What to remember if you are going to combine studies and work

Nobody will be surprised by the fact that senior students combine work with study full-time. Sometimes this choice is dictated by the need: you need to pay for their education or financially help the family. But most of the guys just want to be treated as adults, and do not want to ask the parents pocket money.

Not important reason why you decided to start work without having finished university, one thing is important: you We must cope with both work and with study, and most importantly - one should not interfere another.

Today we will talk about what to remember if you are going to combine studies and work.

If you have not yet found a job

I bet that even if you seriously never thought about finding a job, everything is still throwing a phrase a couple of times in a conversation with classmates or friends, "This is going to find a job", "The university is one theory, it is time to look for work and to practice", "Already work want tired of this university, "" go to work, then even if the money paid "- the wording may be different, but the essence is always the same.

Maybe you did not want to seriously look for a job, you just want to show off cool and adult, which is already thinking about the professional fulfillment.

But you do decide to put aside empty talk and looked for work in earnest. So, where to start.

Do not look for a job from the category of "students"

When I look in the section "Work for students," I feel more than sad. Waiters and promoters - that's what the post, according to employers, students can apply for universities.

You are learning in higher education, you get a specialty, which (like to believe) you like and where you are going to continue to work and build a career. So why deprive yourself of valuable time doing completely outside activities? Try to find jobs in their field.

It will seem that you do not know nothing, know nothing, not competitive and do you still too early to be labeled so high. This feeling of uncertainty in their own abilities and you should smother at the root, or will live with him all his life - and a student, and after graduating from university.

Go ahead and threaten to do more. Learn from lawyers, journalists, accountants, and so on. D.? It's time to begin to comprehend the basics of the profession in practice. Feel free to look for jobs in the professional field, and do not be confused by the endless number of required skills and lines "definitely higher profile education" and "work experience in a similar position from one of the year". About the experience - it's like in the famous joke:

To get a job, you need to have work experience. And in order to gain experience, to work. I can not decide where do I start.

And about the requirements - in most cases they are too high, so do not rush to give up, unable to even start. Of course, we should not lie to the employer, giving himself mythical skills and abilities that you do not have, but here to show himself as a young budding professional who is ready to learn a lot - it is quite another a business.

Do not give the workers a chance to fall out to you at the University of

And no, I'm not referring to work at the university as a research assistant (although sometimes it is a very good option).

At university you will pass practice in enterprises, since the first years, and if you show yourself well, then perhaps you will be invited to work. Do not rush to give up.

Very often there are opportunities to get a job "under the patronage". Sometimes the companies themselves are sent to the University of inquiry with a request to advise talented guys, and sometimes fifth year look for someone from the students at their place, as moving to another city or just want to change their place of work.

Remember, this is a good chance, but missed a good chance - that's silly.

To get a job in the summer

The first working month will be for you one of the most difficult. Firstly, you need to get started and join the team. Second, to get into all their working duties. In the summer you do not have pairs, examinations, test and other educational affairs, so that you can devote your time to work.

So, if you can, try to get a job in the summer. So you save a lot of your own nerves, which, undoubtedly, will take you in the fall, when the working and will add more academic front.

If you've already got a job

First and most importantly - do not complain

You will be proud of. And, of course, sometimes you want to have regretted.

We love to complain and that there's anything wrong with that. Sometimes we simply need it. But in this case, when you complain that you are "tired combine work and study, you insanely hard, not enough time for personal life and so wants to send everything to hell ", think for a moment: do you really want to be regret?

You want to make you say something like: "Oh, you poor thing, and learn, and work! Probably hard you have to free do not have time? ". I bet that this is not like you. You dreamed to hear: "Look what you done, all the time to successfully cope with everything! I'm proud of you / I envy white envy "and so on. D.

In fact, you do not want pity and praise.

Here's what your true purpose. You want people to recognize your accomplishments you are proud of them and want others too proud of you.

Of course, it seems strange to us: go to the person and say that here I'm going to tell you what I have done, and you're my praise. But try at least once, and you do no longer seem immodest and unusual.

All we want others to recognize our achievements, see what we have achieved, and it is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.

prioritize

I got a first job in the summer, after finished the third course. I was a good student, rarely missed a class and was not going to lower the bar even further. Learning has always been a priority, I never thought about it, but always knew that one day if I have to choose between study and work, I always choose the former.

It was my choice, although I know a dozen guys who threw his studies at the undergraduate for work.

You should understand from the outset that the most important to you and what you give up, if circumstances force you to make a choice.

Plan your time

I was lucky in many ways: the first job I had a free schedule, did not need to be in the office every day from 9:00 to 17:00.

Not counting, of course, one thing: despite the free schedule, I had to do all my work on time. I never considered myself giperotvetstvennym man, but always knew I could not do the job on time, no matter what it is: work or school.

Very often, work and education played tug of war, and turned out something like this:

And after a couple of weeks in the role of a zombie who goes to sleep at 3:30 am, and rises at 6:30 am, the conclusion can be only one:

I'm a night owl, and I do not it was difficult to deal with workers and educational affairs at night, that's just to get up in the morning was, to put it mildly, hard. After a few times I slept well, simply because the prostrate body flatly refused to respond to the sound of the alarm clock, I realized that I need to change something.

Remember that health (both physical and mental) - is one of our most valuable non-renewable resources, and if you will ruin it, you will not be up to the job and not to study. Put himself a deadline: after 23:30 only rest and no study and work.

At first it will be difficult to have time to finish all the works to a certain date, but over time (for me it took about two weeks) you You get used to and remain in the win: you will normally get enough sleep and rest, and it does not score neither workers nor to training Taxco.

Whether it is necessary to tell at work that you are a student, and learning about what you're working

Inform your employer that you are a student, definitely worth it. Remember that learning you happen session lasting a couple who do not walk, or any responsible event, that is, in any case will be times when you will want to attend a university in the working time. Do not forget that often you do not just work in a team - you work in a team where one error or apathy can negate all the efforts and achievements of the other.

But the report on the studies that you are working, it is necessary not always.

Many teachers have a negative attitude to the secondary employment of students, considering that it will have a negative impact on their studies. Another view is often from teachers and practitioners who work at the company and a couple of times a week are you specialized discipline. Such teachers can easily take time off from the pair, and then close the gaps with additional performances, presentations and so on. D.

You know the customs of their teachers, so before you publicly declare that you work, think, not whether it will come to you and then sideways.

about vacation

Try to take time off for a session if you feel that it is going to be bloody. Overlaid books, abstracts and tablets, trying to drive in poor head a ton of information, you even postpone work on the second, and some fourth plan and then not all razgrebote the resulting debris.

about weekend

Someone once said that "we organize festivals themselves." The same can be said about the weekend.

Each of us there are moments when we realize that we are all tired, we do not want and we need to rest. Ignoring these impulses facing apathy and depression, so do not get too carried away on the weekend not calendar, but arrange them yourself, when you feel the urgent need to: Take a day off work and Stroll study. Spend your free time as you want: get some sleep, walk or enjoy the fact that you like.

After such an unplanned output you gain strength and be able to work and study more productively.

Do not be afraid to ask for help from colleagues

There is nothing to be ashamed of. Well, if you work in the department, not independent, unique and irreplaceable person. Although in any case, remember that the output can always be found. And a secret that many people like to help others, so they feel its importance and usefulness.

Forget about learning on the job and at work - about studies

Once you have crossed the threshold of working room, you are no longer Ivanov of X-41 and Petrova of Y-52. Are you an employee who works in the company. Once you are in a university, you have ceased to be an employee and became a student.

Not on learning to be nervous because of the work and try for a 10-minute break to hold business talks. It is not necessary to work harass a training problems. Everything has its place and its time.

Relax on the work of the study, and learning - from work.

Remember that you can stop at any time

You have not signed a labor contract with blood. You will not chained to the desk at the university. This is your life, and the best you can at any time to give up everything that you consider unnecessary.

Combined / if you combine work and study? Share your experience in the comments.