<p>Hey all, I received FWS for UCI and UCSD in the amount of $1500, but I was reading that the amount stated is the maximum amount you are allowed to work. I don't know about you but i would like to end up with a little more cash in my pocket than $150 or so a month. Is anyone here planning to reject their work study offer and just find another job? Why? Or, is it more advantageous to just be broke and keep the work study? Do you plan on getting a second job to cover expenses?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t take the work study. As a full time student at a top-ranked university, with the academic demands that entails, minimum wage for 10 hours a week just isn’t worth it. You don’t earn enough to really make a difference, but it takes a big chunk out of what might otherwise be a solid study day.</p>
<p>I’ll probably accept it because I need to work. I’d rather work on campus and be around people that I go to school with ect than work off campus, have to get there, find the job and still get paid the same amount.</p>
<p>I agree with Ella (always agreeing with this woman…). It’s much easier to get to and from work on campus. Also, I want to be a librarian so I really need experience at the university’s library. It’s almost impossible to get library jobs at public libraries (especially since a lot of them are closing down). I want to be an academic librarian anyway so I need the experience more than anything. </p>
<p>Plus, I don’t need a lot of money. My FWS is $2,000 though so that’s about $222 a month…Haha.</p>
<p>^Mines the same. That’s not bad and very limited amount of hours. I don’t think it’ll really conflict with classes that much, hopefully.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>I believe they work with your class schedule. Seems a bit more reasonable to me since they know you have other obligations. Most jobs want you to drop your life for them. As long as I have some spending money to go out and eat every now and then, then I’ll be happy. I’m not planning to go and buy some Gucci bags when I’m at UCSD anyway, lol…</p>
<p>If you are very certain that you have no intentions of working that I suggest that you reject it. If you have any doubts though, I think you should just accept it just in case. I go to ucr and I work through work study, I think it’s worth it.</p>
<p>Oh and btw, with work study I think you are only allowed to work like 19 hours max per week, and if you think about, that’s not a lot at all.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ll do work study because the amount they are paying me is extremely low. Too bad the figure I received wasn’t a monthly amount.</p>
<p>The average hours a week I will need to work to receive my aid is 6.25, so I can’t say no to that. Plus an extra 1,500/year isn’t bad. That’ll be a big chunk of gas money a month. My sister did it at UCI, and she just filed papers for the engineering dept.</p>
<p>I’ve got a question. Is there anyway to increase the amount? Meaning is your employer able to give you more hours if they want to so you get more than the stated amount? I have a friend who got work study for $2000 per year and gets a full 20 hours every week, so she goes way over…</p>
<p>Well maybe I should stay in Vista del Campo Norte instead of Camino del Sol and pocket the 300 difference every month. I guess I don’t need a private room/bath. Would be nice though…</p>
<p>I’ll probably accept it. I don’t know if they can increase it, however. My friend at Cal earned her maximum and wouldn’t give her any more. But I guess it depends on each person’s case.</p>
<p>Some employers will be willing to switch your position to a non-work study and you can always ask if there are any additional work study funds available (someone might have rejected their offer ;))</p>
<p>Hopefully those accepting work study monies have an easier time than I’ve had finding a job to use mine. Mine has gone to waste quarter after quarter because most jobs require to many hours of me with an excessive unit schedule.</p>
<p>Work study is good when FAFSA comes around. Because it is financial aid monies, it is not used in your EFC calculation. If you go over the protected amount with non-work study monies, then all of that extra is figured into your EFC.</p>
<p>In my case it’s about 6 hours a week. I think you end up with those jobs like parking lot attendant or whatever. I could probably fix a few computers a week and make more than that, but for a 0 effort job it’s almost free money. Woot?</p>
<p>@ Ucihopeful, I got 1,000 this year and I used it all up by march, all i did was call my fin aid counselor and she gave me 1,200 more. So yeah, there is a way to get more, I’m not so sure if it is that easy for all schools however.</p>
<p>^Good to know, thanks…</p>
<p>I didn’t even apply for work study. I figure that the extra time I can put toward studying will more than make of for the extra loans I might have had to take out, in better jobs and grad school offers.</p>