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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Great job fooling AO's. That is a fantastic approach.[/quote]

Oh come on.  You're not fooling AOs.  It's just refreshing seeing people being more normal instead of expensively manufactured candidates.  After all, low wage teen jobs have bad stuff and don't suck up to you like you're an elite.  At my only normcore teen job, I worked at a Macy's equivalent.  I got yelled at by customers, spent hours organizing a bathing suit section, got hangers thrown at me by the department manager, got my hours regularly cut in favor of another worker with a connected parent, was asked to dust the bottom of the clothing racks in the entire department twice while a stonecutter continued to replace marble tiles, and was asked to smile more while standing in heels for 8 hours passing out free shopping bags.  That was better than my friend's jobs at fast food.  One of them even got burned cleaning a machine that he wasn't supposed to be working with due to age.  Expensive iPods, sneakers, whatever...there's still some real life to be lived doing these jobs.

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I am the poster with the "paper" comment. I was naive just like you. I thought letting my kids be authentic is the best thing. They had jobs, they pursued ECS that related to their interests. They got into T-20s and we are grateful for the opportunities. But honestly again and again we see kids who went the 'research' route get into colleges way above their 'app" grade. AOs are still "fooled" they still get taken by "published" research. They don't pay or want to get into dissections of how parental connections might have played a role. They simply don't have the time.[/quote]

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