• Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    It should also be noted that a semester itself is about 16 weeks.

    So if you worked 16 weeks full time in the summer and 32 weeks part time during your 2 semesters, you’d have 4 weeks left in the year. At absolutely minimum wage, if you lived with your parents, that’s a fairly heavy workload, but perfectly feasible to do.

    Now, to pay for 2 semesters, you need to work full time for 66 weeks a year. Can you work full time while going to school? Can you manifest 8 extra weeks of full time work in a 52 week year? Can you even get a full time minimum wage job without your employer cutting hours to deny benefits?