Text Box: Dorm Living News Text Box: Create Who You Are Text Box: The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. When you take an active role in your own life, things are far more likely to go well for you. It's easy to blame your troubles on such influences as the weather, the government, the economy, the media or the culture. Yet it can be exceedingly difficult to do anything about those things. Instead, step up and accept responsibility for all the factors that affect your life. When you take responsibility, what you get is control. Even if you didn't create the situation, look Text Box: first to yourself to create a positive and successful response to it. Even if the challenges you face are not your fault, begin to treat them as your responsibility and you will begin to have control over them. See your future not as the inevitable result of your past. Visualize your future as the best, most positive, most valuable, most creative response to your present possibilities. Your future can be so much more than a mere extrapolation of your past. Take responsibility, and your future will express the best of who you are. -Ralph Marston Text Box: Let's say that you are a teenager, either in high school or college, and you are sitting around thinking, "It sure would be nice to have a job this summer..." You have a lot of options. In fact, you have a "bewildering array of options." You can work in restaurants, small businesses, retail stores, amusement parks, summer camps and so on. There is a job out there to fit almost any personality. The important thing to recognize is that you do have options. In recognizing them you gain the ability to explore your options. Here are a variety of things to think about during your exploration: ~ You can do the normal thing--you can go apply for a job at the local fast food restaurant. Many of the Text Box: millionaires in this country are owners of franchise and private restaurants. Owning a restaurant is not an easy business and requires quite a bit of knowledge and skill to be successful. ~You can work at a place like a amusement park that hires a zillion people in the summer. ~You can work at a summer camp, resort, or vacation spot that hires lots of people in the summer. The advantage here is that you might have the chance to travel. ~You can volunteer at any number of places: hospitals, shelters, clinics, summer youth programs, etc. You won't make any money, but the experience can be invaluable. Cont. on P. 2

Exploring Your Options For a Summer Job

From: “The Teenagers Guide to the Real World”