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Kironide
Posted on 01-07-12 12:52 AM Link | Quote | ID: 149252


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Does anybody have any experience with working long hours (12-16 hours a day)? I am considering pursuing an Amazon Finance Analyst internship, which lasts for the duration of six months and is a full time job (I would take time off from university, assuming I go to the University of Washington, to work) and pays approximately $19/hour for the first 40 hours each week then approximately $29/hour thereafter. The pay is good, and my income before taxes would be rather sizable: 32k for a 60-hour workweek and 46k for an 80-hour workweek.

My opinion on the matter is that it would be quite worthwhile. The money would help pay for the cost of college and if I worked only 60 hours a week, I could still be able to perform research in a lab on the side or take one or two graduate-level classes.

Could anyone with actual work experience give some advice? Limited social time is a non-issue, as I am a fairly solitary person, and I am fairly certain that I would be mentally capable of working long hours for six months. Moreover, it would have no adverse effect on my education--indeed, my graduation would simply be delayed by six months. The work is, allegedly, fairly simple, and is primarily done in Excel. However, perhaps there are things which I am overlooking.

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Posted on 01-08-12 03:51 PM Link | Quote | ID: 149334


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Posted by Kironide
My opinion on the matter is that it would be quite worthwhile. The money would help pay for the cost of college and if I worked only 60 hours a week, I could still be able to perform research in a lab on the side or take one or two graduate-level classes.
Don't delude yourself into thinking that. 60 hours of paid work are not the same as 60 hours of school; there is a good reason most German professional unions have spent the 90s ferociously campaigning for the mandated 38-hour week in most industries to be reduced down to a 35-hour week. If they pay you money, they will make sure you don't get to zone out, idly chat with others or relax during break; rather, they will see to it that they get their money's worth in work after you, and if you have any intellectual energy left after a 12-hour day, from their perspective, it would just mean that they haven't worked you efficiently enough.

Try sitting down with a large stack of, say, 6th grade maths textbooks and spending 12 hours of every single day of a week working through the example questions in them. That will give you more of an idea what it is like.

If you need money for your studies, take up a loan. There should be government-subsidised, possibly even interest-free loans available for that purpose.

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Posted on 01-08-12 03:54 PM (rev. 2 of 01-08-12 11:56 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 149335


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60-80 hours a week without school is tough enough.

Edit: if it's without any classes at all though, you could probably do it. Or a few undergraduate level classes at night or something... could pull it off. Anything more than that, I just don't see it happening, especially graduate level course work. You don't even know how you'll perform at the undergrad level, I strongly doubt they'd let a student fresh out of high school take grad classes, considering you have to demonstrate a special case to take them as an undergrad to begin with....

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