if u won 5 grand..

partyndbs

would you be bothered keeping your 40 hr a week summer job and just enjoy summer? need advice.
im not young anymore so i wont have the luxury of deciding if i want summers off or not for much longer. might as well enjoy go out and enjoy 1 of my last free summers

Taltos

What are you doing after the Summer?

5 grand might seem like alot but you will spend it fairly rapidly.
If college - travel / books / laptop / nights out / etc
If school - same as above

If working - rent etc

Might help if you gave some context.
I may have kicked back and then spent the year kicking myself again...

Wompa1

I started working during the summer when I was 12 years old and have for every single summer since. 5k euro is a drop in the ocean in the big scheme of things. If I was you I'd start looking for a job and hold onto your 5k. Put it into a savings account and let it collect interest. After 2 years into your career use some of it to take a nice holiday.

By the sounds of things you say free summer like you've had them before...so is it worth it?

Bloody Nipples

5k is SFA really. Keep the job. You'll have plenty money during college then.

Vicxas

5k is not mcuh these days, i spend half that on rent and bills etc.

Daisy M

Honestly you need to grow up a little and accept that summers off are a thing of the past for you thats part of been an adult and if you arent mature enough to realise that then you still have a lot of growing up to do. You still have lots of time off 40 hrs a week isnt a whole lot, there are people who work way more and have a family and home to look after and manage to do so, honestly be grateful you have a job there are lots of young people out there who cant get summer work.

Bards

Enjoy the time off while you can - you'll be working for the best part of 40 Years after leaving college - so use this time wisely

There's more to life than money

tawnyowl

partyndbs wrote: »

would you be bothered keeping your 40 hr a week summer job and just enjoy summer? need advice.
im not young anymore so i wont have the luxury of deciding if i want summers off or not for much longer. might as well enjoy go out and enjoy 1 of my last free summers

Five grand can be spent very quickly-at least with the job you have the five grand plus the money you earn. Forty hours a week should leave you with spare time over to enjoy your summer.

muracan

Keep the job ,but take an extra week off,do something special for that week and you will have "had your cake and ate it!!"

Elmer Blooker

pay stealth taxes and there might be enough left for a few cans of karpackie if you're lucky.

tinkerbell

Keep the €5,000 and spend it on a great holiday for yourself as a treat after the summer when you've started working properly. As for enjoying your summers off, well once you leave college those no longer apply - unless you enter the education profession. You need to just get over it I'm afraid. You've presumably had at least 21/22 years of summers off school/college, whatever, time to enter the life as a adult I'm afraid. And it's not that bad, you get used to it.

Gaz

Take off backpacking for the summer, 5k is plenty to doss your way around the likes of south east Asia.

Oranage2

I'd either go traveling or keep my job and just quit about a month before the summer and go mad -

Summers off will soon become boring when all you mates work or if you get into the same routine

boxie

Kick back and enjoy the summer, plenty of time for work later.

legendary.xix

partyndbs wrote: »

would you be bothered keeping your 40 hr a week summer job and just enjoy summer? need advice.
im not young anymore so i wont have the luxury of deciding if i want summers off or not for much longer. might as well enjoy go out and enjoy 1 of my last free summers

I wish I had been in that position when I was in college! If your still in uni or not, it's best to keep working away but maybe you could finish work 2 or 3 weeks earlier than planned.

parker kent

Keep the job and use the money for college!

Firetrap

All depends what way you're fixed money wise. 5k isn't actually a lot of money in the grand scale of things. Would it make your life easier when you go back to college?

If you do decide to quit your job, do something constructive with your time like go travelling or something like that. Don't sit on your arse at home watching daytime TV