Can someone help please? :( VERY long post.

kezzygirl

Hi op, it would be wise of her to work throughout the summer to get some cash because believe me, she will be skint whilst at uni!!

She will not have any uni work in the summer, my first degree did not require me to do any work over summer unless people had to resubmit-luckily I didn't. all work is completed before breaking up for the holidays.

This degree I am doing now, i am off for 3 weeks and then back to it-the 3 weeks preceding this are to make time up on placement/resubmit assignments if needed, I do not have holidays and half term as much as other uni courses as it is a professional course.

I think she needs to buck her ideas up tbh and realise that you have to work in this life.I get the feeling her big wake-up call will be when she starts at uni and realises how self-sufficient she will need to be!

good luck x

katie1812

I only left uni two years ago and I never had any work over the summer. On every summer I still had my part time job in the evening but I also worked during the days at a different job too. Not every day but about 20 hours a week so I earned some money and was able to have time to see friends etc. if I hadn't had a job I'd have gone mad through boredom I think! Hopefully if some of her friends get jobs then she will follow suit.

neverdespairgirl

I know a lot of people are saying that they had no uni work over the summer, therefore there is none - I don't think that's quite right. I had quite a bit to do over both summers in the middle of my undergraduate course (from UCL) but it wasn't the sort of amount that stopped me doing anything else during the holidays. If I'd done it completely full-time, it would've been a couple of weeks' solid work.

It wasn't resits or anything, it was work on the coming year's syllabus that had to be in on the first day of the new term.

paulineb_2

The girl hasnt even started her course and shes already saying she'll be too busy over the summer to get a job, how does she know?

Thats ridiculous.

pigpen

She might choose to not come home for the summer. Plenty of landlords offer reduced rent just to keep someone in the house over summer and the money coming in.. If she is not prepared to work me t summer then she wouldn't be coming home .. The chances are a great deal will change over the next year.. She will grow up, learn to do things for herself and she might realise the world not you are obliged to keep her. It seems a big daff hypothesising over what may or may not happen in a years time but I'd just laugh and tell her she best find somewhere else to stag next summer because she cannot freeload on you.. And mean it!!

Mojisola

pigpen wrote: »

She might choose to not come home for the summer. Plenty of landlords offer reduced rent just to keep someone in the house over summer and the money coming in..

All my son's - and his friends' - rentals were for twelve months so they had to pay for the summer months even if they went home.

persa

Some people will tell you they worked full time during term time and built an orphanage during their breaks. Then graduated with a first. And a medal from the Queen. Ignore those people.

With most courses, it's hard to work and study during term time. Apart from anything else, you need a job that fits round lectures, or what's the point? If you're not aiming for a 2:1 or higher, don't go.

However, with most courses, you can easily work full time in the summer holidays, Easter holidays, Christmas holidays, etc. Maybe the OP's DD is lazy, maybe she is overestimating how much uni work she will have. But she needs to work - she'll need the money, and more importantly, the work experience.

I volunteered during term time, and worked in the holidays - and when I came to apply for grad jobs, I realised how lucky I had been - plenty of my peers hadn't bothered to do anything constructive with their free time and they struggled to fill out the application forms. And this was just before the recession hit - I'm sure it's even more competitive now.

Uni is the first experience of budgeting for many young people - it's difficult, you haven't done it before and if you're going to a new city, you don't have a feel for the cost of living. The OP can't force her DD to look for a job, but she can warn her the bank of mum and dad will be closed, so it's either find a job during the vacations, or learn how to party on thin air.

Whilst the girl is being unrealistic, she's young, has no experience of uni yet, and may well change her mind of her own accord.

stormbreaker

I have not read through all of the posts but thought I would give you a wee view of my experience.
My son is going in to 5th year doing a Masters. His course is full on and has been since 1st year (many of his friends on other courses have a days of or are only in for a few hours at a time).
He is very busy during term time but still works in the union bar, which in turn limit the time students work and are understanding of course work and exam commitments.
He has NEVER had university work to do over the summer holidays!
He has always worked almost full time in a local bar and picks up work over Christmas and Easter breaks to.
If you go to university open days which are specific course related, and often hosted by students who are currently doing the course, make a point of asking,in her company about course commitments over the holiday period.

mountainofdebt

The other thing that I'm trying to get through Junior's thick skull is that these days employers like to see extra curricula activities on people's applications.

In my mind it shows a bit of get up and go.

Spendless

Emmarillo wrote: »

I'm asking this because I have a daughter who will be in this situation in a few years. How easy is it to find holiday work nowadays? I worked in a Supermarket part time during term time and full time in the holidays, but is it impossible to find things like that now? I know several graduates who are looking for work and it worries me that my daughter won't be able to work while she does her degree as we will support her all we can but it won't be much. My daughter is only in year 9 so we have a way to go, she currently babysits for neighbours which she earns good money for. We only give her £20 a month pocket money - it seems to me the more they are given the less likely they are to want to earn it themselves.

As said, depends where you live. A cashier in the largest Asda in my town (large, deprived one in the North) told me all their staff at that store had to work either Sat or Sun every week, and as a consequence employed no Sat staff. She had 2 teens and said how difficult it had been for them to find work. She ended up paying for them both to do a lifeguard course and they got work that way.

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OP- I do think teens get ideas in their heads that aren't based on what actually happens. I remember not realising A levels were a 2 year course and I was in yr 11 at the time! Son (13) had a recent conversation with me where he wasn't sure Uni was a goal he had because he thought it would be just like a school timetable complete with PE lessons and hadn't realised he'd be studying just one subject! Once she gets to Uni she will found out whether she does or doesn't need to study in the summer, which based on these answers depends on her degree choice and even then for the ones that do require study, it isn't for all of it.