Congratulations! You now have another year of school behind you. Where does the time go? As a student trying to manage school, sports and also hoping to maintain somewhat of a social life, there's a dreaded three letter word to add into your already busy life. This word is: JOB. Yes, job, it's a nightmare of a word but is completely necessary because school is expensive and having to pay for rent and food isn't all that cheap either. Generally you’re away at college and busy doing school work for approximately eight months out of the year, but what happens during the other four months that you don't have school? Most students get the whole month of January off due to the holidays and then they get another three or four months off for the summer. College can be expensive so you have to find a way to make some money one way or another. That's where getting a job comes in. Now keeping a job is the easy part, it's finding an employer that will hire you for four months out of the year…..that's the tricky part.

So you want to be a server?

While I’ve heard that working as a waiter or waitress you can make really good money in tips, it's pretty hard to find a serving job without having any experience. So, someone please tell me how to get the training when nobody will hire you to gain the experience? That's the real question! Employers, I tell you.

Now don't even mention a bartending position if you can't find a job as a server!

Not only does bartending often require experience, but it also requires a lot of knowledge. Now don't even get me started on that... it's the same problem as the serving positions. How do you expect to learn if nobody is willing to teach you and to give you a chance? None of it makes sense!

Don't even mention a minimum wage job, what good will that do for me?

If I’m only able to find a job where I can earn minimum wage, then that might be enough to pay for my rent for the summer. You can count me out.

Basically by this time you've wasted most of your summer looking for a job. As the middle of the summer is fast approaching, most likely nobody will hire you because you only have a month left at home to work and nobody wants an employee that's only going to be around for a month. At this point, you just gotta throw your hands in the air and say "screw it" cause you're just a college kid trying to live in the real world. So, if nobody is going to hire you, you might as well have fun for the rest of the summer. After all, college is supposed to be the best four years of your life, right? Next year I may have to start the job search a little bit earlier, but for now I’m ready to fill my soul….bring on the adventures!