Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?what is "pt"?(Original post by ashtoreth)
this has got to be a joke! looool...
but if not...i'm lovin your idea of pt!
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?you wanna do law school without a training contract and then a taught masters... right.
I think you will struggle to convince firms you're what they are looking for if you put off getting a graduate job for so long -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?But I started the course in September and received all the course materials. So I have a very good idea of the course content.(Original post by skatealexia)
You'd burn out and your degree would suffer. I'd do 16 hours a week max.
I really need the money though, since I didn't work while at uni and became quite ill. Now I am feeling better I am ready to make some money. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?With determination I'm sure you can do it. However, bare in mind you will need time for assignments etc which I assume will be done on weekends. Plus make sure you stay motivated because from experience fast food work can be very tiring and I hope you are used to that(Original post by LawKiddo)
I am thinking of working for 60 hours a week part-time while studying post-grad law at law school. I am then hoping to work 89 hours a week in the holidays.
If I earn £6.19 an hour and work 60 hours a week (10 hours each day) I will have approx £20,798.40 pre-tax by the end of the year.
6.19 x 10 x 7 = 1 weeks wage (£433.3) x 4 = £1733.2 a month, £1733.2 x 12 = £20,798.40 for the year
My class times are from 9.45am - 1.45pm (approx) and I get Friday's off. I hope to arrive at uni at 7am everyday, and study until 4pm each day and then start work, which is round the corner from my uni - at 4.30pm. The store is open 24 hours except Fridays and Saturdays when the closing time is 1am. I hope to work 15 hours at the weekend.
The money will be useful for me in terms of paying for a masters degree, future accommodation fees and providing an emergency fund. I am currently living at home and I will be living at home for the year while studying - my parents have not asked me for any contribution but they have suggested that I should move out of the family home in the next few years because they sense my growing independence after three years at uni.
I then hope to go on to do a masters degree at a London uni or a Scottish uni - I hope to work the same hours while studying next year, before going into full time employment in the legal sector. I have a student overdraft that needs to be paid off in the next year £2,000 - which I should make in the next month if I work 15 hours a day.
I am working at a well known fast food restaurant. Thoughts, anyone?
Anyways
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?By part time he was talking about the degree not his job.(Original post by dothestrand)
In what way is 60 hours a week part time??? -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?I am hoping to start my own business, I also have a scholarship for law school... I didn;t say I was applying for a training contract. You are misreading my post.(Original post by a.partridge)
you wanna do law school without a training contract and then a taught masters... right.
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?I cant see where you would get 89 hours from..... You would struggle to do this even doing a normal job, let alone also doing 7-4.30 of uni every day. Are you planning on not sleeping?!
You would last a few weeks, get sick from stress/exhaustion, start failing your degree and then wouldnt even get onto a masters for which you are apparently saving. You need to pass your undergrad first and you wont do it working essentially two full time jobs. You are seriously deluded... -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?I mean part time in the sense that working in a fast food store is not considered strenuous work. I won't be depleting energy from flipping burgers and working on a till.(Original post by noma5)
By part time he was talking about the degree not his job. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?I have already passed my undergrad and graduated. I am doing a post grad law course. I will sleep from 1am - 7am.(Original post by Phoenix_147)
I cant see where you would get 89 hours from..... You would struggle to do this even doing a normal job, let alone also doing 7-4.30 of uni every day. Are you planning on not sleeping?!
You would last a few weeks, get sick from stress/exhaustion, start failing your degree and then wouldnt even get onto a masters for which you are apparently saving. You need to pass your undergrad first and you wont do it working essentially two full time jobs. You are seriously deluded... -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?Have you been working in fast food a while?(Original post by LawKiddo)
I mean part time in the sense that working in a fast food store is not considered strenuous work. I won't be depleting energy from flipping burgers and working on a till. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?This post is brilliant, the only problem is you that you appear to have made one tiny little error when working out your amazing plan, 60-89 hours a week is not "part time". It's full time. Jus' sayin'
