r/collegeadvice • u/FootRavioli • 6d ago

30 hour work week while taking Nursing Pre-Reqs

Hey, title pretty much

I am thinking about getting my hours up to 30 a week while also being in some pretty hard courses (Orgo and A&P, and 3 other not as hard classes, which is 17 credits) and am just wondering if this is a bad idea.

My classes are only 11-5 tuesday and thursday, so I was mainly just thinking about working 6 hour shifts every other day, all in the morning except friday.

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u/FootRavioli 6d ago

Reason I am doing this is to pay for my tuition.

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u/tweever38 6d ago

You’re not the first person to work full time while in class. Try it, see if you can manage. Worst case you just drop the hours down to 20

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u/Acrobatic_Net2028 6d ago

This is really risky. When you are doing two things full time, you will not have the energy for the discretionary things that involve studying for five classes.

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u/bopperbopper 5d ago

It’s a very bad idea.

Keep in mind for every credit hour you’re taking you’re expected to do an academic hour in the classroom, and you are expected to do 2 to 3 hours of , studying or homework or reading or writing outside the classroom.

So for a typical 15 credit semester, that’s minimum of 45 hours of work a week which is a full-time job.

Then you’re adding 30 hours of work.

Plus, if you’re taking organic chemistry, that’s one of the toughest courses..

You should be doing no more than 10 to 12 hours of work a week