Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas...
by jartelt on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:07AM
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At least for me, the key was to keep it capped at 10 hours a week. With more hours than that I would have struggled to balance coursework, social life, work, and sleep.
You definitely can't pay for everything on 10 hours a week, but it at least pays the bar tab...
I would still have worked most if not all of my summers, but never more than 5 hours a week during the semesters. My job, which I actually really liked, demanded 20, which also required another 6-10 hours commuting on top of 5-8 hours of commuting to school.
I had also worked in tech for a year before starting school, so I was a bit less worried about having experience to list. And in the end it didn't matter because I started a company and ran that for 5 years instead.