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Students find time for part-time and full-time jobs, while juggling
school, activities and general high school life in their busy schedules. E
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Keeping busy was never a problem for most high sc hool students. (f)
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work ass ignments and eve n Frid ay night ga mes could be difficult ('\)
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while maintaining a job.
"I don't get to do fun things usually because I hav to work on
the weekends, but I like having that big paycheck come, " junior Joe
Roberts sa id.
When summer roll ed around, students had more free time to
fill with leisure activities or summer jobs. Summer found students butting
working at Burger Kin g, lifeguarding at the loca l pool and bagging heads
groceri es.
Juni or Mariah Gatson instead chose to spend her summer nanny-
ing.
"I have more free time in the summer so I ca n nanny. I fed the
kids, watched movies, and played ga mes with them. I rea ll y had fun,
so it was like I was getting paid to have fun," Gatson sa id.
With both school year and summer jobs, it ca n be difficult to find ·· ~tr .. ,~..,,
a job that fits with sc hed ules, but so metimes the biggest obstacle was
age.
"It's ni ce having a job beca use I'm only a so phomore . Plu s it's an "Not having a
easy job. I work at an elderl y couple's house eve ry Thursday by walk- job lets you have
ing the dog, dusting, and mopping," so phomore Hannah Cummings more free time
sa id. to hang out with
friends and do
With jobs ranging from answering telephones to flipping burgers, homework."
students kept it busy in ord er to bring in the big bucks. T ember Barber, 11

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