<p>I was wondering, how much money can you earn per year with a work-study? </p>
<p>Also, how much is it possible to work while still getting schoolwork done?</p>
<p>I was pretty disappointed that Columbia gave my family no aid whatsoever, since I now have to find a way to make up the difference from the schools that are cheaper and/or offered aid if I have any chance at attending Columbia.</p>
<p>I would say if you take a normal amount of classes, you can work 10 hours and get away with it. You can probably find something that'll pay you $12/hr.</p>
<p>I think you have to be eligible for work-study, and if you got no aid whatsoever you probably aren't eligible.</p>
<p>There are lots of work study / student moneymaking threads on here. Check the helpful threads / do a search.</p>
<p>12/hr is actually the maximum you can make in work study. Freshman year you're more likely to find a job that'll pay you 10/hr but its not unheard of to find one that pays more.</p>
<p>I think 10-12 hrs a week is a good amount of time to work. I worked more freshman year and it wasn't such a good idea.</p>
<p>Hey what do we have to bring to DoC, I'm think sleeping bag, towel, toothbrush/paste, any thing else?</p>
<p>Lol, clothes? And maybe some money.</p>
<p>Lol. Yeah but i though clothe was a given, but that might not be the case....</p>
<p>on campus casual positions pay more than work study, and you don't have to deal with work study stuff.
but those are more rare and harder to find.</p>
<p>If we weren't offered work study on our finaid package but still want to work, what are the possibilities?</p>
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<p>Other grooming things -- deodorant, razor, etc.</p>
<p>Camera perhaps</p>
<p>Money, in case you go out or want to buy something at the bookstore</p>
<p>Condoms?</p>
<p>My basic packlist for any trip, including business: Clothes, Toiletries, Entertainment. The last of which you won't need that much, maybe a book or an iPod will do, but if you have a laptop and can't do without internet, that's something to consider.</p>
<p>Also, $15/hr is the maximum you can earn with casual employment at columbia. I earned that several summers. Until I found that if you know computers at all, you can make a lot more than that working on the side.</p>
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<p>absolutely incorrect</p>
<p>there is no limit to what you can earn with casual employment!</p>
<p>senior year I was making $18/hr tutoring for the academic resource center in GS</p>
<p>Apparently I have to call to see if I'm eligible for work study. I'm probably not, though.</p>
<p>So for casual employment on campus, are there jobs you can get as a freshman? Do any of you have suggestions for how to find and get one of them?</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat as you, but comeon we're in NYC, how hard can it be to find a job somewhere?</p>
<p>There is no $15/hr limit... I'm getting $30/hr right now and it's work study.</p>
<p>wth do u do to get $30/hr?? i'm assuming its not on campus?</p>
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<p>there is no limit to what you can earn with casual employment!</p>
<p>senior year I was making $18/hr tutoring for the academic resource center in GS
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Interesting. I was told summer sophomore year that the $15/hr I was making was the limit for casuals, that any higher than that is for FT employees only. Either they raised the limit or they didn't know what they were talking about.</p>
<p>Regardless, the point is that you can make decent money as an on-campus casual employee or even more off-campus. If you subscribe to CCE's Temp Time list, you'll be deluged with ads from rich manhattanite families who want a personal tutor for their little Spencer to teach him chemistry and french, and they only want an ivy leaguer, but they'll pay $50/hr for something like 6 hours a week. Not bad for the time spent. $40-50+/hr is actually pretty standard.</p>
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<p>or maybe they just told you that so you don't ask for or expect more money</p>
<p>elec-I just read your thread, and it seems that we are in the exact same situation. Lol. :)</p>
<p>Denzera-Wow. Awesome. o.o I will definitely subscribe to that list. Dumb question: do we get that link with our Columbia stuff or is it something I should search out now?</p>
<p>It's on campus, but hard to get into. In any case, it proves that there is no $15/hr limit.</p>
<p>What Denzera said about tutoring rich people's kids is kind of true. But I've never seen anything beyond $20/hr, so don't get your hopes up. Maybe you can bargain with them, but the Temp Temp list have never listed a tutoring job for above $20/hr since I've gotten here (last fall).</p>