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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Target is honest work. It’s disgusting that people would rather get themselves into debt or max out credit cards instead of working.you easily could get 20k dog watching too. $50 a dog per day.

I don’t understand why they need childcare. [/quote]

She explained about special needs kids and being unable to lose the spot. Since she already has childcare the smartest thing would be to work for the interim. Ridiculous that some of you think you are above restaurant work [b]or tutoring.[/b][/quote]

i keep seeing tutoring (and SAT tutoring!) brought up.   Why are posters so sure that OP is qualified to tutor--especially on the SAT?
My kid is a senior in high school  and I know I've read about SAT tutors on the college forums--parents are paying hundreds of dollars an hour for these tutors!   Are these expensive tutors really just random unemployed people with zero training and poor decision making skills?[/quote]

OP is in a job that is the primary breadwinner over a college professor--I think people are assuming she has a strong educational background.  I was  qualified to teach SAT classes for Kaplan in college because I scored over the 98th%ile.  [b]I knew nothing about how to help people take SATs, I was just a kid who did well on standardized tests.[/b] Of course I wasn't a super-pricey tutor, but often the main function of the tutor is to know the test material, a few strategies and to be a nag that isn't the parent.[/quote]

PP you quoted here.   I'm honestly shocked by this!   Glad I didn't waste money on tutoring for my kid ( He got a 35 on the ACT.)[/quote]

Well, they gave us a curriculum to teach by.  But, yeah, I taught 4-5 classes at top NYC public/private high schools during the summer--and they even had me take other tests (LSAT, GRE) which I also got top percentile in so I could be hired as a private tutor.  I got paid beans too--so obviously standardized test-taking intelligence didn't readily translate to practical intelligence.  [/quote]

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