My daughter applied for her first job, today!
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My daughter applied for her first job, today!
Sarah, got a flyer in the mail, about jobs available at college, in the library. I hope she gets one. It would be convenient and she wouldn't come back to the dorm room smelling like french fries. She filled out the online application tonight.
Tomorrow, she has to ask our friend, if it's okay to be a reference. I'm sure it will be. She has to email her band teacher, for that, too. He will write a good reference for her, too.
GOOD LUCK to her. My first job in college was in the library too. It only lasted 2 weeks. You can't talk in the library!!!! LOL. Needless to say I waited tables the rest of my college career.
I hope she's able to work on campus. That would be great!
Dawn, I know you've told us, but when does Sarah leave for school? Is it getting close? Just wondered how you're feeling about it all.:-)
Good Luck on a job, Sarah!
She goes September 2nd! Excited and sad all at the same time.
Of course you know we'll be there for you.:-) I'm putting it on my calendar.
OMG, a little over a week away. You'll fine. And yes praying that she gets the job, that would be so wonderful. Her first very first job, oh I'm getting teary eyed thinking about it,just when you thought all there first where over? Does she have her driver's license yet?
No, she doesn't. She was enthused for a while, about wanting to drive, and then she just stopped. Not sure what is up with that. I'm sure it will happen eventually.
Dawn, I didn't get my license until I was 17 and a Senior in high school. I had to get it and really didn't want it. I was taking some college classes and had to be able to get myself between the two schools and the job I was required to have as a part of my grade for one of the classes. With in four months of getting my license I was hit twice and one of those accidents totaled my car. Needless to say I ended up being a reluctant driver but I did it because I had to.
Callie will be 18 in September and she doesn't have her license.. Dillan is going to be 16 in February and he isn't interested either. They both know too many people that have their license that shouldn't and they are of the mind that just because you turn 16 doesn't mean you should be behind the wheel. This isn't something I am willing to push on them because I want them to me emotionally ready to take that step. Callie has too many friends that have been in accidents, most minor but the ones where friends have died or have been critical after them has her a bit reluctant herself.
This will all come about in it's own time.. 
I hope she gets the job on campus and that she has a great Freshman year.. Big ((hugs)) Dawn.
Callie isn't leaving and at this point she is taking this year off of school, to decide if she wants to go or not and what exactly she wants to take. She will be working at Walmart as soon as she turns 18. She was offered a job there and will be taking it.
I hope she gets it, Dawn. It would be great for her to work on campus.
I don't even want to think about my dks going to college. I am depressed enough about them just starting school. I have really missed them this week!
Very cool on the job. My first college job was proofing a book for a professor...YIKES!
As for the driver's license. This again to me has to be a regional thing, as in things in texas are different My dd starts 8th grade this year. She can't wait to have a drivers license. She drives out at the ranch when with her grandfather. Last visit we made out there, we pull up to the gate, she goes and unlocks it, and then gets back in the truck, drivers side and says move over pawpaw, I'm driving. She proceeded to take us on a driving tour of the ranch, in a dodge hemi. She does a great job, so turning 16 will probably just be a formality. She actually wanted to look into getting a hardship license, I had to let her know she didn't have a case
Yeah, there are plenty of kids out there, who are scary drivers. A 17-yo in my vicinity died recently, because he didn't make a curve and rolled his car. He must not have been wearing a seatbelt, since he was ejected from the car. Ugh. His poor parents.
I'll be quite happy if Lara isn't eager to get her license until, well, thirty? Just kidding. If Sarah can manage without a car for now, I think it's just one less thing to worry about, for her and you. She'll know when the time is right.:-)
Kaye, Callie knows how to drive.. She has been driving since she was old enough/big enough to touch the petals. DS 15, can drive too. We also have family with a lot of acreage and the kids started out on lawn mowers, worked their way up to mules/a golf cart and then on to vehicles. She was about 7-8 when she started on the mowers so she has been "driving" for around 10 years now.
Callie choosing to wait has little to do with her lack of knowledge or confidence in her own driving skills and more to do with the fact that she doesn't live her life based on the rights of passage of others. She knows too many kids that were unprepared emotionally and mentally to drive that are now behind the wheel and she so didn't want that to be her..
Three of her friends grew up around here and can't get themselves across town with out getting lost and the town we live in isn't that big.. They get turned onto roads they have never been down before and they can't figure out how to get back to an area they know. Many of her friends have been in finder benders because they simply weren't paying attention. Five of her friends have died in car accidents, that were senseless accidents and all occurred because they didn't have enough knowledge of driving skills or they had the knowledge and they weren't using them.
Driving is a privilege that is taken for granted. A car is a deadly weapon and when it isn't treated with respect accidents happen. Driving at 16 shouldn't be a right of passage. It should be based on the child and the maturity of the child. Unfortunately there are 20 year olds out there that have no business behind the wheel..
I "made" my children walk, talk, potty train, learn respect and politeness, read, write ect.. I am not going to "force/make" my children drive, get their license. When they are ready, they will let me know and I will make it happen with out a second thought. Until then, I have no problem making the time in my schedule to get them around. If it was a fear factor, then I would be addressing it for sure but their waiting has nothing to do with fear. It is a well thought out reasoning on their part and I can't say that I disagree with the decision. They are well thought and have supporting information for their decision.. Good enough for me..
And I don't think it is a regional thing.. All of Callie's friends drive or have had their driving privileges by the age of 16, except for one, she waited until she turned 19. A few of her friends were such bad drivers that the courts have taken away their driving privileges , one girl can't get hers back until she is 21... But as of now all of her friends, that have not lost their driving privilege through the courts, drive. So this is a decision by my child, nothing to do with a region.
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