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...Webster Groves senior Rob Greenhaw reaches the Hollywood Video cash register, he recognizes classmate Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, fancied up in her white-ruffled tuxedo shirt, black patterned vest, and bow tie. Rob hands his video selection to Elizabeth, who scans it in, smiles and asks mischievously, "Simon Birch?" Rob, defensive, replies, "It's supposed to be good...
...seeing any more customers, Elizabeth grabs an armful of freshly returned cassettes and begins to stow them. "Putting the videos away is so monotonous," she says. But she is making $5.90 an hour and claims her work here "is really easy." Between Hollywood Video and nearby Kraus Farms Equestrian Center, where she teaches horseback riding, Elizabeth works 40 hours a week. This year she plans to earn $14,400--nearly what her mother makes as a bank teller...
Most weekdays, Elizabeth starts work at 3 p.m. and is finished by 8. On Saturdays she puts in 11 hours at Kraus Farms, a job she keeps as much to ride horses as to earn extra cash. Sunday is her "hell day": she starts at Kraus Farms at 8 a.m., teaches until 5 p.m., grabs some food, drives to Hollywood Video and works there from 6 until 11 p.m. "I'm sure I'm sacrificing my health," Elizabeth says, "but I'm actually doing better in school than I ever have...
...Elizabeth manages her 40 hours a week quite nicely. She's getting A's in all her classes; she keeps Friday nights free for her boyfriend, who, she says, "is my social life." And most Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, Elizabeth, her parents and her 12-year-old brother Conner find time to eat together as a family...
...Elizabeth did have to sacrifice varsity field hockey. And earning so much money made her, at least for a while, rethink her college choices. While she once saw Meramec Community College as the "slacker way out," she actually considered spending two years of college there in order to continue teaching horseback riding. Her mother convinced her otherwise...