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I'm a UI Developer and my 16yr old brother is job shadowing me this week. The current project I'm working on uses backbone.js and I fear he will be lost if I try to explain it to him. He's had one semester of Java so far and knows HTML / CSS fairly well.

I'm open to any suggestions on how I should fill my day with him.

Here's the breakdown. I asked for 70K a year and they offered me 53K per year and only 4 days of vacation for 2011. It seems like I have a chance to do some negotiating, but I have no idea how to go about it? I've never been in this type of situation before. According to indeed the average salary for my position is 76 K per year. Can any of you guys / girls with more career experience lend some advice? Also, full disclosure, I also posted this on reddit to get as diverse of a response as I can.

Edit: As it pertains to experience, I have more than enough experience. The position requires 3 years of experience, I have 7. I am actually exactly what they are looking for. In the interview, they joked that I changed my resume to match the job description (I didn't).