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?(Original post by LawKiddo)
ha! I will eat super healthily - literally 50 fruits and vegetables a day, lots of water, three full meals and I will walk everywhere, ride a bike to law school or join a gym. I really need to pull this one off. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?What would a peddle stool look like? Pedestal, OP. Also, that thing about Einstein only using 5% of his brain? False.(Original post by LawKiddo)
Yes, I like to underestimate my figures. I made an approximate calculation, but I am glad the figure is even higher than I thought. Do I sense bitterness: "How can you be a lawyer when you can't even do xyz?" I doubt I will be able to run faster that Usain Bolt because I am not a sprinter... you are putting lawyers on a peddle stool. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?Oh God darling get real.(Original post by LawKiddo)
This is a serious thread. 100% serious. Dude, there are 4 weeks in a month on average. My figures are rounded down - best to underestimate how much I will earn rather than overestimate. I know the financial rewards in the future will be great - but I need money now. I have £320 to my name, and £500 for my transport costs for the year - and that is all I have. I need a job, I need money for emergencies - money gives me options.
I want to give 100% to my law course but I also want to work and earn money. I wanted to move out of my family home in September and I wanted to save money for the rent that I will have to pay.
I am 21 years old by the way. So I am still young and fresh in the sense that I stay up all night everynight anyway so I have a lot of stamina. After a year of this job I hope to progress to the part time manager/supervisor role and when I am a lawyer I will still do that work on the weekends. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?Peddle stool? Really(Original post by LawKiddo)
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
Yes, I like to underestimate my figures. I made an approximate calculation, but I am glad the figure is even higher than I thought. Do I sense bitterness: "How can you be a lawyer when you can't even do xyz?" I doubt I will be able to run faster that Usain Bolt because I am not a sprinter... you are putting lawyers on a peddle (pedal) stool.
I still think I could do it if I eat well and look after myself. It's a lesson in self control and time management. I am not saying everyone should do it - I am only saying that this is what I want to and will do as much as I can... without upsetting my academic equilibrium.
Terribly analogy by the way. I would expect any lawyer to have a pretty good grasp of the English language and lower level mathematical calculations to not be beyond them.
You are most definitely not what you purport to be, I call bullcrap unless you can provide proof in some way. -
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Mental! You won't do it. I've been working for 20 years, 13 of which I held down one full time and one part time job. I am extremely motivated, I've worked in fast food and many other extreme jobs. You will get ill very quickly, both your job and study will suffer.
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?why couldn't anyone have this plan? Everyone doesn't have the same lifestyle. I know a Chinese student who studied full time and worked full time in order to pay her tuition and living costs. The world is bigger than your circle of friends - not every student goes out drinking and to fancy dress parties on the weekend. You realise that a law degree is easy and not even 1/10th of the amount of work you will do in practice????(Original post by Norton1)
No, if we believe him he's very specifically not a law graduate. He's also at it. I don't think anyone could seriously have this plan.
You know what, I'm disappointed in you TSR. I'm disappointed in you all. Where are the cheerleaders telling him to work himself to death? Some have given lukewarm assent to his madness, I embrace it wholeheartedly.
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?Forgive me, I am jet lagged (and heavily reliant on spell check, lol)(Original post by Norton1)
What would a peddle stool look like? Pedestal, OP. Also, that thing about Einstein only using 5% of his brain? False. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?Heh. Nice trollin' dawg. I have a law degree. They're hard work.(Original post by LawKiddo)
why couldn't anyone have this plan? Everyone doesn't have the same lifestyle. I know a Chinese student who studied full time and worked full time in order to pay her tuition and living costs. The world is bigger than your circle of friends - not every student goes out drinking and to fancy dress parties on the weekend. You realise that a law degree is easy and not even 1/10th of the amount of work you will do in practice???? -
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Massive fail!(Original post by LawKiddo)
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
Yes, I like to underestimate my figures. I made an approximate calculation, but I am glad the figure is even higher than I thought. Do I sense bitterness: "How can you be a lawyer when you can't even do xyz?" I doubt I will be able to run faster that Usain Bolt because I am not a sprinter... you are putting lawyers on a peddle (pedal) stool.
I still think I could do it if I eat well and look after myself. It's a lesson in self control and time management. I am not saying everyone should do it - I am only saying that this is what I want to and will do as much as I can... without upsetting my academic equilibrium.
So there's 48 weeks in a year then? lol
And it's pedestal you knob not pedal stool! lol
I think you should rethink your study subject if you can't get English or mathematics right!
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?I will dope up on paracetamol and fruit and vegetable juices. I will do it!!! Have faith guys. Working 10 hours a day at a fast food chain is not difficult. It is literally 3 mins walk from my law school! I only have to do a bit of law work then walk across the road to work. A few days off a month will be necessary, hence my calculations.
I simply calculated £6.19 per hour for ten days, working approximately four weeks, 12 months in a year... Nobody works 52 weeks a year - The law course is only for 30 weeks... -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?I am kidding, I know a law degree is hard, but you're supposed to be effortlessly cool about it.(Original post by Norton1)
Heh. Nice trollin' dawg. I have a law degree. They're hard work. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?Fast food work is exhausting. Just saying.(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?No you're meant to make it sound difficult to put the hoi polloi off. We can't have the working classes striding about the courts, breaking wind in front of the judge and holding knives like pens.(Original post by LawKiddo)
I am kidding, I know a law degree is hard, but you're supposed to be effortlessly cool about it. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?hahaha!!! I thought you were meant to say it was easy to confuse those who found law difficult? I can't keep up with the law school culture...(Original post by Norton1)
No you're meant to make it sound difficult to put the hoi polloi off. We can't have the working classes striding about the courts, breaking wind in front of the judge and holding knives like pens. -
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The idea that you could manage this is laughable. Also, that's hours for about 4 people and just plain selfish. As you said, you will have no work experience and therefore no chance of a good law career - if you wan't to go into business why the hell are you wasting your time in postgrad law?
Anyway, you're forgetting taxes which would easily take a few grand out of that. Just do 25 ish hours if you want the money and put effort into a stellar degree.
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?Have you ever done a full day's work, then had to go to bed almost as soon as you get home to get up again less than 6/7 hours later? I have and my GOD it's awful. After a shift that length you NEED to unwind before you actually go to sleep. Each night before the Next sale I work til gone 11, usually have to be back for 7 or 8 the next morning. I'm lying awake trying to get to sleep but my mind's full of labels and rails and stickers and floor plans and red markers, my feet hurt, my legs hurt from crouching down my back hurts from lifting and my head hurts from dehydration. I only do this 4 times a year. I could not imagine then having to do intellectual work with my brain so fried. If you can do it mate then good on you, but I'm begging you think of doing instead 5 hours (so 430-930) and give your brain at least an hour or two of wind down time in the evening. You'll really need it!
Plus, 5x£6= ~£30 per shift, x5 during the week and say a 10 hour shift at weekends is £210 per week x 48 is £10k. Not a lot but enough to live on. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?No part time means part time, you would have to be working full time in order to get those hours in. And as a student I'm sure you're only allowed to work 20 hours or something, that's what I was told where I worked.(Original post by LawKiddo)
I just thought part time meant 'on the side', namely your job was only a small part of your life because you had other 'main' responsibilities. All I will be doing is flipping burgers, smiling at customers. There is no responsibility whatsoever. No weight on my shoulders. I am not responsible for anyone and there is no intellectual effort involved. It could be relaxing if the people on my shift are decent.
No it would be mind numbing lay boring, I worked at asda for about 9 months last year and it had to be one of the most boring things I had ever done, they were only 4 hour shifts.Last edited by jimcatinnes; 07-08-2012 at 23:59.
