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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Paid jobs are becoming popular because they lessen the stench of economic privilege.

As my son said on Monday when I dropped him off at his volunteer orientation:

"Oh look, a Tesla here to drop off another volunteer!"[/quote]

well also AOs have woken up to what parents and also anyone who was formally a teen who had a job: you learn and grow a lot more working a job than being a volunteer with Tesla kids. You gain soft skills. You might work for one summer to the next for promotions. I learned as a teen manager how to deal with other teen employees, including one who was stealing. I managed schedules and dealt with public complaints. I managed a social life with a 40 hour a week job. My kid volunteered for a while but it's a whole different thing. As soon as they were legal, they got a job[/quote]

Agree with all this but are AOs actually looking at this kind of thing now? Genuine question.[/quote]

Yes. 💯 
My kid’s Ivy admit letter came with a note about how impressed they were about his four separate part-time jobs (3 were summer and 1 school year service job). We are extremely high income and he is in a private prep school.
All jobs were somewhat related to his niche (or could be tied to it).

Ideas to combine with a regular retail or service gig:

- Music major, working in a guitar store or piano store, helping with sales or tuning of instruments

- CS major, working in some sort of hardware support role whether in sales or retail. Similarly working at a technology summer camp for kids.

- archeology major, working as a cashier or guide or similar at a popular history, museum or other type of museum and helping out with the kids summer camp at the same place for three weeks[/quote]

My kid is an environmental science major with an interest in sustainable agriculture who worked at a nursery for several years in HS. It’s a pretty typical teen job, but does have some relation to his academic interests.[/quote]

I know a similar kid (friend of my son’s) from our private school who worked in agriculture extensively over summers and related jobs that touched on ag. Maybe also a Corp Ag-business internship. Kind of niche interests but authentic bc kid would drop everything to do this stuff. Probably had some research or passion project too.

Got into 2 ivies and a bunch of T20s and was clearly NOT at tippy top of private school class (obv good stats but not close to the top 5-10%).[/quote]

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