High School Jobs: Best and Worst!

I teach violin. 30 bucks an hour baby. And I work 6 hours of violin lessons a day.

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Updated On: 8/21/05 at 08:57 PM

Never had a job, I get by on my generous allowence and an occasional odd job. But I do volunteer and intern, at Housing Works and this summer at a musical theater camp. I was a set intern, so I got to help design and construct...all good since I'm artistically inclined. The stage crew part was not cool...haha...the cherry picker and a bad rendition of Defying Gravity! I wanted a job in retail...but I'm not old enough in any of the places I would actually care to work in.

I've only had one job. I was bus monitor on my camp bus. I got $3/day and I hated those little brats. I got $100 pay at the end of the summer and $25 in tips.

A job that I've had throughout high school, though inconsistent, is my acting career. It's been tough fitting it in "between classes," so to speak, but I think I did a fairly good job. SAG is helpful with tutors...

This year, I am also a dancer with a DJ company, so I dance at parties...the pay is good, and it's tons of fun.

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When I was in high school I worked at a Western Bagel for a year and a half...oh man. I'm so glad I'm done with that. I also spent a summer working at Jamba Juice and a couple summers working at offices and I spent one school year teaching pre-calculus on the weekends to high school students.

But yeah, back then more intermittently and now regularly I work by singing for church, which is ridiculously good money for very little work :0) It does make me feel a BIT guilty :0)

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th worst:working at day camp and not getting payed

I have two jobs that aren't very steady, but sweet nonetheless. I maintain a few web sites for local businesses, which technically pays $25/hr but usually means I get $200 paychecks a few times throughout the year. I am also a reviewer for consolegameworld.com; although it doesn't get me any money, I get A-list video games for free.

When I was in high school, I spent time filing for a law firm. Not fun. It was the worst...paper cuts, minimum wage, etc.

Then I did some stuff for my Dad's business, editing letters, preparing mail outs, etc...basic secretarial stuff.

This summer (transition period between high school and college) I worked at an oxygen bar that also sold massage products. It was retail. There was pressure, there was drama, there were numbers to meet, but it payed off. It was 7 an hour plus commission and on average I made up to 14 an hour and worked a 20 hour week as well as covered for people when they needed someone to work their shift. I wouldn't do it again because it is so stressful trying to convince people to buy massage products that don't work and worrying about not meeting numbers and getting talked to from my managers about being on the commission level (had to work my way up to commission) and not selling a 100 dollar package of massage products that no one wants to buy every hour and fear losing my job. However, I did learn how to sell.

Dairy Queen!!!! I HATED it it sucked so bad, i was even working with four of my friends and it sucked. We all quit; on the same day at the same time, we just kind of walked out! HMMM no wonder the manager hates me now, she use to love me. odd...
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oh mannn, last summer i worked at a local waterpark (mountain creek) and i had to stand in the sun for 8 hours everyday selling whatever crappy food they told me to for minimum wage! i ended up with second degree burns and blisters from the sun one day and they didnt even care to get me an umbrella after asking like 74869327 times! i wasnt allowed to sit down and i wasnt allowed to talk to other employees. IT WAS TERRIBLE!!! I WILL NEVER WORK THERE AGAIN

I performed all summer in a show at Six Flags Great America. We did 6 shows a day/5 days a week for about 3 months. It was rigorous and tiring, but lots of fun. I couldn't have asked for a better senior summer.

I've had several "odd-jobs" (mostly in the summers). They have included:
Lifeguarding
Teaching beginner skiing (to 4 to 7 year olds)
Babysitting (who hasn't)
I've worked at our local dairy freeze, which was actually quite a bit of fun, since it was a bunch of my girlfriends from school and I.
Detassling corn--not fun, but quick money.
And now I teach piano in college.
I've found that the jobs that I've enjoyed the best are the ones that are based off of special skills or talent that I already had.