Category: Teen Topics
Do any of you high school students have jobs after school? I work in a Catholic Charities office entering client data into the computer. I help out this social worker over there who's blind too, and I've learned a lot about that profession. How about you?
no, but when I was in high school, I had summer jobs. I really enjoyed them
I used to sell my body on the street after school. It was not only a lot of fun, but it paid well too.
I also had a job two summers ago at Helen Keller Services for the Blind. I helped out with the switchboard and worked in the seneor and day-treatment centers.
What happenedd? why aren't you still doing that, or am I wrong.
Cort
I don't have an after-school job, but would like one. Right now, I proofread braille material for a blind woman who lives near me. She's really sweet, and brilliant too. Sh'es got her own company and everything. Anyway, she's great to help out, and she pays me more than generously. Caitlin
TheHelen Keller job was a summer thing. I was in a prevoc program there and they gave that job to start me out.
Ooh that's cool. I've always liked answering phones, maybe I could do that! Hehehe.
Kc8pnl, are you serious?
as for me, I work at an after school care. its for grades 4-8. it pays very well. and i got the job cause my friend owns the place. lol
Ooh cool Field. Hehehe.
He's most deffently serious...
I'm his manager.
Rotfl, Toico...no you're not! Blah Torico. Hehehe... I mean Torico, not Toico, although tath sounded cool lol.
Caitlin
I dont have a job but I plan on gettin 1 cauz i m tried of being broke!!
Well, I'm helping someoe i French. She's a beginer and in our education we're only talkig economy French, not really geeral vocabulary. So I help her once per week and get a little moey for it.
Just found out...well, found myself a sort of job. I may peer tutor English students next year, or maybe even this eyar. There's no peer tutorin thign at my school so I may charge a little fee. I've gota ahve some sort of income! What do y'all think?
guitar teacher and lifeguard.
Well, let's see. This was a long time ago for me, but I went to a residential school. I had a volunteer job playing with little kids and keeping them moving. I also worked on campus with a person helping him get from class to class. He had very brittle bones, and the staff didn't want him walking around much by himself. (Wow, I can't believe I'm actually writing this, because it sound so patronizing some 30 years later.) In my senior year of high school, I had this job at an in-hospital radio station as a dj. Learned lots from all of these experiences.
Lou
I'm not old enough to get an after school job but my sister tried when she was in high school. I know it's really hard for anyone to hire a blind person. My sister couldn't even get a job as a watress or a day care helper. I guess employers just under estimate the abbillities of a blind person. They have yet to realize.
i'm 17, & really wana get a job or something, but where i live in the uk, its like impossible coz people don't wana know
I want a job too! I'm 16 and live in a small town in which my family owns a dry cleaners. I am thinking about asking my uncle if I can work there answering phones or somthing. I mean come on! I'm family so he should higher me shouldn't he? lol
Jenna
I did my service hours, but I think I'll do it even if I don't even get them. I love volunteering. It's for the summer, and I help out with summer school at a middle school. I helped with this blind girl in special education. She's in seventh grade now. Besides, I wouldn't want pay for it even if they offer. Knowledge should not cost anything. It's priceless.