What jobs are you holding, while in school?

[beingthechange]

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, that's the only key to 4.0 GPA, isn't it?

I work full time as a marketing manager for a national apparel company (40+ hrs/week), and I have two daughters at home (5yrs and 1yr) and I have a 4.0.

HOWEVER... I'm only starting my sophomore year though, so I'm probably speaking too soon. I've got Calc, Gen Chem 2, Religion and Art on the schedule for next semester...

So I'll update after Fall 2010. 😉

 

[Elpenor]

Wish I had that luxury. I have to find another job soon, and I already have hardly any free time. How do you do it?

Well luckily, (or not?) my parents are pretty poor. With the money from my PELL grant and a few grants based on academic performance I actually am gaining ~2,000 dollars per semester AFTER I pay for tuition. Although my parents aren't well off, my grandparents are... and also left me with a little money to help out: I have been using that to pay for living expenses.

I could probably make this money go a long way if I worked, but I figure with all the loans I am going to be taking out for med school that it won't matter much anyways.

 

[delhies]

Plan to quit my job as a clerk in the front office of an ortho practice VERY soon and concentrate on school full time with a PT job on the weekends probably.

WAY to much stress to deal with on a daily basis, plus I work with a bunch of women. :| Yeah.

 

[Janieve]

Well luckily, (or not?) my parents are pretty poor. With the money from my PELL grant and a few grants based on academic performance I actually am gaining ~2,000 dollars per semester AFTER I pay for tuition. Although my parents aren't well off, my grandparents are... and also left me with a little money to help out: I have been using that to pay for living expenses.

I could probably make this money go a long way if I worked, but I figure with all the loans I am going to be taking out for med school that it won't matter much anyways.

Sorry about your family being poor. But really envious of the grants you get. I've applied for over 100 scholarships (current count: 115) and I haven't gotten a single one yet. I don't qualify for need-based anything because my parents make too much, but I've still got a pretty hefty bill when all is said and done. I go to a very large public university, too, so I can't get merit-based anything because, inevitably, someone in my area is getting better grades than me. So I'm taking out loans and working my butt off to avoid taking out too much in loans before medical school. And it's still not enough sometimes.

I'm glad I had the life I had back in high school, and I'm glad my family doesn't have financial problems, but still. It'd be nice if I didn't have to go into debt and risk my GPA now because of it.

/whiny rant

 

[delhies]

Sorry about your family being poor. But really envious of the grants you get. I've applied for over 100 scholarships (current count: 115) and I haven't gotten a single one yet. I don't qualify for need-based anything because my parents make too much, but I've still got a pretty hefty bill when all is said and done. I go to a very large public university, too, so I can't get merit-based anything because, inevitably, someone in my area is getting better grades than me. So I'm taking out loans and working my butt off to avoid taking out too much in loans before medical school. And it's still not enough sometimes.

I'm glad I had the life I had back in high school, and I'm glad my family doesn't have financial problems, but still. It'd be nice if I didn't have to go into debt and risk my GPA now because of it.

/whiny rant

Have you tried applying for grants and things like that under your income?

 

[Janieve]

Have you tried applying for grants and things like that under your income?

I tried with my school's financial aid department, but they said that since my parents still claim me as a dependent on taxes, I didn't meet the requirements. Total BS. As much as the system helps some people, it screws others over on a regular basis.

 

[rcharm99]

Lab Tech at my University's genetics research inst.

And a little bit of a freelance makeup artist on the side (just a hobby).

 

[Elpenor]

I tried with my school's financial aid department, but they said that since my parents still claim me as a dependent on taxes, I didn't meet the requirements. Total BS. As much as the system helps some people, it screws others over on a regular basis.

Honestly, I agree. It was way too easy for me to get money (a lot of money too,) from the government grants. It IS unfair and I kind of feel uncomfortable accepting the money... but in the end only a crazy person would turn down free money 😀.

 

[Janieve]

Honestly, I agree. It was way too easy for me to get money (a lot of money too,) from the government grants. It IS unfair and I kind of feel uncomfortable accepting the money... but in the end only a crazy person would turn down free money 😀.

Yeah, I know what you mean! Offer me free money and I will TAKE IT.

I try my best to be a good person, but it's not always that easy. After scholarship rejection number 102 rolled in, a friend emailed me to share the good news that he'd gotten yet another scholarship offer on the basis that he was native american. Hot on the heels of that was a guy I know who has NEVER held a job and whose parents pay for his school gleefully informing me that the state was giving him $1500 per term and that he planned to deck out his car with new speakers. Both cases, I smile and congratulate them, then head home to apply for more work and more scholarships that past precedent dictates I'm not getting. But hey, at least I'm still a good person, right?

As of today, I've been rejected for 108 scholarships. Waiting on eight. And no, my math isn't wrong there. I actually got rejected for a scholarship I didn't apply for once (preemptive rejection?), so if I get rejected for the eight I'm waiting for, I'll have a rejection count of 116 rejections/115 applications.

At this point, I think I should get a consolation prize of some sort, even if it's just a gift card to the grocery store. All that effort has to count for something, right?

 

[delhies]

Yeah, I know what you mean! Offer me free money and I will TAKE IT.

I try my best to be a good person, but it's not always that easy. After scholarship rejection number 102 rolled in, a friend emailed me to share the good news that he'd gotten yet another scholarship offer on the basis that he was native american. Hot on the heels of that was a guy I know who has NEVER held a job and whose parents pay for his school gleefully informing me that the state was giving him $1500 per term and that he planned to deck out his car with new speakers. Both cases, I smile and congratulate them, then head home to apply for more work and more scholarships that past precedent dictates I'm not getting. But hey, at least I'm still a good person, right?

As of today, I've been rejected for 108 scholarships. Waiting on eight. And no, my math isn't wrong there. I actually got rejected for a scholarship I didn't apply for once (preemptive rejection?), so if I get rejected for the eight I'm waiting for, I'll have a rejection count of 116 rejections/115 applications.

At this point, I think I should get a consolation prize of some sort, even if it's just a gift card to the grocery store. All that effort has to count for something, right?

Holy god.....You're a statistical anomaly. 😵

 

[at24]

Sorry about your family being poor. But really envious of the grants you get. I've applied for over 100 scholarships (current count: 115) and I haven't gotten a single one yet. I don't qualify for need-based anything because my parents make too much, but I've still got a pretty hefty bill when all is said and done. I go to a very large public university, too, so I can't get merit-based anything because, inevitably, someone in my area is getting better grades than me. So I'm taking out loans and working my butt off to avoid taking out too much in loans before medical school. And it's still not enough sometimes.

I'm glad I had the life I had back in high school, and I'm glad my family doesn't have financial problems, but still. It'd be nice if I didn't have to go into debt and risk my GPA now because of it.

/whiny rant

I'm in the same boat. I've lost count on how many scholarships apps that were sent and never heard from again, maybe 60ish. 😳 My parents also make way too much for me to qualify for anything, especially the cushy workstudy jobs. Lets go rob a bank together

 

[Janieve]

I'm in the same boat. I've lost count on how many scholarships apps that were sent and never heard from again, maybe 60ish. 😳 My parents also make way too much for me to qualify for anything, especially the cushy workstudy jobs. Lets go rob a bank together

I'll dress up as Darth Vadar. Oh, wait. Already done.

Okay, then! I'll be Ronald Reagan. You be Bill Clinton. It'll be brilliant!