<p>Ahh, not coming home for the summer. We were lucky to have D1 home for 2 summers.</p>
<p>Oldfort…Our DD was only home for one summer. And she has never been home for a spring break…only Christmas. She has been fortunate that she has worked in undergrad admissions at her school for almost four years. A wonderful job and because of her longevity…a good reference from her boss!!</p>
<p>My younger s arranged a summer internship, and then decided to change his major, so will be doing the intternship AND taking 2-3 engineering classes this summer. He will be a busy fellow.</p>
<p>oldfort, at least she is “planning” to come home for a couple of weeks this summer. Last one, DW and I had to fly out there to see her. We just miss her so much.</p>
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<p>I guess that is a benefit of FP. DD made so much money last summer, she had more money in her checking than ours last Dec. Of course we immediately took advantage of that. Used her account to pay for the winter quarter school bills.</p>
<p>Dad II…we found it cheaper to fly our one kid home for two weeks than to fly two of us to CA. That is what we did with DD.</p>
<p>Maybe you will be able to have short drive to see DS in college.</p>
<p>T1, last summer, DD did not have a break in her schedule.</p>
<p>My wish is for DS to get into that school 3000 miles away. The FA will be Nx of the airfares.</p>
<p>My D will be a girl scout camp counselor again, but this year a little closer to home, and Friday afternoon to Sunday AM’s off. She took my advice over Christmas break and got the app in! Yeah!</p>
<p>My daughter, a junior in college, has a paid internship lined up at a large nonprofit organization. She will be in a nearby city, but because the internship has irregular hours, she will be living for most of the time in a dorm at a college there, rather than commuting.</p>
<p>She has been lucky. Despite no connections whatsoever in her field of interest, she has gotten interesting internships three summers in a row – by what I call the saturation bombing approach, i.e., applying to as many internships as humanly possible. This year, she applied to 38, and she probably would have applied to more if she hadn’t received a good offer at the end of February.</p>
<p>Now I’m wondering about my son’s summer plans. He’s a graduate student, so I keep my mouth shut, but he mentioned earlier in the year that he might seek a paid summer internship to boost his income because he has been having trouble living on his stipend as a research assistant. I wonder whether he ever followed up on that idea, but with a 23-year-old, you don’t ask. You wait for him to tell you.</p>
<p>College junior D has secured an internship in the same city she is now doing study abroad, so we won’t have her home until sometime in July.</p>
<p>Congratulations! A real accomplishment to get a summer international internship.</p>
<p>This summer our ROTC son will be spending a total of six weeks away at two different Army training courses. I asked him if he will be getting paid and he replied: “idontknow”. Go Army.</p>
<p>Thanks, mdc, she worked hard to be competetive for it.</p>
<p>son will be finishing his [paid] seismology internship at USC this summer, writing his thesis paper, taking the GRE and researching PHD programs to apply to in the Fall. He just received confirmation that a seismology paper he has been working on for 4 years has been accepted for publication by one of the national academic geologic publications! So proud!</p>
<p>Oldfort: The census job is knocking on doors. I would be worried with daughter, but with our son, his personality, in our neighborhood, I am okay with this. Still, it is not a sure thing and he will not find out until the end of April. My sister says that everybody unemployed is applying for census jobs, so 17-year-olds might be last in the list. In 2000, they had trouble filling positions, but this year, lots of applicants!</p>
<p>I am surprised to learn of the vast differences in census pay. Our area is $16.75-$17.75 depending upon being within Philly city limits or just outside in the 'burbs.</p>
<p>My son has also applied to be a census worker. I am happy that my son is proactively looking for summer employment, but I am not supportive of the idea of him being a census worker. In our area the pay is $13.50 an hour, which is good money for summer work. However, I am concerned that he will be sent to the rougher areas of town and am concerned for his safety. He’s a small guy and not streetwise.</p>
<p>A couple of years ago he had a job and the employer never gave him more than 8 or 10 hours of work per week, although they had indicated they would. At that point he was unable to get another job. This statement from the census bureau website is something to think about:</p>
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<p>Wish I could say S2 has been looking for a summer job, but seems he has many, many excuses when I ask. It is going to be a very long, painful summer for both of us if he doesn’t get it together very soon.</p>
<p>On the bright side, no job means I don’t have to share my car w/him! Some bright side…</p>
<p>I had a census job once - not sure what year. Seems like 1980 would have been a logical time for a census, but that was the year I graduated from college, so I don’t know if that’s right. Perhaps it was just a local census. Anyway, I earned per household. Did not make much. They assigned me my territory, which was one of the less desirable - not dangerous, just houses not close together, lots of apartments sprinkled in business districts, so lots and lots of walking for very low pay. And going back again and again until everyone was at home. Actually, now that I think of it, that was my job. Another census taker had already canvassed the area, and I had to go get the folks who weren’t home the first time. Definitely not worth it.</p>
<p>As for summer jobs, my D (college junior) decided to keep the same summer camp job she had last summer. Loved the experience, and it pays well. She considered trying to find an internship or something related to her field of interest, but decided to go with the sure thing, and is looking forward to it.</p>
<p>S2 finishes grad school this May. Has found two month-long summer orchestra gigs that pay, and he is very excited about them. Bigger question is what will happen to him come fall…</p>
<p>DS was fortunate to receive an internship offer for this summer at the end of last summer. Keeping fingers crossed (given the weak economy).</p>
<p>DD is teaching at the Breakthrough Collaborative again this summer. I helped interview new teacher applicants last week. This year there were over 130 applicants for 18 open slots, which is more applicants than last year (and fewer open slots, more teachers wanted to return this year).</p>