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by macshaggy
4473 days ago
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Forget minimum wage. I work a full time way above minimum wage and two things make it hard for me at school. a) tuition is a beast but at least my job as some reimbursement – though it pays for a semester 6 hours. b) the school barely has any classes geared towards someone who works. I know I could have gone to school at a technical school I did that years ago and I don’t recommend it. I went back over 5 years ago and did community college first. I received my Associates and that allowed me to transfer right into a four year institution as a junior. But every class that I need now about half are never taught until after 10:00 am and before 3:00 pm. Guess what I have to be at work for my job. Now my company supports me going to school but its almost like the school doesn’t support me going to work. They state they have an Adult Ed center where I can get help but guess what it closes at 5:00 pm?!? I don’t understand how you are supposed to have an AE center to help people who work but then you are not open to help them when they need it. I almost feel penalized for not working at night but how can I give up (and really why should I give up) working at a great job. The school states that they have more evening classes for the Grad students but what about us Undergrads don’t we need evening classes? At least back in the 90′s (when I should have been in school), and in CA, I could have taken every Undergrad course at night. It would have taken me 6 – 7 years to earn a BS in Computer Science now I’m on year 8 and I still have a couple years to go at this rate. Why am I being penalized? is the real question…oh and I’m earning straight A’s and I’m on the Chancellor’s/Dean’s list. But it doesn’t make sense to me. |
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Reminds me of my time hitting the books. We complained about our schedules that had huge gaps in them, like a one-hour lecture in the morning, then four or five hours later, another lecture in the afternoon. Why couldn't they be scheduled more closely?
The response was "You are full-time students. You are expected to be free from 8 to 5"
So we replied "Why then is our main lecture set assigned for 7pm? That's outside this 8 to 5 timeframe" (evening was popular with part timers)
The response was... crickets. There weren't many contact hours - 20-25/week - but they were somewhat hostile to people being able to work at the same time.