In my last year of college, I worked 2 parttime jobs and I'm greatful for the forced time management that the jobs placed upon me. In the previous 3 years, I had only done enough to get by, usually well after midnight and my grades were merely "okay." The jobs forced me to budget my time wisely, or things just weren't going to get done, and the fatigue of working kept me from staying up late. The result was an unintentional boost to my grades, income and overall physical health (from actually sleeping regular hours).
If my parents were to ask me for my opinion, I'd send her to a local community college and have her working parttime too, to pay for an allotted percentage of the college bills. Its only fair, IMO, that she pay for some to makeup for the bottomline losses. When I found out that by switching majors, I was going to have a net loss of 1 semester (I graduated 1 semester late), I got a job to differ the costs of the extra time -- food, board, books and tuition.
Then again, my sister has never *really worked* for a single dime she's had to spend. Perhaps the reality of working fulltime until January 2005 when she'll have the option of attending a state university will go a ways toward teaching her to stop wasting my family's resources. Its hard work making money...
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Last edited by tritium; 05-15-2004 at 05:54 PM..
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