work help: I just got my fifth part time job, but is that too many? - Help.com

i say if you can handle it do it while you can. i hope you’re saving up some of that for a rainy day, or when you can’t anymore for whatever reason.

O_o thats retarded. why on earth do you need so many jobs at your age? you mayaswell just quit school and get a fulltime job if its that important.

personally i think thats too much
i mean your just 16
one job is enough
you need to able to chill with friendz
just relax cuz cmon think about it
yu go to skool and then go to work
you’re going to be stressed out

you also need to have a childhood, and you need to have social time with your friends.
if college is such a problem financially, it would be more beneficial for you to get financial aid than to work yourself to death throughout your teens.
youll be getting secondary taxes on all those too probably.

Hangovercity55 wrote:

courtybubble wrote:
O_o thats retarded. why on earth do you need so many jobs at your age? you mayaswell just quit school and get a fulltime job if its that important.

Well for one thing, saving for college. Also, i’m helping out a little with putting my sister through college. Also, so i can not go out all sucky when i move out when i turn 18. “You need money to make money” -Charlie Philis

i don’t think it’s ‘retarded’, and yea specially if it’s for college i say do it while you can.

courtybubble wrote:
you also need to have a childhood, and you need to have social time with your friends.
if college is such a problem financially, it would be more beneficial for you to get financial aid than to work yourself to death throughout your teens.
youll be getting secondary taxes on all those too probably.

he dates, i think that counts as social time. if he’s fine w/ how things are i don’t see anything wrong w/ it; as long as he can handle it. he’ll prob still need financial aid; i doubt working 2 or 3 FULL TIME jobs for a year or two will pay for college, so eh. taxes are a part of life.

theres plenty of kids get financial aid and manage to pay for college without working 5 jobs.
i dont know the tax system over there, but here, your second, third and successive jobs are taxed at a much higher rate than the others. eventually it is not worth taking on another job for the amount of money you lose.

O_o how do you get away not paying taxes on 3 jobs?

under the table?

good luck with that when the tax man finds out lol.

It seems like too much. But if it’s not stressing you out then go for it!

Hangovercity55 wrote:
Well, i know the guy in charge of my local Video Games Etc, the owner of the bakery, and the guy in charge of the junkyard, so those personal payments are in cash. Those transitions of money are undetectable by the government, therefore, making me not get taxed on em.

u can go to jail for that - tax evasion!

actually it is illegal

lol. guess again kiddo. receiving money in exchange for work is a wage, whether that be in cheque form or not.
it is tax evasion. whatever spin you want to put on it, if the IRS finds out, youll be in a heap of trouble because they dont care what excuse you have, they see it how they want to.

And because it is not a taxed wage, your employers will also be probably audited and fined, seeing as they are breaking the law by not reporting your wage and doctoring their books.

u r funny!

Still not a good idea…

how long has it been happening, and how much longer do you think you’ll be doing this? if he’s getting away with it and ‘know’s what he’s doing’ i think that’s great. too bad it can’t really work for adults(even though i’m sure w/ some jobs it can). jealousy doesn’t mean you have to rain on his parade ppl, come on!

Hangovercity55 wrote:

Cell wrote:
u r funny!

Still not a good idea…

Let me put it simply for you guys. I laugh at the face of danger. I don’t take defeat as an option. I know all loopholes and how to master them. As the famous Charles Baker once said, “There is always a way out.” -Charles Baker. I seem to always find one of the way(s) out. I would tell you of such a time, but i don’t want to make this reply too much longer or no one will want to read it because it’s too long. if you wish to hear of such a time just say so and i’ll tell you in another reply. But to summerize this, trust me, i will not be affected by the law in any way, shape, form, or dimension by the law on this.

yea….youre 16 years old. you dont know anything lol.
all it would take is for someone here to report this post to the IRS, who then serve CBS to find out your IP address, and then go to your ISP, and badda bing badda boom, theyve got you.
unless you are a master hacker, proxies will not cover you, and youre down the draino.
did you think of that one, mr laugh in the face of danger?

Anonymous wrote:
how long has it been happening, and how much longer do you think you’ll be doing this? if he’s getting away with it and ‘know’s what he’s doing’ i think that’s great. too bad it can’t really work for adults(even though i’m sure w/ some jobs it can). jealousy doesn’t mean you have to rain on his parade ppl, come on!

why would we be jealous of someone breaking the law O_o

Actually, I say do it while you can and try to save! I’m a college student now, kinda broke, and don’t have time to work more than once a week…I live with my parents so I don’t have much to worry about financially, but I wish I had time to work too just so I can save and go on vacations during break, etc. But, if your life involves nothing but work, then it might be unhealthy. You’re young once so do take time to do things that you can now! I was a total nerd in high school and regret how I didn’t hang out with friends or do things more often when I actually had time. Now, being a college student, I can’t simply do whatever and have to think about my future and responsibilities.

not at all, youve just admitted everything right here in this post, silly. your boss doesnt need to say a word, you just dropped him right in it.
again: you are 16 years old. you really dont know half as much as you think you do. but then thats the arrogant nature of teenagehood, and i dont expect to be able to convince you of that.

youve had plenty of advice. reread the post.

no, theyre just kinda willing to take the risk lol.
its just because youre new and unverified, fyi. if you verify and stick around a while that will stop happening, the trigger for the approval is a bit weird.

huh O_o
i meant the waiting approval thing is because youre new here

Teens only have to file/pay taxes if they make more than a certain dollar amount per year. So, if the poster is making minimum wage, working PT., it is unlikely that s/he will make that much.

Poster: how many total hours per week do you work? Like at the video store…do you just reshelve some vids a couple hours here and there? Do you just clean out a desk or sweep a floor at a junkyard? All of those things, in my opinion, are OK for a teen to do and to have someone just hand some cash over. Those are the jobs that business owners are too busy to do themselves/need to free up their time to make more money…. yet nobody else wants to do them (either the jobs are too insignificant for a person to support a family; or they are ‘menial.’ Not saying that those jobs don’t need to be done by someone…that’s part of our economy…give and take)

In addition, the sorts of jobs that the poster is talking about are jobs that are relatively stress free; not really strenuous; ‘odd jobs’; can be left easily; don’t have a huge impact on lives; and can be performed in a sort of ‘at will’ type of employment situation. (at will for the employee AS WELL AS the employer) If there is a goal in mind…go for it.

However, I would caution you that your childhood DOES go by much more quickly than you will ever imagine, and it might be a good thing to make sure that you are living that childhood.

On the other hand… I do agree that it takes money to make money. But we are talking large amounts of money…if you make enough to get yourself a nicely furnished apartment/car when you graduate from HS or college….you are still just a ‘middle of the road’ sort of person. You will have to live frugally and work hard and save substantially more than what you are making now in order for your money to REALLY start to work for you. Compounding works best when there are lots of dollars to compound….otherwise, for example, you will only make a couple hundred a year on a $50K investment….not a lot of income on that much money tied up. Sometimes, I feel like it’s better to have money for a ‘rainy day….’ but then again….money is to be ENJOYED. What enjoyment are you getting out of leaving it in investments…growing SLOWLY til you’re middle aged…that’s how long it will take it to grow in leaps. ‘course, investments are also good to have.

As a final note: I was the same way as a teen. I just wanted to set myself up for a nice adulthood….college. Paid for my own college. Couldn’t get financial aid b/c my parents still claimed me on their taxes for medical purposes; yet they did not help pay for college. So I was on my own there. I worked and put myself through.

Now, as an older person, I have come to realize that all of that working did not hurt me…it was part of my personality; and to each his own. However, my youth did fly by. I have some money now. I’m comfortable. But it’s nothing that could be considered WEALTHY by any stretch of the imagination. Have a few rental properties. Have some disposable income each month…that’s about it. The things that killed my “wealth” (so to speak) right off the bat were my three kids….wow, are they EXPENSIVE lil’ buggers. :) BUT. I would never have it any other way. They make this life that I have set up completely worth sharing.

Ok…sorry if I was a little disjointed in that reply. If you need clarification, let me know. I’ve been sick and my brain is still a little foggy; lol

Just because you might not get caught(or won’t in your opinion) doesn’t mean it’s ok to do it.

I have my own business and often get paid in cash and could cheat but I don’t. Taxes go towards things we all need like fixing the roads, etc. We should all do our fair part. Plus it’s illegal.

I’ll bet Wesley Snipes didn’t think he would have to go to jail for tax evasion either. I guess he laughed in the face of danger, too, and look where that got him.

snipes earned millions. this kid said he gets paid less than minimum wage, haha!

First off, I don’t believe you are legally allowed to work more than a few hours a week at that age and you have to have a work permit. Second, Mr.know it all- you will get caught and so will your employers. If you were so smart, and knew so much about the law- you would have kept your mouth shut and surely never posted on a public website such as this. I bet your parents are going to be THRILLED when the IRS contacts them…

Seems that at the start of this post everyone admired the poster for his hard work and earning at such a young age and worried he was over doing it…. Then because he acted like a child with his comments…. which he is by the way as he is only 16 everyone turned on him…. He’s a kid…. cut him slack.

If you ask me it sounds like a terrible start. 5 jobs at 16 and your breaking the law and your not even an adult yet…

Even if you can probably cope - which I don’t doubt that you will. You are going to be working for the rest of your life. Every single day, apart from your days off.. for what… the next 60/70/80 years???

It really isn’t a good idea to start so young. Its such a waste of your life. Why do you want to rush things? There is nothing adult about trying to be an adult before you are!!

Its admirable that you are putting this money away and saving. But even if you just had 2 jobs that would be pushing it. There are always consiquences for this, your still a child you need to start enjoying life as one before its run out and you regret it.

first off I comend you on your drive to get money and your amazing work ethic, but are you awear that there are millions of people without jobs? I read that your working so hard to save for college and to help pay for your sister to go threw college and thats great but there are people who have children that they can not feed because they cant find a job. You dont NEED 5 jobs. Also there is really no possible way for you to be working 5 jobs and work under 40 hours a week and Im pretty sure that since your 16 years old child labor laws would kick in. I also read youw views on taxes. Even though you are 16 you DO have to pay taxes if you have a job and the emplyeer sliping you money under the table to avoid you paying taxes is illegal…very. You and your employer will get caught doing this even more so since you were smart enough to post this information on a public website.

You dont need 5 jobs. You need 1, other people could use those other 4 to feed their families and you are not too good to pay taxes, no one is.

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”