<p>Does anyone know if you are awarded a work-study, if you don't get a job first semester are you still able to get a work-study job for the second semester? My first semester schedule is a 17 credit load and does not really give any good time slots for a job to work in. I know there's many other ways to work besides a federal work study, but I was curious about this, thanks!</p>
<p>I’m guessing yes, because the money is for the academic year, but it’s only a guess, you should call your school and ask.</p>
<p>One more concern, if you can’t work enough to use your entire WS allocation during your second sem, you will leave money on the table. Have you checked to see if you can get a job for just a few hours a week? Some schools have WS jobs posted on their websites during the summer.</p>
<p>You can’t fit in a few evenings or a couple weekend mornings to work? Usually all sorts of shifts are possible in the cafeteria, library, mail room, etc. I’m sure you could find a few workable time slots if you really want to work.</p>
<p>Well I’m in the process of overhauling my schedule right now to hopefully make it more possible. But it depends on if I get off some watch lists. There is a work study job posting thing on out web portal but it doesn’t delve into very specific things. I’m hoping to have a specific job set up next semester that’s considered a work study I believe so I was just wondering if that would create an issue. I’ll call tomorrow</p>
<p>Keep looking. My daughter’s first work study job was working at the call center. She was able to work evenings and weekends.</p>
<p>I don’t know if the rules are consistent with each college on this, but I know my brother’s niece used all of her workstudy hours in her second semester her first year because she didn’t find anything first semester, but I don’t know if there are any limitations or caveats to being able to do this. One can take the full year’s worth of Unsub direct loans in the second term of school, but not the first. One has to take PELL grants, 1/2 in the first term, and 1/2 in the second. Don’t use it for any reason, including not going to school first term, you lose that half for the year even if the need is there second term. I don’t know about the subsidized loans and I don’t know about work study.</p>