Work in the summer, not during school.

Let’s not kid ourselves; Working sucks! There’s nothing worse than spending a good chunk of your time at a job you hate making money for a boss who doesn’t really care about you.

Well, except if you have to do it in the midst a pile of assignments, exams, and essays while trying to maintain a social life.

It’s true that your elementary and high school days of relatively-free summers are over. It’s sad to think about, but do you really believe you’d still get the same amount of joy out of riding your bike and going to the park every day as you used to? Actually, I really just started missing my childhood for a moment… Sigh…

Anyway, in those days you probably thought a few hundred (or *gasp* a few thousand dollars) was a lot of money. Now that you’re older, you not only know that that isn’t much money, but you also know you can easily make anywhere between $200 and $500 per week with typical summer jobs. But there’s a catch – You’ll most likely need to work close to full time hours since you’ll be lucky to be making much more than $12/hour (and will most likely be stuck in a factory to get paid that much).

This is all fine and dandy; You can easily make between $3000 and $8000 from May to September and in most cases you should be set for the school year. This amount will ideally ensure a tuition payment plus enough money to survive off of until your tax return comes in March.

However, this might not be enough for everyone. You may be forced to take on a menial part-time job in school that’ll only pay in the single digits for 10-15 hours per week. That’s 10-15 hours you may need for studying, partying, or just relaxing! It’s at this time you’ll realize another lesson: The summer isn’t as fun as it used to be, but those months spent at school are the best they’ve ever been. Get used to spending most of the summer waiting for school start and dreading the end of each school year.

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