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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He can get a job.  I worked all through college and I went to a very hard school.

He also needs a holiday job while he is home on break.[/quote]

FFS. The world is way more competitive now. Wasting time on a campus job for beer money is so short sighted. [/quote]

I earned my "beer money" as a copy editor, desk editor, reporter and ultimately managing editor at my college paper. That led to a newspaper internship which led to gainful employment as a freelance writer and (ultimately) a communications director at two major universities.

You are the one who is short-sighted. Not every college job involves asking people if they want fries; and even those jobs can open doors if the kid is talented, polite and hard-working. [/quote]

+1  My first job was at the library where a coworker left to take a better job at the IT help center, and helped me get hired.   That's where I learned enough marketable skills to get attractive job offers upon graduation, where I stayed productively employed until leaving to get a full scholarship to a master's degree program at an Ivy League school.  When I was a student, I was jealous of kids who didn't have to worry about their work study jobs.  When I graduated, I pitied many of those kids.  They were just learning work place survival skills and marketable job skills and often seemed aimless, since they didn't know enough about the working world to know what they wanted to do.[/quote]

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