<p>if, like me, you're content getting by on whatever mom and dad send you every month then don't work. </p>
<p>if you want extra money to support a drug habit, go to bars 6 nights a week, order every meal out, buy xbox360 games, hire escort girls, etc. then you should probably get a part time job.</p>
<p>Or, Jags, if you want work experience on a resume for your future job search, it's important to work part-time; no work experience at all=harder time finding a job after graduation.</p>
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If you don't need the money, don't work. You have the rest of your life to work...enjoy being a kid for as long as you can.
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<p>Quoted for Truth.</p>
<p>Yes, but if you want to stay ahead of the next guy, get a part-time job during school and a full-time job during the summer; show dedication to working, because everyone's getting a Bachelors Degree these days, and it doesn't put you ahead of the pack like it used to.</p>
<p>A full-time job during the summer???? Hey, they call it a VACATION for a reason. I know it's a vacation from school, but if you work 9-5 Monday-Friday and a few hours on Saturday, you'll go back to school in August as burned-out as when you left in May. I'm not saying don't work at all during Winter and Summer breaks, but you shouldn't work all the time either. I'm going back to one of the jobs I had in the summer over Christmas break, but it's only 4 days a week, for about 5 hours per day. I won't make as much as I'd like, but I'll make enough, and I'll still have time to have some fun over break. In the summer I'll work more than I will at Christmas, but it won't be 9-5 Monday-Friday. That's too much, and as Kath said, we have the rest of our lives to work all day, every day. Do workstudy during the school year if you must, but I'm in favor of not working during the school year if isn't necessary. If you work to make money for drugs or an endless beer supply, maybe you should reconsider how you spend your money. My parents send me $50/month and I also have the money I save from my summer jobs. I get by just fine.</p>
<p>I wouldn't mind having a full time job over the summer. It'd keep me disciplined and give me some extra spending money for the subsequent semester :)</p>
<p>You'll have a nice chunk of change saved, yes. But that won't be particularly comforting when you're friends are going to a local amusement park for the day or a Friday night movie, and you can't go because of work. The benefit doesn't always outweigh the cost.</p>
<p>It's odd how people, including ourselves, force us to "grow up" ASAP.</p>
<p>Lol. I dont have many friends anyways...it's irrelevant for me.</p>
<p>Frostburg, you make no sense? That's exactly why people have trouble finding jobs after they graduate, even with a degree. Why? Because during the summer they want time to relax. In the real world, you work year round, unless you're a teacher. Employers like to see full-time work experience; they like the 9-5; they like seeing that you worked at a place for longer than 3 weeks without quitting. They want to know you're not going to quit after 2 weeks at a place because you can't hack it.
Work full-time during the summer; you always have the weekends.</p>
<p>I make perfect sense. I didn't say don't work during the summer, I just don't see the point in rushing into a 9-5 job. You were right, when most of us get into the full-time work world, we'll work 12 months a year with maybe a week or two vacation in the summer. So, don't you want to enjoy at least this first summer after starting college? Work a few days a week, so that you'll still have time for a little fun? Hold off on internships until at least the start of junior year. Maybe it's different at other schools, but here it's hard to find an internship as a freshman or sophmore anyway. Also, I can't think of any full-time job to be had by someone who doesn't have their college degree yet, unless you count internships. But, as I said, those go to upperclassmen before they go to kids coming out of freshman year. Besides you can show commitment and ability at a part-time job while you hold on to your sanity at the same time. Maybe you have never worked your whole summer away, but I have. It sucks to have lots of money and never any time to do anything fun with it. We'll be working all day, every day soon enough, why rush it?</p>
<p>I work ~25 hours per week. Paid internship. It's not fun, but it's easy and it's getting me ready for graduation. And will hopefully help me land a better job. </p>
<p>I didn't NEED the money. I probably could have drained a savings account, but I didn't want to do that. I'll be graduating with no debt (but work money only goes towards extraneous bills/some food/extra stuff).</p>
<p>To each his own.</p>
<p>basically.</p>
<p>I work part-time on campus (10 hours a week) and really enjoy it. I've met a lot of people and it's good experience. Try and get a job on campus if you can because there are usually a lot of students working as well and you can make friends with people on campus that way =)</p>
<p>I work 17 hours a week in a video game store... I've been working there since the end of my freshman year in college (3 1/2 years now working there). It's a timesink alright, but it makes me the money I need to have some form of a life while in college.</p>
<p>Alot of the people I know work on campus. Probably what I will end up doing as well.</p>
<p>I work 20-25 hours a week at a restaurant and although it's a big time commitment, I wouldn't be doing anything productive if I wasn't working anyway, probably sleeping. Having a job has made me manage my free time better and prioritize. Plus, the restaurant is practically on campus so everyone who works there is pretty much a student as well, so it's a great way to meet people.</p>