<prompt> Human: Ive made good money working for one of my football coaches on the weekends, and this week he offered go pay me to help him as many hours as I could. Every minute I could be at work after school I was which was a lot considering I am a senior and get out at 11, not only that but to prove that I was a good worker and hopefully open doors for the future I worked nonstop while there. Only taking breaks when forced too, and outpacing other workers there. It was all manual labor so my body was sore, and the aching kept me up some nights. In an effort to make more money, and prove to myself, and everyone around me that I was a hard worker, I took a job offer from a friends dad after I had already worked all day, which was to weedwhack his whole backyard down. After 2 hours of weedwhacking and the satisfying feeling of accomplishment to bust my butt from son up to sun down, his dad gets home and discovered that in the process of weedwhacking 2 panes of glass were broken on the side of his house, presumably from stray rockspebbles being kicked around by the weed whacker. This was especially surprising to me because I weedwhacked with my back to the house specifically to prevent things like this from happening. The bill came to 1000 after insurance, and me and my friend who helped are slammed with a 500 debt to his dad. Im 18 and 500 is more money than Ive ever seen in my life, its so frustrating to look back on the week knowing I hustled harder than I ever have in my life, and put myself into a situation worse than I would have been in if I had just been lazy and stayed home playing video games. I am not even guaranteed work with my coach for much longer as in 1 more week and only made 140 working for him this week. If I am able to put together a week as good as this one im only looking at 280. Besides working for coach I only make 10 a week mowing lawns, and dont know of any other way I can make over 200 fast. I dont even know how to start attacking this situation, and struggling to hold it together right now. I dont know what to do, I dont even know if this is the wright subreddit, heck, Im not even gonna correct that spelling error. Please give me advice guysEdit 1: I should make it clear that it was indeed my fault the windows were broke, they were not broke before, and after I finished they were broke, he wasnt scamming me.Edit 2: I didnt realize you guys would be more focused on why I am paying this guy in general, so Ill do my best to explain why I am at fault and must accept responsibility. Basically, coming into the situation I should have assessed the yard and decided if it was a safe environment to weedwhack in. My inexperience told me that because an older, wiser adult was asking me to weedwhack it, it was probably safe to do. My second fault was I didnt halt the job after I heard a pebble bounce off the house. This occasionally happened from time to time, but again my inexperience told me that I shouldnt stop the job just because I heard a pebble hit the house here and there. I have learned that its not worth the risk of losing huge amounts of money to keep doing to job. I accept responsibility for it and know because I didnt do these things the windows were broke, now I just need to figure out where Im going to come up with the money at.Assistant: Man, this is tough but I was in a similar situation a few years ago my senior year so youre not alone. I hustled my ass off, just like you, moving Christmas trees extreme manual labor for 7hr.On my one night off my friend didnt want to drive to my other friends house and asked if I wanted to drive his car. I stupidly accepted and while backing up accidentally backed over the curb. Next thing I know Im handing him over my entire weeks worth of pay 275. Man did I feel like shit, but guess what: I learned two lessons:1 Dont drive others cars or use others property2 When you work hard, protect that money. Over the course of the past 3 years Ive become so protective of my money, and I know where every cent goes shoutout rpf, rfi. This sucks, but its a learning lesson. Couldve been 4 or 10 glass panes. As for paying it off, I would ask your parents if they could help, or explain to your friends dad that you have limited available funds and ask if you can pay him back 50 every week for 10 weeks. He will certainly understand, especially if he offered you the job knowing you needed workmoney.Life goes on! If it doesnt ruin your year dont let it ruin your day! Cheers friendHuman: Just broke the news to my parents and were figuring out whos paying what. Your story definitely helps me feel better about the situation. And It appears I have learned that lesson as well, just wished I could have learned it an easier way.  <response>: You werent hired as a professional. You were hired as an inexperienced high schooler. And he was well aware of your experience level because thats why he got away with paying you rates that no professional would accept. Professional would get 4 times whatever rate you were paid perhaps more. Professional might even refuse to pay for it under some circumstances however expecting someone in highschool to have the experience for his job wasnt your fault it was his. Youre a tool in his mind and he wrongfully chose an improper tool for the job in the name of saving himself money! What a guy! He couldnt hire a professional company so he hires you! And then his decision to cut corners backfires on him and he wants no responsibility. Fuck. 