What age to stop Pocket Money ?

personally when I was 16 i did 5 a levels, played cricket very seriously and tried to have a life. I didn't have a job at the time because I wouldn't have had a life if I did.

To me, the spare time I had at the weekend I preferred to spend with my girlfriend rather than slaving for tescos and £3 an hour. You're going to work for the next 40 years at least, so maybe having some fun is justified, it was the right priority for me.

Just to sidestep the stereotypes as well, I'm well into my twenties now and I have a great job that pays a lot, chilling and being lazy when I was 16 hasn't screwed my life up or made me less mature so I'd say there's no harm in it.
 
Angus-Higgins said:
As "unlikely" is a somewhat subjective term, I might pass this comment only, and therefore reduce the likelihood of further discussion upon this.

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I don't think anyone can contest your academic ability, especially when looking at the way you've structured your responses in this thread. If you don't mind me asking, have you had any experience in a workplace environment? I think you'd find it a valuable experience in terms of building character - there's some things a textbook won't teach you, and that is definitely one of them. :) I understand you're studying what people class as 'hard' A-levels, but I know people who took 5 AS levels and still managed to hold down some form of part time employment - it's all about time management.

Back on topic, I think pocket money should stop at ~16 to give your kids an inclination to work.
 
Nymins said:
Yea whats wrong with stopping pocket money at 15? At 16 you get EMA anyway depending on the household income :confused:
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Because I havn't started getting my EMA yet, and won't for atleast another 6months. I agree with stopping it once you're on EMA as it'll be around £30 a week. That £30 will be either on petrol for my bike or drink which is more than enough. But right now I'm totally broke and don't plan to get a job.

My attitude will probably change once I'm at college as I've taken only Mathematics, Physics and PE. I'll be left with a lot of spare time compared to people taking 6 :p Hopefully the breaks between lessons will be large as I can ride home on my bike.
 
EMA is a joke. I didn't get pocket money at college even though I didn't qualify for EMA, so I had to get a part time job while everyone else drank off their EMA payments and just lazed about.

How is the government promoting people to get job and move away from their poorer background if they give people money to stay out of a part time job.

A part time job at college adds to their CV and is very useful when they go to apply for a job. If they're going to University they probably won't work for the first year because it's a year of fun and running in to the savings from the part time job you had in college.

Second and third year at Uni you want to work as little as possible, even though you're desperate for money. I'm in the 2nd year at University at the moment. Handling a job and a heavy work load coming up to Christmas leaves no time for going out and I'm always tired.

I'd say stop the pocket money and promote them to get a job. Don't let them spend all the cash they earn though, they should really save it. I know loads of people who have moved out for university and are deep in to their overdraft, only just surviving.
 
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Richdog said:
Oh come on use your grey matter it's really rather simple... the reason CAPS is considered bad netiquette is because as well as being considere shouting, they're a pain in the rear to read. If everyone used them the forums would be a complete nightmare to browse, hence why it's generally disallowed for everyone. SHEESH... AS IF THAT WASN'T BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS...
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Can't say I find caps any harder to read, so I wasn't aware of that problem. :o
 
Angus-Higgins said:
(There are other reasons for me not getting/being able to get, with ease a job, however I will not enter into that discussion at the present time).
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That's "get a job with ease". Or, if you're going to place a subordinate within a subordinate, then you need to do it properly:

"being able to get, with ease, a job, however..."

else it doesn't make sense. In your semi-autustic world of logic I'm sure you can see the sense behind that.

Angus-Higgins said:
What was the mark (UMS) that was received by you?
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Never write in the passive when the active is readily available. You talk about the obfuscation of maths by chemistry in applied settings yet you are doing something precisely comparable with your language. The introduction of a large number of unnecessary parentheses both weakens and convolutes your argument to the point of being a barrier to the main thrust of your argument due to the many and varied number of ways your sentence can be interpreted. Covering all bases (from a grammatical point of view) does not mean that you're being clever, it means you're being indecisive and comically diluting your posts.

You seem to use bracketed phrases more often then main clauses. That goes against so many commonly-referenced style guides it's unreal. As an example, you might want to familiarise yourself with Orwell's 5 basic guidelines for effective writing. As it is, your posts are barely readable to anyone besides yourself - surely the antithesis of effective communication.
 
I feel like I'm on a different planet - I had an 'allowance' of £75/month when I was 18. And about 5x that when I was at University.

I'm nearly 22, have a job starting in January (London) and have to confess that until that day I've never really worked a day in my life.

Does this make me a bad person? Possibly not - I would guess the thinking behind this was I was able to concentrate on my education without having to worry about money. Each to their own.
 
I think the last time i actually got pocket money was when i got a paper round when i was 13. although saying that i didn't actually see the money from the paper round for a while seeing as it was when the Nintendo Cube thing came out and i only got the paper round about 10 weeks before it was released so i borrowed all the money and the money just went straight into my mums account. But, i knew of people still getting pocket money in college, odd kids aswell didn't understand the concept of working even a weekend job or 1 day a week.

I got a job in a resturant from the summer of year 10 to 11 and worked there till i finished my second year at college doing an average of 20-30 hours a week plus school/college. i really liked it and was a good laugh although some days where pretty long. (saturday ~10am till 10pm with a 2.5 hor break) but getting close to £150 a week some weeks was well worth missing a bit of sleep
 
I was supported with an allowance from my parents whilst I remained in full time education. I did have various part time jobs during my college years 17-19. After College finished and I chose not to go to university my dad said its time for me to start paying rent, so onto full time employment I went.
I shall also take this approach with my 2 children when they are older.
 
I still get my pocket money by direct debit at 28 as my old fella says he can't take it with him when he's dead! When I was a kid at home I had a list of jobs I was expected to do around the house to earn my pocket money including mowing the lawn (2 acres so it took some time!) I also had an illegal (working bettween certain times is/was apparently against the law as a school kid) part time job before school setting up some tables and stuff.

Don't think it does any harm at all to give your kids some cash while they are still in full time education, if they were just bumming round on street corners all day i'd say no way but in a world where increasing numbers of kids are falling off the rails please reward yours for not doing so they have the next 60+ years to waste working let them live life while they can!
 
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teulk said:
As the title says, my son is 16 and is at college 5 days a week doing "A Levels". Would i be being unreasonable to expect him to get a job to cover evenings and weekends ?
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not at all, mine stopped when i was 15 (when i was of the age where i could get a paper round...)...
 
badbob said:
Sucker...
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I know right. haven't even played it since that Pikmin game or w/e it was came out. total waste of money but hey i got into the path of working and not expecting money off parents. although if i don't have cash on me they do lend it till i can get to a bank
 
Spuderoony said:
That's "get a job with ease". Or, if you're going to place a subordinate within a subordinate, then you need to do it properly:

"being able to get, with ease, a job, however..."

else it doesn't make sense. In your semi-autustic world of logic I'm sure you can see the sense behind that.


Never write in the passive when the active is readily available. You talk about the obfuscation of maths by chemistry in applied settings yet you are doing something precisely comparable with your language. The introduction of a large number of unnecessary parentheses both weakens and convolutes your argument to the point of being a barrier to the main thrust of your argument due to the many and varied number of ways your sentence can be interpreted. Covering all bases (from a grammatical point of view) does not mean that you're being clever, it means you're being indecisive and comically diluting your posts.

You seem to use bracketed phrases more often then main clauses. That goes against so many commonly-referenced style guides it's unreal. As an example, you might want to familiarise yourself with Orwell's 5 basic guidelines for effective writing. As it is, your posts are barely readable to anyone besides yourself - surely the antithesis of effective communication.
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Amen to that brother.

And back to the original topic, I'm not sure whether stopping pocket money and getting a job are actually related insofar as reasons for getting a job are concerned. Yes, a job pays but more importantly it gives life experience, critically, experience of earning (rather than just having) money and then managing it.

To those who say 'Yes, but they'll be working the rest of their lives', I'm afraid that work is a fact of life unless you're very lucky. You may as well ease into it gently and get used to the fact...
 
Kreeeee said:
Well I did, and that's a fact. A-levels really are stupidly easy, which is a damn shame because it's a bit of a shock when you get to uni tbh.
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Disagree, so far the step up to university has been so much easier than the difference between GCSE and A levels.

As for pocket money, had it for quite some time, even when I had a paper round and a part time job. Also got EMA. But now i'm at university my parents are giving me little/nothing, so i'm just living off the loan and grant at the moment, will perhaps get a job in the second year.
 
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