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ANGELICA LOPEZ Reporter @angietography

Unless a student is completely confident as to where the money is coming from to cover all their expenses for school, a student should have a job.

Students should not only rely on financial aid to pay for their classes and textbooks. There are many things that can go wrong such as filling out applications wrong, missing files or it not coming on time.

There are students on campus who, in the sixth week of the semester, are still waiting on their financial aid, some because of files needing to still be reviewed. You’d want to have money coming from somewhere else.

Having a job can serve as a backup plan when problems occurs. It would be a great relief to know that you have money coming from your job soon. Taking out a loan would just hurt in the long run. Even if money is not crucial now, it could be in the near future. It’s better to have and save money than to have no options available.

Having a job while going to school can be an easier transition for when you’ll only be having to work full time. It can also be somewhere to fall back on right after college when trying to find a job in your profession.

The fact is that many jobs want to hire people who have had experience

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Working as a student, not only gives you that experience you need for when you’re out of school it allows you to make more friends. Which notably gives you an opportunity to network with all types of people. People know people that know other people who can probably get you the job you want and that can only be done by getting outside of your friend group.

Many may argue that a full time student, who has to take a minimum of 12-units, that also works will be failing their classes because they will have no time to study. However, according to the Washington Post article “Why more teenagers and college students need to work while in school” Jeffrey Selingo states that balancing work and school is a valuable skill.

“Research has shown that students who are employed while in high school or college allocate their time more efficiently, learn about workplace norms and responsibilities, and are motivated to study harder in their classes so they can achieve a certain career goal.” asaldate.roundupnews@gmail.com

Having a job while being a full time student is not something everyone is capable of doing, but only those who are willing to push themselves can.

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DEVIN MALONE Reporter @roundupnews

College students are no stranger to stress, especially to those of us who are full time students at Pierce. So why add on to that stress with a job that also demands 100% out of its employees? While getting a job might be a necessity for most us, when it comes to full-time students, their primary goal at Pierce should be their education and maintaining their well-being rather than balancing a full time.

According to a 2017 Fall semester survey taken by the National College Health Association on an undergraduate group, when asked whether they felt overwhelmed by the by all the work they had to do in the past 12 months, a total of 86.9% said yes. On the same survey, %83.4 said they felt exhausted (by non-physical activities) and 61.4% said they felt overwhelming anxiety within the past 12 months.

With results such as these, it’s no wonder that there are endless guides both on and off the internet about college students managing their stress. But this survey mainly concerns campus life, and doesn’t explicitly state how the added stressors of maintaining a job add to the problem.

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Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, around 43% of working adults believe that their job is negatively affecting their health, with a 51% majority of workers in low-paying jobs agreeing with this statement.

Stress in and of itself is bad, yet the side-effects can be life changing.. The American Psychological Association states that stress can affect the body in numerous ways, from affecting the reproductive system to being linked to inflammation in the circulatory system and other heart disease problems.

With all this in mind, being a full time college student who is already having to deal with the stress of maintaining their grades and turning in assignments and projects on time, now having to manage a job outside of school (which comes with its own responsibilities and stressors) is a hard feat to accomplish, and one with many side effects.

While it is still important to have a source of income to pay for your classes, working yourself to the bone to juggle both school life and demanding job is a stressful act that can have dangerous repercussions.

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