Finding the right balance between work and school is a great way to defray tuition and living costs while learning the kind of skills — including budgeting, time management, and deadlines — that will help you in whatever area you decide to work in after graduation. For many students, it’s a great way to bring in extra income while also getting ‘real life’ lessons in addition to their coursework.
Symmetry for Your Values
So what are some jobs that can make getting through university a more positive experience? Well, a good commuting time can make it so that you have more space to do your school work. If you’re living at home, for example, and that is where you study, a job in your neighborhood — at say a supermarket or coffee shop — can be a good way to budget your time in a position that allows flexible hours. Like to work in the morning or late at night, or study during these times? Coffee shops will often look for early morning and late afternoon/evening shifts, allowing students to distribute their hours in a way that works best with their study time.
Using Sales to Build an Income
Working away from school in sales — with the internet being a good place to find open positions, for example — is another way to bring in a good source of income while gaining real world experience. Field sales jobs such as these teach you about the importance of understanding customers and clients and seeing what they in turn value in a person. If you’re concentrating on finance, face time with real clients is a wonderful opportunity to get your foot in the door with a customer base you can draw from later in life.
Reducing the Commute
If you’re on campus, another idea is to work for your school in some capacity — whether in the library or student union — so that time between work and classes is cut to a minimum. It’s also a great way to boost your CV: If you’re the kind of go-getter who can find a job helping out a lecturer with their material as a teaching assistant, you will often look like a better option for employers after graduation who are looking for someone who can handle tough, real-world challenges.
Student jobs are also nice because the university will understand the budget constraints of their workers — so they might raise your pay or provide work study programs that directly help you pay off your student loans or tuition ahead of time. If you can find a good-paying job around the area of the campus, the trip to class and work might be a breeze. Sites likesalesvacancies.com can provide excellent job tips and openings, and showing that you can handle school and the school of life is always great material for a CV.
A Question of Balance
So for many, the option to work a job in addition to school is a great opportunity to get a taste of the working world while also helping to cut down on educational costs, and develop the kind of strong work ethic that will be of enormous help as one goes into the kind of fulfilling fields available to graduates. While it’s a tough economy at the moment, with the right kind of attitude towards work it can be a positive experience getting ahead in life. It’s the kind of can-do thinking that employers value most to hire the kind of people who can get the job done.
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