Are you going to get a part-time job during the fall semester?

[gateway]

already have a job now, will reduce the hours once school starts, maybe 20 hours a week max. need some extra pocket change.

[gateway]

well, I usually look at it this way, lets be honest, most of us don't study until the last minute, even though we all say that we need to "focus" more on school, everyone knows that those friday and saturdays which we supposed to do some work, we don't even flip a page, at least I didn't. LOL, I usually read/study through out the week, and do a bit of projects on the wknd. So I figure, since i'll be wasting my time on friday and saturdays, why not just work, and I can still go out at nite.

[Tyrant]

Yeah, I usually wouldn't do anything school related on Fridays and Saturdays too unless it was a project with an upcoming deadline, but I'd rather use that time to decompress after a week of studying.

[dyangu]

I worked around 4hr/week in 1st yr Engineering at Waterloo and I really don't think I could've done more than 8hr/week. I have a 96% average though, so my standards are different. Also, engieering course load is like 150%. By second semester, I think less than 5% of my classmates had part time jobs (that's including the 25-30% of people who're repeating).
I won't be going back to the job because:
a) I get A LOT higher pay during co-op
b) I'd rather spend 4hr/week doing extracurricular stuff or hanging out with friends

[newsflash]

Yes, but only 4-8 hours a week.

[UrbanPoet]

quite suprised about the results. More ppl tend to have a part-time job in fall semester while in school.

How can you guys handle it? Don't you guys have to read, study, do some textbook work, etc?

I've been working through semester 1-->4 so far. but, procrastinating throughout these years while i work p/t on saturday/sunday... Mon-Fri...I leave the house around 7pm and get home around 5pm. Get so tired and sleepy...eat dinner, watch some tv, and the day goes by so fast...dont even have time to read more than 20 pages a night.

lol

not all of us have mommy and daddy to pay for everything.

[DaVibe]

I worked around 4hr/week in 1st yr Engineering at Waterloo and I really don't think I could've done more than 8hr/week. I have a 96% average though, so my standards are different. Also, engieering course load is like 150%. By second semester, I think less than 5% of my classmates had part time jobs (that's including the 25-30% of people who're repeating).
I won't be going back to the job because:
a) I get A LOT higher pay during co-op
b) I'd rather spend 4hr/week doing extracurricular stuff or hanging out with friends

But I think that's different for everyone.
I'm in Politics and I don't think the Politics Co-Op with the cash is there for me ... so working through the year and obviously MORE in the summer is what I've been doing so far.

If I wasn't working at all, I wouldn't have any pocket change and would depend on the crappy wage I get in the summer ... doing something totally un-related to my politics major.

[hassan123]

I will keep my current part-time job. But ive told my manager that I can only do 2 days a week. i hope he scedules me for two days a week otherwise I might quit.