Did you work in high school?

[y4m]

Trying to think about reasonable expectations for BIL.  Did you work in high school?  Yes year-round/Yes summer, holidays, otherwise limited/No are the answer choices...

[Susie]

Year round, but definitely more in the summer. I lifeguarded at the pool where I trained, so picking up hours was pretty easy.

[Deleted]

Yes, year round. I had a standing babysitting job and worked at a bakery.

[arch01]

Yes. It was how my brother and I got grocery money some weeks because my mom was too busy dating someone closer in age to me than her. From the time I started working at 16 until now, I've had 2 jobs (with the exception of 5 months when I was laid off from a PT job).

[lilibet]

I wasn't allowed to, which I hated and meant I had no savings when I went to college, so I totally don't recommend that. lol


A friend of mine worked in high school at a local restaurant that had a Wednesday night special (the big church night in the area). She was allowed to work Wednesdays then Friday-Sunday as long as her grades stayed up. I always thought that was a good balance.

[gardengal]

Yes, year-round but more hours (like, almost the max they'd allow teens) in the summer. Holidays that were just like a week I kept my normal schedule.

[h]

Only babysitting gigs. I spent much of the summer at various camps--a week of debate camp, a week of student council camp, three weeks at a gifted and talented program, a week as a counselor at a different debate camp (that one I did get paid for). During the school year, I had mandatory sports practice after school and spent most weekends at debate tournaments, so Friday and Saturday night babysitting was easier to fit in than any other type of employment. I actually begged my parents to let me work at the Gap at one point, but they were afraid it would detract from school work and extracurricular and wouldn't let me.

[Lilac]

I worked year-round my senior year of HS, but not before that. It was 2 hours/day Mon - Fri at an after school daycare center.

[delawarejen]

After I turned 16, I worked year-round except when I couldn't find a job. (I was laid off after the Christmas season and couldn't find a job again until March.) We moved onto the bus line just before I turned 16.

[LoveTrains]

Yes, year round but only starting the summer after sophomore year (so I was 16). I worked at a summer camp that summer and then got a job at the cvs at the local mall. I worked that cvs job year round - maybe like 10 hours a week - which was enough for gas money for my car (gas was under $1/gallon). I made minimum wage which was $5.15/hour. I worked cvs until I went to college and then worked there
Over winter break in college.

I also babysat for one neighborhood family. I would do that every other Friday for my junior and senior years. They paid me $10/hour and this was in the '90s!!

I continued working at the summer camp (day camp) the summer between je and sr years and after senior yr of high school and summer between first/ and second year of college.
I think it was good for me.

[mlvmd]

Yup. I worked in a restaurant at night and a bed and breakfast on weekend mornings. My mom never said anything about it. I still got straight As, was on the tennis team, student government, two different musical groups, theater, mock trial, and a gazillion other clubs. When she didn't want my ( much) younger brother to work because he needed to focus on school I rolled my eyes so hard.

[scout8]

Yes, sometimes year round, but definitely in the summer. Starting at about age 12, my dad insisted I have a summer job. At that age, the only options were babysitting or working in the fields (beans or corn). I always made sure to find a sitting job so I didn't have to detassel corn. In HS, I pretty much worked in restaurants--Bonanza, Pizza Hut, TCBY, Chi Chis.

[Deleted]

Yes. I worked summers/holidays. I played a lot of sports so didn't work year round. If I didn't play sports it would have been year round.

[hbomdiggity]

Summer only.

I played sports 3 seasons. There was no time to work.

[mbcdefg]

I worked at an ice cream parlor from Easter through Halloween.

I also kept score at grade school basketball games, and answered phones at the church rectory. Throughout the school year.

ETA: I forgot, I also worked at the city's summer day camp for a few years. Most days I'd get home from camp around 4, eat dinner, then go to the ice cream parlor from 6-11/midnight.

And I babysat once in a while when my parents' friends needed someone. Sometimes my sister joined me ... we also worked together at the camp and the ice cream store when she was old enough.

[macmars45]

No unless you count babysitting every few months for a family from church. My parents were very much school is your job and I had limited access to transportation so that was that.

[Deleted]

Yes. I had two jobs. I was a hostess at Applebee's during the week/on weekends, and I was a tour guide for local tourist attraction on the weekends only. It worked out to approximately 15 /20 hours a week during the school year, and ft in summer. I was very, very aggressively saving for college, so I worked probably more than was healthy

[Marmee]

Year round if you count my Sunday only paper route carrying the enormous Chicago Tribune. It was only 2 hours a week early Sun morning. I also babysat. But I played 3 Varsity Sports most of HS & so I didn't have time to get a reg after school job.

[niq]

No. My job was to be in school, and I was in a million extracurriculars.

I interned at a bank after my senior year.

[kadams767]

Yes, I worked in a cafe starting when I turned 16. During the school year, it was Saturdays and Sundays only if I had sports and during non-sports season, I would do one or two afternoons after school too. About 30 hours over the summers. I also was a basketball referee and scorekeeper a few nights per month in the winters. I had to work, this was my only spending money and the only money saved for college, but it was fun and I'm glad I worked regardless of needing to do so.

[doobeedoo]

I started babysitting around 11.  And I started working pretty consistently year-round from age 14.  I started with babysitting and a paper route and then moved onto waitressing and retail.  Then onto data entry and ultimately to accounting clerk while I was in college.  Honestly, looking back, I wish I had worked a little less and focused more on schoolwork.  I could have applied myself more.

[mollybrown]

No, but only because I couldn't get hired anywhere. I had my first job the summer after I graduated.

[FrozenSunshine]

Year around. I got my work permit at 14 1/2 and started working 16 hours a week then.

[sh10]

I was a lifeguard in the summers, I babysat in the winters and worked only weekends at a wedding reception site, where we let in the caterers, cake ladies, DJ, etc. It was like babysitting the building.

[sjh722]

I worked in my parents' business (wholesale greenhouse) - greenhouse work, then office stuff like filing, computer work, ordering supplies. Also babysitting, then I worked at an ice cream store, and a law firm my senior year (2 hours a day filing and going to the post office).

[h]

I am jealous of people that were making $10+ babysitting. I got $5/hour to watch a family of four kids. And they were awful. It was really not worth it.

[tripleshot]

 I worked at a craft store my junior and senior years and at a local doctor's office at the front desk my senior year. Probably 25 hours a week total. 

[zarapipe]

Yes. year round and a lot I think. I started my freshman year of HS doing dishes at a restaurant, then became a busser then a waitress at the same place. I worked anywhere from 15-25 hours a week. I made good money waitressing and saved a lot of money for college, but I wish I didn't have to work so much and be so concerned with having enough money for college.

[perkyderky]

Summers and holidays for sure and the occa sional Sunday during the school year for a family owned deli on long island. I still consider that the job from which i learned the most about business and life. I baby sat my freshman year.

[KaraOrNot]

Year round. Part-time in the school year and full-time summers and holidays.