Masters and Full time job

freeze4real

Hi guys,

I would like know if its possible to combine doing a full time masters for a year and working full time as well.


The masters is in economics or financial risk analysis which starts from 9 - 1, and probably the full time job would be from 3 - 10 3 times a week and probably on saturday as well.

mickstupp

Your MA may only say a certain number of hours a week, but that doesn't take into account all the reading time, assignments and so on, plus keeping an eye on your final project/dissertation/thesis thing. I'd think long and hard before taking on a job at the same time as an MA. Unless you sign up for the part time MA?

I don't know what an economics or financial risk analysis MA requires... but if I were to try and hold down even a part time job with my MA I would probably die.

How so Joe

I had a part time job with my masters, and it was no joke, let me tell you. When my contract expired I was more than glad of the extra hours to do the reading/other work I had been neglecting.
At the time, I had only nine hours of classes a week, but masters courses are so much more than just the contact hours.

If you need to get a job, then of course you'll find a way to make it work, but if you can get away with either a part time job or a part time masters that would make it easier on you.
I can't imagine doing a full time job with a full time masters, but I'll tell you this much, it's a massive undertaking.
I'd think long and hard about it before making any decisions - it's a whole lot to take on.

GEKKO135

Not possible. You're essentially taking on two full time jobs. Doing that course with a part time job myself. It's only one weekend a month but even that can intrude on important study/assignment hours.

freeze4real

Its like I thought, I suppose I just wanted someone to tell me again.

GEKKO135 wrote: »

Not possible. You're essentially taking on two full time jobs. Doing that course with a part time job myself. It's only one weekend a month but even that can intrude on important study/assignment hours.

How did you find the maths, I struggled with ec306 but passed.

GEKKO135

freeze4real wrote: »

How did you find the maths, I struggled with ec306 but passed.

Sorry to inform you but EC306 is not very maths intensive.
There's a maths module in term1 that'll bring you up to speed which is basically a repeat of first year maths. Go over what you did in first year and you'll be fairly well prepared. Make it your duty to understand differentiation and the calculus that goes with it (chain rule, quotient rule etc). You cannot avoid maths and come out of college with a masters in Finance/Risk Analysis. I suffered because I didn't do maths in undergrad and was playing catch up for the first two months.

Hope this helps and good luck with your choice

Novella

I'm an undergrad with a full-time job and I neglect my college work quite frequently due to work commitments or sometimes just because I'm so tired. It's definitely not something I'd advise taking on, especially whilst doing a Masters.