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Student Jobs?

So what do you do?
Full/part time?
How's the pay?
Enjoy the job?
Comments?
Best job you ever had?
What's the easiest job for the best pay?
How do you juggle your studies?
What's the max hrs per week you can cope with?
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  • No_Future
    No_Future Posts: 334 Forumite
    So what do you do? Sales assistant
    Full/part time? Part time 20hr/week
    How's the pay? £5/hr
    Enjoy the job? Haven't started yet
    Comments? n/a
    Best job you ever had? babysitting!!
    What's the easiest job for the best pay? babysitting
  • So what do you do? Mortgage Reviewer
    Full/part time? Part Time 20 hpw
    How's the pay? Decent! 7.83 ph
    Enjoy the job? Boring. People whining (understandably) about mortgages and thinking I'm generally studpid cos I work in a contact centre. But I specialised in Financial Law, but usually keep this to myself until they've finished telling me how to do my job. Hehe. :p
    How do you juggle your studies? Exactly that, "juggle" is the right word. I don't know - I suppose I had no social life.
    How long til pay day? :eek:
    March Grocery Challenge - £69.54 / £300
  • lolly-i-pop
    lolly-i-pop Posts: 84 Forumite
    So what do you do? waitress
    Full/part time? part time
    How's the pay? £4.80 plus tips
    Enjoy the job? yep
    Comments? hours re variable, sometimes will do a 3 hour shift, other times will do a 7 hour shift, depends how busy it is
    Best job you ever had? flyering
    What's the easiest job for the best pay? waitress
    How do you juggle your studies? they don't conflict
    What's the max hrs per week you can cope with? probably about 20
  • Iwantahouse_2
    Iwantahouse_2 Posts: 118 Forumite
    when i was a student i joined the TA i did one night a week and two weekends a month this was more than enough to cover the rent.
    Car £1500
    Parents £5000
    Barclaycard £900.68
    + 127,000 Mortgage :eek:
    all on my lonesome
  • spurious_2
    spurious_2 Posts: 47 Forumite
    So what do you do? Financial Consultant @ big bank in call centre
    Full/part time? Part Time
    How's the pay? £10,903 (£8.97 an hour)
    Enjoy the job? Start on Tuesday - ask me then!
    Best job you've ever had? Shot !!!!!! in LA for a couple of months in 2003
    How do you juggle your studies? I treat study like a jobi n itself - 9am-5pm and only work for money in the evenings.
    What's the max hrs per week you can cope with? As many as I'm about to do - 24 per week.
  • sophlowe45
    sophlowe45 Posts: 1,559 Forumite
    So what do you do? Work for my uni library
    Full/part time? Part Time - 20 hours a week.
    How's the pay? £8.50 an hour
    Enjoy the job? Its quite good for the money as sometimes it can be really quiet (not at the moment - peak exam time) and you can study!
    Comments - Its a good job, which looks good on the CV.
    Best job you've ever had? All been pretty much the same.
    Whats the easiest job for the best pay? are there any easy jobs that pay well?
    How do you juggle your studies? With some difficulty as hours can clash with lectures.
    What's the max hrs per week you can cope with? 20.
  • clur84
    clur84 Posts: 138 Forumite
    So what do you do? catering assistant/bar worker
    Full/part time? casual sometimes do 3 hours/week soemtimes 30
    How's the pay? £5.72/hr (£7 if work alone)
    Enjoy the job? I love it
    Comments? fits around uni well as they give me dates and i say if i can do them or not. they are understanding too.
    Best job you ever had? student associates scheme/ teaching scheme through uni £30 a day + bonus and you get recognised cirtificate when complted
    What's the easiest job for the best pay? selling stuff on ebay?
  • Stevenj214
    Stevenj214 Posts: 221 Forumite
    So what do you do? Childcare Worker
    Full/part time? Part time
    How's the pay? £6.70p/h
    Enjoy the job? Yes
    Comments? I get paid for colouring in, playing tig and going swimming!
    Best job you ever had? This one
    What's the easiest job for the best pay? In my limited experience, this one
    How do you juggle your studies? Quite easily, my timetable gives me around 10 hours that I have to be in uni for, and I spend maybe another 4 hours studying myself
    What's the max hrs per week you can cope with? If it wasn't for days when I have for example only 1 lecture from 2-3pm, based on the actual work load, I could work full time.
  • TeamMCS
    TeamMCS Posts: 203 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    So what do you do? Salesman
    Full/part time? Parttime
    How's the pay? 5.10 + Commision
    Enjoy the job? Yeah its great
    Comments? Dammed easy
    Best job you ever had? This one
    What's the easiest job for the best pay? this one :P (minus a few short 10£ sofware jobs)
    How do you juggle your studies? With difficulty...
    What's the max hrs per week you can cope with? as many as I can do
  • May-B
    May-B Posts: 40 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts Combo Breaker
    At uni best job I had was working at my student uni behind the bar - it was basically like being paid for going out :D
    Although I did have a permanent hangover - at least it was free ;)

    So many of thousands of other awful jobs though - usually the mundane ones, like working in a coffee outlet were the worst - mind numbingly boring for minimum wage :rolleyes: . I had a job cleaning toilets at a communal retreat in france once - that was AWFUL (hundreds of people to a loo, which was basically a drain pipe cut in half - in 37 degree heat - nice!) but at least y'could laugh about it :D - or possibly we were just high on the fumes!
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