Working full time with a second job plus studying full time. Help!

[Leigh 87]

I am saving for a car. I'm not in dire need of one in the immediate future as i don't have a professional job I need to have driving flexibility for... cafes and restaurants are common place in boththe area Iin which I currently live as well as my flat back home in this agreement doesn't work out. Trains get me to where I need to go.

 

I'm saving for twice as long in order to get a car I want and will last opposed to a bomb that barely works and I don't want to keep as my long term car.

 

I'm saving for a second hand VW beetle convertable. I can afford that in 1.5 years if I saved purely for that. It's a car that reflects me style and personality and that I'll have for a long time. ... until it positively carks it.

[Els]

People in apartments here, park their cars on the street (or wherever else possible). Personal transportation is Imperative here.

 

I'm thinking Leigh's trip times could be shortened if she didn't have to use trains/buses.

 

'Time is money'.

 

From what I've seen of the Sydney CBD, I don't know if there would be anywhere on the street for you to park without paying exorbitantly (either fines for illegal parking, or costs for paid parking). I'm not saying she shouldn't get a car, but she should check it out before she buys. We live in an apartment in the CBD of a related city (not even as expensive/busy as Sydney, but quite close) and car parking costs an additional $50/week for us. And that was the cheapest I could find, two blocks away.

Edited June 11, 2014 by Elswyth

[Leigh 87]

From what I've seen of the Sydney CBD, I don't know if there would be anywhere on the street for you to park without paying exorbitantly (either fines for illegal parking, or costs for paid parking). I'm not saying she shouldn't get a car, but she should check it out before she buys. We live in an apartment in the CBD of a related city (not even as expensive/busy as Sydney, but quite close) and car parking costs an additional $50/week for us. And that was the cheapest I could find, two blocks away.

 

 

 

Parking in sydney is a joke. I am alway going to opt for Public transportation for half my trips as it is more convenient in the cbd

[Els]

Parking in sydney is a joke. I am alway going to opt for Public transportation for half my trips as it is more convenient in the cbd

 

Yep, that's what friends have told me they do, too. We also always walk around our CBD, even if the destination is a mile away, there's just no point in driving and trying to find parking.

[Leigh 87]

A car is still an essential as far as " necessities" go and I should be investing in one.

 

I just won't use it for city destinations since it's less stressful than finding a park....

[jonsnuh]

A car is still an essential as far as " necessities" go and I should be investing in one.

 

I just won't use it for city destinations since it's less stressful than finding a park....

 

Reminds me of lyrics from this song:

 

 

Buy this car to drive to work

Drive to work to pay for this car

[Eternal Sunshine]

Where I currently live, we have free public transport around the inner suburbs...4 different bus lines. I found a place along one of the lines so I pay $0 to go to and from work Back in melbourne, I was spending around $8 a day on public transport. It just adds up to a lot.

[Leigh 87]

ugh looks like I have to ad to my expenses a gym membership.

 

People are starting to ask if I am pregnant.

 

ugh. It isn't expensive and it is up my street.

 

Wait. I should start jogging/walking. I need to be more responsible with my money so I can actually save for a future.

 

See! I am being responsible. I have a second where I want to spend unnecessary cash and I can the idea immediately.

[clia]

People are starting to ask if I am pregnant.

 

Someone actually asked you this? Eek.

 

Wait. I should start jogging/walking. I need to be more responsible with my money so I can actually save for a future.

 

See! I am being responsible. I have a second where I want to spend unnecessary cash and I can the idea immediately.

 

Yes, go for a run each morning after you drop off the kids.

Edited June 11, 2014 by clia

[Leigh 87]

Someone actually asked you this? Eek.

 

Yep. One woman exclaimed: well you are very rounded. I felt like crap. I am well aware I'm not thin anymore. No need to remind me a or assume I'm expecting.

 

I have an apple torso shape unless I am at my thinnest healthy weight of 120 to 125 lbs. When I am at the heavy end of my healthy range, 130 to 135 lbs, my stomach is very rounded and I look a bit pregnant.

 

 

 

Yes, go for a run each morning after you drop off the kids.

 

 

More like a slow jog.

[Eclypse]

How's the job coming along Leigh?

[Leigh 87]

Hey.

 

Job is great. It feels good to work for my food and accommodation. Plus I am 150 a week better off. I was saving 100 a week before I took the live in nanny gig. Now I work hard for My accommodation and etc and I am saving over twice as much as when I was living rent free at My parents.

 

I have been working 7 day a week..... Since I moved in. Ive been up at 6:30 everyone day So far.... I have the weekend job at the patisserie. Ive been working 7 hours Sat and Sunday at the patisserie.

 

So including the patisserie work I get about 250 on weekends that is all saved, the 150 a week from the nanny work which I also save all of and I also get government assistance to put me at the Aussie minumum wage (a little over 600 and a week).

 

My first goal is to get a waitress job up my street or in the nearby large shopping mall during the day for the 5 hours that I get off when the kids are at school.

 

My ultimate goal is to make the Aussie minumum wage and preferably 700 to 800 a week So that I DO not need government assistance.

 

I have had to postpone my studies in order to leave time to save for my own laptop So that I can study my online degree. My dream is to do well enough in my degree to allow me to do a masters and be more employable.

 

My weekend job is easier to get to from My boyfriends mums house. So I stay with him most weekends and work during the day and spend the nights with him.

 

I will deligate the time during the day when the kids are in school to study for 5 hours a day during the day and also at night for an hour would still be manageble since the kids are in bed by 8 ish.

[Leigh 87]

Hey.

 

Job is great. It feels good to work for my food and accommodation. Plus I am 150 a week better off. I was saving 100 a week before I took the live in nanny gig. Now I work hard for My accommodation and etc and I am saving over twice as much as when I was living rent free at My parents.

 

I have been working 7 day a week..... Since I moved in. Ive been up at 6:30 everyone day So far.... I have the weekend job at the patisserie. Ive been working 7 hours Sat and Sunday at the patisserie.

 

So including the patisserie work I get about 250 on weekends that is all saved, the 150 a week from the nanny work which I also save all of and I also get government assistance to put me at the Aussie minumum wage (a little over 600 and a week).

 

My first goal is to get a waitress job up my street or in the nearby large shopping mall during the day for the 5 hours that I get off when the kids are at school.

 

My ultimate goal is to make the Aussie minumum wage and preferably 700 to 800 a week So that I DO not need government assistance.

 

I have had to postpone my studies in order to leave time to save for my own laptop So that I can study my online degree. My dream is to do well enough in my degree to allow me to do a masters and be more employable.

 

My weekend job is easier to get to from My boyfriends mums house. So I stay with him most weekends and work during the day and spend the nights with him.

 

I will delegate the time during the day when the kids are in school to study for 5 hours a day during the day and also at night for an hour would still be manageble since the kids are in bed by 8 ish.

[clia]

Working 7 days a week is tough, especially with no days to sleep in. Do you intend to keep doing that indefinitely?

[Leigh 87]

No I most certainly cannot contacted getting up because before 7am, seven day a week. Inwill not be able to study in this state.

 

I mean geez, I can darn well use my parents lovely flat rent free and spend all My free time studying! I would still opt to work but I wouldn't have to work 40 hours a week just today for ent and utilities.

 

Unless I have to work 40hours a week to support myself, Im not going to. Full time study is So important to me!! Come september, I will start Full time study as I am now, working 40 hours a week to support myself, and when the 6months ends and the husband returns from his defence force duties, I will be moving back into my flat..and yes my parents consider it my flat as much as their. They love having me there.

 

I need to be intimate with My bf.. We havent in a month. It is getting ridiculous. We just literally dont have a bed to have sex in.

[Leigh 87]

I am 200 a week better off here as I am, earning my own way opposed to living rent free and not doing 40 hours work.

 

That doesnt including weekend job...... I am 400 or more better off with the patisserie job I have on the weekend......

 

I have 5 hours during the days in which to study Plus weekends. But If I stay at the flat, I found not have to work 40 hours looking after children and I would have time to work more..... And more energy to study.

 

I am not at all ashamed about the notion of living at my parents; I feel that I would still be studying Full time and also working whenever possible..... If I worked 40 hours a week at my flat, I would get A LOT more than I get working 40 hours here and having to factor in the food and board I pay for in my current role.

 

When it come to studying full time, I have no shame in talking advantage of the luxury of living at my parents.... I feel that I would still studying full time with the aim of becoming independant asap.. After my degree.....and as I mentioned...I would still try to work in addition to studying full time.

 

Not to menntion, I dont much like having to go without being intimate with my boyfriend because we are not allowed to fornicate in the house I reside in....he has to ask his mums tonspend the weekend at her house with me just so we can have sex.

 

I understand that most dont have the luxury of living in a large flat owned by their parents while they go back to college full time and also try to get work and save a little. I know very well what I am currently doing (working 40 hours a week to cover most of my living expenses, is very normal)

 

I am privilidged in that I dont HAVE to work 40 hours a week while I go back to school full time. I will definately CHOOSE to do work, but 20 or 30 hours would be prefered to 40hours.......

 

I enjoy getting a taste of living in an affluent Sydney area...but I much prefer living in my flat and CHOOSING to work opposed to being forced to work 40 hours...just to accord cheap food and board.

[Leigh 87]

I get that you all respect folks more If they still work 40 to 60hour week whilst they study in order to afford a roof over their head.

 

Personally, my goal is to move home, and find 30 hours work per week: I will pay rent. I will cover my own food. I will still opt to work as much as my study load will allow.

 

I will save twice as much living at home. I can still pay rent and pay my way but at 70 a week for rent rather than the astronomically high retail rates in Australia....... Would cost me 300a week to rent a nice flat like my parents....

 

I want the possibility of working in a well paid organisation that deals with removing children from defective parents....... My record of working closely with children will hopefully give me an advantage........

[MidwestUSA]

I don't know what prompted you to explain what you are/aren't ashamed about, and what luxuries you have, and what you're privileged to do/not do, have/not have, but I will ask - when are you giving up the nanny job? That sounds like the next step you're planning?

[Haydn]

England have more chance in the world cup than this thread making sense now. Leigh what exactly are you doing I mean jobwise. What about study.

[MidwestUSA]

I get that you all respect folks more If they still work 40 to 60hour week whilst they study in order to afford a roof over their head.

 

I'm not sure who the 'you all' are, but no one here has said a word about what is or isn't worthy of respect.

[Leigh 87]

England have more chance in the world cup than this thread making sense now. Leigh what exactly are you doing I mean jobwise. What about study.

 

 

Lol.

 

I am still a live in nanny. I get up at 6.30 every week day to have my own breakfast, and then get two kids really for school. After I drop them at school I am home by 8. 20. I then have until 2.45 to get in the car and college the kids. I then look after them until they are in bed.

 

I only get cheap food and 150 a week for all these hours of working. The 2 year old is a really brat at times. He throws a tantrum every time I try to put his clothes on in the morning. The mother say that it shoud not be that difficult to do. I pointed out that no one I know could do it unless they were qualified in child care which I am not.

 

I dont feel like 150 a week is enough for 40 hours work and having to deal with a bratty 2 year old. . I have a flat to live in without having to work 40 hours for it.

 

I have been working Sat and Sundays at my patisserie job. I have to get up at 6.30 because it is far away. I start work at 10.....yet need to be up by 6.30, really by 7.30 and out the door.... I have to walk 25 mins to the train station, then commute for over an hour to get there.

 

Thankfully I am staying at my boyfriends mums tonight....where there is a busy that goes directly to my work so I can get up 8 rather than 6.30 on my weekends.

[ASG]

Why do you always feel the need to explain what you're doing over and over and over again, without anyone ever asking?

 

We get it. You're working. Great! But we weren't judging you before either. I honestly see absolutely nothing wrong with living in your parent's flat. Or NOT WORKING while studying!

My mom begged me to stop working when I was doing my degree. I didn't because I started working because I didn't want a degree and she pressured me into getting one. So I was doing the degree for her sake, but working for mine. I never finished my degree because work got in the way (and I wasn't *that* motivated to finishing it, anyway).

 

On the other hand, though, are you sure you're not taking too much on? I mean... I know I'd be pretty dead after 2 weeks of 7 days a week with no lie ins. I can tell you right now, you *will* be too tired to study if you carry on.

 

But then... you're not studying yet, are you? I get confused... I thought you'd started your degree months ago, but on this thread you've mentioned deferring and doing an online course... but I can't figure out whether you've started the online course or not...

[Leigh 87]

I'm not sure who the 'you all' are, but no one here has said a word about what is or isn't worthy of respect.

 

I am acknowledging that most adults who opt to go back to college full time have to work 60 hour week in addition to their full time study

 

I am admitting that I would rather not work that much whilst studying full time. The nanny role Plus my weekend job would put me at 60 hours......

 

I can work 20 to30 hours at my parents flat and still pay them rent and I would earn more working less hours (as most of my 40hours work goes to food and rent) where as at the flat I dont have to pay the usual rent of 300dollars a week.. My parents own it and dont want rent from me but I would inside on contributing 75a week to them towards rent.

[Leigh 87]

Why do you always feel the need to explain what you're doing over and over and over again, without anyone ever asking?

 

We get it. You're working. Great! But we weren't judging you before either. I honestly see absolutely nothing wrong with living in your parent's flat. Or NOT WORKING while studying!

My mom begged me to stop working when I was doing my degree. I didn't because I started working because I didn't want a degree and she pressured me into getting one. So I was doing the degree for her sake, but working for mine. I never finished my degree because work got in the way (and I wasn't *that* motivated to finishing it, anyway).

 

On the other hand, though, are you sure you're not taking too much on? I mean... I know I'd be pretty dead after 2 weeks of 7 days a week with no lie ins. I can tell you right now, you *will* be too tired to study if you carry on.

 

But then... you're not studying yet, are you? I get confused... I thought you'd started your degree months ago, but on this thread you've mentioned deferring and doing an online course... but I can't figure out whether you've started the online course or not...

 

I am talking a break from studies until september as I have no lap top for full time studybthat is delivered by correspondence.

 

Thanks for not judging me because Im not like most normal 27 year olds who all stand on their own two feel and still manage to fit any full time study in.

[ASG]

I am talking a break from studies until september as I have no lap top for full time studybthat is delivered by correspondence.

 

Thanks for not judging me because Im not like most normal 27 year olds who all stand on their own two feel and still manage to fit any full time study in.

 

Most people who HAVE to work while they study struggle with their studies. So if you can NOT work (or just work part-time, if you really must), go that route.

 

A friend of mine just had to take a 4 months sabbatical from his job to try and finish a degree he decided to do for fun. And he's thinking even with the time off work, he's probably not gonna be able to graduate this year (which originally was the plan).

 

One of my best friends was close to having a full meltdown while doing a 9 month course for her job, while still working full time.

 

My cousin is also really struggling with his MBA that his job is paying him to do. Because he has to work full time as well.

 

I ended up giving up on my degree, but if I hadn't, it would have taken me an extra year or 2 to graduate than the length of the course, because I worked full time and didn't always have the inclination to study or do the assignments after a long day at work!