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Juggling part-time work and studies

  • 08-08-2018 12:06am
    #1
    ims2dent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    I’ve been struggling with my part-time job and my studies recently. We’re not really well-off to begin with. My college tuition is covered by my academic scholarship. I spend for the rest of my school needs (books, research papers, projects, etc). I don’t want to ask money from my parents since we’re not really financially loaded as I have said. I work for a few hours daily in a foreign marriage agency just filing papers and encoding documents. At first, things were easy to balance but it got so difficult recently. I’ve been juggling books to read and term papers with my job on the side. I don’t know if I should just give up my work completely so I can focus on my education. I really don’t know what to do anymore… I need advice!


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  • #2
    baby and crumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    As someone who both worked part-time the “first time” I went to college and who’s studying now while working, the key to balancing this is actually to be in work when you’re working, and study when you’re studying. Treat work as a break from college and vice-versa.

    I’m currently studying for a PhD whilst working full time and you just really need to be disciplined and smart about how you work. I don’t know what you’re studying obviously so my advice would be for humanities/ arts subject but get bibliographic software (like Zotero or Endnote) to manage your referencing for essays- because that can take forever to do manually, so it saves you time there. I’ve invested in an iPad with apppe pencil and honestly it’s the best thing for my workflow I ever did. It means I have all my papers and books with me, and a way to annotate them and make notes. So if I find myself with time between classes or in the evenings I can read a paper, my notes show up instantly on my computer at home. No mounds of paper and it genuinely has improved my study. Also the ebook versions of a lot of books are cheaper on line or available free.

    Make sure you timetable yourself, but give yourself one full evening (at least) off every week to do a hobby or something entirely pleasurable, guilt free.

    If you don’t need the money then I’d advise giving up work but not many people can afford college and all the stuff around it without it. So just try and figure out the best balance for you.


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