<p>I am thinking of working at Apple store (since the process seems to be going smoothly) at UTC during the year. Will I have enough time? How much will having a job interfere with my schedule?</p>
<p>Of course having a job will “interfere with your schedule”. Your ability to manage time is up to you and none of us can tell you if getting a job is in your best interest.</p>
<p>keep in mind that off campus jobs might be less flexible with working around your class schedule than on campus jobs generally are. but if you’re able to plan your time wisely, you shouldn’t have any problems.
go for it if you’re confident.</p>
<p>Just curious, how would you know for sure Apple will even hire you in the first place?</p>
<p>A few students at the university I attended were getting paid by their company to get an undergrad engineering degree. Pretty cool. They took classes for half a day and worked the other half. They probably had one up from the real world experience. I would say if your company isn’t going to pay you to go to school, then focus on your academics over the beer money. If you are financially strapped, a job isn’t a bad idea, but I think the short few years you spend at school should take priority.</p>
<p>Okay well I guess I’m just gonna take the interview and decide later. I heard freshman year was the year to have enough time to have a job so I was curious.</p>
<p>By the way I’m not planning to work full time, hopefully just weekends like my current job.</p>
<p>I was also thinking of getting a part-time job during my first year. I would prefer to find a job on campus, since I won’t have a car. Is it difficult to find an on-campus job if you’re not in the work-study program? Would it be too late to apply if I waited till school started?</p>
<p>I won’t be having a car either but dude UTC mall is like not even a mile away. I live in SD so I kinda know. We have to apply for work study now?</p>
<p>you should know if you were awarded work study or not when you receive your fin aid awards.
having work study or not doesn’t really matter when finding on campus jobs. ideally work study students should get a job more easily than a non work study student, but this doesn’t always happen. just be diligent and apply as early as possible to any and all jobs you can.
you don’t apply for work study, per say. when you fill out the fafsa, it asks you if you’re interested in work study so when you receive your financial aid award, you will know if you were awarded it or not.
and having a job at utc doesn’t mean that you need a car. the buses go from campus to utc and it only takes like 15-30 minutes to get there (depending).</p>
<p>thanks paradise.</p>
<p>Well I hope I can manage my time with work study and regular work. Is work study guaranteed that amount they gave us on the financial aide award site?</p>
<p>No employers offer just weekend hours. Every one of my friends have tried. Every one of my friends were turned down.</p>
<p>And from experience, on-campus jobs are a lot more selective against students without work-study.</p>
<p>Federal funding means funding that the school doesn’t have to pay, so to the end-firm, you’re cheaper labor for the same marginal revenue product, therefore more bang-for-buck than someone without work-study.</p>
<p>well my current one did lol.</p>
<p>I’m really worried now. I mean, I do need money since my parents aren’t going to be supporting me much. I’m seeing alot of the negative side here.</p>
<p>My friend tried to get a job freshman year fall quarter. It was off campus and she didn’t have a car. She quit after 2 weeks. it’s just a lot to get acclimated to all at once. Winter quarter probably would’ve been easier.</p>
<p>I’m probably going to wait till winter too. I want to get use to the college experience.</p>
<p>Would not taking a job but taking more classes save you more money? :D</p>
<p>Yes .</p>
<p>If you dodn’t need the money, I wouldn’t bother with a pt job. The time you spend studying and meeting people is more worthwhile than working.
If you need the cash, I know plenty of people who fit a pt job into their schedule. You wouldn’t be able to do it if you are on a sports team or taking an overwhelming course load. And weekend/weeknights doesn’t really matter in college. You can be flexible and change your studying and sleeping times, as long as you are sure to attend classes. I don’t see any problem with working a weekday night or a weekend. I am sure if you were more available than just weekends you would be more likely to find a job.</p>
<p>I worked an on campus job (~12 hrs a week) and was on a sports team freshman / sophomore year. its definitely doable if you manage your time. Yes, it made my grades lower than they could have been my freshman year but once I learned better time management and got used to the course load my grades went up.</p>
<p>I would say its worth it, just know that you wont be able to sleep in till noon everyday, you will have to get up and do stuff on time.</p>
<p>hmm well, idk then lol. If I get the job then yippee, I mean apple store seems fun. I just gotta go to my interview next month and see what happens.</p>
<p>If I don’t get the job then I’ll enjoy college.</p>