Summer Employment while in College

artskids
Tue, 10 May 2016 01:35:32 +0000

Like @kategrizz my S will be working summer rep all summer out of town. He is making decent $ and his contract includes room (not board). No equity points this summer. I’m not sure he could do much better if he worked a non-performing job unless he worked full-time and lived at home to do it. He does intend to take a bartending course once he turns 21 in the fall - assuming it would serve him well as a survival job. I assume actors make great bartenders!

He was offered a lead locally for basically gas money. It would have been nice to have him home longer than a few weeks but he really needs to put some $$ away since he’s in a house next year. If that had been his only offer, we would have insisted he pick up some additional work. He worked at a youth theater camp for a few weeks last summer and it fit nicely with performance commitments he had.

I’m a huge fan of learning other “jobs” if time allows. Ive been pushing for a part-time job during the school year but know it’s very tough to work it in with rehearsal and performance schedules.

On the other hand, my D (starting SUNY Purchase in the fall) will be working with a catering company all summer and possibly working a few weeks at a theater camp. She does not have paying theater prospects this summer and didn’t want to pay to play so work it is!