Wondering what kids are doing this summer? Mine are lucky to get summer internship at home. But no travelling this summer.
Is the internship in person or online?
It is online, they have specific tasks and outcomes. Work output must be submitted daily. Pay is good too.
@Compmom, what about you kid(s)?
Mine’s at her engineering co-op out of state. She had to quarantine for 2 weeks so first worked remotely and then transitioned to the plant the end of May. She goes hiking on the weekends and does a lot of facetime/zoom calls with friends. She’s there until mid August.
Virtual study abroad. (Yep, that is a real thing.)
My oldest, a rising senior, stayed at school in her off campus apartment and is working there since none of her DC internships panned out. She is also volunteering with a local political campaign office.
The other, a rising sophomore, is living at home and working at a produce stand as well as training for his fall season, in case they even have fall sports.
Participating in her school’s summer research program for rising freshmen; it moved to home based/virtual, but they’re shipping her equipment.
Rising junior is taking a course required for his major that has always been online. We figured he might as well knock it off now. He is also working part time doing landscaping and odd jobs for neighbors.
My college D was fortunate with her internship. She was supposed to be in Seattle but the company cancelled all remote internships and made most of them virtual. We’re fortunate the company has two major facilities within 20 minutes of home. It was delayed 4 weeks, so she took a class from next Spring during the 4 week Maymester, and started work on Monday.
My high school D had summer camps cancelled but we were fortunate to find a 6 week AI/Machine Learning bootcamp being taught by a recent MIT masters program graduate. She’s finishing her first week and it will take her until it’s time for band camp to start.
All in all, it certainly worked out better than it might have.
Zoom workouts with her team. At the beginning of the quarantine she ordered some weights, mats, balls and bands, and has been using them daily.
Zoom study sessions for organic Chem just so they are ready to hit the ground running in the Fall.
Zoom language tutoring.
Doing TA work to convert a Prof’s class to be more on-line friendly via zoom.
Wish I bought some zoom stock!
Mine is taking 2 summer classes and working 20 hours a week at a store. Just had a scare of possible case of covid but she is fine now.
She is also working on a couple of nonprofit projects for a rural village in Vietnam: well water project and crawfish farm project. She has weekly zoom meeting with the local folks and really enjoyed it. It is fascinating that a rural village in Vietnam has amazing WiFi, probably not so rural after all lol.
Full time Co-op @ Apple. Remote for now, with the potential to move to CA or TX later in the Co-op.
Edit to add - sister’s kid, not mine.
D21 is interning 2000 miles away in California. S24 is working on a construction erosion control crew building character.
Mine is working as a cashier at a sporting good retailer that has recently reopened.
Mine is waiting for the go-ahead for census work. It might never happen before the new school year.
Both my kids have been waiting for their restaurant to open back up. Which it did this past week, and neither were hired back :neutral: One was a host and server assistant; one was an assistant. Seems they only hired back a few servers since it’s reduced capacity for now. S probably doesn’t have a shot at getting any jobs at this point. We’re leaving for a 2 week vacation and then he’s back for just a month before school. D is nannying for my BIL OOS for three days/week starting after vacation. She was supposed to be doing research at school all summer but it didn’t translate to WFH. We are keeping S busy with home projects, saving us the money he’d be contributing towards his tuition.
Mine is taking a free open source class since her request to enroll in summer classes for credit at our state flagship was denied by her university.
@whidbeyite2002 my older S applied for a census job back in January. he wanted to do it April-May when he was done with school, but still in college town. He heard back 2 weeks before he had to move out that they wanted him. Same thing with the contact tracing. He doesn’t start his new job in new city until early August. He applied weeks ago and heard nothing. I thought they were desperate for people. He doesn’t really need the $$$, but it would have been something to do.
Younger S has an internship with our city collecting/building GIS data on cemetery graves. It’s a project we’ve had on the books for over 10 years. It’s grunt work, but he’s doing it with a good friend. He’s thrilled to be getting paid and some experience in one of his minors. I am thankful that the City hired him. Interns are not common and the few that the City hire typically go to grad students from out of town. And it’s perfect for social distancing.
College athlete (swimmer), so she spent first couple of weeks going to states where pools opened before they opened here. Did a Maymester at a local college (what a waste of money). Her summer job (swim coach) was cancelled, so as soon as the neighborhood pool opened, she put up an ad for swim lessons and is doing about 20/week. Once you are in good with the young moms, they are all on board. In between she trains, lifts and hikes. If your students have skills they can impart to younger kids, this is a great summer to do it–no competition with travel or camp schedules.
S is working OOS (1 1/2 hours from DC) at a veterinary hospital as a vet tech assistant (doing as much vet tech work as possible). Also shadowing the veterinarians as he works. He is working 50 hours a week, getting experience for vet school and learning a lot. His vet is awesome and he is even living at the vet’s home. He started mid May and will be there until near the end of July when he will go on a one week vacation and then move into his apartment for school.
He adopted a kitten brought into the clinic that died after everyone working so hard to save it. He woke every hour to feed the poor little thing. He learned a lot and the vet was wonderful helping him learn and providing treatment.
Since then the vet was a reference for him to adopt another kitten through a local rescue. He is thrilled and picked her up last night. Great experience this summer.