Hi, I'm 18 and I'm looking for a job for the summer. I live in Frederick (but I drive a BMW so I can go anywhere in the DC/MD/VA area because of my RACECAR speeds :rolleyes: ) and would be willing to drive up to 45 minutes for the right opportunity. High school graduate; going to UMCP in the fall.

I've been an Operations Manager at a local pet store for four years. I was an Admin Assistant at the county Office of Economic Development and, more specifically, the Small Business Development Center, for about six months.

Anyone have any thoughts, suggestions, or is anyone willing to put a word in for me at their company? :redspot

any interest in construction?

My parents tried to make me work when I was 18 too. I yelled at them and threatened to call Child Services on them. Ever since, they pay all my bills.

Try that. :dunno

What are you planning on majoring in or do you have any specific type of job you are looking for?

---Eric

I worked for the county parks when I was 18. It's a union job in Milwaukee so it pays well (well, at the time it seemed like it paid well!), you get to spend a lot of time outside (cutting grass mostly) checking out women, getting a tan... :D

It's going to be tough to get a "real" job without any college...

It's going to be tough to get a "real" job without any college...

I've done okay without a degree. :dunno

But I'm not normal.

Me too. I thought I was normal, guess not. :(

I've done okay without a degree. :dunno

But I'm not normal.

The people who will be able to "do okay" without a degree are going to know that fact right off the bat. I had a HS friend who went into web design and ended up starting his own company. He does very well these days. Then again, he knew there was going to be a market for it and he knew he was good.

A college friend with "only" a BS lives in NoVA, has published two books on software security and is working on a third, and is a high-level director at AOL who created his own job. Jed and Glenn have met him. Cool dude.

If you don't have a specific skill you probably won't get anywhere without a degree.

Ben-

Are you looking for a "real" business type job? Sounds like you've been actually doing the non-HS type jobs (not flipping burgers, working at a restaurant, etc). During college I've done anything from being a cook in OC to being a phone rep at Citicorp.

Some jobs at "real" firms may not require a college degree, I've known brokers and traders that were just very sharp and picked on things well without college degrees.

That being said, what are you looking to go into? Sounds like you are aware of business news-I saw some reply to a guy you made who was laid off and you asked him if it was Riggs Bank. Most people, especially in high school are not aware or could make the connection of the recent violation they commited to what the guy was talking about.

When I was at T Rowe, we've taken on college kids to assist us on the desk-simple tasks like reconciling our trade tickets, checking on them, passing the tickets to the traders, or pulling phone calls. Menial tasks, but they picked up things by taking initiative to make the most of their situation, sitting with us and learn real world what we did.