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L.
Senior Sarah Gaughan and zoo
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educational employees relax
on the Lions Pride statue.
Gaughan held jobs such as
feeding sharks and playing
with penguins. photo
contributed by Sarah Ga ughan

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·. . Di scussing military positions
~ . with military recruits are
seniors Evan Porter and Travis
Pfeiffer. Students often looked
to the military as a li fe career.
photo by Suzie Mac

r colle e.

As students got older, they were faced with The need for a job was especially important
more responsibilities. Parents stopped paying to juniors and seniors. Certain students had to
for their belongings, which forced them to get pay for things like cars and insurance, not to
after school and weekend jobs. Whether they mention they needed to start a savings account
were asking the age-old question, "Would you for college.
like fries with that?" at McDonald's and "When I turned 16 I had to buy my car
Burger King or if they were working myself and pay for the insurance. I was
construction, the desire for money became a working two jobs at one time. One was at the
must in students' lives. Upstream restaurant and the other at Lakeside
The part-time jobs available to students were Retirement Center. If I hadn't had these jobs, I
limited, as well as the hours they were wouldn't have been able to pay for any of it,"
permitted to work. For students under 16, the senior Krystina Luther said.
hours were especially scarce since they weren't The need for cash motivated studnets to get
allowed to work late during the school year at jobs and earn extra money on their own.
most places of employment. Sophomore Alex "Having a job made me appreciate the
Sequenzia experienced this working at money my parents used to give me a lot more.
Culver's fast food restaurant. When I was buying things with my hard earned
"Cul ver's wouldn't schedule me for more money, I would have rather saved it and gotten
than 15 hours a week at the most during the something a little cheaper," senior John Winter
school year since I'm not 16 yet. They also said.
never scheduled me to close because I wasn't Most students didn't care where they
allowed to work past eight. It was hard to save worked, as long as their job was in an
up money with the limited number of hours enjoyable atmosphere. All that mattered was
because my paychecks were never very big," the sense of pride that came when they earned
Sequenzia said . their own money.

Organizing sweat shirts at Scheels at Vil -
lage Point is junior Brett Major. Major has
been working there ever since it opened
last

cup cakes in the Hy-Vee bak-
ery is senior Aaron Sharp. Hi s responsi- 22~
bilities were decorating pastries and also
Jobs~
to serve customers.