<p>Maybe when she puts in applications, she could mention that she would be interested in next summeror ask when the best time to apply for summer work is. Then she will have some idea for next year.</p>
<p>It seems to me that it is getting so late that prospects are slim. However, she might be able to find some kind of substitute job where she could fill in for people on vacation. Are there any temp agencies in your area?</p>
<p>Big vacation time is coming, so house sitting and pet sitting are easy ways to make money.</p>
<p>I think that we parents do hate it when the kids are home doing very little. It just bugs us. I know it bugs me and for the most part, I bite my tongue.</p>
<p>MD Mom that exactly how I feel - it bugs me. I think she’s bore to her bones too since she’s willing to visit relatives on her own. I guess that some traveling is better than being home doing little. I know that the best situation is that she finds a job so she could get experience about what is like to have a job and make $$…but the economy is not helping either…and thank you is a good idea that she ask about next year and when to apply…my husband thinks that she’ll have more chances to find a job in the city she attends college since she can call or interview way before summer…</p>
<p>FWIW, my D has been a Girl Scout camp counselor for several years, and gets in applications during spring break. Last year, between her 1st and 2nd year of college, she decided to do retail(found the job online… really!) …for about four weeks. Then somebody quit at the camp (someone always does), her friends called, and back she went. </p>
<p>She had told ME no when I suggested it, but she was happy to be back.</p>
<p>This year, she was there again, people quit and she got promoted and got two of her friends in. </p>
<p>They start tomorrow. </p>
<p>So… residential camp counselor positions might be open, and out of the house. Obviously not for everyone though.</p>
<p>it makes a lot of sense, shrinkrap…thanks for the post…As in the case of you dd, things are easier once people know you. My feeling is that my dd needs to start somewhere, somehow and once people get to know her then it’s easier to get the same job back…</p>
<p>My son couldn’t find anything paid whatsoever for the summer after freshman year. His college ended very late in May and everything from warehouse to fast food jobs were taken. So he emailed several of his professors and offered to do unpaid work for them over the summer. Two responded with paid work offers that he was able to do remotely and at a local university library. I can’t say it was a fun summer. He disliked working on his own, discovered he prefers to work in a team environment. He also discovered that a field he was considering for a secondary concentration was NOT for him. So it was a useful summer in terms of ruling out some directions.</p>
<p>After that summer, he got much more proactive about lining up internships. It also helped to be a more senior student.</p>
<p>Summers are kind of hard even when they’re working, though. They are used to the freedom of college and we are used to a clean, neat house. Makes for some clashes. But it’s all part of the journey.</p>
<p>Sewhappy, omg all college students are alike… Same here… I keep telling my dd to clean after herself a lot…
Oh well… It seems that her trip to Asia is teaching some good lessons since she’s on her own getting passports, applying for visas, looking x the cheapest tickets Etc…
Still I told her she needs to keep looking x a job or volunteering …</p>
<p>My son also had no luck finding an internship in his area (art/museums) for the summer in either New York or Chicago, despite many applications (for both paid and unpaid positions) and a number of interviews. Very frustrating. But he kept looking after he got home a couple of weeks ago, and now has work (unpaid) as a docent at the Chelsea Art Museum. (It’s a small, fairly new modern art museum in, you guessed it, Chelsea, so he’s very pleased for a couple of reasons.) He’s also going to be volunteering with the GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis).</p>
<p>The funny thing is that when he got home, I felt bad for him, and told him that if he wanted just to take the summer off and relax it would be fine with me, given how hard he worked in college all year, and given that he’ll be leaving anyway in late August (a month before he usually starts) for his term studying abroad in Vienna. He actually got quite huffy with me, and said something like “I’ll work if I want to! You can’t make me not work!” Well, OK, if he’s going to put it that way, I won’t <em>force</em> him to lie on the sofa all summer!</p>
<p>Making his bed and putting his clothing away appear to have escaped his industrious efforts, however. But that’s OK; at least I’m still needed for something!</p>
<p>I hope fall semester internships are easier to find! My D put in about 5 applications, but sounds that may not be enough. No more “guidance” from me though!</p>
<p>Summers are great and summers are terrible with college kids. The Agony and the Ecstasy?</p>
<p>Last summer, or son (Harvard, econ/premed quite good gpa) scrounged around very hard but only ended up with two actual internships - one unpaid in . . . Cleveland!! . . . and one paid but in NYC. We were fine with that but to our utter amazement, Mr. No Emotion wanted to be home for the summer. Thus we went into a huge search for an internship in our fairly small town and unearthed one finally thru connections with DH, etc.</p>
<p>This year things happened the way we expected them to happen after freshman year. He handled it. Yeah!</p>
<p>I think this whole summer thing is a big can of worms.</p>
<p>After one of mine made it pretty clear that he was perfectly happy lying on the couch all day, going out at night, playing video games, reading comics, on the computer, on the phone, watching tv, I made it a rule that anyone living in our house has to find a worthwhile outside activity for 30 hours a week. It was demoralizing for my husband to be pounding salt, leaving early in the morning, working to late, while the kids were catching z’s all day. Plus, I didn’t feel very good about it either. Paying them to do work also hit me the wrong way since we were struggling financially. They were living in our house, eating our food, using our stuff, costing money, and I was not about to pay them to do work around the house. As residents, they could do pro bono. Part of being a family. It is also a lot more motivating to find a paying job when the pockets are empty. They were making sandwiches, and looking for ad hoc work after realizing that it is no fun having no money. </p>
<p>The deal was they could do community service work, take a class, do something, but they had to get out and do it. Even if it meant going to the library and reading there all day, they had to get out of the house. I was willing to pay for a local state college course. If they did not have a job with set hours, they had to leave the house when my husband did which is very early in the morning. Within two weeks, they all found jobs. Since then, they have kept themselves employed, though sometimes barely.</p>