As if I'm not busy enough with school, I am applying to a part-time job that wants 20 hours a week. So let's see... (18 hours of class) + (6 hours of tutoring) + (at least 13 hours of homework) + (20 hours of new job) = a lot of work per week.
This job pays $20/hour though, and so that would mean I would be making $400/week before taxes, which for me would be almost like winning the lottery. The job is a transcribing job (similar to the one I had a few years ago). It is for a company (Infoture) that is doing research on child language development and it would utilize some of the linguistics stuff I've been learning this semester. My job would be to transcribe Mother-Child interactions and use IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) to transcribe child utterances that deviate from standard pronunciation of a word. It might be a cool job, it might be a tedious job, it might be more hours than I can actually dedicate to a job, but for $20/hour I think I'd be willing to make that sacrifice. I was trying to think seriously this morning about the time commitment and really it wouldn't cut into my homework time that much because I don't do much homework in the afternoon/evening anyway because I prefer to do it in the morning. Really it would just cut into my lounge-around-the-house-thinking-about-how-I-should-be-doing-my-homework time. So... I don't know. What do you people think?
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I like interesting $20/hr jobs as opposed to the boring as s$?!X $9/hr jobs. And I like working 20hrs a week instead of 40+hrs a week. AND, only cutting into lounging-on-etc-etc time? BONUS!.......
but the thing is that without this job I would be working a lot LESS than 20 hours a week
Of course take the job. I mean, come on. That's like asking whether or not you should not you should not jump off a cliff onto jagged rocks.
Haha, thanks for your insight Tavie. when you put it that way it seems I have little choice...
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