New Job...Bye Bye Free Time!

You know how I feel about you working in SRQ over the weekends. I know you need money but you should probably quit there until summer. That's a lot of crap to deal with.

As far as college being easy though, I think that totally depends on your major and your involvement with the university. I might go insane this week. The Robert Helps Festival is this week and next week. This, sadly, is a really big deal around the school of music. I usually only have to play in the orchestra concert so it has never really been a big deal until this year. I'm playing in two concerts this week. The orchestra concert is on Sunday, and one of the composers is sitting in on all of our rehearsals this week. The other concert is Monday night (which you should totally go to because the piece is really cool and the composer is conducting us) which I have rehearsals for on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Then I also have a listening exam, the rough draft in this class, and a midterm all due on Tuesday. Where in the hell am I going to find time to study, do homework, practice AND sleep?! Really, I probably should just boycott sleep this week. Either that or I should sleep at my friend's place after each of the study parties so I don't have to drive home and waste the half hour it takes to get to campus and park from his place. I could use the drive time to nap! This is becoming a really good idea... I might ask him if I can bum out on his couch haha.

Back on topic though, school is not easy for some of us. I'm just realizing that one actually. High school was cake. The first two years here... Eh. Not so bad, and not so good. But now, I'm going stir crazy trying to keep up my grades. Putting together a junior recital at the same time makes things ten times worse... School is my full-time job. I can't even imagine having a "real job" right now.

Great. Now I'm stressing out about my midterm. See what you did? ;)

I agree completely with you. It is VERY hard to find time to actually take a second to relax and think, but in time hopefully it gets better for you. I don't work two jobs so I can't really relate to that, but I am on a soccer team and I usually work three or four days a week (incluing Friday and Sunday night). So, I leave Saturday as my free day and during the week it's crunch time to get everything done. You have to try and set up a schedule that works for you and if you have to adjust weekly to it then thats fine. I know I can sit here and try and tell you what you could do, but only you can figure out what to really do to make your life less stressful...:)

I only have one part time job where I work around 20 hours a week and I can't even handle it. Unlike you however, I live at home, about 30 minutes away from campus… on a good day. It gets really rough for me because I still have to pay for everything, except for rent, and it seems like I never have time to do anything. I'm always tired and I usually have a list of about 6 different assignments I need to be working on. I wish I could quit my job, but then I'd have to cut off my phone, starve, walk to school, and pretty much live Amish.
I don't see how a boyfriend would relieve such a load. While they can pay for a couple meals here and there, they are also too time-consuming for someone with such a busy schedule.

wow that's a tough situation... going to college is hard enough without having to work 50 hours a week. And if you want to keep scholarships to help pay to for college you have to keep up with your grades and you can't do that if you have no time to study or do homework. I know there are a lot of websites out there that can help you find scholarships and maybe you can get one that will help out more and then you will have to work less. Good luck with work and school...and just remember summer is almost here.

I somewhat know how you feel. While I don't work 2 part time jobs, I still try to work as many hours as possible. I find that I am never able to get enough sleep, I'm constantly doing homework or working. In what little time that I have available to do whatever in I end up spending with my closest friends. What's funny is that whenever I'm hanging out with my friends I always end up falling asleep. At the beggining of this semester I was working shifts like one in the afternoon to one in the morning or seven thirty in the morning until midnight. These were always the shifts that killed me, but the money was great and I needed it. Like you, I don't have my parents paying for everything. I have to work for what I want. And because of that, I can't stand people who take that for granted, because I know I wouldn't. Good luck though, having two jobs and class is a killer.

I totally know how you feel. I never thought it would be this hard. I do not have a job right now because I worked over the summer and saved my money but now I have to get a job. I do not know how I am going to manage working full time and being a full- time student. I was lucky enough to get a loan but only because my mom signed with me. It was extremely difficult to apply. They advertise that you can get your money in less than a week, but it took me 3 months just to apply and get approved.

I thought I was the only one who felt that way. I also work and go to school full time because I have to pay everything without my parents help. Up until last semester I thought I could handle it, but this semester I had a serious family problem, and having all of this going on in my life almost drove me insane!!! My grades went way down and I never had time to sleep, eat, schoolwork, or live. Everyday I felt mad at everything and at everyone for no apparent reason. Thank God my family issue was just solved during the break, and now that life seems brighter I have decided to get a loan and quit my job. I know I'm going to REALLY need the money, but if I learned something from all of this is that life is too short and beautiful to hate it. I really want to focus on school and have some sleep for once. Is going to be hard but I really need a well deserved break.