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[quote=Anonymous]My 15 year old stepson was very interested in doing odd jobs this summer. With his dad's approval, I gave some basic guidance in pricing his services, some safety guidelines, and creating a flyer. He distributed in our neighborhood and in a neighborhood about two miles away (while his sister had swim lessons).

Anyhow, he accepted a job which would be awesome if it was in our neighborhood. Basically, he needs to go over and turn on a sprinkler and return an hour later to turn it off. The home owner is paying him $40 for a week of this while he is on vacation. Obviously, this would be simple if it was in our neighborhood. But, it's about 20 minutes of biking, and DSS had assumed we would be driving him over twice each night.

So, what do you think is reasonable in this case.

1) Drive him back and forth twice each evening.
2) Split the difference, drive once, and insist he bike it once.
3) Insist he bike over, wait around, and then bike back. 
4) Tell the owner he didn't think it through and cannot do the job.
5) Something we haven't thought of.

I don't want to squash his initiative, and this is only the third job he's gotten (and the largest) for all his efforts, but my husband is getting really annoyed with the driving and its only day 3. (I work a lot  of nights and can't help most evenings)

Of course, (obgliatory stepson disclaimer) his dad has the final call on how to handle this. But I'm curious what other folks would do.[/quote]

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