<p>My D is planning to begin working at a local Starbucks January 1st. From your experience, what is the reasonable number of hours that a kid can work per week without compromising school? I understand that it depends on a person, but nevertheless...</p>
<p>BTW, her schedule for the rest of J. year is pretty intense - 5 AP classes, 2 volunteering obligations, a couple of clubs. She doesn't play sports, though.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Bob.</p>
<p>A. What AP's is she carrying? There are very few that CB accepts, 3 of them are science (BIO, CHEM PHYS) , 3 are history (US, EURO, GOV), 2 english, Certain Foreign languages, AB/BC Calc, Art History. Not to be antagonistic, if she is taking 5 right now as a jr. what does she have for sr.</p>
<p>B.How many hrs volunteering and clubs.</p>
<p>My s worked and still works 20 hrs per week during school (40 in summer and on breaks), has only 4 AP's (2 History, 1 English, 1 College). Volunteers for NHS and work related (lifeguard at YMCA) he is carrying an A avg.</p>
<p>If she is a good student she will have the intelligence to call the ball when it is too much. Be proud and support, part of life is learning how to juggle</p>
<p>It's not so much the number of hours, in my opinion, as when in the week they are scheduled.</p>
<p>My son worked at a party supply store during his senior year in high school and during the summers before and after that year. During the school year, we only allowed him to work Friday afternoon/evening, Saturday, and Sunday (he usually worked two of these three days, for a total of 12 to 14 hours). </p>
<p>As far as my husband and I were concerned, Mondays through Thursdays were out of the question because kids who worked in that store were expected to work six- to eight-hour shifts, and it would be impossible for him to go to school from 7:30 to 2:30, work from 3 to 9, get homework done, and still get a reasonable amount of sleep.</p>
<p>My son did freelance computer programming with a similar schedule, but he could work around test dates and papers, though there were some deadlines for the freelance work. At this point in the year your daughter should have a pretty good idea of how much free time she has. I never worked more than 10 hours a week in college and I would say that is abp0ut right for a high school student who spends more time in classes.</p>
<p>i'm a senior taking four AP classes, and i currently work 15 hours a week. i work one school night, friday, saturday, and sunday for four-hour shifts (3 hour shift on sunday) at a time. i hostess at a local restaurant that is family owned (not my family!) which provides a certain flexibility because i know the owners well and it is not such a corporate environment. i also make about 80 cents an hour above minimum wage as a starting point. i absolutely love my job and the people i work with. it has been an incredible experience and i could not have gained some of the values that i've gained without it. however, i do feel awfully left out of the "senior social life" solely because i work all weekend and never go to parties or really even hang out with friends. next semester i am dropping to a half-schedule, which means that my three semester electives end, and i keep only my four AP classes through the end of the year (since we have an 8 block rotation, four study halls makes a half schedule). with college applications also finishing up mid january, i am hoping to start working an extra school night and have one weekend night free in order to experience more of the social life that i so thoroughly enjoyed junior year!</p>
<p>i've held a steady job since sophomore year, and let me tell you!, it takes some planning. yes, the amount of hours is important, but where in the day those hours fall was more important when determining my work schedule.</p>
<p>for example, some people work better during the afternoon and save school work for after their shift. others work better during the night and like to get their homework done first. i would instruct your daughter to determine when she would want to do her homework and study so that she can plan her work schedule around that. also, it would be wise of her to get a list of important dates from teachers (when projects, papers, or tests are nearby, for example) so that she can ask off work for days before big due dates.</p>
<p>she should also ask what starbucks' policy is for breaks and for downtime: would it be possible for her to bring a text book or something to work on while there's nothing else to do? if so, then she would probably be okay with taking on a few more hours during the week.</p>
<p>has she decided how she's going to structure her work schedule? will she work the same days every week for consistency, or call in on a weekly (or biweekly, depending on how they make their schedules) basis to determine when would be best for her the following week(s)? will she work mostly weekends and one or two week nights, or more during the week? how long is she expected to stay if she's closing? how much notice does she need to give before getting a day off? what's the policy for trading shifts? how flexible are the schedulers? </p>
<p>flexibility is key for any job to work out during the school year.</p>
<p>all in all though, so she doesn't get burned out or behind on school work or just too overwhelmed, i wouldn't work more than 15 or so hours per week. much more than that, and by the time she gets home, she'll just be too tired to get anything productive done. </p>
<p>after all, you want a job to be a compliment, not a detriment, to her school life! good luck to her, and i want the secret to their peppermint mochas! yum.</p>
<p>My D worked Sat and Sunday. 15 hours a week. It helped her to have a schedule that was constant. It fit her personality. She had no trouble keeping up with school.
My son had a job that the hours varied each week and he was asked to work on school nights and sometimes afterschool. He had a much harder time balancing things out.
As a parent I found my D's schedule much less stressful.</p>
<p>I have a recollection of a presenter at my D's h.s. saying that research indicates l0 hours is the tipping point; after that it begins to affect the kid's grades, sleep, and so on.</p>
<p>In our community, there is one employer (a large upscale supermarket headquartered in Rochester NY) with an award-winning record for being Best Employer in Western NY, or something like that..</p>
<p>One thing the kids who work there say is that they can always find accommodation for exam schedules, SAT weekends, and many other academic situations. They aren't hassled if they want to call in to express a need for academic concerns, and the weekly schedules reflect the students. They understand the employer believes "School Comes First." It is a wonderful and unusual corporate policy, I'm sure. Perhaps a question to use to compare employers is how they react to such requests, if that's knowable in advance without sacrificing the job interview! Perhaps ask other h.s. age employees to know.</p>
<p>I always shop at this supermarket, and this one of many reasons I like it.</p>
<p>Why not name Wegman's? That's a pretty positive picture you paint of them!</p>
<p>Each of my kids worked 10-12 hours a week during their last two years of high school. Usually a couple of hours Friday afternoon, 3-4 on Saturday, and five on Sunday. One of them had volunteer commitments one day every other weekend, so he worked another couple of hours one other weekday afternoon. It wasn't a problem; they both liked the worl, and really liked getting paid for it. No sports, though, except for a weekly dance class.</p>
<p>lol yes it's Wegman's!!</p>
<p>Speaking as a student, I'm a two-sport varsity athlete, and during the season I usually work about ten hours a week, with a couple of shifts after practice during the week (7-10) and a shift or two on sat. or sun. during the offseason it's more like 15 hrs a week. There have been occasional nights when I wished I could do homework instead of go to work, but generally balancing everything has been fine.</p>
<p>DD works between 10-20 hours, but mostly under 10. She works Friday night and Sat morning. It's the time she would have spent socializing with her friends or sleeping so it does not significantly affect her school work. However, she does plan ahead because her EC is so time consuming, can take up to 40 hours sometimes. So far she has maintained As on most of her subject except the subject that is obviously weak in.</p>