What jobs has your adult worked while home from college?

[Anonymous]

My 18yo applied to target and Wegmans. Never heard back from Target and Wegmans wanted someone to work the whole year. She ended up as a full time assistant at a summer camp that ends in early August, so she will have 3 weeks to get ready for fall semester.

20yo is waiting tables and doing prep work in the kitchen. He’s about to quit the waiting shifts altogether because it pays so little (restaurant is an Applebees-level place).

[Anonymous]

My 18-year-old DS applied to many businesses (probably 100), had three interviews, and was told he was hired at one place, but never heard from them again. I started getting annoyed that he wasn't doing anything and worried that he was running out of time to get a paying job. Now he has a schedule of household chores and is working regular part-time hours as a volunteer for a non-profit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine is not working and it is a big mistake. Next summer, they must have a job.

Np, and same. I have two in college. One got a job at a restaurant soon after arriving home. The other one has been lazy as hell all summer and is just now seriously looking for work.

[Anonymous]

Mine is working as a Host, bussing tables.
He thought it would be easy. He's exhausted. lol.

I hope next year he looks for an internship!

[Anonymous]

I never realized how hard it was for college kids to get summer jobs. My kids in HS had their choice of positions (golf course, retail, restaurant hosting etc) but now when they come back for the summer they really struggled because no one wanted "just summer help". My DD had been hired in early May with one local restaurant, was loving the job for the two weeks she was there until she was laid off because they "hired too many summer staff" and really only wanted year round. Trust me this was not a performance lay off, the guy just had too many people and their regular year round staff was not getting enough hours. She was super disappointed as she loved the job and did not want to resort to the pet sitting she normally did. Thankfully I was able to give her some work at my company part-time and she is back to her high school job of pet/farm sitting.

[Anonymous]

My son just finished vet school, but when he was in college, he spent the holidays doing one of the following:

1. He was a vet nurse at a local animal clinic for multiple holidays.

2. One summer he was an assistant to a vet who worked with farm animals, so he would drive with him to farm visits and help with catching and handling the animals. He learned a lot from this but also had both a broken wrist and a broken arm on two different occasions in one summer from being squashed by a horse and run over by a cow.

3. One winter break he worked as a receptionist for his uncle, who is a people doctor. The uncle kept trying to persuade him to become a people doctor, but it didn’t stick. Son said some of the human patients were more exasperating than the cows that ran him over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never realized how hard it was for college kids to get summer jobs. My kids in HS had their choice of positions (golf course, retail, restaurant hosting etc) but now when they come back for the summer they really struggled because no one wanted "just summer help". My DD had been hired in early May with one local restaurant, was loving the job for the two weeks she was there until she was laid off because they "hired too many summer staff" and really only wanted year round. Trust me this was not a performance lay off, the guy just had too many people and their regular year round staff was not getting enough hours. She was super disappointed as she loved the job and did not want to resort to the pet sitting she normally did. Thankfully I was able to give her some work at my company part-time and she is back to her high school job of pet/farm sitting.

Agree.. I didn't realize this either until reading this thread. Are we all being duped? What is the deal with all the help wanted signed (and lack of staff) everywhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine did not come home. They are doing research at school and in a lab in another city. They will come home for the Month if August and chill.

This is my rising junior. Glad that they got a paid research opportunity before junior year. Missed having them home. But we have 3 weeks in August.

Ditto. Mine is also away at college working in research (non lab) for paid internship.

[Anonymous]

My 19yo got a grocery clerk job this summer after no luck last year. He’s worked 35 hours a week with lots of weekends, evenings and holidays scheduled for him.

[Anonymous]

DS is a buddy/mentor/caretaker for a young adult with disabilities. He's spending his summer hanging out with a really cool teenager, playing a lot of basketball and eating a lot of ice cream with his buddy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS is a buddy/mentor/caretaker for a young adult with disabilities. He's spending his summer hanging out with a really cool teenager, playing a lot of basketball and eating a lot of ice cream with his buddy.

Love this! Through an organization?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son just finished vet school, but when he was in college, he spent the holidays doing one of the following:

1. He was a vet nurse at a local animal clinic for multiple holidays.

2. One summer he was an assistant to a vet who worked with farm animals, so he would drive with him to farm visits and help with catching and handling the animals. He learned a lot from this but also had both a broken wrist and a broken arm on two different occasions in one summer from being squashed by a horse and run over by a cow.

3. One winter break he worked as a receptionist for his uncle, who is a people doctor. The uncle kept trying to persuade him to become a people doctor, but it didn’t stick. Son said some of the human patients were more exasperating than the cows that ran him over.

This is truly my favorite post of the day.

Signed, mom of an animal-loving 18-year old