It depends on the university which you attend and how much you can earn from jobs.Part time jobs:Rules:During Classes: Maximum 20 hours/weekDuring summers: Full timeEarnings:I am an international student in Canada. Most students get jobs which pays around $11/hour. So, you can earn around $880/month during classes but during summers you can work full time, so you can earn around $1800/monthExpense:Now, it depends on the university which you attend. Let’s assume you attend any university which costs around $25000 to $30000/ year, then it is almost very difficult to pay the tuition just by working part timeBUTIf you attend an affordable university, whose cost is generally around $6000 to $10000/year, then it is possible.Note: I also have a youtube channel. If you are planning to come to canada, you can check out my channel. I upload many important videos for international students which will help you ease the process of studying abroad. Please check out my channel once. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/...
Visiting Instructor.The key is, if you worked hard in really learning some skills in your 20s and 30s, it gets a bit easier later because you know exactly how to do the job. You gain “big picture.”For me, the easiest job I had with salary/benefits/office was easy for 40-something me. It wouldn’t have been as easy when I was, say, 28.I’ve started a business in the past decade that now pays most of our bills. However, I like to get a day job that isn’t too taxing for benefits and tax purposes.For two years until this year, I was a Visiting Instructor at a rather ordinary college in a rather ordinary department. I was teaching PR and Advertising courses, subjects I know extremely well as I was a full-time college marketing professional for 15 years until I decided to lighten my load. As well, I had adjunct taught for 18 years, all kinds of courses, at all levels, so I was well practiced in the art of teaching.Now, these courses would be a lot harder to teach if I were younger, with little practical experience in PR and Advertising, but, again, I know these subjects inside out and have endless experience with college students. Too, being a Visiting Professor, I didn’t have to go to the tedious, dour faculty meetings, conduct time-wasting assessment, nor worry about impressing any tenure committee.My in-class time was 12 hours a week plus a couple of office hours. Fridays off. Summers off. Spring Break off. A month off at Christmas. No need to stick around if I weren’t teaching or conducting office hours. I was located in a nice part of town with lots of places to walk to. And the students were getting great instruction.How did I get this job? The tenure-track instructor (with a Ph.D., I only have an MFA) backed out a month before classes were to start and my resume was in a file cabinet. They called me. I was available. I signed on.Year Two, they conducted a search for a new Ph.D., but it failed, so I stayed on for a second year. Now my daughter was going to this college, so I got a tuition-remission benefit. Bonus!Year Three, they did find a Ph.D. — he has zero real-world experience and little classroom experience, but I guess that extra year or two of schooling means something. I’m sure he’s now putting in 50 hour weeks and feeling overwhelmed.So I wasn’t needed anymore and was cast away without much regard.But, honestly — for me — that was an easy job!
Your market value is what someone is willing to pay you. So the best way to demonstrate to someone what you’re worth is to show them offers from other companies. (What you’re currently making can also be a data point, but if you’re underpaid then that might not be the best piece of data to use.)The next best approach to establishing your value is to find out what the salary range is for your level with your current employer. Sites like Glassdoor will sometimes have this information. Alternatively you can ask other employees, your manager or HR to see if they’ll offer any insight. This information can be difficult to come by. If you do manage to find out what others are making then you’ll be in a much better position for negotiating with your manager. Remember to consider factors such as your time at your current level, performance reviews, tenure with the company, etc. If they’re saying you’re doing excellent but paying you less than your coworkers you might be able to convince them to increase your compensation.Keep in mind that some companies have fairly rigid compensation structures. So it may be there’s not a lot of leeway at your current level. If that’s the case then you should push for promotion. Then they’ll be able to compensate you at a higher level.If you can’t get information that is specific to your current company the next best option is to look at salary information for similar positions in your area. For example if you’re a senior software engineer and the median compensation in your area for that title is $100k but you’re only making $80k you could bring that to your manager and discuss why the company is paying you less than the market rate.
Just to clarify, med sudents are people learning to become physicians. After graduation from med school, they are doctors. Most newly graduated doctors go on for more training before they go out in practice- this period is called residency.Residency is a paying job, as opposed to med school, where students are paying and probably going into debt for their education.Residency pays very little. In my day it worked out to less than minimum wage, with no benefits except health care. The first year the hospital didn't even pay into social security.Luckily, expenses are pretty limited…rent, food, transportation. You can wear hospital scrubs most of the time. You are too busy or tired to have much of a social life.One (possibly large) exception to this is that many student loans come due. Some may be deferred for up to three years, but interest still accumulates. The average med school debt is close to $200,000. The vast majority of med students come from solidly middle class or lower backgrounds, so there is rarely help for this from family (there would have been no need to take out loans in the first place if family could help).So…how people survive financially depends on the person. Many are extremely frugal. I worked for two years at a fairly good paying job so I could save before I went to med school. Some residents are married or can rely to some degree on a significant other. Some take out more loans in anticipation of having enough income after training to pay it back. Others get loan repayment in exchange for working in an undesirable location after residency.
Another thing to add is that often ours are paid. Internships and co-op are similar but I find that people looking for interns aren’t trying to pay them. Waterloo makes you find a co-op where you get paid. IF you’re trying to do something without pay it takes a lot of paperwork and convincing to get them to approve it as an “official co-op term”.The benefit to co-op is getting paid (and usually more than the current $14 minimum wage), putting in real-world 40ish hour work weeks and establishing business connections. You can tryout a wide variety of jobs and see what you like and don’t like.I’ve both loved and hated the experience. Having 2 years of work AND a degree under my belt when I graduate will give me a huge edge against fellow graduates who never worked. Some co-op rules are really stupid and you can end up getting *stuck* with something you don’t want, or passing up on a job and getting stuck with a worse one, or not getting one. And don’t get me started on the useless and arbitrary work term reports you have to write after each term.But I begrudgingly admit co-op is great. I am better off for having done it, and paying for rent and tuition has been way better with it. The experience and stuff I’ve learned hands-on has been wild. I’ve worked for international companies, startups and one failing business on the bring of survival. Each one has been unique and I’ve gotten to work with and do so many things I otherwise wouldn’t have. And now I have 2 years of connections to help me get jobs after graduation.
Out here in California, if you can get a job at In-n-Out Burger, you are set.Here’s why:Better Pay- You start off making $10.50 (already 17% higher than average), and many front-line workers make up to $14 an hour.Better Hours- Unlike other fast food chains, In-n-Out has flexible schedules (especially for high school students).Growth Opportunity- Through training by In-n-Out, employees can turn this job into a career, working up to managerial positions and beyond.Health BenefitsBasic 401 K PlanRetirement BenefitsMaternity LeaveVacation DaysMany Sick DaysAND LASTLY….. (drumroll…)10. FREE IN-N-OUT!!! For those who have never had a Double-Double, fries, and a shake from In-n-Out, you should put this on your bucket list. It is amazing!!!Hope that helps! :)
Why does everyone think teachers don't make decent money?
In a capitalist society, salaries are not based on "fairness". There are two factors that affect salaries. One is supply and demand. When there are few people who can do a job, organizations have to pay more money to compete for the ones who can. That's why at universities, computer science and math teachers make more money than those who teach foreign languages or English- there are fewer people getting degrees in those areas. BUT k-12 schools are government organizations, where salaries are set centrally, and schools can't negotiate to get better teachers. So if there aren't many people who are really qualified to teach a particular subject, the schools can't usually offer more money. Instead, they have to lower the requirements. Which brings us to the second force in play. College students know that teaching salaries are low. Therefore, many of the best and brightest choose other majors and other careers. (there are exceptions- there are a number of people who are just committed to the idea of teaching). So the people who go into education are less well prepared and less diligent. The schools have to choose from those that are available to fill the jobs. If salaries were higher, we'd get a larger pool of very qualified teachers, and schools could demand that teachers prove themselves to be effective or they would be replaced. Here's another way to think about it- Teachers spend 6 or more hours a day with your children. Why would you want them to be people who will work for lower wages than the guy who repairs your car or fixes your plumbing, or sells you insurance? Aren't your children more important than anything else?