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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It takes a lot of discipline to succeed in college. 12 months of taking it easy at a votunteer service job would not work for my kid ![/quote]

Yup, heaven forbid they spend a year learning to live without running water, taking bucket showers and sleeping under a mosquito net, planting crops or fixing up a school, eating rice and beans for dinner, just "taking it easy" while their peers head off to college and join a fraternity and drink themselves into oblivion.  Not to mention that it will be a whole extra year before they can get to Wall Street and start earning a six-figure salary.  Glad I don't have a slacker who would waste a year that way.[/quote]

I did that in Peace Corps after college.  Those paid for gap year programs in developing countries are paid for tourism by rich kids. They do not have the experience/training to add value nor are there long enough to make an impact. They should wait tables for a year and just send the money. It would be more helpful to the beneficiaries. [/quote]

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