Students who also work - How many hours do you work on average a week?

flower24

I have been wondering whether to look for a job as we are struggling and aren't getting any help with childcare, but I am so stressed out juggling being a mum with studying I don't see how I'd physically be able to do it! I'd have to do at least 16 hours as well to get childcare help, don't think it'd be possible!

Lokolo_2

DannyWhoWorks wrote: »

This is a pretty good point! How much have you saved may I ask Lokolo?

During Uni? or since I started working when I was 17?

If the former, about £50k, if the latter, my current savings stand at just over £86k at 23 years old, however unbelievable it may seem, I sacrificed my social life substiantially and worked long hours (at low paid jobs) to save up this much. I'm probably in the minority for leading that kind of life but my ambitions are different, I want a place of my own soon and to be able to put down a large deposit!

DannyWhoWorks

Lokolo_2 wrote: »

During Uni? or since I started working when I was 17?

If the former, about £50k, if the latter, my current savings stand at just over £86k at 23 years old, however unbelievable it may seem, I sacrificed my social life substiantially and worked long hours (at low paid jobs) to save up this much. I'm probably in the minority for leading that kind of life but my ambitions are different, I want a place of my own soon and to be able to put down a large deposit!

That is fantastic! Congratz.

I am 24, and by the end of July I will have saved £45,000. not a patch on yours :rotfl:

Lokolo_2

DannyWhoWorks wrote: »

That is fantastic! Congratz.

I am 24, and by the end of July I will have saved £45,000. not a patch on yours :rotfl:

Thanks, it was at the cost of a higher class degree though and I missed out on a lot of "fun"!

You've done really well too though, congratulations on saving £45k! You and I know that most Uni students come out of Uni in debt rather than a penny or a few thousand to their name at all! :T

katie1812

When I was at uni, I worked about 12-15 hours a week at a local Chinese takeaway. The hours were good, only 5-9pm on the nights I worked and varied between 3 and 4 a week, occasionally more depending on people being ill or off etc.

stephyt23

Congrats to both Lokolo 2 and Dannywho works, wish I could say I had that much, I certainly have no where near that:rotfl:

I work 13 hours around a part time degree which is still hard going as I still have to put in the same amount of work as those doing the full time version.

Derivative

My university officially bans working during term time.
In reality it is possible to work a few hours on campus (usually about 5 hours, max).
The policy isn't that draconian either, to be honest. If you did work much more than that you'd fall down pretty quickly on my course at least.

So I'd say it's massively dependent on course and university.

chazsucks

My course is one day at uni per week - 7.5 hours and 3 short shifts or two long (13 hour) shifts a week. Which theoretically gives me 3/4 days to work per week however my partner works some days that I'm off and due to sometimes not knowing my shifts until a couple of days before them it's REALLY hard to try and fit in part time work around it so I usually spend a few hours a week on ebay, go to boot sales etc. have applied for loads of the online jobs before where you choose your hours and don't get paid much but have never gotten through

laurylaury

When I did my undergraduate degree I worked 17.5 hours per week which I did in the mornings before class which suited me. I don't feasibly think I could have done much more though.
I'm doing a part-time Masters now and working 23.5 hours a week which is bordering on too much due to the amount of reading I have to do but I couldn't afford to keep studying otherwise.

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

A recent study (The YouGov SixthSense report) showed that just under a third (31 per cent) of students did part-time paid work, with the average working student doing 11 hours of paid work a week and earning £91.53.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422630&c=1

Since a third of students get a 2:2 or below these days, it makes me wonder what the correlation is between the third who work and the third that get a 2:2 or less. Given that 70% of employers will only consider graduates with a 2:1 or better than an answer to that question would seem worth pondering.