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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]If you do nothing but study and earn a 4.0 you are not going to stand out in the job market[/b]. 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 [b]sad and ironic, really. Jobless woman who has limited power in her own life wants her son to remain jobless, too. [/quote][/b]

This. +1000. If OP is looking for $100 a month to send to her son, she can earn it herself. Shit, she could sell her out of season clothes to get that cash. But really, her son should work.

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