Spending money for a college student?
I had a lot of cash saved up from having worked a full-time job the entire summer, which I drew off of freshman year; I worked the rest of the time. It’s also pretty important to note that, other than some modest loans I took out, my parents funded the bulk of my tuition, books, room & board, out of pocket. Some of my friends had no parental support at all, and their inability to easily join the rest of us for modest social outings was, for many, extremely embarrassing. One of them happily let her relatively-well-off boyfriend pay for basically every meal she ate; another was almost red-faced every time we chipped in for pizza or beer and she couldn’t help out. We didn’t mind, but she definitely did. I also don’t know how easy it’ll be for your daughter to get a job. Small liberal-arts schools in small towns may not have an infinite number of jobs for students, especially in a down economy where there’ll probably be more students working than in the past, when their parents might have
I got $30/week from my mom and also had a very part-time job for most of college, so my weekly income was maybe $80 (this was just a few years ago, so I doubt inflation has much effect on what that means). I spent money on: -public transportation before I had a car and gas/parking after I had a car -vats and vats of coffee -laundry -cultural stuff (I was in a city, so had lots of options) -health/hygiene stuff (prescription medicines, toiletries, etc) -the very occasional dinner out -beer and, er, herbal refreshments -throwing parties (sometimes girls do have to pay for parties, like when they throw them) -house dues for my theme house I never felt totally broke, and I had roughly the same income as my friends (although some received more directly from their parents and some had better-paying jobs or worked more hours). Like I said, I was in a city, so things were probably more expensive in general than they would be in small-town Ohio. Mostly, I think it’ll depend on your daughter’s p
$0 sounds about right. College is her time to figure out how to manage money. if you provide her with money she will never learn that I say she should have as much money as she wants, provided she earns it herself. be prepared for her to spend most of the money on drugs and liquor Oh for chrissake people, lay off with the snarky “get a job” bullshit. We get it, you worked your way up. Maybe this guy has done the same, and now he wants to make sure his daughter has some cash during her freshman year. He wants her to be okay. There’s nothing wrong with that. My parents periodically deposited money into my account during my freshman year. They also gave me an emergency credit card. I didn’t ask for these things, and I definitely didn’t think I was entitled to them; they simply wanted to make sure that I was going to be okay when I was away from home because they worry. I had worked part time jobs in high school and they knew that I understood the value of work so they weren’t concerned ab
I have to disagree that “I know that there’s a prominent distrust toward the wealthy around here, but answers like the above are just pure jealousy”. I can see where a lot of these people are coming from. I think it is important for students to have a job because it teaches responsibility, the value of money, and frankly, keeps them from having too much time to be doing shit they shouldn’t be doing. I am one of those students (and still am) that has/had to pay for everything. I am proud of my work ethic. I met a lot of different people and learned different, possibly useful skills at my many jobs. It seems like a lot of the ones (NOT ALL) that have everything paid for and unlimited extra funds/no job were the ones that I would see drunk on the street while I walked to work. These are the students in the classes I teach that believe that the world owes them, and that what they are going to do on the weekend is more important than studying (as I said before, shit jumpers, not ALL student
I just graduated from a small liberal arts college in Indiana. I got an on-campus job about a month into school — they were pretty easy to get at Manchester, although that isn’t the case everywhere and varies widely by institution. My paychecks varied from about $100/month to $600/month depending on the amount of work I was doing. Because I got a job so early and kept it through my whole student career (and had a reasonable amount of savings going into college), I didn’t get an allowance from my parents, although they would give me $50-ish every time we saw each other, which worked out to every six weeks or so. Obviously, the cost of living where your daughter is in school is going to impact this, as well as your family’s finances. If she can’t find a job because of not being eligible for workstudy (I wasn’t, but that wasn’t an issue at Manchester) or because of the economy or whatever (I’d recommend working on-campus if possible — on-campus jobs are generally more accommodating of s
