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If you think that any part-time job is great when you are a student, you might want to think again.

While every job surely has its own advantages, there are some that are better than others and some that are simply the best.

Bar work and waitressing might be the most common or even popular, but the very best part-time jobs for students tend in fact to be in one of the following categories: campus jobs, career-related jobs, and entrepreneurship.

Campus jobs

The main advantages of part-time students jobs on the campus are money, flexibility and location. Many campus jobs are in fact better paid than other part-time jobs because the universities and students’ unions tend to set hourly wages for students above the minimum amount. Moreover, they offer maximum flexibility to accommodate your study schedule.
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Best part-time jobs for students are those from which students can earn much more than just money.

Surely money comes in handy and is quite often the main reason why students search for a part-time job in the first place.

However, best part-time jobs are those that offer, in addition to a steady income, an opportunity to develop useful skills, the flexibility to accommodate your studies and an experience that will help you with your future career.

Steady income and flexibility

In most cases, a steady income, preferably on the generous side, is the first requirement of any part-time job to be considered among the best. After all, you are selling your time for money and you naturally want to make the most out of it. Moreover, you need the part-time job to be flexible enough to accommodate your study schedule.
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Being a straight A student can have its advantages, but it also comes at a certain price. You can find more in the first article from the series, which you can find here. More often than not, this price consists in an inordinate amount of time spent studying and, consequently, a lack of time for any real social life, a very small number of friends and, potentially even a ruined health.

The things that you miss however by devoting so much time to the goal of being a straight A student might even be more important: learning to interact with others, networking, valuable work experience.

Learning to interact with others
Although it is rarely made clear in writing anywhere, actually learning to interact with others is quite an important part of your studies, even if there are no formal exams for it. Spending time hanging out with other students and interacting with as many people as possible does not count for your A grades, but it counts for acquiring an invaluable skill that you will need in any job: communicating and working with other people.
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Getting good grades is certainly a worthy goal: they are after all a sign that you are actually doing well with your studies and learning what you need to learn for your future career. However, should you really settle for nothing less than being a straight A student?

The answer depends largely on what you intend to do after graduating and on the amount of time that you need to devote to studying in order to become that straight A student.

In any case, it is good to remember though that being a straight A student is certainly not everything that you should try or hope to achieve during some of the best years of your life.

Rather than focusing from the start on your energy on becoming a straight A student, it is far better to take a step back and assess whether this is indeed what you want at this stage.


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Your time in college can be a very stressful time not only for you, but also for your parents!

As you get caught up in the hectic life on campus and trying to juggle studying, having fun and possibly even a part-time job, you might not even realize when you start having such a poor behavior towards your parents that it’s not a surprise if they end up truly hating you for it.

Rather than getting there and having to try afterward to make amends, it is much easier to maintain good relationships right from the start: after all they are your parents and they matter for you, don’t they?

Keep communicating with your parents

The main secret towards ensuring that your parents don’t end up hating you while you’re in college is to keep communicating with them.

This doesn’t mean that you have to call them every day or to tell them everything. However, it certainly means calling them from time to time just to find out how they are doing and to let them know a little bit of how you are doing as well. Calling home only when you need more money, a favor or you simply want to complain to somebody sympathetic does not actually count as communication with your parents.
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