Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do for a year?
There are great opportunities to volunteer overseas or get involved on a short term mission. I'm not sure of your background but I know that the Southern Baptist Convention is often looking for short term missionaries, so is the African Children's choir and other ministries - some may even be in your home town. The FRG always needs help as well. There are also some ideas on how to survive deployments at http://www.pwoconline.org
Is a IQ of a 122 good for a twelve year old?
Yes, an IQ of 122 is a good score. The scores from 85 to 115 range from low average to high average. Generally an IQ score is given as 122, plus or minus 3, or plus or minus 5, which means that your IQ would be somewhere in the range between 119 and 125. Any IQ test that you do on line is not a real IQ test. They are interesting and fun to do, and they do tell you something about yourself, but they tend to score higher than real IQ tests. IQ scores don't qualify you for any job particularly. With the IQ score you need an education, a good work ethic, ability to get along with all kinds of people, to tap into your specific skills and interests, etc., so don't worry too much about IQ scores. An IQ score is not who you are. Much more important than an IQ score is what you do with it.
How does a 12- or 13-year-old get a job? What kind of jobs can they get?
This is going to be fun to follow!The summer I turned 12, I got a job as shine boy at a shoe repair shop – excuse me, “shoe maker’s.” I had my own key to the shop and was responsible for opening the shop in the morning, shines, some dye jobs, cleaning, and customer service when the owner was not there. My son started carrying three routes of a weekly free newspaper when he was 9. Next child down was only 7 (I didn’t believe it either) when she got her first out-side-the home babysitting job. The parents that hired her made as the only condition that I or my wife be on call in case of emergencies. My youngest daughter was hired as an “assistant manager of a horse farm when she was 12. She was left in full charge of 23~24 horses whenever the owner was out of town.What is the best job? The one the 12 year old wants to do, can, do and can get hired to do.There are parents who see their child’s working as personal development and those who see it as showing their inability to provide. Guess where I stand on that question.
Is this a good drawing for a 13 year old?
It's pretty good for a thirteen year old. Everyone learns to draw at their own pace, so I have no idea which age this would fit, but my first impression was an eleven-twelve year old. I agree with the people who said it was flat (and yes that can happen because thhe camera didn't capture all the shading, but the shading should have been strong enough so that even if a camera only caught some of it, it should still look alive). The nose is very good, and those are hard to get right. So good job on that! the hands don't look like they've been shaded at all and they look as though they've been traced (good AND bad thing). I think you should never give up on your dreams because you'll always get better and better. Never give up!
We are born to go to school for 12 years, then get a job for the majority of our lives. Isn't it kind of a waste?
I imagine that everyone asks themselves this at least once :) It’s easy to begin feeling that life may lack purpose and meaning. We spend so much time struggling, and it can seem like there’s no reason for it. But before you decide that your life is wasted on things like school and jobs, please consider looking at things in a different way. We share the planet. What we do will affect the people around us, and even the people who come after us long after we’re dead. With that in mind, your life is more than just yours. Here is an example, to explain what I mean. We all benefit from having doctors and nurses, who save lives every day. The knowledge that medical professionals use to heal people has been accumulated over the course of human history. In other words, the reason we can find a brain tumor today without even cutting someone’s head open is the end result of thousands of years of people educating themselves and working to improve the human condition. By educating yourself, you are making yourself capable of contributing your abilities to the rest of the world. By working, at ANY job, you are participating in a chain of knowledge and experience that spans the whole of human history. Someone who cleans toilets for a living is making an area safer and cleaner for others. That’s not “a waste”. It’s important. It makes a difference in peoples’ lives.We may not live to see the benefits of our efforts, but we can look back on history and see how the efforts of others have benefited us today. We look at a great work of art and think of the artist, though he's long dead. We should look at things like air conditioning, cancer treatment, paved roads, and other modern wonders with that same sense of appreciation and gratitude.You don't have to spend twelve years in school, and you don't have to work at a job. If all you want out of life is the ability to survive and maybe the ability to communicate with other people, that's fine and good. A minimal amount of learning and working will get you there. But by not learning as much as you can and then applying what you learn to your work, you are limiting yourself. You would not be living to your full potential, and future generations would miss out on what you could have offered. That, to me, seems like a waste.