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Aren't you technically suppose to be working and not studying in a work-study job? Also, don't you usually have to be receiving financial aid to be able to apply for work-study jobs? It is a lot easier to go to school and get a better class schedule if you work on campus (at least for a small campus).(3 votes)
There are a wide variety of work-study jobs. You might be feeding animals or counting caterpillars in a lab, running a centrifuge for research blood samples, producing reagents for a lab, running psychology experiments, helping organize research materials, working at the student union as a cashier, running materials between research offices, helping tally research results, cleaning animal cages, working as library assistant, doing desk duty, cleaning athletic equipment, etc. etc. The amount you can and should study while doing the work depends on the type of job. You wouldn't be studying while working as a cashier when people are trying to pay for something, nor while cleaning guinea pig cages, but you certainly could when the desk work involves sitting and doing nothing, waiting for someone to come in and need help logging onto the catalog or something.(3 votes)
- Hi everyone. So i've just got some questions: Can international students (or more general, out of state students) do work-study? How much will work-study programs expected to give (ie what's the expected salary for the student)? What happens if my salary from work-study program bigger or smaller the amount the school expected me to give? If bigger then can i have the residue? If smaller then can i give them the money later on?(3 votes)
Video transcript
- So another thing to keep in mind when you are looking
at the cost of college is student jobs and how
readily available are they and how much will you be paid to do a student job. - One thing that is a little
bit unknown to students, a work study job is something that happens during the school year. So in your financial aid package they will put in a certain dollar amount that they want you to
make but that will be made during the school year. A work study job though it can be a whole range of things and schools do different ways. It could be working for a professor. It could be filming games
for the athletic department. It could be working in a dining hall. - And then there are jobs
that are kind of a subsitute for a study hall. You know, there's some really
rare libraries where you can basically sit by yourself,
maybe one person comes in the whole day and pretty
much just do your homework. So I always encourage
students when they're looking at their financial aid package, when they're looking at
different kind of costs analysis, how easily are you going to get a job and how much will you be paid to do it? And I guess the third thing is how active do you want that job to be considering the other commitments
you're going to be having during your time at a university.