Originally posted by: oogabooga
i'm not sure you can work that much as a high school student actually. Don't you need a work permit and then the work permit states you have a maximum number of hours? but then again, i'm sure bestbuy doesn't care. Your friend will either thrive, or crash and burn op, and imo i think it's the latter.
Just wish her luck and let her learn her lesson.
I did just that.
The really disgusting thing is that I've offered her more money for less work doing somthing she actually enjoys and a service that many of my customers take great pleasure in. She did custom chassis artwork.
About once a month, a customer would request this and cough up the extra non-refundable $2500 for me to get the chassis re-powdercoated (I sanded the old stuff off myself to save cash), and re-dye the plastic, they'd request the general design, she'd draw out a sketch, they'd approve it, I'd ship the chassis off (or occasionally just a side panel depending on the design) and within 3 weeks, I'd recieve back a beautiful custom-airbrushed piece. She got to keep everything that she didn't spend on supplies - I'm not exactly sure what that amounted to, but the absolute MOST I ever spent on powdercoating was $1000, so I figure that she EASILY had an income of over $1000/month. In High School. Most people I know do about $600. BB is talking $800-ish - and mine was tax-free.
I never did successfully take a picture of her work - the clearcoat always screwed with me. It was a little odd, metal=>powder=>custom art=>clear coat, but the effect was always incredible, and not once have I had a complaint about how it turned out.
The ironic thing? The average price of the REST of the computers amounts to a whole $1500, including one $700 system and one $5500 beast.