During college I only worked during the summer. That covered incidental expenses and spending money. Most of college was paid for by a combination of student loans and parental generosity. I’m now in med school where they calculate financial aid using the assumption that you will not be able to hold a job as well. So I’m living on student loans.
I didn’t work during college except during the summer. I wasn’t allowed to because my parents wanted me to have enough time to study. I was broke!
I’m a full time student again at the age of 34 – nursing school. I live with my SO, who is essentially supporting me, so I have no overhead to pay. My parents paid off my credit cards and my car, which I didn’t even ask them to do; they just wanted to make sure I’m able to make the most of this opportunity. My SO’s parents are paying for school, books, supplies, etc. And I have student loans for spending money. All in all, I’m extraordinarily lucky in the way everything has worked out; I wouldn’t be able to do this otherwise.
I don’t work.
A 5 day a week, 8 hour a day medical degree ensures it.
I have a student loan, parents who pay my rent and a big overdraft.
My sister, who had a 8 hour study week as a marketing student worked as a cocktail waitress and made £75 plus tips every weekend. She has a student loan, parents who pay her rent and a big overdraft, but a much, much better wardrobe!
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Same here. If you ask me whether I regret that, the answer is no. I do regret not having had a better sense of direction academically, and not having done better at math, but working in the cafeteria kitchen wouldn’t have helped that.
My only job until my Senior year was playing in a cover band for fraternity parties and other such gigs. An then in the second semester of my Senior year I was a writing tutor. So I guess I did have a job, but it was just a very fun job with free booze.
I’ve worked off and on. Right now I’m not working because my last semester was really tough, and now I’m graduating in December, after which I’ll move back to Florida, so no point in getting a crappy job for 3-4 months. Besides, then I might miss Thanksgiving. And I’ve missed Thanksgiving for the past 3 years, I won’t do it again!!! That said, I didn’t really have to work. My parents were helping me out with tuition until I started at LSU. When I went out of state, they told me I’d have to pay my tuition, and if I got all A’s and B’s, they’d pay me back. Boy does that plan work!! (I am an A/B student, but I slacked off a lot my first couple of years in Florida and made some bad grades, hence the 6 1/2 years I’ve spent trying to get a BA) I worked because I liked having the extra spending money, and it kept me out of trouble (mostly).
Law students are strongly discouraged from taking outside jobs during the school year that are not related to the law. Legal internships and externships after the first year are OK and encouraged.
I didn’t work at all during four years of college except for the summers and Christmas break. Same as the others, my parents said my job was to study. They paid room and board, I paid tuition and books. They also gave me a small allowance (this was 1975-1979, so I think it was $10 or $20 a week), deposited in my checking account. If I needed extra money for anything, I could ask. My parents were by no means wealthy, but they saved, and we all lived quite frugally anyhow. I had no scholarships or grants, they took out no loans that I know of. The most I ever had to pay for books per quarter was $75. I took the free campus bus everywhere until my fiance gave me his car when he went into the Army, and he paid for the insurance while he was gone, but I could have survived without the car. Very few of my dorm-mates worked…the scarce jobs were reserved for work-study students, and you didn’t want to take a job away from someone who really needed it.
But then life in general was so much less expensive those days. No cell-phone bills, no personal computers, no tanning salons (can’t believe how much my boss spends on tanning and nails), no ipods or downloads, calculators didn’t cost $100 for high school students, less pressure to wear expensive clothes.
I was on an Air Force ROTC scholarship that paid for everything but room and board, and paid me a stipend for additional expenses. It also covered books (and I was the last class grandfathered at “full book expenses” and not “books up to $150”). But it wasn’t a free ride by any stretch of the imagination.
It wasn’t a job, but I still spent one day a week driving to and from College Park MD to learn marching and saluting and PT, and taking an extra 4 credits of mandatory courses. I earned my spending money for the year over the summer, but I had to give up about 2 of my 12 summer (income) months to be “on orders” – one month in San Antonio, and one month in England, which made my school years harder on the wallet.
And of course, to pay back the scholarship, I agreed to work for the Air Force for 4 years at full regular pay. So really, all I had to do to get my scholarship was pass a Physical Fitness Test every semester, and the only hard part of that was doing 30 pushups. I used to joke that every push-up I was required to do earned me somewhere between $50 and $500 dollars.