a camp job - a lot of camps hire people who went to that camp as a child and this summer so many kids can’t find another job, they’re going to their old camps, leaving very few positions open for kids who didn’t attend the camp. Also camps usually rehire summer after summer- leaving fewer jobs. and at a lot of sleepaways you must be 18.</p>
<p>Here’s an idea – there are a lot of older people who are new to computers and feel intimidated. You could offer one-on-one lessons teaching them to navigate their computer. This is only good for very patient people who know how to talk without computer jargon, who understand what it’s like to be a beginner.</p>
<p>Older people only want those lessons if they are free.;( It would be more of a volunteer work.</p>
<p>Here’s one thing that older people are willing to pay for–</p>
<p>They have heard that it would be useful to have their possessions in their house videotaped for insurance purposes should they suffer a catastrophic loss. They often don’t have the video equipment to do it. If a kid’s mom or dad has such a camera, a kid could videotape while the person talked. I would do a little research to find out what other information would be useful. Make some DVD copies to give to them.</p>
<p>That is a good idea, re the elderly. Where to post signs though, (besides putting in mailboxes)…maybe the library or stores, senior centers?</p>
<p>I second no camp jobs in our area, except life guards, the private schools keep the kids or get their own students and the public camps (which aren’t run very well) use a lot of students from “Youth at Work” which targets lower income. If you know someone though, it helps. I heard of jobs through summer school programs that coworkers children got, but when I called or looked online, there was nothing. There will always be “who you know” positions, you have to be diligent and lucky sometimes.</p>
<p>D did a local day sports activity camp sponsored by the city a few years back. Her group was 10-12 year olds; she had anywhere from 6-12 under her personal supervision. The cost to families was $10 per session (~1 month). We still refer to it as the “summer from hell” in our family 
I do like the entrepreneurial suggestions offered here, especially by mousegray. Word of mouth will probably get the most clients. Maybe a kid can get Walmart or Target or a mall to sponsor a “kids for hire” job fair a couple of times during the summer. If your area has a LOCAL farmers market (not one where farmers come from 50 miles away) perhaps a vendor can use help.</p>