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[quote=Anonymous][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]

All due respect, your college experience is digressing from my topic. This is about a SAHM and step-father disagreeing on family finances for a SAHM's biological son. With regard to your experience, that sounds as if it was 20 plus years ago. Also, I didn't see a mention of a fellowship, which could provide $ and a bigger resume booster than the crummy jobs you're [I guess?] implying your parents made you pursue. Fellowships are competitive, requiring top grades and recs.[/quote]

Um, my parents never "made" me pursue anything. They paid for my college, but didn't give me extra money. If I wanted money for extra clothes, parties, etc., it was on me.

I looked around and saw that successful college students and young grads were the ones getting jobs, internships and other EXPERIENCE that they could put on a resume. If you do nothing but study and earn a 4.0 you are not going to stand out in the job market. Sorry. If you have a 3.5 but have a few industry-related things on your resume, you'll be in a much better position to get a job after graduation.

Anyway, OP's husband sounds like he knows that a college job or some type of experience will benefit OP's son.

It's sad and ironic, really. Jobless woman who has limited power in her own life wants her son to remain jobless, too. [/quote]

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