Earn While You Learn?

More and more students appear to work part-time whilst at university but for most students it is for financial reasons and not to gain relevant experience for future employment. Many students find work in high street shops, bars and restaurants and some in more office based roles.

It is advisable to try and obtain a job in a relevant area to your degree but this is not always possible and it appears that experience is increasingly not the priority. Laura Howard wrote an article in The Guardian quoting, "An estimated 792,000 full-time UK undergraduates - two-thirds of the total - will have to spend valuable time away from their academic work to earn cash not just to survive student life but to deal with the impact of inflation on rising rents, food, household bills and travel."

It is not just term-time work that students are looking for either as The Guardian states, "Research published last week by Halifax also showed that almost half the students surveyed (41 per cent) said they now worked over the summer as well as holding down a term-time job, while 18 per cent held down two jobs or even more."

Do you have to work part-time and/or during holidays to survive your time at university?

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