I can't imagine high school without a part-time job during the school year and full-time hours in the summer. I mean, I did AP and Honors courses, plus soccer i

I can't imagine high school without a part-time job during the school year and full-time hours in the summer. I mean, I did AP and Honors courses, plus soccer in the Fall and Winter and Track in the Spring, and worked at Dairy Queen year-round (having a blast with my friends) to make some money and migrate my way in to adulthood. I know many families were more well off than my mom and I were, so maybe such work seems wasteful... but the experiences from almost any work as a teenager seems invaluable: time management/scheduling, earning your keep, learning how to interact with all types of people (including managers who, often, you will butt-heads with ideologically)... all things you simply cannot learn in school, or studying. And, completely anecdotally, but measuring my friends it seems like the earlier a person started working the more well-rounded and level-headed they are today.