How Do You Manage Having a Job and Being a College Student?
As we are about to enter a new chapter of our lives we will all gain new responsibilities. Whether it's driving, college, or a job. We will all have to find a way to manage our time, to be able to do everything we need to do. With college coming up and becoming 18 soon I know that I'm going to want to get a job and earn my own money. I am also wondering though, how will I be able to accomplish that while still being a college student? I personally feel it might be challenging to balance the two, with college being difficult, having harder and more homework, and a job that requires a long periods of my time. In Deanna's blog post titled "How To Manage Full Time Work & College (And Maintain Your Sanity in the Process)" she gives tips that she found helpful for herself while she dealt with a full time job and college. I know not everyone is going to start out will a full time job in the beginning of college, but she gave some helpful advice on how to manage the two. Deanna states that throughout college we're going to have a lot of reading and her tip is "Bring your textbooks, or that article you have to print out, and use your breaks to read it", being able to multitask will help out a lot in managing the two. Deanna also brings up scheduling your job and classes on opposite days so that you don't have to go to class, and then hurry home for work. In the article titled "10 Tips to manage working while going to college" the author Trinya Murray also states advice on how to accomplish going to college and having a job. Murray's advice includes making college a priority, making sure your schedule for work is compatible with school, staying organize, making sure not over work yourself, and to still make time for yourself. I find these tips helpful because at the end of the day we all want and need to make money but we also have to focus on our priorities such as school. We need to find the perfect the balance to do both, and find what works best for you to succeed in both.
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