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    I would like my kids to appreciate hard work but I also would like them to recognize that studying is also hard work. I appreciate manual labor, I did a ton of it growing up. I would like my kids to know what it's like to put your back in to your living, but not at the expense of other pursuits.

Well, I've never put more than 40 hours per week into studying, often less. So a little job of 4 / 8 hours (two evenings or half a Saturday) mostly cuts in on social time. In return, you can afford to do more social things like go to a concert or a movie whenever you want. So I doubt it's detrimental.

I really love tutoring. I'd rather work by thinking than by doing, and when I work I get to help people. I'm not in front of a class though, and the kids aren't in detention. That must be incredibly hard. The downside to my tutoring is that there's no work in the summer, when I (and the kids I tutor) have summer holiday. So I'm gonna have to find some work to do then.