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broncos1997:
Besides, when you do the math, if you spend a 40 hour week at home doing nothing but applying for colleges, it’s likely that you will make more per hour than you will at any time in your entire life. If you can win just $5000 in scholarships, that extrapolates to a $260,000 salary for the year.
turtlerock:
Except they don’t actually EARN $260,000 just by applying to scholarships. So how does any of that make sense. “Yes, Son, apply to scholarships instead of trying to work part time because eventually, when you win one it would amount to earning you $100/hr that you put in for it. More than you’ll ever earn. Although you would have only made $200 applying for that scholarship during the few months you were waiting for it. But if you had a part time job for the last 3 months you would have made about $1,500 ($8/hr for 16hrs/wk at 12 weeks).”
broncos1997:
I’m not quite sure how you took my intent… nowhere did I even remotely suggest that applying for scholarships is somehow a viable productive job. My only point is that the ratio of work to probable reward is highly favorable, so even if you have to jump through a lot of "hoops, it’s likely well worth your time.
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<p>Let me emphasize here:
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<p>I think most would infer that the intent of that comment is that it is better to spend 40 hours a week searching for scholarships than it is to spend 40 hours a week working for a wage/salary.</p>