where do students get their money?

matrim · 04-05-2006 09:26AM

When I was in college, I worked between a 25 - 40 hour week, I may only have done about 10 hours a week in college but I still ended up with a degree in computers. And I always had money to do what I wanted.

As others have said going out like a student is pretty cheap. You have a few drinks in your house, bus into town, cheap student place with a drinks offer and walk home.

Tha Gopher · 04-05-2006 12:03PM

Blut wrote:

I go out 3 nights a week and get hammered, I drive a relatively decent car, I dont own a single item of clothing worth less than 50e (well, not including socks and boxers). I rarely wake up before midday any day of the week. And I've never had a job in my life. I love being a student

You sir are a disgrace

*will laugh when Blut is 35, single, earning half as much as he thought he would with his degree and suffering from alcoholism*

Worked about 30 hrs per week in two jobs when I was in college. Im 19, I now work with quite a few people mid 20s to early 30s who spent 4 odd years in college and now earn as much as me

Its not a bad wage, its just that they probably cant help thinking they wasted 4 years of their life in college to get paid the same as some young lad who was still in national school at the time.

snickerpuss · 04-05-2006 03:07PM

Tha Gopher wrote:

Worked about 30 hrs per week in two jobs when I was in college. Im 19, I now work with quite a few people mid 20s to early 30s who spent 4 odd years in college and now earn as much as me Its not a bad wage, its just that they probably cant help thinking they wasted 4 years of their life in college to get paid the same as some young lad who was still in national school at the time.

Maybe they went to college to learn something/get an education? Not just to earn as much money as possible?

munkeehaven · 04-05-2006 03:12PM

I don't like having to take money off my parents but i try to save up every summer by getting a job.At least next year I'll be doing work experience in a hospital lab and i'l be getting paid (very little) but at least its something!
i might take a year off after 3rd year before i finish my degree to save up..i dont know yet..

Nightwish · 04-05-2006 03:35PM

I dont get a grant so I work a minimum of 15 hours a week to pay for all my living expenses in Dublin. My parents pay my rent which is 100 a week.

munkeehaven · 04-05-2006 03:46PM

if rent was free i'd say i could live quite comfortably on 8o euro a week (food,going out etc)

I buy all my clothes in either charity shops or penneys..cant remember the last time i bought expensive clothes,and i buy food in tesco (wouldnt go near the Really cheap stuff there though :eek: ) and the english market so food expense is fairly minimal...
i did spend quite a bit of money on drink in first year but this year i've cut down on drinking-just prefer to have a laugh and just be toasty,not blind drunk...murphys with blackcurrant-very cheap and tasty

mmmm

Dave! · 04-05-2006 05:20PM

I live at home and don't pay rent, but I work part-time (earn about €90 a week), so I don't ask for money for anything else. I have sh*tty clothes and amn't in town every night.

dbnavan · 04-05-2006 05:28PM

Part of me wants to tell the OP to mind their own business, but I have very supportive wife, who works while i go to college, i get back to education allowence and VEC grant, do computer nixers at the weekend, work very hard for it, far from the high life

scojones · 04-05-2006 05:59PM

Luckily my folks helped me out, but I'm still 5k in debt!

wes · 04-05-2006 06:29PM

Well when I was in college, I lived at home, got a grant and worked weekends. I don't drink so even when I went out I didn't spend much. Also I didn't go out as often as some others here.

I have to say I am disappointed by some people saying we shouldn't get grants. I am paying taxes now and without college I would be paying significantly less taxes (assuming I could get a job that is). So if a grant helps someone get a degree and a good job I think it works out better for the state in the long run.

rick_fantastic · 04-05-2006 07:08PM

i am in college full time and i pay 350€ a month to live at home. i work 20hours a week ontop of 40hour college week. i dont get grants and i pay my own fees and i have a nice car

my parents are very well off but i wouldnt ask them for a penny. saying that my part time job pays 23 euro an hour

Tar.Aldarion · 04-05-2006 07:10PM

I got a grant this year. I also use money earned over the summer.

simu · 04-05-2006 07:55PM

I lived off my parents when I was an undergrad. They didn't give me loads of cash but I had enough to get around. Then, I taught tutorials and got a scholarship as a post-grad.

My parents were happy to pay for me as long as I did well in college and tbh I'd do the same for my kids.

scop · 04-05-2006 08:05PM

Sleepy wrote:

I remember in first year (1998 - 1999) myself and a mate had devised a means of going out for the night on a tenner...

the ol' dutch gold in the pub scenario can assure that works. ive pulled off a tenner nite out before alright.

04-05-2006 08:30PM

It's hilarious that people who get grants are moaning about people 'freeloading' from their parents. At least their parents earned the money. The system is really unfair. I don't get a grant cos my parents earn too much money but they claim to be unable to pay for my college. They contribute a bit to my rent but nowhere near as much as the average grant would be. So basically, I'm stuck with absolutely nothing. I have a loan which doesn't even pay my rent, and work in the summers and during the term.

I always ask myself how students get the money as well. My flatmate last year went out about 4 times a week, got blind drunk, taxi home and everything. I can literally afford to do that once a month. She always moaned on at me about never going out but never 'got it' that I couldn't afford to. I can't even afford to buy a new bottle of water every day or get the bus to college. I didn't have time anyway, with being in college 10-6 most days and working most nights. It's hard not to feel resentful sometimes of being who just get grants handed to them as if they deserve it. I need one too, but haven't a hope in hell.

Richard W · 04-05-2006 09:23PM

I give grinds. I get 30 bucks for a session which'd be between an hour and half or two hours. Depends on how long the topic is. I do this a couple of times a week and it keeps me going. Well, not so much now, as I've only got one customer.

snickerpuss · 04-05-2006 09:23PM

Yeah the assumption that you don't need a grant cos your parents have money is pretty stupid considering its their money, not mine.

where do students get their money?

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