Did you work full time while in school?

I was able to work more hours during some classes but during the really hard ones(like Acute Care), I did not work at all. I worked for an agency during the time I was in school because I made more per hour and had a flexible schedule. There was no way I could have made it and made good grades without the flexible schedules. :chuckle

I worked between 28-40 hrs a week while in school. It was very hard and I probably would have made higher grades but I passed and that's what's important. I was one of few that was working much at all. To be fair the majority of the other students had kids and that's a job in and of itself.

I didn't have much choice, work or not eat. I worked my fast food job up until the day before my RN job started.

i am in school full time and am working 32+ hours/week and am somehow maintaining a 3.8. but then again i don't have a husband or kids to think about. working midnights helps because i usually can get at least 2-3 hours of downtime to do homework.

I worked a 24 hour shift every weekend as a paramedic. I also had two young children and one on the way during my first year.

I worked 35-40 hrs/week in school. Luckily I had a flexible job, was able to start at 6am, leave for class then come back and work until 6pm. Still don't know how I did it but I didn't have a choice, my husband and I had just bought a house.

I worked about 32-40 hours a week in the evening at a Pizza Hut. I was able to take off the day before exams and clincal days. I worked every weekend, so essentially I never had a day off. It was tough.

Basically, when there's a will, there's a way. I was very driven and worked hard, had no social life, and some days didn't get much sleep. Don't know how I did it. It nearly killed me. :)

I'm doing 6p-6a on Friday and Saturday nights, and 2-4 hour shifts on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Gives me 32 hours a week, and a WHOLE lotta time for studies! Which I like AND need!

Good Luck to you! :)

Julie

While taking my prerequisites, I worked 40 hours per week. In my first semester, I was taking 18 hours, changed from a day shift to night shift job AND had an abcessed tooth/root canal. I was able to eek out a 3.8 that semester. The next semester was 14 hours & I had similar grades.

I changed to a position that was 30 hours per week. At the hospital I worked, it was considered full-time for benefits purposes (yippee!). The doc told me to arrange my work hours around my classes & to study when I finished my work. It was a great job for a nursing student! School was still hard but the relative lack of stress on the job helped me to stay on a fairly even keel...most of the time, at least.

I'm currently going to school(one credit short of full time), and I work 40-45 hours per week. I'm married without any children.. I have a very supportive husband that will clean, and cook necessary meals. I also have a great job, which allows me too have a flexable schedule. I'm going into my second semester, and intend to continue working full time. I do anticipate having to use vacation time during the third semester. It's not easy, but you just do it. There are days when I'm working and at clinical, and they can be 17 hour days. I did this last semester, and I had B's in all my classes(normally I am an A student, so It was hard to accept that). However, not one person in the day and evening class received an A. If you want something bad enough, you make it work. Now when I just work and have time off from school, I feel like I'm on vacation. You also feel great about yourself, because you can accomplish doing it all..