Leaving university debt free

rainbow_carnage

Gillyx wrote: »

£18 p/h working in a club? A strip club maybe.

Most people I know who have worked in nightclubs get paid minimum wage.

I don't know what kind of clubs you go to, but a bartender in a decent London club can make £100+ a night in tips. Even the barbacks go home with a couple £20 notes in their pockets.

A cocktail waitress can make a lot more. 3 tables with a £500 minimum spend X 12.5% service charge = £187.50. Take away taxes, add cash tips and you get around £200 on a Saturday night. No stripping required.

You often see pathetic students in these clubs maxing out their overdrafts on £8 vodka and Red Bulls. Why not get a job behind the bar where you can make a living and drink for free.

Gillyx

rainbow_carnage wrote: »

I don't know what kind of clubs you go to, but a bartender in a decent London club can make £100+ a night in tips. Even the barbacks go home with a couple £20 notes in their pockets.

A cocktail waitress can make a lot more. 3 tables with a £500 minimum spend X 12.5% service charge = £187.50. Take away taxes, add cash tips and you get around £200 on a Saturday night. No stripping required.

You often see pathetic students in these clubs maxing out their overdrafts on £8 vodka and Red Bulls. Why not get a job behind the bar where you can make a living and drink for free.

Yeah I've heard about these "cocktail waitress" positions in London, it doesn't fill me with joy.

Obviously these sort of positions will be coveted and more than likely go to trained staff who have worked bars/clubs before and have some sort of skills be it cocktail making or previously working in high end bars.

If everyone could make £100/£200 a night, why are there people in London working in retail or students I know who actually work in London who are very employable and are struggling for work?

System

I worked in a nightclub during my degree, the pay was about £4.50 p/h and you were lucky if you made tips (skint students don't tend to tip) :rotfl:

Gillyx

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

I worked in a nightclub during my degree, the pay was about £4.50 p/h and you were lucky if you made tips (skint students don't tend to tip) :rotfl:

Most people I know are in the same boat, the hours are abit pants aswell.

mightymixty

I just wanted to update that I got a schlorship that means I won't need to take out a student loan. It was so unexpected and I will actually be able to leave university debt free. Definitely apply for all the grants and schlorships available, even if it's a long shot!

Kitty_Ears

Just hitching on the back of this, I have 18 months of my nursing degree left & I'm about -£1,000 in my overdraft. I run my own home & car... tips please of how to get out of my overdraft sooner rather than later...

Person_one

Kitty_Ears wrote: »

Just hitching on the back of this, I have 18 months of my nursing degree left & I'm about -£1,000 in my overdraft. I run my own home & car... tips please of how to get out of my overdraft sooner rather than later...

Are you doing agency shifts as a HCA in the holidays?

Do you apply for your petrol costs to and from placements to be reimbursed? You get more back if you give lifts to other students I believe.

Kitty_Ears

Our placements we don't receive expenses for placements as we all have 'base' hospitals which are placements are all at. If there was HCA jobs available I would plus they give assignments over the holidays which we work on too!

I have a bank cleaning job in a local nursing home, hopefully some shifts will start coming in and I'll be a bit better off.

Person_one

Kitty_Ears wrote: »

Our placements we don't receive expenses for placements as we all have 'base' hospitals which are placements are all at. If there was HCA jobs available I would plus they give assignments over the holidays which we work on too!

I have a bank cleaning job in a local nursing home, hopefully some shifts will start coming in and I'll be a bit better off.

Are the agencies near you not even adding new HCAs to their bank? I'd say next time you have a placement where you like the ward and do well, speak to a sister and ask if they ever use bank HCAs and if they do you'd love to come back and do some shifts as you love the atmosphere of the ward so much!

Do you mind saying where in the country you are?

Kitty_Ears

Lincolnshire. At the moment we have been told HCA are on freeze, plus you have to go through a week of HCA training... ARGH! The sister of the last ward I was on suggested me to bank and got told they were full... the joys.