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?Either that or he's going to die tryin'.(Original post by JamalAhmed)
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?exactly....!!!!!(Original post by JamalAhmed)
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?(Original post by LawKiddo)
I am going to try it anyway. The human body is extraordinary - don't underestimate it. Einstein only used 5% of his brain remember. I think that even if I worked at a fast food restaurant as my real job I would work 60-80 hours a week. If you are going to trade money for time at least make it count.
Obviously I could and should get a better job, but I think it's a right of passage as a 22 year old. I will never get to or have to work in a fast food restaurant again. Plus I will be motivated, having had a crappy job, to never want one again. Plus you learn the value of money - I will not be spending my money on clothes or shoes or fancy holidays. It will be spent wisely.
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?I'm not trying to convince anybody. I had already made up my mind to work those hours. I just wanted to hear the diversity of views from nay-sayers. Now that most posters think I am crazy - I know that it is the perfect plan!!! They said the world was flat... I only wish I had started having a part time job when I was 14 and continued until now. Plus I'm jet lagged and relaxing at the mo. This is my downtime before work and my law course re-starts(Original post by shorty.loves.angels)
If you have that much drive to make money then couldn't your time be spent better than on TSR trying to convince people?
Anyway, goodnight y'all. Thanks for responding, I may return in a year to inform the good people of TSR of my progress.Last edited by LawKiddo; 08-08-2012 at 00:45. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?This guy
I've worked 60 hour weeks in fast food. It's not a 'brain drain' in the intellectual sense sure, but you try staying on your feet for 12 hour shifts, with ******** customers, inept coworkers and evil managers. Then do it 4 more times in a row. You're kidding yourself if you think you're going to be able to keep that up with your studies. I had enough trouble keeping up 35 hours a week with A-levels. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?Stupidest OP I've read since Bakmouth went away.
don't forget the soul destroying sense of purposelessness you get from toiling all day every day at something you don't give a **** about.(Original post by Steevee)
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I've worked 60 hour weeks in fast food. It's not a 'brain drain' in the intellectual sense sure, but you try staying on your feet for 12 hour shifts, with ******** customers, inept coworkers and evil managers. Then do it 4 more times in a row. You're kidding yourself if you think you're going to be able to keep that up with your studies. I had enough trouble keeping up 35 hours a week with A-levels.Last edited by TimmonaPortella; 08-08-2012 at 02:44. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?This is a genuine question. I am still awake thinking about how I will make it work. The only problem is sleep - it gets in the way of the working week, and it takes me an hour and a half to get from home to uni. I could still manage 50 hours a week. I am not trolling - this is a genuine post. fair enough I should just speak to my friends and family about it rather than post on the student room, but it's interesting to hear what strangers have to say. Strangers vote for x-factor finalists ike One Direction who are now millionaires...
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?(Original post by LawKiddo)
I am thinking of working for 60 hours a week 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 am working at a well known fast food restaurant. Thoughts, anyone?
PRIVATE TUTION MATE.
charge around £15 to £20 an hour for subjects you would like to teach. teach on saturdays and a few week days if need be. you'll be rolling in it.
working for £6.15 is just toooooooo less for the work that you're doing. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?The work-load would utterly destroy you. You need to be able to work effectively, which you cannot do if you're spending every waking hour doing work -- however menial -- and thus coming to your studies fatigued. You need to be able to chill out at least occasionally, which you would not allow yourself to do. Not having any free time has two effects. The first, following from the above, is that your performance in your degree suffers. The second is that you have a terrible life. I accept that being dedicated to a job that you enjoy/get something --a sense of accomplishment, say -- out of can make it worth not having a whole lot of free time, and indeed see it as very likely that I will make that sacrifice myself in a couple of years, but to have no free time because you're doing boring, menial work that has utterly no inherent worth to you will eat away at you.(Original post by LawKiddo)
This is a genuine question. I am still awake thinking about how I will make it work. The only problem is sleep - it gets in the way of the working week, and it takes me an hour and a half to get from home to uni. I could still manage 50 hours a week. I am not trolling - this is a genuine post. fair enough I should just speak to my friends and family about it rather than post on the student room, but it's interesting to hear what strangers have to say. Strangers vote for x-factor finalists ike One Direction who are now millionaires...
Furthermore, you're leaving yourself no margin for error. If you don't fully understand something on the first read through on your proposed schedule you'll have no -- or very little -- time to sort this out. Again, if for any reason you get behind with work, for example if you have to go home to deal with a family illness, you'll find it impossible to catch up.
Perhaps you'd leave yourself no margin for error in an already insufficient time frame. How do you know you'd have enough time to do the work even once whilst working a 60 hour week?
OP, I've no reason to doubt your sincerity but, if you are sincere, I've reason to doubt your sanity. Stop thinking about it and go to sleep. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?I hope you don't offer "PRIVATE TUTION", if so I fear for the education system.(Original post by ?!master?!mini?!)
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charge around £15 to £20 an hour for subjects you would like to teach. teach on saturdays and a few week days if need be. you'll be rolling in it.
working for £6.15 is just toooooooo less for the work that you're doing. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?why?(Original post by Noble.)
I hope you don't offer "PRIVATE TUTION", if so I fear for the education system. -
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?(Original post by ?!master?!mini?!)
why?Never trust anyone who can't spell their own job.(Original post by ?!master?!mini?!)
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?sorry mister.(Original post by Noble.)
Never trust anyone who can't spell their own job.
tuition.
happy.
tis the god damn interent
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?sciences, maths, econ.(Original post by Noble.)
What subjects do you offer tuition for?
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?60 hours is already way into the realm of full time employment, my friend.(Original post by LawKiddo)
I am thinking of working for 60 hours a week 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 am working at a well known fast food restaurant. Thoughts, anyone?
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Re: Working 60 -89 hours a week part time while studying?Nice troll, 4/10(Original post by LawKiddo)
drugs are repulsive. I am not addicted to anything except fruits and harribos.
