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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 21:13:34 GMT -5
I never worked in high school either except for babysitting and I was a regular workaholic once I started...working 2-3 jobs at a time all through my 20's while going to college. Been with the same company for 24 years now so I don't think it's needed to learn work ethic. I'm actually hesitant to encourage getting a job now (he's been wanting to) I'm worried DS will be like I was and just get caught up working and hoarding cash, and buying property and lose focus of the big picture...getting an education and establishing a career that will let him live like swamp can now.
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Lizard Queen
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Post by Lizard Queen on Aug 5, 2017 7:21:20 GMT -5
Oh no, I think a few hours of work/week is awesome for them! Shit, the manager of the warehouse I worked at, who made some really, really good money and lived in a very well-to-do area, made his teens work full-time at his warehouse in the summers as soon as they were old enough to do so. Work ethic, and all that. I don't think work is the only way, though, to develop a work ethic. And some of it is personality. I never worked in high school..my parents wouldn't let me. I wasn't even really allowed to work my freshman year in college. I started nibbling around the edges of work rules my sophomore year. I think I'm OK when it comes to work ethic. There was the time issue too. I had to work to get good grades. Studying+practice+activities would keep me busy easily 5-6 hours a night. I got home at school from 4. Usually I'd have Friday nights off, but I lost a half day on Saturday to activities..(3 hours of activities+1 hour commute). It was common to be completely booked solid a few weekends every month during the school year. I'm glad my parents didn't ask me to work on top of that..I was already burned out enough as it is by the time I started college. One of my clients never worked but got herself into an Ivy League School. But, the summer between her sophomore and junior year in h.s. she was doing legit research in a lab at our state's flagship university. Had to put a poster together, to and present. I didn't in high school either. I was super busy during the school years, but not very busy in the summers. Then I was pushed to work after graduating, but it was super hard to find anything. I could only get shitty jobs to start. Wish I had gotten the shitty jobs out of the way earlier!
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 5, 2017 14:07:11 GMT -5
I never had an official job in HS, but I had a lot of expendable income. At the time, we lived around a lot of young families and I did a lot of babysitting. A couple families were on bowling leagues, and I had regular income from them, but I really raked in the $$ during ski season. The couple would take off at 6 am, return around 8 pm. The child was a baby that slept a good part of the time, so I got to pretty much read all day.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 5, 2017 18:05:12 GMT -5
I didn't work but it was because we lived in the country and there was nowhere for me to work. Sometimes wish I could have.
My husband worked from a very young age, farmers would hire he and his brother to put up hay and all kinds of work. He saved up to pay cash for his first car, his brother spent most of his. Hubby would help his brother and his folks told him to quit, he could save too.
We both have always worked a lot and hard, hasn't hurt us. But sometimes I feel like I'm weird because I just don't mind working nor does hubby. Right now with DIL here I feel like I'm just doing nothing.
We are going to pick tomatoes tomorrow I think and see about starting spaghetti sauce to can. Bet there are tons of ripe tomatoes out there.
DIL doesn't work, son never wanted her too. She is very talented at painting and drawing so thinking maybe she can make thinks and sell them on ebay. She doesn't really need to work in all honesty, but she worries if something would happen to him. She knows nothing of his finances and I don't think that is right, they have been married 15 years.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Aug 5, 2017 18:21:26 GMT -5
I worked from a very young age. Babysitting beginning when I was about 12 and then as cashier in a grocery store at 16. Once I was working I had to pay "rent" even in high school. My mother would also "borrow" money from me all the time and I don't remember her paying any of it back. We were pretty poor, but still. Never was taught anything about handling money which was a real handicap as I got older. It wasn't until I was much older that I learned how to save and plan for the future. This board helped me refine my savings and investment strategies.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2017 12:42:51 GMT -5
Age. Uh-oh. That'll probably get you a "Bite me! " That age related, expectations thing, happens to a lot of us. I didn't mean it as a negative, but more of a reward for being successful.
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