Allowance in College

tsdad
Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:00:11 +0000

My son is having difficulty getting by on $350.00 a month in LA. Part of the expense is his car, which he needs for internships. He could save money by cooking more, but I’m not going to push it since I never cooked in college. LA is costly. I’ll probably raise him to $100.00 per week. He has no money of his own since few film internships pay although he earned $500.00 this summer working on a movie as a production assistant. I didn’t give him any money while he had that. The experiences he is getting and the contacts he is making are part of the reasons we sent him to USC. The fact that he isn’t getting paid is not relevant to me. I consider supporting him through the summer and school year in unpaid internships as part of his educational expenses.

He’ll be an intern at http://www.participantproductions.com/ spring semester. Working for this company for free will be worth a lot of money.