Full time mental health tech position as an RN Student

[Aspiringpsychprofessional]

Hello everyone,

I am going into my core nursing classes next week and I just accepted a full-time mental health position. What advice will you give to a nursing student who has to work 3’12s? My parents don’t support me and I have bills to pay, plus my hospital will give me about $5,250 every year while in nursing school and I get paid $100 for my loans after 90 days. I also get 20% discount as a full-time employee. I am going to be saving about $20,000 getting my RN and BSN for working full-time. Is it manageable. My ASN is accelerated and only 15months. 
Note: I worked 48-60hrs as a home-health aide while I took my pre-requisites but I could study.

Also what advice would you give to a new mental health tech. How crazy does it good? Are there down-times and what should I do to be better. My goal is to be a psych nurse then a psych NP eventually.

SORRY FOR THE LONG MESSAGE. I just wanted to give a little bit of context and thank you all for your helpful insight in advance.