<p>Would you disagree? Keeping in mind that this all purely theoretical as the typical student doesn’t HAVE 40 hours a week to work a full time job, an assumption that I think most would have made.</p>
<p>Even though I never even meant for this to be taken as literally as it is, let me just point out that I specified “a 40 hour week”, not “40 hours a week”. Since there is obviously no reason to condense the entirety of one’s scholarship search into a single week, I think most would realize that the 40 hours is used simply because it is a common figure when discussing work and income. The $260,000 was preceded by “that extrapolates to”, not “once you’ve worked for a year”, a statement that clearly implies it was meant for comparative purposes (most people remember annual salaries as oppose to weekly) and not practical purposes.</p>
<p>A final point, you’re arbitrarily assuming that the OP happens to have a full time job to which to commit, and that to apply for scholarships one would be forced to somehow quit that job. Obviously a job has the infinite advantage of being stable and long term. But if we’re looking to add a new source of income while still comparing apples to apples, we would have to consider a job that only last for 40 hours; the same amount of time we’re hypothetically devoting to the scholarships search. That’s babysitting for two weeks, at best.</p>
<p>So I ask again, would you not agree that putting in 40 hours into a applying for scholarships would be well worth at least the effort spent working on a ONE WEEK job?</p>