Earning Extra Money as a Student

<v Speaker 1>When I first joined the UNI, I was desperate to
<v Speaker 1>get a part time job because I knew it would
<v Speaker 1>be really good for you know, experience, and I wanted
<v Speaker 1>to get out there.
<v Speaker 2>For me, it was mainly just money. I did want
<v Speaker 2>to make some part time money, but I did want
<v Speaker 2>to get a part time job and make some money
<v Speaker 2>on the side to support my studies.
<v Speaker 3>So one of my jobs at university, I've been working
<v Speaker 3>there for about just under three years now. I started
<v Speaker 3>when I was a sixth form, so it worked really
<v Speaker 3>nicely around me. Then is for NHS one one one,
<v Speaker 3>So it's like the non urgent nine nine nine. So
<v Speaker 3>if you need help fast, but it's not an emergency
<v Speaker 3>and you don't necessarily need an ambulance, you might phone
<v Speaker 3>one one one. We can still send ambulances obviously if
<v Speaker 3>we deem it appropriate, we want through an assessment. It's
<v Speaker 3>really good for health care students, So if you're looking
<v Speaker 3>to study something like medicine, nursing, occupacial therapist, physio, anything
<v Speaker 3>like helper related, it gives you a like a broad
<v Speaker 3>knowledge of different basic common conditions.
<v Speaker 4>So a few of my friend's workers, you know, take
<v Speaker 4>away delivery drivers, others work in bars, restaurants, pretty much
<v Speaker 4>anything really, as you know, if you see the job
<v Speaker 4>and you can work it in around your course and
<v Speaker 4>you know everything else that you're doing, then not a problem. Equally,
<v Speaker 4>a lot of people don't work either.
<v Speaker 1>The additional money would help me budget for my experience,
<v Speaker 1>for my expenses, but I haven't got paid yet because
<v Speaker 1>I've only worked one event.
<v Speaker 3>Though, I would say is try and get your assignments
<v Speaker 3>done as soon as you get given them if you can,
<v Speaker 3>and then look for the rest of the month if
<v Speaker 3>you've got nothing on is to try and get as
<v Speaker 3>much work as possible to kind of top up your
<v Speaker 3>income because you kind of do need to work. I
<v Speaker 3>feel myself through you and you have anyway is I
<v Speaker 3>couldn't survive without my work, just purely because I wouldn't
<v Speaker 3>have enough money in my bank account to keep my
<v Speaker 3>car on the road.
<v Speaker 2>It helps me call my weekly expenses in Aubia. So
<v Speaker 2>if I'm making about thirty pounds or so from my
<v Speaker 2>part dome job and I'm spending about sixty pounds a week,
<v Speaker 2>it does quite. It does make quite, but quite a lot.
<v Speaker 3>Of different Even if you've never had a job before.
<v Speaker 3>It is while worth getting a job when you come
<v Speaker 3>to UNI, because as I said, it gives you that networking,
<v Speaker 3>You get to meet new people, it gives you that
<v Speaker 3>valuable income.
<v Speaker 1>I applied to become a student ambassador at the UNI,
<v Speaker 1>so you're basically working. I personally work with young kids
<v Speaker 1>and promoting higher education.
<v Speaker 4>And it's really flexible because they would email me with
<v Speaker 4>all the upcoming shifts if I was available to work,
<v Speaker 4>then I'd email back and request to work at that
<v Speaker 4>shift if possible, and they'd say, yes, you are working,
<v Speaker 4>or no, you're not working. So yeah, and there's no
<v Speaker 4>I didn't have to work a certain amount per month.
<v Speaker 4>I could work as much or as little as I wanted.
<v Speaker 1>Going to university isn't just about doing a core more
<v Speaker 1>than just doing your UNI words, because it really helps
<v Speaker 1>you get to know new people. When you're picking a UCCS,
<v Speaker 1>pick something that you love, something that you're good at,
<v Speaker 1>and something that you think is going to be useful.
<v Speaker 3>No matter what course you do, it's not so much
<v Speaker 3>about what specific subjects you learn within that course. It's
<v Speaker 3>about the skills that you developed during the cour