<p>I am a student at Moorpark college, but already have 15 units due to AP classes/Pierce classes part-time. I just graduated high school, so my experience with balancing work and college is very limited.</p>
<p>This week I was just hired at a job where I got scheduled to work 24 hours a week. However, I'm also taking 13 units. I am extremely scared that I won't be able to keep up with the work. The job itself is very boring and you do alot of nothing...so I can study while I'm at work...but, I don't get home until 7pm 2 days a week, and 10pm 3 days a week. Is there anyone who has had a part time job who has been able to get great grades while at community college? I'm nervous about it. Thanks!</p>
<p>(Also, if anyone has any experience driving down the 118 to Moorpark to Chatsworth in 40 minutes, let me know. :) )</p>
<p>coming from someone who fcked up in high school - it is manageable. </p>
<p>i worked 30+ hours a week, volunteered, held up a decent social life, joined the honors program (took honors classes), joined clubs, tackled 15+ units a semester, and got home after 11 every night. i also took all summer and winter sessions, and i did not use any ap credit from high school. night classes are your best option if you’re looking for ease and availability.</p>
<p>even with all this, i still managed to pull a 3.5, and i feel i could have done much much better. i will be at ucla in the fall. </p>
<p>it’s really not as hard as you think it’ll be, it’s all a matter of adjusting because you’re going to be pretty much on your own now, unlike high school where everyone is breathing down your neck.</p>
<p>I took 24+ (at most, 30), had a few good extracurrics, took honors, and pulled off a 3.6. Took 13-19 units (counting transferrable ONLY). Use your time management skills, don’t give up. It’s all about time management but realize it sure is a task. Good luck!</p>
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Yeah, it kinda is. Well for people who can get their priorities straight.</p>
<p>I worked 30+ during school and was doing up to 19 units, no less than 16 each semester. I was the treasurer of PTK, and a bunch of other stuff. Since I was also in the Honors Program, I also had to attend monthly meetings when I didn’t have class which was a pain. Thankfully I didn’t go to school everyday, I worked out my schedule so that one semester I would go MWF and the other TTh. That helped out a lot!</p>
<p>Edit: Forgot to add that I got a 4.0 all four semesters and that I have a very nice social life, thank you very much, lol. I visit my friends at UCLA all the time! If I didn’t I probably would have transferred in a year since I have billions of AP unit credit, lol.</p>
<p>Ive been working at a lab for 40+ hours a week and have been taking 12 unit semesters. (taking 16 this semester).</p>
<p>i was a slacker in highschool which led me to CCC. but, if you prioritize your time you can pull it off. (ive been recieving straight A’s).</p>
<p>I guess for me, i had to come to terms with the saying: "There are three things in a person’s life: Work, Education, and Social life. Choose two.</p>
<p>Fall semester I took 13 units, spring semester I took 17 (mostly major prereqs too), both semesters I was interning around 20 hours a week, so I was always either at school or at work. </p>
<p>With all that school and work, I was still able to find time to mess around on the weekends with friends and pull off a 3.6 GPA. It’s not a great GPA (especially for a mech. engineering major), but it is what it is. Like the another said above, I feel I could’ve done a lot better, especially if I spent more time studying on the weekends.</p>
<p>@bunnybee13
Sounds like a pretty sweet job for a college student. You shouldn’t have any problems getting your work done seeing as how your only task at work is to answer the phone… and it rarely rings. I want a job like this!</p>
I appreciate all the help. You guys have made me alot less fearful about work/school at the same time.</p>