If I Wanted To Join The Military, What Would I Have To Do?

[shiney]

Originally Posted by Melfice

Shiney, stop trolling Seil.

You're no fun!!

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Just get a normal job. School at day, work at night, should be able to earne nough to cover living costs. I thought everyone did this? It was pretty common where I'm from.

[Osterbaum]

Screw working and studying at the same time. Just focus on your studies now. You'll be done with them faster, without causing yourself as much stress, and then you can get to working the rest of your life.

[Azisien]

Canadian Forces pays pretty well. I suggest Google. And start jogging now. You'll need the stamina.

[Osterbaum]

Don't. Join. The Military.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Osterbaum

Screw working and studying at the same time. Just focus on your studies now. You'll be done with them faster, without causing yourself as much stress, and then you can get to working the rest of your life.

Not if you're dead and in the gutter. How you going to pay for living if you're not working, which is Seil's problem.
And as long as you work nights it doesn't really impact your uni work, I swung two degrees in normal time while working 25 hours a week and still had time to become a regular in my local pub. So did basically everyone I know. It seems like a lot but once after the first week its simple as, you get used to it.
If you're parents don't want you in home you got to move out, why should they look after you when you are capable of looking after youself?

[pochercoaster]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

25 hours a week

You can't live on 25 hours a week. Especially in BC. Especially in the Vancouver area (if that's where Seil is). You CAN live on 25 hours a week if you get a lot in student loans, but then it's just a bunch of high interest debt you have to pay back, and yeah... Or if you have 6 roommates crammed into a small space, and then good luck getting any actual studying done.

The reason students live with their parents isn't because they're freeloaders, it's because school in North America is expensive.

I live on 35 hours a week at a minimum wage job and pay for all my bills, groceries, etc. (I just room with two other people in an apartment), but if I were a student it simply wouldn't be possible unless I was only taking 1-2 courses, max.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

As far as Ic an tell via an admittedly quick google search the cost of living in Vancouver is only slightly higher than in Auckland where I was working and wage rates are higher. And I lived like a king on that. So I find that hard to believe.

[Azisien]

Let's all keep in mind when he says "lived like a king" that Smarty is admittedly a hobo king.

[Specterbane]

In any case, Seil, you should estimate a monthly budget for yourself. Do some apartment searching online to find a monthly rate, estimate how much you'll buy at a grocery store/how much you'll spend eating out, how much you'll spend on gas/public transport, etc. There's a fair bit more for a full budget, but before you move out you should know how much you have to make for it to be a solution.

Or join the military where that's taken care of I'd assume. But talk to the recruiter about what you'd be doing and what kind of future you'd have (like if they'll pay for school) before you make a final decision. Good luck.