{"id":2951,"date":"2011-11-23T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:16:13","slug":"students-earn-money-to-support-their-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=2951","title":{"rendered":"Students Earn Money to Support Their Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2961\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_0110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2961\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2961\" title=\"DSC_0110\" src=\"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSC_0110-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excited for payday, Tyler Switzer prepares for his job shaker-boarding at Little Caesar&#39;s Pizza.  Photo by: Jack Bowen<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>By Jack Bowen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether  it be gas, clothing or eating out, students have a variety of expenses.  \u00a0They also have a variety of ways to earn the money needed to fund  these expenses.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As  students\u2019 high school careers progress, most of them will find some  type of employment whether it be in a general store, a fast food joint, or a  family owned business. \u00a0Senior Tyler Switzer says that his main source  of income comes from working at Little Caesar\u2019s Pizza. \u00a0Babysitting is  another way many students earn money. \u00a0Senior Grace Mestad and Junior  Miriah Bowen both babysit. \u00a0Mestad says that her main source of income  is now babysitting because her \u201cjob at PCC is seasonal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most  students are not financially independent yet. \u00a0Sophomore Kameron  Markovich says most of the money he spends is from his parents. \u00a0He  explains that they give him money, and he pays them half of it back over  time. \u00a0Switzer, Mestad and Bowen all said that their parents help them  out as well if they need the extra cash.<\/p>\n<p>Students&#8217;  expenses can vary. \u00a0Switzer says that most of the money he earns is  spent on gas. \u00a0He is not alone. \u00a0Mestad agrees that most  of her money earned is spent to run her car. \u00a0For those students who  drive, the gas prices never seem quite low enough. \u00a0Although gas is a  predominate expense in some upperclassmen lives, freshmen and most  sophomores can not drive yet. \u00a0Markovich says that his biggest expense  is lunch. \u00a0Other common expense among students vary from clothes to fast  food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jack Bowen Whether it be gas, clothing or eating out, students have a variety of expenses. \u00a0They also have a variety of ways to earn the money needed to fund these expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9044,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/9044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}