   How much work is too much work?
  Being short of money, and a full time college student, I am always on the quest for more money(as are we all[grin]). At the moment, I am working at a grocery store at about $6.50 an hour, 39 hours a week. At the start of the next year though, I will have the opportunity to work at two addition places. The first being a used book-store, where I'll make $40 for ~8 hours of work on a Saturday, and the other will be at the IT Help Desk at my Uni, where I will start out at ~$7 and work about 15 hours. Naturally, I'll have to cut back on the work at the grocery store. Bear in mind that I'll be taking 13 credit hours, and those of you who know me(few and far between) will be aware of the fact that I drive about 4 hours a day. As such, I figure that I can squeeze in roughly 60 hours of work in a week(if I cut down to 35 hours at my current place of employment). However, I haven't done too well this semester in two of my classes, calc and speech. (I've posted my calc woes before, no need to continue here [smile]) As for speech, I got one of the harder professors at my Uni, as well as the fact that I don't really care for standing in front of a crowd of people I don't really know talking about something I didn't really carry a lot of feeling for. The semester in question, I have scheduled a comp sci class(no problems here), Intro to Psychology, British Literature, and Japanese 101. The second one I haven't an idea about. Brit Lit requires a great deal of reading which I intend to do before the semester. Japanese, from what I've heard, requires a great deal of study and constant practice.So my question is, is it advisable to work 60 hours a week whilst attending college 13 hours a week, or should I try to cut it back? [disturbed]   
  You are nuts. I'm talking 'staging a direct attack on a super star destroyer with 5 squadrons of TIE defenders in a Z-95 Headhunter' nuts. [grin]   ;  I have to agree with Kevinator on this one... ballance is essential. 60 hours a week working, and 13 hours of school, and all that driving is not ballance.Take a loan if you have to, and move closer to your school.   ;  I think it depends on the person really. I personally have never worked 2 steady jobs and don't plan on it. 4 of the people closest to me have second jobs right now and here I am with only 1 and doing alright. I have this friend who IMO is absolutely insane, She has a total of 6 different jobs right now, most are sporatic but she is also doing 26 credits and plans to do 34 in the spring term. I can't see how people cannot value free time more then a little money to do this. Just my Personal Opinion though but leaving yourself to nothing but work is a bad path.   ;  Okay, I just ran some numbers...There's 168 hours in a week.Take out 60 for work and you're left with 108.Assuming 7 hours a day for sleep, you'd spend 49 hours sleeping. Take that out and you're left with 59 hours.If you are taking 13 credits, then your in-class time is roughly 13 hours give or take a couple. You're left with 46 hours.If you spend 4 hours a day driving, (is this every day, or just five days a week?) then that would be 28 hours a week. You're left with 18 hours.18/7=~2.5 -- you have about 2.5 hours a day, including the weekend, to study, eat, date, pay bills, and relax. Frankly, I would expect most of that to be squandered in between your other activities -- no one's perfectly efficient. Maybe you'll be dragging out of bed and it costs you 10 minutes. Maybe you have a conversation with a fellow student after class, there's another 5 minutes. Before you know it, those 2.5 hours are dried up throughout the course of the day, leaving no time for anything.That's nuts.   ;  Spend all my free time working at a job I don't like to buy stuff I now don't have any time to use and that I'm currently getting along fine without? No, thanks.   ;Quote:Original post by nerd_boyAt the moment, I am working at a grocery store at about $6.50 an hour, 39 hours a week. At the start of the next year though, I will have the opportunity to work at two addition places. The first being a used book-store, where I'll make $40 for ~8 hours of work on a Saturday, and the other will be at the IT Help Desk at my Uni, where I will start out at ~$7 and work about 15 hours.Ya know what? If I'm working 54 hours a week and pulling down $350 or so, I am NOT going to give up my Saturday for a $5 per hour job. That's just silly.On the other hand, keep in mind that having a few hours to study every day is MUCH more helpful than having the entire weekend to study. So you may want to cut back on the grocery store job, or see if you can switch a few of your hours to the weekend. But I'd drop the bookstore offer altogether unless they're ready to deal.   ;Quote:Original post by smart_idiotSpend all my free time working at a job I don't like to buy stuff I now don't have any time to use and that I'm currently getting along fine without? No, thanks.*cough* communist! *cough*[smile]   ;  And with that 2.5 hours a day, you obviously post in the lounge so thats an indication of wasted time anyways, I don't think that's enough :).   ;  It isn't advisable to work 60 hours a week whilst attending college 13 hours a week, its retarded.Kevinator already crunched the numbers to show you'd have no time for anything else.  But thats without taking into account time for homework.  To do well in college, each hour in class requires an hour of study outside of class.  To do mediorce in college, you can allocate 1/2 an hour per hour in class. 15 minutes per hour in class gets you a fail.The whole idea of going to college is so will be able to make more money for the rest of your life after college.  Don't sacrifice the extra $2,000,000 you can make with a degree for a bit of spending money now.  If you are desperate for funds, ask your parents or get a student loan.  Thats what they are there for.My suggestion is to take the IT Help desk and book store jobs since you may be able to squeeze in some study time on the job, and quit the grocery store. Working at a grocery store is a soul sucking experience, so you shouldn't be doing that anyways.