College student summer job offer: Nights v Over Night

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s time to land a professional internship, a promotion of bagging ice isn’t transferable to the full time job he is targeting in 2 years.

As a hiring manager, I disagree. I would much rather interview this candidate than someone whose parents pulled strings to get them a fancy-sounding internship.

A lot of faang, consulting or investment banks don’t have hiring managers, they have HC and uses their python to sort candidates by their intern keywords.

Cool story.

[Anonymous]

This looks great- did so well last summer (and mature enough) that they want him for a supervisor? I’d be so proud! And more money, too?!? Heck yeah. He has the rest of his life to work in an office. Tell him to be proud! Bank the cash! And learn life lessons about supervising people from it all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kid - now 20 - worked last summer at a job basically filling bags of ice and loading them on trucks. He was paid an hourly rate and then “bonuses” based largely on production. So - x dollars per loaded skid kind of thing. He spent most of the time last summer working the 3rd shift, so basically 11:00 pm to 7:00 am. Terrible for family and social life but good for $$$. He made about $25 and hour. He got a call from the facilities manager asking if he would come back as the 2nd shift supervisor (basically it would be him and two other guys). The pay would be approx $40 an hour as “supervisor” but it is 3:00 - 11:00. So - not as bad but it is Mon - Fri (Sat and Sun off).

My initial view is that is not bad. It’s “okay” resume stuff. 2 years same employer and second summer was a bit of a promotion. The money is very good. There is a lot of basically required overtime for 4th of July weekend and lead up to that but not much more than that week leading up to the 4th. So - my parent view is “take it”. Down side though is that it sucks for social life as it is hard labor so he would not be getting off work at 11 pm and meeting up with friends. It is work - come home - eat - shower - bed. Get up 9-10 am. Eat. Workout. Hand/eat for a couple hours then go back to work. Not much time for a social life.

So you’ve always been a helicopter parent is what you’re saying?

[Anonymous]

I think it shows that he has a great work ethic that would transfer to any company interested in hiring him. I'd encourage him to take the job.

[Anonymous]

For $40 an hour, I will take my masters degree and bag ice.

-county employee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For $40 an hour, I will take my masters degree and bag ice.

-county employee

Agree that’s crazy money for most people, and especially a 20 year old. He sounds like a responsible kid with a great work ethic.

[Anonymous]

I think you should follow his lead here. The money is great and the hours don't seem terrible to me. If he wants to do it, great. If not, make sure he has something reasonably good as a backup.

Either way, if he's not actively thinking about how he will launch himself into an actual career after college, you should be encouraging him to plan around that. What networking can he be doing during the school year? What's his plan for a future internship or PT job in his desired field? But there's no reason why he can't work a well-paid grunt job this summer and still be well-positioned for future jobs. And as many PPs have said, hard work and someone who was promoted will themselves be good recommendations to many future employers.

[Anonymous]

$40/hour for a hard working summer job is great.
Promotion to supervisor is great.

As a hiring manager who hires new grads and young professionals, I love this experience. Shows great work ethic. and I like when kids say they worked to help pay for college. It means they really get the real world.

[Anonymous]

The supervisory experience is a big plus. Maybe he can make sure to beef up that part of it if possible, like asking to take over updating spreadsheets or writing reports or whatever. But next summer let him look for something in his field!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t take this the wrong way, but are you very poor? Why else would you have your college student son perform manual third shift labor in the summer for only 25 dollars an hour? It is very hard on the body, not just the work but the hours. Businesses are desperate for workers and 40 dollars an hour is too little for what they are asking.

What? My 18 yr old DS would be thrilled to earn $25/hr. I'm a teacher and I once worked out that I make appr. $38/hr.