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As a university student, it is necessary to possess an ability to arrange time properly. In general, university students tend to find a part-time job in their spare time in addition to studying.
However, many of them either don’t know how to distribute their time properly, or pay too much attention to their part-time work and leave their school work until the last minute.
If you want to make a balance between study and part-time work, take a look at the following steps.
After that, try your best to finish all the work that is listed on your schedule on time. Once your schedule for the upcoming week is finished, you should remind yourself to follow it exactly, or you don’t have other spare time to do it as you also have a part-time work to do.
Then, adjust your schedule based on the previous week to identify whether the time you arranged was enough. You might find out that some of the assignments required more time to finish, and the time you distributed before was not enough,
so you can adjust the schedule next time.
At last, reward yourself. If everything was going well and you finished all the school work smoothly, which means you work very hard, you are surely eligible to take advantage of the remaining time taking some rest or doing whatever you want.
How to Balance Study and Part Time Work
First of all, prearrange your schedule for the upcoming week.
Confirm what you need to finish before next week, and estimate how much time you will need to finish your assignments, or prepare for exams. Distribute them to your spare time, and make sure you utilize the free time in the middle of two courses sufficiently. Also, note that you should plan for the unexpected.
You might suddenly have extra homework to do, or some emergency incidents which need to be taken care of right away, so preserve some spare time for the unexpected events.
With the following steps, you can make a balance between study and part-time work, and live a busy but organized university life.
Nevertheless, everything has exception, if the arrangement and the adjustment do not work out, and you are unable to finish your school work in time no matter how hard-working you are, it means that the part-time work might be unsuitable for you, so you might need to consider giving up the part-time work.
Please keep in mind that study is always more important than part-time work if you are a full-time student.
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