Part-time work

JCB

Do you think that working part time actually is to the detriment of study?

PurpleFistMixer

Since people our age can only work a maximum 8 hours a week, that means only about an hour a day. It can't be that disruptive. Well, provided the part time work actually adheres to that rule. Not a lot of people in my class have part time jobs that I know so I can't really speak from experience (even if only 2nd hand). Working part time might even teach some people a little about work and whatnot.

However, I can see it might be distracting, having all that extra money lying around...

I reckon for Junior Cert, working part time (as long as it isn't some thing half way across the country that takes 2 hours of travelling to get to, for god knows what reason) isn't so bad. But then again, even if you want money, it's only for another 4 months and you might as well just wait till the summer. Then you'll be able to get a probably better job, with better pay and you'll be less distracted with school and whatnot.

knifey_spoonie

No, it only distracts you from your study

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

However, I can see it might be distracting, having all that extra money lying around...

I was laughing at that for 10 min.


Ahhh god all that extra money your funny

Fobia

No, it only distracts you from your study

It isn't bad for Junior Cert, I mean we (by that I mean "I") will only be studying 2 hours per day even coming close to the exams....for leaving cert it's not advised but at this level it's grand.

Only problem is, no netcafe's will hire me, gonna try again in the summer....

Rozabeez

No, it only distracts you from your study

wait, If i'm 15 next month...I cant get a job? Can I?

Mimikyu

No, it only distracts you from your study

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Rozabeez

No, it only distracts you from your study

I'd really love a job, I need the money badly.

Mimikyu

No, it only distracts you from your study

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Rozabeez

No, it only distracts you from your study

Well my mam's a school secretary so there's no work for me lol. Babysitting is hard to find too!

Fobia

No, it only distracts you from your study

You can work when you're 15 there's just restrictions on the hours....I'll be 16 in the summer so I can work "properly" then, as everyone is saying it's not working that's the hard part, it's finding somewhere to work in the first place

Mimikyu

No, it only distracts you from your study

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Raphael

At 15 you can work a maximum of 8 hours a week, unless hired by a family member. I'll dig up the laws in a sec

Edit --> There we are Protection of Young People in Employment

Mimikyu

No, it only distracts you from your study

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the_syco

Don't Know, I can't decide.

Maybe now... but when I started working, there was no laws for min wage. Was only getting £2 an hour(!) during the summer after my J Cert :mad:

Also, most shops require you to be 18 (for selling drink, etc), so the only work left is the leaflet work, which is sh|t, but its not bad money. Started doing it in 2nd year in secondary, and it was work, and it didn't pay too bad, either. Getting it was pure fluke, though. Got it from some ad in the local newspaper.

Rozabeez

No, it only distracts you from your study

Most leaflet work these days requires access to a car.

PurpleFistMixer

Whatever about leaflet work, I did newspaper delivery a couple years back and it was AWFUL. I had to wrestle for ages with some people's letter boxes just to get the bleeding thing in... if only it were like in films, where they just throw the newspapers in the front garden...

Rozabeez

No, it only distracts you from your study

Damn letterboxes, I'd probably feel awkward going into someone's garden anyway.

JBoyle4eva

Well, i'm 16 and doing my JC in June, so I am allowed to work a maximum of 40 hours a week part-time.

I do work 3 hour shifts 2-4 times a week in my local video shop, but I usually bring my schoolbag to do my homework while it's quiet, and then I study when I get home for roughly an hour or two.

Part-time work is a it awkward when it's comes to exams anyway, even when in college it does be. I think I'll do good, even though I've a part-time job.

knifey_spoonie

No, it only distracts you from your study

In the summer im on 2 euro an hour for a 40 hour week which is terrible and, i work really really hard

That work out at 80
-30 for food
-20 credit
-30 social life

=No savings, and a very tired knife fighter

Mimikyu

No, it only distracts you from your study

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knifey_spoonie

No, it only distracts you from your study

I am an automotive cleaning device

Victor

Between now and the exams, I would recommend less or no employment.

But certainly do something for the summer.

grimloch

No, it only distracts you from your study

Victor wrote:

Between now and the exams, I would recommend less or no employment.

But certainly do something for the summer.

not to mention during transition year as a few people here will be doing soon enough, id have gone mad if i hadnt had something to keep me busy

Crania

No, it only distracts you from your study

I'm working in my school this summer, just claening the place up and all that kind of stuff. I'm doing it with about 5 other lads. I think we will be working from 10 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon and for that I think we will be paid 550 euro for a month which I think is great

Raphael

knife_fighter wrote:

In the summer im on 2 euro an hour for a 40 hour week which is terrible and, i work really really hard

That work out at 80
-30 for food
-20 credit
-30 social life

=No savings, and a very tired knife fighter

Um, that's kind of illegal...

Mimikyu

No, it only distracts you from your study

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Raphael

There's a different minimum wage for under 18's, we're only entitled to 70% of the minimum

But, yeah. You're getting screwed over knife_fighter.

knifey_spoonie

No, it only distracts you from your study

Ahh its my dads place so dont really mind


*ba$tard cheap w4nker8*

snappieT

Don't Know, I can't decide.

I Thought I could work saturdays while studying. I was working in the place all thru the Summer, then took on saturdays (9.30 - 4.30) at €13 an hour (nice, I know), but when it came down to it, I really needed that Saturday. Gave up after christmas, and am now studying away happilly!