How you were paid doesn't matter. What matters is if they paid you as an employee, in which case they are required to issue you a W-2, or if they paid you as a contractor and they "might" be required to issue you a 1099-MISC. If they paid you less than $600 total in 2016 *and* hired you as a contractor, then they're not required to issue you a 1099-MISC. But you'd still report it on a SCH C as a part of your personal tax return.
Also, if this was a one time thing, then depending on the amount you "may" be able to avoid the SCH C altogether, along with the self-employment tax. So..... was this a one time deal that you will NOT repeat this coming summer? If so, then give me an approximation of what you were paid for this. Would be nice if you could avoid all this self-employment SCH C stuff.
