St. Petersburg High School 1991 Yearbook (St. Petersburg, FL) - Full Access

The responsibility we extra money or the Herrington. all dreaded came when pleasure of what they did. Making that quick cash, we least expected it. "My joh has helped me was not our only pay- Turning sixteen could be to be more patient with back from a job in our great, but it was the start the kids I teach, and I feel teens. Some looked to the of a new world - the this has helped me to be future by volunteering or working world. a better person," said working in some way to Having a job and junior Mitchell Rogers, get experience in a career balancing school could get who taught young that they hoped to pursue pretty hectic. Our children to sail. one day. homework became hard Some students also felt "I devote as much time to keep up with, and that having a job was just as I can by volunteering extracurricular activities too time-consuming and at hospitals during the seemed impossible to fit decided with their parents summer, so I can expose into our schedules. that having a summer job myself to a career in the "When I have lots of was much more medical field because I homework and I still need reasonable. With a job like working with to eat dinner, I get home that required many hours people," said PAT senior, so late that I'm just too of work, there seemed to Christi Rodriguez. tired," commented junior be no time to relax. The difficulties in Mary Pat Phillips. "I think that with maintaining a job and a Sometimes there were school work during the successful school career just not enough hours in week, and school could be trying at times, the day. activities on the but the experience and Although many weekends, my job takes financial benefits made it students had to work to almost all of my free time all worthwhile for many. pay for cars, college, or and the weekends are -Cary Will some kind of savings, something I look forward some just worked for the to," said junior Kathy